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By summer 1931 the world financial crisis began to overwhelm Britain; investors across the world started withdrawing their gold from London at the rate of £2½ million a day. [ 212 ] [ 213 ] Credits of £25 million each from the Bank of France and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an issue of £15 million in fiduciary notes slowed, but ...
The Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series maps were produced from the 1840s to the 1890s by the Ordnance Survey, with revisions published until the 1940s. The series mapped the counties of Great Britain at both a six inch and twenty-five inch scale with accompanying acreage and land use information.
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 ...
War on terror; Third Anglo-Burmese War; War of the Third Coalition; Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War; British expedition to Tibet; Timeline of the British Army 1800–1899; Timeline of the British Army since 2000; Timeline of US intervention in the Syrian civil war; Tirah campaign; Trans-Iranian Railway; The Troubles; Turkish War of ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Battles involving Great Britain (1707–1800) ... Battles of World War I involving the United Kingdom (5 C, ...
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
War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–42) - Great Britain v. Spain. [4] War of the Austrian Succession (1742–48) - Great Britain, Austria and the Dutch Republic v. France and Germany; Seven Years' War (1756–63) - the first "world war" French and Indian War & Seven Years' War is the same War (1754–63) - Great Britain, Hanover, Portugal, and Prussia
An elaborate map of the British Empire in 1886, marked in pink, the traditional colour for imperial British dominions on maps. Pax Britannica (Latin for ' British Peace ', modelled after Pax Romana) refers to the relative peace between the great powers in the time period roughly bounded by the Napoleonic Wars and World War I.