| • 1721: 1st Prime Minister - Robert Walpole | • 1723: Christopher Wren dies | • 1739: Britain & Spain start War of Jenkins' Ear | • 1746: Battle of Culloden | • 1750: Death of JS Bach | • 1753: British Museum founded | • 1759: Death of Handel | • 1761: Richard Ellman moves to Glynde | • 1764: Hargreaves invents Spinning Jenny | • 1770: New South Wales discovered by James Cook | • 1773: Boston Tea Party | • 1774: Priestley discovers oxygen | • 1775: American War of Independence starts | • 1776: American Declaration of Independence | • 1783: First hot air balloon flights | • 1789: French Revolution begins | • 1800: Act of Union creates United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland | • 1802: Beethoven debuts Moonlight Sonata | • 1803: Start of Napoleonic Wars |
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