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ABT 60 : Battle of Watling Street - Romans defeat Boudica

ABT 83 : Battle of Mons Graupius - Romans defeat the Caledonians

793 : Raid on Lindisfarne marks start of Viking invasion

13 Mar 803 : 1000 die in storms on west coast of Ireland

805 : Vikings ravage Iona for the third time

ABT 836 : Norse settle in northern Scotland

844 : Start of reign of Kenneth I MacAlpin of Scotland

858 : End of reign of Kenneth I MacAlpin of Scotland

859 : Start of reign of Donald I of Scotland

13 Apr 862 : End of reign of Donald I of Scotland

863 : Start of reign of Constantine I of Scotland

864 : Norse invade East Anglia

28 Oct 866 : Vikings sack York

877 : Start of reign of Aed, Whitefoot, of Scotland

877 : End of reign of Constantine I of Scotland

878 : End of reign of Aed, Whitefoot, of Scotland

878 : King Alfred of Wessex burns the cakes

878 : Start of reign of Eochaid and Giric of Scotland

6 May 878 : Battle of Ethandun - Alfred the Great defeats the Danes

889 : Start of reign of Donald II of Scotland

889 : End of reign of Eochaid and Giric of Scotland

900 : Start of reign of Constantine II of Scotland

900 : End of reign of Donald II of Scotland

943 : End of reign of Constantine II of Scotland

943 : Start of reign of Malcolm I of Scotland

954 : Start of reign of Indulf of Scotland

954 : End of reign of Malcolm I of Scotland

ABT 959 : Indulf takes Edinburgh

959 : Start of reign of Edgar of England

962 : Start of reign of Dubh, the Black, of Scotland

962 : End of reign of Indulf of Scotland

967 : Start of reign of Culen, the Whelp, of Scotland

967 : End of reign of Dubh, the Black, of Scotland

971 : End of reign of Culen, the Whelp, of Scotland

971 : Start of reign of Kenneth II of Scotland

972 : Edgar orders striking of silver penny

May 973 : Edgar crowned 'Emperor of Britain' at Bath

8 Jul 975 : End of reign of Edgar of England

976 : Start of reign of Edward of England

18 Mar 978 : End of reign of Edward of England

14 Apr 978 : Start of reign of Athelred II of England

991 : Norse settlers in Dublin open mint

995 : End of reign of Kenneth II of Scotland

995 : Start of reign of Constantine III of Scotland

997 : End of reign of Constantine III of Scotland

997 : Start of reign of Kenneth III, the Brown, of Scotland

998 : Norse invade Kent again

25 Mar 1005 : End of reign of Kenneth III, the Brown, of Scotland

26 Mar 1005 : Start of reign of Malcolm II of Scotland

Nov 1013 : London surrenders to the Danes

Apr 1016 : End of reign of Athelred II of England

May 1016 : Start of reign of Edmund 'Ironside' of England

18 Oct 1016 : Battle of Assandun - King Edmund II defeated by Danes

30 Nov 1016 : End of reign of Edmund 'Ironside' of England

1 Dec 1016 : Start of reign of Cnut of England

25 Nov 1034 : End of reign of Malcolm II of Scotland

26 Nov 1034 : Start of reign of Duncan I, the Gracious, of Scotland

12 Nov 1035 : End of reign of Cnut of England

Dec 1037 : Start of reign of Harald 'Harefoot' of England

1040 : Start of reign of Macbeth of Scotland

1040 : End of reign of Duncan I, the Gracious, of Scotland

17 Mar 1040 : End of reign of Harald 'Harefoot' of England

18 Mar 1040 : Start of reign of Harthacnut of England

8 Jun 1042 : End of reign of Harthacnut of England

2 Apr 1043 : Start of reign of Edward the Confessor of England

1 May 1048 : Derby and Worcester hit by earthquake

15 Aug 1057 : End of reign of Macbeth of Scotland

16 Aug 1057 : Start of reign of Lulach, the Simple, of Scotland

1058 : Start of reign of Malcolm III Canmore of Scotland

1058 : End of reign of Lulach, the Simple, of Scotland

5 Jan 1066 : End of reign of Edward the Confessor of England

6 Jan 1066 : Start of reign of Harold of England

25 Sep 1066 : Battle of Stamford Bridge - King Harold II defeats Norwegians

14 Oct 1066 : Battle of Hastings - William the Conqueror defeats King Harold II

14 Oct 1066 : End of reign of Harold of England

Dec 1066 : England surrenders to the Normans

25 Dec 1066 : Start of reign of William the Conqueror of England

