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Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
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 .
William Butterfield (1814–1900), leader in Gothic revival movement; Rowland Carter (1875–1916) William Chambers (1723–1796) (Kew Gardens Pagoda and Somerset House) Thomas Edward Collcutt (1840–1924) James Cubitt (1836–1914) John Douglas (1830–1911) Sir Philip Dowson (1924–2014) Henry Flitcroft (1697–1769) Sir Norman Foster (born ...
1800: Mark Henniker-Major, 9th Baron Henniker: Edward Henniker-Major Also Baron Hartismere (1886) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom: The Baron Ventry: 1800: Andrew de Moleyns, 8th Baron Ventry: Francis Daubeney de Moleyns The Baron Dunalley: 1800: Henry Prittie, 7th Baron Dunalley: Joel Prittie The Baron Clanmorris: 1800: Simon Bingham, 8th ...
However, the British working class were quite overwhelmingly pro-Union. In the end, although Britain could survive without Southern cotton, the North's meat and grain was more important to feed the UK's urban population, especially as a series of bad harvests had affected British agriculture in the late 1850s to early 1860s.
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
The following is a list of notable English and British painters ... (1739–after 1800) John Hamilton Mortimer (1740–1779) ... (1831–1900) Arthur Hughes (1832–1915)
The Industrial Revolution and British Society (1993) pp 54–78. Kanner, Barbara. Women in English Social History, 1800–1914: A Guide to Research (2 vol 1988–1990). 871 pp. Navickas, Katrina. "What happened to class? New histories of labour and collective action in Britain," Social History, May 2011, Vol. 36 Issue 2, pp 192–204; Thompson ...