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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 .
Judicial decisions made in the name of the king eventually shifted to parliament, the cabinet, and the judiciaries. [36] The maxim governing the character of the nineteenth-century British regime was: The King can do no wrong and The King reigns, but does not govern. [4] The monarch was also inviolable and irresponsible.
The Acts of Union 1800 added the Kingdom of Ireland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The first decades were marked by Jacobite risings which ended with defeat for the Stuart cause at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. In 1763, victory in the Seven Years' War led to the growth of the First British Empire.
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 ...
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 place-names of England, as in most other regions, typically have meanings which were significant to the settlers of a locality (though these were not necessarily the first settlers). Sometimes these meanings have remained clear to speakers of modern English (for instance Newcastle and Sevenoaks ); more often, however, elucidating them ...
This fire was a major factor in the decision of the British government, after much lobbying by liability-laden insurance companies and LFEE, to create the Metropolitan Fire Brigade in 1866. The MFB would be publicly funded and controlled through the Metropolitan Board of Works. Its first superintendent was Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw. In 1904 ...