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Time Zones by Period
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Queens of England
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George the Third: 1760-1820
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1760: Turnpikes established on
British roads
9th March 1763: Birth of William Cobbett
1764: Birth of Fletcher Christian
26th October 1764: Death of William Hogarth
1769-70: Charting of New Zealand by Captain Cook
17th February 1766: Birth of Thomas Malthus
6th September 1766: Birth of John Dalton
18th March 1768: Death of Lawrence Sterne
1768: Foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts
1st May 1769: Birth of the Duke of Wellington
7th April 1770: Birth of William Wordsworth
13th April 1771: Birth of Richard Trevithick
30th July 1771: Death of Thomas Gray
15th August 1771: Birth of Walter Scott
21st October 1772: Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party
4th April 1774: Death of Oliver Goldsmith
12th August 1774: Birth of Robert Southey
22nd November 1774: Death of Robert Clive
8th January 1775: Death of John Baskerville
30th January 1775: Birth of Walter Savage Landor
23rd April 1775: Birth of J.M.W. Turner
12th February 1775: Birth of Charles Lamb
16th December 1775: Birth of Jane Austen
1775-1783: Wars of the American Revolution against
Britain
24th March 1776: Death of John Harrison
11th June 1776: Birth of John Constable
25th August 1776: Death of David Hume
5th March 1778: Death of Thomas Arne
12th April 1778: Birth of William Hazlitt
17th December 1778: Birth of Sir Humphrey Davy
1778: Passing of the Catholic Relief Act
20th January 1779: Death of David Garrick
1779: Building of the world's first Ironbridge
14th February 1779: Death of Captain Cook
November 1779: Death of Thomas Chippendale
21st May 1780: Birth of Elizabeth Fry
2-9th June 1780: The Gordon Riots
9th June 1781: Birth of George Stephenson
9th October 1781: Battle of Yorktown in America
1789: French Revolution
16th May 1782: Birth of John Sell Cotman
1783: Tyburn Hill last used as a place of execution
in London
6th February 1783: Death of "Capability" Brown
1784: First Mail coach runs from Bristol to London
13th December 1784: Death of Samuel Johnson
15th August 1785: Birth of Thomas De Quincey
22nd January 1788: Birth of Lord Byron
31st January 1788: Death of "Bonnie Prince Charlie"
5th February 1788: Birth of Robert Peel
11th May 1788: Death of William
Pitt, The Elder
2nd August 1788: Death of Thomas Gainsborough
17th March 1789: Birth of Edmund Kean
17th July 1790: Death of Adam Smith
2nd March 1791: Death of John Wesley
1791: Foundation of the Ordnance Survey
14-17th July 1791: Birmingham Riots
22nd September 1791: Birth of Michael Faraday
23rd February 1792: Death of Joshua Reynolds
3rd March 1792: Death of Robert Adam
12th July 1792: Birth of Frederick Marryat
3rd August 1792: Death of Richard Arkwright
4th August 1792: Birth of Percy Shelley
26th December 1792: Birth of Charles Babbage
26th June 1793: Death of Gilbert White
October 1793: Death of Fletcher Christian
16th June 1794: Death of Edward Gibbon
1795: Formation of the Poor Law
3rd January 1795: Death of Josiah Wedgewood
23rd May 1795: Birth of Charles Barry
31st October 1795: Birth of John Keats
4th December 1795: Birth of Thomas Carlyle
21st July 1796: Death of Robert Burns
9th July 1797: Death of Edmund Burke
15th April 1797: Mutiny in the Navy at Spithead
30th August 1797: Birth of Mary Shelley
10th September 1797: Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
14th November 1797: Birth of Charles Lyell
1st August 1798: The Battle of the Nile
1799: Parliament passes firts Income Tax
1801: Union of Great Britain and Ireland and first National
Census
1802: Factory Act limiting child labour
21st February 1801: Birth of Cardinal Newman
7th March 1802: Birth of Edwin Landseer
6th February 1804: Death of Joseph Priestley
21st December 1804: Birth of Benjamin Disraeli
21st October 1805: Battle of Trafalgar. Death of Lord
Nelson
23rd January 1806: Death of William Pitt
the Younger
