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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
Year Date Event c.10–c.40: Reign of Cunobelinus, an influential king of southern England before the Roman occupation; son of Tasciovanus [2]: 43: Aulus Plautius leads an army of forty thousand to invade Great Britain; [3] Emperor Claudius makes Britain a part of the Roman Empire [4]
18 Oct: Death Palmerston dies: 29 Oct: Second Russell ministry — Earl Russell: 26 Jun: 1866 No confidence: Russell resigns: 28 Jun: Third Derby–Disraeli ministry — Earl of Derby: Conservative 25 Feb: 1868 Resignation Derby resigns: 27 Feb — Benjamin Disraeli: 1 Dec: Resignation Disraeli resigns: 3 Dec: First Gladstone ministry: General ...
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1990 until the present. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles.
1660 – The four-year-old Charles XI became King of Sweden upon his father's death.; 1891 – Frances Coles was killed in the last of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London.
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8 October – Clement Attlee is appointed as interim leader of the Labour Party in succession to George Lansbury [15] who has resigned due to a wish to maintain his Christian pacifist principles. 21 October – Grant v Australian Knitting Mills, a landmark case in consumer law, decided on appeal in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.