Nov 1069 : Normans lay waste to north of England

1072 : Malcolm III submits to William the Conqueror

1086 : Fire sweeps through London after two years of plague

9 Sep 1087 : End of reign of William the Conqueror of England

26 Sep 1087 : Start of reign of William II 'Rufus' of England

Apr 1088 : Rebellion over the division of lands after the death of William

13 Nov 1093 : End of reign of Malcolm III Canmore of Scotland

1094 : brief reign of Duncan II of Scotland

14 Nov 1094 : Start of reign of Donald III, Ban, of Scotland

21 Nov 1095 : Pope Urban II calls for a crusade to free the Holy Land

1096 : Tower of London "White Tower" completed

1097 : End of reign of Donald III, Ban, of Scotland

1097 : Start of reign of Edgar of Scotland

2 Aug 1100 : William II killed in hunting accident

2 Aug 1100 : End of reign of William II 'Rufus' of England

5 Aug 1100 : Start of reign of Henry I of England

8 Jan 1107 : End of reign of Edgar of Scotland

9 Jan 1107 : Start of reign of Alexander I, the Fierce, of Scotland

1112 : Fire destroys Worcester

23 Apr 1124 : End of reign of Alexander I, the Fierce, of Scotland

24 Apr 1124 : Start of reign of David I of Scotland

1 Dec 1135 : End of reign of Henry I of England

22 Dec 1135 : Start of reign of Stephen of England

22 Aug 1138 : Battle of The Standard - English defeat the Scots at Northallerton

12 May 1147 : Start of the Second Crusade

24 May 1153 : End of reign of David I of Scotland

25 May 1153 : Start of reign of Malcolm IV, the Maiden, of Scotland

25 Oct 1154 : End of reign of Stephen of England

19 Dec 1154 : Start of reign of Henry II of England

9 Dec 1165 : End of reign of Malcolm IV, the Maiden, of Scotland

10 Dec 1165 : Start of reign of William I, the Lion, of Scotland

1173 : Rebellion by the sons of Henry II of England

1189 : Start of the Third Crusade

6 Jul 1189 : End of reign of Henry II of England

3 Sep 1189 : Start of reign of Richard, the Lionheart, of England

Jun 1190 : Richard departs on crusade

1192 : End of the Third Crusade

6 Apr 1199 : End of reign of Richard, the Lionheart, of England

27 May 1199 : Start of reign of John of England

Nov 1209 : John excommunicated by Pope Innocent III

1211 : Welsh Uprising - Llywelyn ap Iorwerth achieves greater independence

4 Dec 1214 : End of reign of William I, the Lion, of Scotland

5 Dec 1214 : Start of reign of Alexander II, the Peaceful, of Scotland

15 Jun 1215 : John signs Magna Carta

Nov 1215 : Start of First Baron's War - King John rejects Magna Carta

18 Oct 1216 : End of reign of John of England

28 Oct 1216 : Start of reign of Henry III of England

11 Sep 1217 : End of First Baron's War - Treaty of Lambeth

8 Jul 1249 : End of reign of Alexander II, the Peaceful, of Scotland

9 Jul 1249 : Start of reign of Alexander III of Scotland

Apr 1264 : Start of Second Baron's War

14 May 1264 : Battle of Lewes - Henry III captured by Simon de Montfort

4 Aug 1265 : Battle of Evesham - Edward Longshanks defeats Simon de Montfort

1267 : End of Second Baron's War - Dictum of Kenilworth

16 Nov 1272 : End of reign of Henry III of England

17 Nov 1272 : Start of reign of Edward I of England

19 Mar 1286 : Alexander III thrown from his horse and dies

19 Mar 1286 : End of reign of Alexander III of Scotland

20 Mar 1286 : Start of reign of Margaret, Maid of Norway, of Scotland

1290 : End of reign of Margaret, Maid of Norway, of Scotland

1292 : Start of reign of John Balliol of Scotland

1296 : End of reign of John Balliol of Scotland

11 Sep 1297 : Battle of Stirling Bridge - William Wallace defeats the English

22 Jul 1298 : Battle of Falkirk - Scots defeated by Edward I

May 1303 : Edward I of England invades Scotland

23 Aug 1305 : William Wallace executed in London

ABT Feb 1306 : Start of reign of Robert I, the Bruce, of Scotland

7 Jul 1307 : End of reign of Edward I of England

8 Jul 1307 : Start of reign of Edward II of England

24 Jun 1314 : Battle of Bannockburn - Robert the Bruce defeats the English

24 Jan 1327 : Edward II forced to abdicate