9th April 1806: Birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
20th May 1806: Birth of John Stuart Mill
12th July 1806: Death of George Stubbs
3rd September 1806: Death of Charles James Fox
1807: Slavery abolished in the British Empire
1808-1814: The Peninsula War
12th February 1809: Birth of Charles Darwin
31st March 1809: Birth of Edward Fitzgerald
8th June 1809: Death of Tom Paine
6th August 1809: Birth of Alfred Lord Tennyson
17th August 1809: Death of Matthew Boulton
29th December 1809: Birth of William Ewart Gladstone
26th November 1810: Birth of William Armstrong
March 1811-January 1813: Luddite Riots
18th July 1811: Birth of William Makepeace Thackeray
7th February 1812: Birth of Charles Dickens
7th May 1812: Birth of Robert Browning
12th May 1812: Birth of Edward Lear
22nd July 1812: Battle of Salamanca in Spain
1812-1814: British-American War
19th January 1813: Birth of Sir Henry Bessemer
19th March 1813: Birth of David Livingstone
21st June 1813: Battle of Vittoria in Spain
24th April 1815: Birth of Anthony Trollope
1814: Establishment of Lord's Cricket Ground
18th June 1815: Battle of Waterloo ends Napoleonic
Wars
24th November 1815: Birth of Grace Darling
21st April 1816: Birth of Charlotte
Bronte
7th July 1816: Death of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
18th July 1817: Death of Jane Austen
7th December 1817: Death of William Bligh
24th March 1818: Death of Humphrey Repton
30th July 1818: Birth of Emily
Bronte
8th February 1819: Birth of John Ruskin
16th August 1819: The Peterloo Massacre
25th August 1819: Death of James Watt
22nd November 1819: Birth of George
Eliot
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George the Fourth: 1820-1830
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17th January 1820: Birth of Anne
Bronte
12th May 1820: Birth of Florence Nightingale
23rd February 1821: Death of John Keats
16th April 1821: Birth of Ford Maddox Brown
8th July 1822: Death of Percy Shelley
26th June 1823: Death of Edmund Jenner
1824: National Gallery Founded
8th January 1824: Birth of Wilkie Collins
19th April 1824: Death of Lord Byron
26th June 1824: Birth of William Kelvin
1825: First passenger train service in the world from
Stockton to Darlington
4th May 1825: Birth of T.E.
Huxley
7th June 1825: Birth of R.D. Blackmore
2nd April 1827: Birth of William Holman Hunt
5th April 1827: Birth of Joseph Lister
16th July 1827: Death of Josiah Spode
12th August 1827: Death of William Blake
12th May 1828: Birth of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
12th April 1829: Birth of William Booth
29th May 1829: Death of Sir Humphrey Davy
8th June 1829: Birth of John Everett Millais
1830: Formation of the Conservative Party from the
Tories
18th September 1830: Death of William Hazlitt
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William the Fourth: 1830-1837
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8th June 1831: Death of Sarah Siddons
13th November 1831: Birth of James Clerk Maxwell
27th January 1832: Birth of Lewis Carroll
3rd February 1832: Death of George Crabbe
4th June 1832: Great Reform Act
21st September 1832: Death of Walter Scott
6th June 1832 : Death of Jeremy Bentham
1833: Passing of the Slavery Abolition Act
28th January 1833: Birth of George "Chinese" Gordon
22nd April 1833: Death of Richard Trevithick
15th May 1833: Death of Edmund Kean
29th July 1833: Death of William Wilberforce
28th August 1833: Birth of Edward Burne-Jones
1834: Transportation of the Tolpuddle Martyrs
24th March 1834: Birth of William Morris
25th July 1834: Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2nd September 1834: Death of Thomas Telford
23rd December 1834: Death of Thomas Malthus
27th December 1834: Death of Charles Lamb
18th June 1835 Death of William Cobbett
7th April 1836: Death of William Godwin
18th November 1836: Birth of W. S. Gilbert
26th November 1836: Death of John Loudon McAdam
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Victoria: 1837-1901
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31st March 1837: Death of John Constable
