Stamp Act, Tacky's Revolt, Massacre of St George's Fields

Britain's first cotton mill opens, James Cook is killed by Hawaiians, Boston Tea Party

Pitt the Younger becomes Prime Minister, Gordon Riots, Loyalists evacuated from American colonies

Sierra Leone established for freed slaves, Spithead and Nore Mutinies, France declares war

Act of Union with Ireland, First Census, Slave Trade abolished

The Luddites, Corn Laws introduced, Waterloo and Peterloo

Metropolitan Police Force established, First Passenger Steam Locomotive, coronation of George IV

Tolpuddle Martyrs transported, People's Charter, Slavery abolished in Empire

Irish Potato Famine, Corn Laws repealed, Chartists meet at Kennington Common

Origin of the Species published, Crimean War, Indian Mutiny

Prince Albert dies, Second Reform Act, Suez Canal opens

Secret ballot introduced, Victoria becomes Empress of India, First FA Cup takes place

Education compulsory to 10, Gladstone supports Irish home rule, Berlin Conference partitions Africa

Second Boer War begins, Women's suffrage movement gains momentum, Death Duties introduced

Queen Victoria dies, People's Budget, London hosts its first Olympics

Titanic and Lusitania sink, Suffragette Emily Davison killed, Conscription introduced

Irish Civil War, Plaid Cymru formed, Ramsey Macdonald becomes first Labour prime minister

Edward VIII abdicates, Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists, Support for Poland's territorial integrity

Churchill and Attlee attend Potsdam conference, Republic of Ireland formed, National Health Service

Festival of Britain, Suez Crisis, African decolonisation begins in Ghana

Concorde's first flight, Death Penalty abolished, England wins the World Cup

Winter of Discontent, Two elections in one year, Britain joins EEC

IRA bomb Conservative conference, Falklands War, Miners' Strike

Channel Tunnel opens, Diana dies, Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly established

07/07 Attacks, Labour win third term, Manchester hosts Commonwealth games