24 Jan 1327 : End of reign of Edward II of England

1 Feb 1327 : Start of reign of Edward III of England

7 Jun 1329 : End of reign of Robert I, the Bruce, of Scotland

8 Jun 1329 : Start of reign of David II of Scotland

1332 : Start of Second Scottish War of Independence

19 Jul 1333 : Battle of Halidon Hill - English defeat Scots trying to relieve Berwick

17 Oct 1346 : Battle of Neville's Cross - English defeat the Scots near Durham

1348 : The Black Death claims almost 1 million lives in England

1357 : End of Second Scottish War of Independence

ABT 1360 : Henry de Vick builds a mechanical clock for King Charles V of France

22 Feb 1371 : End of reign of David II of Scotland

23 Feb 1371 : Start of reign of Robert II of Scotland

8 Jun 1376 : End of reign of Edward III of England

14 Feb 1377 : Parliament votes Poll Tax into law

16 Jul 1377 : Start of reign of Richard II of England

4 Jun 1381 : Riots in London over Poll Tax

19 Apr 1390 : End of reign of Robert II of Scotland

20 Apr 1390 : Start of reign of Robert III, John Faranyeir, of Scotland

30 Sep 1399 : End of reign of Richard II of England

13 Oct 1399 : Start of reign of Henry IV of England

14 Sep 1402 : Battle of Homildon Hill - English defeat Scottish pillaging expedition

4 Apr 1406 : End of reign of Robert III, John Faranyeir, of Scotland

5 Apr 1406 : Start of reign of James I of Scotland

20 Mar 1413 : End of reign of Henry IV of England

21 Mar 1413 : Start of reign of Henry V of England

31 Aug 1422 : End of reign of Henry V of England

1 Sep 1422 : Start of reign of Henry VI of England

21 Feb 1437 : End of reign of James I of Scotland

22 Feb 1437 : Start of reign of James II, Fiery Face, of Scotland

ABT 1453 : Invention of moveable type printing press by Johannes Gutenberg

Aug 1453 : Henry VI becomes mentally unstable

22 May 1455 : Battle of St Albans - Start of the Wars of the Roses

23 Sep 1459 : Battle of Blore Heath

10 Jul 1460 : Battle of Northampton

3 Aug 1460 : End of reign of James II, Fiery Face, of Scotland

4 Aug 1460 : Start of reign of James III of Scotland

31 Dec 1460 : Battle of Wakefield

2 Feb 1461 : Battle of Mortimer's Cross

16 Feb 1461 : Second Battle of St Albans

29 Mar 1461 : Battle of Towton

27 Jun 1461 : End of reign of Henry VI of England

28 Jun 1461 : Start of reign of Edward IV of England

11 Oct 1470 : Henry VI flees to The Hague

14 Apr 1471 : Battle of Barnet

14 May 1471 : Battle of Tewkesbury

ABT 1475 : Invention of the muzzle loading rifle

1477 : Caxton publishes Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"

1478 : The Black Death re-emerges

1479 : The Black Death re-emerges

9 Apr 1483 : End of reign of Edward IV of England

10 Apr 1483 : Start of reign of Edward V of England

26 Jun 1483 : End of reign of Edward V of England

27 Jun 1483 : Start of reign of Richard III of England

Oct 1483 : Edward V and brother executed in the Tower of London

22 Feb 1484 : College of Heralds established by Richard III

2 Mar 1484 : College of Heralds established by Richard III

22 Aug 1485 : End of reign of Richard III of England

22 Aug 1485 : Battle of Bosworth Field

23 Aug 1485 : Start of reign of Henry VII of England

16 Jun 1487 : Battle of Stoke - End of the Wars of the Roses

11 Jun 1488 : End of reign of James III of Scotland

12 Jun 1488 : Start of reign of James IV, of the Iron Belt, of Scotland

1496 : Syphilis breaks out in Scotland

1497 : Cornish Rebellion - anger at King Henry VII's war taxes

21 Apr 1509 : End of reign of Henry VII of England

22 Apr 1509 : Start of reign of Henry VIII of England

9 Sep 1513 : End of reign of James IV, of the Iron Belt, of Scotland

9 Sep 1513 : Battle of Flodden - Scots massively defeated by the English

10 Sep 1513 : Start of reign of James V of Scotland

24 Nov 1542 : Battle of Solway Moss - Scots routed by only 3000 English troops

14 Dec 1542 : End of reign of James V of Scotland

15 Dec 1542 : Start of reign of Mary Queen of Scots

1543 : Publication of "De humani corporis fabrica" on human anatomy by Andreas Vesalius