5th April 1837: Birth of Algernon Charles Swinburne
1839: Vulcanisation of rubber first invented
19th September 1839: Birth of George Cadbury
6th January 1840: Death of Fanney Burney
2nd June 1840: Birth of Thomas Hardy
13th May 1842: Birth of Sir Arthur Sullivan
24th July 1842: Death of John Sell Cotman
20th October 1842: Death of Grace Darling
21st March 1843: Death of Robert Southey
27th July 1844: Death of John Dalton
12th October 1845: Death of Elizabeth Fry
3rd March 1847: Birth of Alexander Graham Bell
18th July 1848: Birth of W. G. Grace
9th August 1848: Death of Frederick Marryat
12th August 1848: Death of George Stephenson
19th December 1848: Death of Emily
Bronte
28th May 1849: Death of Anne
Bronte
23rd April 1850: Death of William Wordsworth
13th November 1850: Birth of Robert Louis Stevenson
2nd July 1850: Death of Robert Peel
1851: The Great Exhibition
1st February 1851: Death of Mary Shelley
12th June 1851: Birth of Oliver Lodge
19th December 1851: Death of J.M.W. Turner
1854-56: Crimean War
14th September 1852: Death of the Duke of Wellington
16th October 1854: Birth of Oscar Wilde
25th October 1854: Battle of Balaclava in
the Crimea
31st March 1855: Death of Charlotte
Bronte
26th July 1856: Birth of George Bernard Shaw
1857-9: The Indian Mutiny
2nd June 1857: Birth of Edward Elgar
2nd May 1859: Birth of Jerome K. Jerome
22nd May 1859: Birth of Arthur Conan Doyle
15th September 1859: Death of Isambard Kingdom
Brunel
8th December 1859: Death of Thomas de Quincey
1860: First Open Golf Championship, held at Prestwick
12th May 1860: Death of Charles Barry
17th January 1863: Birth of David Lloyd
George
1863: Formation of the Football Association.
Opening of the London Underground
24th December 1863: Death of William Makepeace Thackeray
17th September 1864: Death of Walter Savage Landor
4th December 1865: Birth of Edith Cavell
30th December 1865: Birth of Rudyard Kipling
28th July 1866: Birth of Beatrix Potter
21st September 1866: Birth of H. G. Wells
8th November 1866: Birth of Herbert Austin
27th May 1867: Birth of Arnold Bennett
14th August 1867: Birth of John Galsworthy
25th August 1867: Death of Michael Faraday
1868: Trades Union Congress formed
6th June 1868: Birth of Scott
of the Antarctic
7th June 1868: Birth of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
14th July 1868: Birth of Emmeline
Pankhurst
17th November 1869: Opening of the
Suez Canal
9th June 1870: Death of Charles Dickens
18th October 1871: Death of Charles Babbage
1872: First FA Cup final in football
18th May 1872: Birth of Bertrand Russell
21st August 1872: Birth of Aubrey Beardsley
12th October 1872: Birth of Ralph Vaughan
Williams
1st May 1873: Death of David Livingstone
8th May 1873: Death of John Stuart Mill
1st October 1873: Death of Edwin Landseer
25th January 1874: Birth of William Somerset Maugham
15th February 1874: Birth of Ernest Shackleton
21st September 1874: Birth of Gustav Holst
30th November 1874: Birth of Winston Churchill
22nd February 1875: Death of Charles Lyell
26th August 1875: Birth of John Buchan
1876: Adoption of the Plimsoll Line for shipping
1877: First Wimbledon Tennis Championships
10th October 1877: Birth of Lord Nuffield
4th January 1878: Birth of Augustus John
1st June 1878: Birth of John Masefield
1879: Zulu War
1st January 1879: Birth of E. M. Forster
5th November 1879: Death of James Clerk Maxwell
1880-1: First Boer War in South Africa
22nd September 1880: Birth of Dame
Christabel Pankhurst
22nd December 1880: Death of George
Eliot
5th February 1881: Death of Thomas Carlyle
19th April 1881: Death of Benjamin Disraeli
6th August 1881: Birth of Alexander Fleming
18th January 1882: Birth of A. A. Milne
25th January 1882: Birth of Virginia Woolf
9th April 1882: Death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
19th April 1882: Death of Charles Darwin
6th December 1882: Death of Anthony Trollope
14th July 1883: Death of Edward Fitzgerald
1884: Foundation of the Fabian Society
26th January 1885: Death of George "Chinese" Gordon
11th March 1885: Birth of Sir Malcolm Campbell
11th September 1885: Birth of D.H.
