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This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
ICC Cricket World Cup: England win a thriller at Lords and clinch their maiden ODI World Cup led by Eoin Morgan. [40] 2020 31 January Brexit takes place. The UK officially withdraws from the European Union three years after it voted to leave during a referendum in 2016. [41] 2020 31 January The first patient with COVID-19 is confirmed in York ...
The root unit represents the world rather than the British Isles, although more detailed decisions about map projections mean that the system is in practice limited to Europe. All coordinates are held using latitude and longitude, not the Ordnance Survey National Grid. All geographical names and some other text are held using Unicode (UTF-8).
Timeline of Cornish history; Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (2023) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (2024) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (January–June 2022) Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom (July–December 2021)
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1800 AD until 1899 AD. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of the British Isles .
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Acts of Union 1800 Catholic emancipation Great Famine of Ireland: 1919: Irish Republic: Irish War of Independence Partition of Ireland: 1921/1922: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland) Irish Free State 1937: Ireland: The Emergency Battle of Britain The Troubles Celtic ...
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
1639 England and Scotland – At war until 1644 in what become known as the Bishops' Wars; 1640 England – The Long Parliament summoned. 1642 England – English Civil War begins (see Timeline of the English Civil War) 1652 England – Tea arrives in Britain; 1666 England 1688 England – The Glorious Revolution replaces James II with William III