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Elizabeth I begins her reign
Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
First performance by William Shakespeare
Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe
Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes hanged, drawn and quatered
Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth
Charles I is executed
First known performance of Macbeth
Shakespeare's sonnets published
Bananas go on sale for the first time in the UK
Fire of London
Boston Tea Party
The Great Plague
Industrial Revolution Begins
The French Revolution
Battle of Trafalgar
Mary Shelly publishes Frankenstein
Start of the Napoleonic Wars
Opening of the first British Railway
Abolition of slavery in the British Empire
Samuel Morse invents Morse Code
The last public hanging in England
Telephone invented by Alexender Graham Bell
Oxford Dictionary first published
First automobile patented by Karl Benz
Sherlock Holmes first published
Wright Brothers take flight
The First World War
Frank Whittle invents the Jet Engine
World War Two Begins
George Stephenson develops the steam locomotive
Telegraph cables installed across the English Channel
The worlds first underground railway opens in London
John Dryden is made the first poet
Sir Isaac Newton formulates the theory of gravity
The turnip is introduced in England
Jethro Tull invents the horse drawn seed drill
St Paul's Cathedral is completed
Robinson Crusoe published
Queen Victoria's reign begins
Breaking of the Enigma Code
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