Lawrence
8th September 1886: Birth of Siegfried Sassoon
26th September 1887: Birth of Barnes Wallis
1st November 1887: Birth of L.S. Lowry
29th January 1888: Death of Edward Lear
13th August 1888: Birth of John Logie Baird
15th August 1888: Birth of T.E.
Lawrence
26th September 1888: Birth of T.
S. Eliot
1889: Completion of the Forth Railway Bridge
11th May 1889: Birth of Paul Nash
23rd September 1889: Death of Wilkie Collins
12th December 1889: Death of Robert Browning
11th August 1890: Death of Cardinal Newman
30th June 1891: Birth of Sir Stanley Spencer
3rd January 1892: Birth of J.R.R. Tolkien
6th October 1892: Death of Alfred Lord Tennyson
15th January 1893: Birth of Ivor Novello
18th March 1893: Birth of Wilfred Owen
6th October 1893: Death of Ford Maddox Brown
26th July 1894: Birth of Aldous
Huxley
3rd December 1894: Death of Robert Louis Stevenson
1895: First Promenade Concerts in London
1895-6: The Jameson Raid in South Africa
12th April 1894: Birth of Ben Nicholson
29th June 1895: Death of T.E.
Huxley
13th August 1896: Death of John Everett Millais
3rd October 1896: Death of William Morris
1897: Opening of the Tate Gallery
14th January 1898: Death of Lewis Carroll
15th March 1898: Death of Henry Bessemer
16th March 1898: Death of Aubrey Beardsley
19th May 1898: Death of William Ewart Gladstone
17th June 1898: Death of Edward Burne-Jones
15th March 1898: Death of Sir Henry Bessemer
30th July 1898: Birth of Henry Moore
20th January 1900: Death of John Ruskin
1899-1902: Second Boer War
October 1899-May 1900: The Siege
of Mafeking in South Africa
20th January 1900: Death of R.D. Blackmore
22nd November 1900: Death of Sir Arthur Sullivan
30th November 1900: Death of Oscar Wilde
27th December 1900: Death of William Armstrong
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Edward the Seventh: 1901-1910
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1903: Birth of George Orwell
12th June 1903: Birth of Barbara Hepworth
24th August 1903: Birth of Graham Sutherland
28th October 1903: Birth of Evelyn Waugh
2nd October 1904: Birth of Graham Greene
29th March 1905: Birth of Edward Burra
28th August 1906: Birth of John Betjeman
21st February 1907: Birth of W.H. Auden
22nd May 1907: Birth of Laurence Olivier
1st June 1907: Birth of Frank Whittle
17th December 1907: Death of William Kelvin
12th April 1909: Death of Algernon Charles Swinburne
28th October 1909: Birth of Francis Bacon
13th August 1910: Death of Florence Nightingale
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George the Fifth: 1910-1936
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29th May 1911: Death of W. S. Gilbert
29th March 1912: Death of Scott
of the Antarctic
20th August 1912: Death of William Booth
7th September 1912: Death of William Holman Hunt
12th October 1912: Death of Joseph Lister
22nd November 1913: Birth of Benjamin Britten
1914: Beginning of First World War
27th October 1914: Birth of Dylan Thomas
Oct-November 1914: First Battle of Ypres
Apr-May 1915: Second Battle of Ypres
12th October 1915: Death of Editch Cavell
23rd October 1915: Death of W. G. Grace
July-November 1916: Battle of the Somme
1st February 1915: Birth of Stanley Matthews
1916: Easter Rising in Ireland
July-November 1917: Third Battle of Ypres
1917: Russian Revolution
4th November 1918: Death of Wilfred Owen
1918: End of First World War
1920: Formation of the League of Nations
23rd March 1921: Birth of Donald
Campbell
6th December 1921: Establishment of the Irish Free
State
5th January 1922: Death of Ernest Shackleton
2nd August 1922: Death of Alexander Graham Bell
24th October 1922: Death of George Cadbury
10th November 1925: Birth of Richard Burton
May 1926: General Strike
14th June 1927: Death of Jerome K. Jerome
12th January 1928: Death of Thomas Hardy
15th February 1929: Birth of Graham Hill
14th June 1928: Death of Emmeline Pankhurst
10th December 1928: Death of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
2nd March 1930: Death of D.H.
