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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
Battle of Flodden Field: Invading England, King James IV of Scotland and thousands of other Scots were killed in a defeat at the hands of the English. 1516 18 February Mary I, the future queen of England (r. 1553-1558), is born to parents Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. 1521: Lutheran writings begin to circulate in England. 1527 21 May
1701–1702: The Daily Courant and The Norwich Post become the first daily newspapers in England. 1702: Forty-seven rōnin attack Kira Yoshinaka and then commit seppuku in Japan. 1702–1715: Camisard Rebellion in France. 1703: Saint Petersburg is founded by Peter the Great; it is the Russian capital until 1918.
For a full timeline overview, see timeline of British history. See also: Timeline of British history (1800–1899) and Timeline of British history (1900–1929) This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1700 AD until 1799 AD. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles. United Kingdom 1700s 1700 ...
11 April – Jack Slack (a butcher of Norwich) defeats Jack Broughton to become bare-knuckle boxing Champion of England; 24 June – Iron Act, passed by Parliament, comes into effect, restricting manufacture of iron products in the American colonies. [2] 5 October – Treaty of Madrid, a commercial treaty with Spain, is signed. [4]
Thomas Coram, painted by William Hogarth, 1740. January–February – the "Great Frost" continues; this will be the coldest known year (and coldest twelve-month period) by average annual temperature across central England for which reliable records are known.
The Church of England asks the Secretary of State to "stop the progress of this vile Book, which is an open insult upon Religion and good manners." In November, Cleland is arrested and charged with "corrupting the King's subjects." Henry Fielding's picaresque comic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is published on 28 February. [4]
England has been continuously inhabited since the last Ice Age ended around 9000 BC, the beginning of the Middle Stone Age, or Mesolithic era. Rising sea-levels cut off Britain from the continent for the last time around 6500 BC.