| • 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 |
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