27 Feb 1545 : Battle of Ancrum Moor - Scots defeat the English

28 Jan 1547 : End of reign of Henry VIII of England

29 Jan 1547 : Start of reign of Edward VI of England

10 Sep 1547 : Battle of Pinkie Cleugh - Scots defeated by the English

May 1549 : Prayer Book Rebellion in Cornwall

6 Jul 1553 : End of reign of Edward VI of England

3 Aug 1553 : Start of reign of Mary of England

1556 : Thousands die in famine as crops fail for 3rd year

17 Nov 1558 : End of reign of Mary of England

15 Jan 1559 : Start of reign of Elizabeth I of England

1561 : Mary Queen of Scots returns to Scotland

13 Apr 1564 : William Shakespeare born

24 Jul 1567 : End of reign of Mary Queen of Scots

24 Jul 1567 : Mary Queen of Scots forced to abdicate

25 Jul 1567 : Start of reign of James VI of Scotland (& I of England)

Jun 1569 : Start of First Desmond Rebellion in Ireland

Jul 1570 : Elizabeth I excommunicated by Pope Pius V

7 Jul 1575 : Raid of the Redeswire - English are routed by the Scots at Carter Bar

13 Dec 1577 : Sir Francis Drake sets off from Plymouth on his round-the-world voyage

17 Jun 1579 : Sir Francis Drake lands at what is now California

18 Jul 1579 : Start of Second Desmond Rebellion in Ireland

1584 : Sir Richard Grenville establishes first colony in Virginia

20 Aug 1585 : Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonesuch precipitating war with Spain

8 Feb 1587 : Mary Queen of Scots beheaded

8 Aug 1588 : Spanish Armada defeated by English Navy in English Channel

1590 : Law of falling bodies postulated by Galileo

1590 : Development of compound microscope by Zacharias Jansen in the Netherlands

1594 : Start of the Nine Years War in Ireland

Jun 1597 : Witch-hunt hysteria grips Scotland

1602 : Astronomer Johannes Kepler publishes the late Tycho Brahe's star catalogue

24 Mar 1603 : End of reign of Elizabeth I of England

25 Mar 1603 : Union of the Crowns unites Scotland and England

30 Mar 1603 : End of the Nine Years War in Ireland

May 1603 : James VI of Scotland crowned James I of England

Nov 1603 : Bubonic plague kills a quarter of London's population

18 May 1604 : Treaty of London ends war between England and Spain

26 Oct 1605 : Guy Fawkes discovered plotting to blow up English Parliament

Jan 1607 : More English settlers arrive in Virginia

1608 : Development of the telescope by Hans Lippershey in the Netherlands

1610 : King James version of the Bible published

9 Aug 1610 : War between England and Powhatan in Virginia

1614 : Scotsman John Napier invents logarithms

1615 : Development of clinical thermometer by Italian Santorio Santorio

Oct 1620 : Pilgrim Fathers arrive at Plymouth Bay

1622 : Invention of slide rule by William Oughtred in England

1624 : Bubonic plague decimates London's population

27 Mar 1625 : End of reign of James VI of Scotland (& I of England)

28 Mar 1625 : Start of reign of Charles I

17 Feb 1638 : Scots sign first National Covenant

1639 : Production of first commercial steam engine

28 Aug 1640 : Battle of Newburn Ford - Scottish Covenanters defeat the English

30 Dec 1641 : First clash between Roundheads and Cavaliers

1642 : Start of the English Civil Wars

23 Oct 1642 : Battle of Edge Hill

19 Jan 1643 : Battle of Bradock Down

16 May 1643 : Battle of Stratton

5 Jul 1643 : Battle of Lansdown Hill

13 Jul 1643 : Battle of Roundway Down

21 Mar 1644 : Battle of Newark

29 Jun 1644 : Battle of Cropredy Bridge

2 Jul 1644 : Battle of Marston Moor

2 Sep 1644 : Battle of Lostwithiel

28 Oct 1644 : Battle of Newbury

9 May 1645 : Battle of Auldearn

14 Jun 1645 : Battle of Naseby

2 Jul 1645 : Battle of Alford

13 Sep 1645 : Battle of Philiphaugh

17 Aug 1648 : Battle of Preston

30 Jan 1649 : Charles I beheaded

30 Jan 1649 : End of reign of Charles I

31 Jan 1649 : Start of reign of Charles II

3 Sep 1650 : Battle of Dunbar

3 Sep 1651 : Battle of Worcester

3 Sep 1651 : Charles II flees to France

1652 : Start of the First Anglo-Dutch War

26 May 1652 : Surrender of Dunnottar Castle - End of the English Civil Wars

6 Dec 1653 : Cromwell declared Lord Protector

1654 : Start of war between England and Spain

25 Mar 1655 : Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn's moon Titan

1656 : Invention of pendulum clock by Christiaan Huygens

29 May 1660 : Charles II restored to the throne

1665 : Start of Second Anglo-Dutch War

Nov 1665 : Plague kills 20% of London's population

23 Aug 1666 : Great Fire of London

1669 : Formation of the Hudson's Bay Company

1672 : Start of Third Anglo-Dutch War

3 May 1679 : Archbishop Sharp murdered by Covenanters near St Andrews

6 Feb 1685 : End of reign of Charles II

7 Feb 1685 : Start of reign of James VII

6 Jul 1685 : Battle of Sedgemoor - