George Thomas Webb

• 1558: Calais lost by England to France

• 1564: Birth of Shakespeare

• 1570: Glynde Place completed by William Morley

• 1577: Drake begins round the world voyage

• 1587: Mary Queen of Scots executed

• 1588: Spanish Armada defeated

• 1600: East India Co. founded

• 1605: Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot

• 1620: "Pilgrim Fathers" land in New England

• 1642: English Civil War begins

• 1649: Charles I executed

• 1658: Death of Oliver Cromwell

• 1665: Great Plague in London

• 1666: Great Fire of London

• 1675: Greenwich Royal Observatory founded

• 1692: Glencoe Massacre

• 1694: Bank of England founded

• 1701: Jethro Tull invents the Seed Drill

• 1702: King William III dies

• 1703: The Great Storm - worst ever recorded in British Isles

• 1707: Act of Union unites English & Scottish Parliaments

• 1714: George I crowned

• 1720: South Sea Bubble financial collapse

• 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

• 1805: Battle of Trafalgar: Death of Nelson

• 1807: Slave trade abolished

• 1815: End of Napoleonic Wars

• 1825: 1st railway opens (Stockton - Darlington)

• 1829: Metropolitan Police founded

• 1832: Morse invents Electric Telegraph

• 1837: Queen Victoria crowned

• 1838: National Gallery founded

• 1840: Queen Victora & Prince Albert marry

• 1841: Glynde School built

• 1842: Irish "Potato Famine" starts

• 1847: British Museum founded

• 1848: Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto

• 1851: Great Exhibition opens in Hyde Park

• 1854: Start of Crimean War

• 1859: Darwin's Origin of Species published

• 1861: American Civil War begins

• 1865: Salvation Army founded

• 1869: Suez Canal opened

• 1871: Trades Unions legalised

• 1872: Secret ballots introduced for elections

• 1873: Dr Livingstone dies

• 1876: Bell invents telephone

• 1878: Electric light bulb invented

• 1881: Pasteur invents innoculation

• 1884: Speaker Brand retires

• 1884: Fabian Society founded

• 1885: Glynde & Beddingham Cricket Club founded

• 1887: Queen Victoria's Jubilee

• 1894: Manchester Ship Canal opened

• 1899: Boer War starts

• 1901: Queen Victoria dies

• 1903: 1st aeroplane flight by Wright Bros.

• 1905: Ragged Lands established

• 1909: Introduction of Old Age Pension

• 1912: Sinking of the Titanic

• 1914: Start of 1st World War

• 1916: Battle of the Somme

• 1918: End of 1st World War

• 1919: 1st trans-atlantic flight

• 1920: League of Nations founded

• 1922: Irish Free State founded

• 1924: Lenin dies

• 1926: General Strike

• 1928: Women get the vote

• 1934: Hitler assumes power in Germany

• 1936: Regular BBC TV broadcasts begin

• 1939: Start of 2nd World War

• 1940: Dunkirk evacuation

• 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbour

• 1944: "D-Day" landings in France

• 1945: End of 2nd World War

• 1946: USA tests atom bomb at Bikini Island

• 1947: Sound Barrier broken

• 1948: NHS founded

• 1950: Korean War starts

• 1951: Suez "Crisis"

• 1953: Queen Elizabeth II crowned

• 1954: Bannister runs 1st 4 minute mile

• 1955: Glynde Place opened to the public

• 1955: ITV starts broadcasting

• 1957: 1st dog in space

• 1958: Gatwick Airport opened

• 1959: M1, the 1st motoway, opened

• 1961: 1st man in space

• 1963: US President Kennedy assassinated

• 1965: Post Office Tower opened

• 1966: England win World Cup

• 1967: 1st heart transplant

• 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated

• 1969: 1st men on the moon

• 1970: North Sea Oil discovered

• 1971: Decimal coins introduced

• 1972: "Bloody Sunday", 13 killed in Derry

• 1974: US President Nixon resigned

• 1976: Harold Wilson resigned as PM

• 1978: 1st "Test Tube" baby born

• 1979: Margaret Thatcher elected, UK's 1st woman PM

• 1981: Prince Charles married Lady Di

• 1982: Falklands War

• 1984: Miners' Strike starts

• 1985: Live Aid concert

• 1987: Hurricane lashes South Coast

• 1987: "Black Monday" Stock Market crash