Lawrence
7th July 1930: Death of Arthur Conan Doyle
27th March 1931: Death of Arnold Bennett
31st January 1933: Death of John Galsworthy
23rd February 1934: Death of Edward Elgar
25th May 1934: Death of Gustav Holst
19th May 1935: Death of T.E.
Lawrence
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Edward Eighth (Abdicated): 1936
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18th January 1936: Death of Rudyard Kipling
14th March 1936: Birth of Jim Clark
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George the Sixth: 1936-1952
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29th September 1938: Munich Agreement
1939: Beginning of Second World War
11th February 1940: Death of John Buchan
22nd August 1940: Death of Oliver Lodge
9th October 1940: Birth of John Lennon
28th March 1941: Suicide of Virginia Woolf
12th April 1941: Birth of Bobby Moore
23rd May 1941: Death of Herbert Austin
22nd December 1943: Death of Beatrix Potter
6th June1944: D-Day invasion of Europe
26th March 1945: Death of David Lloyd George
1945: End of Second World War
26th June 1945: Formation of the United Nations
14th June 1946: Death of John Logie Baird
11th July 1946: Death of Paul Nash
13th August 1946: Death of H. G. Wells
31st December 1948: Death of Sir
Malcolm Campbell
1949: Establishment of NATO
21st January 1950: Death of George Orwell
2nd November 1950: Death of George Bernard Shaw
1950-1953: Korean War
6th March 1951: Death of Ivor Novello
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Elizabeth the Second 1952-
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9th November 1953: Death of Dylan Thomas
11th March 1955: Death of Alexander Fleming
1956: Suez Cris
31st January 1956: Death of A.A. Milne
13th February 1958: Death of Dame Christabel Pankhurst
26th August 1958: Death of Ralph Vaughan
Williams
14th December 1959: Death of Sir Stanley Spencer
31st October 1961: Death of Augustus John
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
22nd August 1963: Death of Lord Nuffield
22nd November 1963: Death of Aldous
Huxley
4th January 1965: Death of T.S.
Eliot
24th January 1965: Death of Sir Winston Churchill
16th December 1965: Death of William Somerset Maugham
12th April 1966: Death of Evelyn Waugh
4th January 1967: Death of Donald
Campbell
12th May 1967: Death of John Masefield
1st September 1967: Death of Siegfried Sassoon
7th April 1968: Death of Jim Clark
1969: First Moon Landings
2nd February 1970: Death of Bertrand Russell
7th June 1970: Death of E. M. Forster
2nd September 1973: Death of J.R.R. Tolkien
29th September 1973: Death of W.H. Auden
20th May 1975: Death of Barbara Hepworth
29th November 1975: Death of Graham Hill
23rd February 1976: Death of L.S. Lowry
22nd October 1976: Death of Edward Burra
4th December 1976: Death of Benjamin Britten
30th October 1979: Death of Barnes Wallis
17th February 1980: Death of Graham Sutherland
8th December 1980: Death of John Lennon
1982: Falkland Islands Conflict
6th February 1982: Death of Ben Nicholson
19th May 1984: Death of John Betjeman
31st August 1986: Death of Henry Moore
11th July 1989: Death of Laurence Olivier
1991: First Gulf War
3rd April 1991: Death of Graham Greene
28th April 1992: Death of Francis Bacon
24th February 1993: Death of Bobby Moore
8th August 1996: Death of Frank Whittle
23rd February 2000: Death of Stanley Matthews
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