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from 1801: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Spain French Republic: Inconclusive or other outcome: Kandyan Wars (1796–1818) Great Britain from 1801: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Kingdom of Kandy: British victory: War of the Second Coalition (1797–1802) Holy Roman Empire (until 1801) [a] Tuscany Bavaria [16] United ...
Civil War Rebellion suppressed [27] 1549 Kett's Rebellion: England Rebellion suppressed [28] 1569–70 Rising of the North: England Elizabethan victory [29] 1639–53 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Bishops' Wars; Scottish Civil War; First English Civil War; Second English Civil War; Anglo-Scottish war (1650–1652) Great Britain Civil war
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 Treaty of Paris (1763) is signed, formally ending the Seven Years' War. France renounces a large portion of North American land to Great Britain. [27] 1765: William Blackstone published his first volume of Commentaries on the Laws of England. 1775: 19 April: War of American Independence officially starts with the Battles of Lexington and ...
Britain and her army, 1509-1970: a military, political and social survey (1970). Carlton, Charles. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485-1746 (Yale UP; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near unceasing war from the individual to the national levels. Chandler, David G., and Ian Frederick William Beckett, eds.
The timeline of wars has been split up in the following periods: List of wars: before 1000; List of wars: 1000–1499; List of wars: 1500–1799; List of wars: 1800–1899; List of wars: 1900–1944; List of wars: 1945–1989; List of wars: 1990–2002; List of wars: 2003–present
5 February, The eldest son of Charles I, Charles, Prince of Wales, was proclaimed "king of Great Britain, France and Ireland" by the Scottish Parliament at the Mercat Cross, Edinburgh. [2] 7 February, The Rump Parliament votes to abolish the English monarchy; 9 February, publication of Eikon Basilike, allegedly by Charles I of England
In 1603, England and Scotland were joined in a "personal union" when King James VI of Scotland succeeded to the throne of England as King James I. War between the two states largely ceased, although the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in the 17th century, and the Jacobite risings of the 18th century, are sometimes characterised as Anglo-Scottish ...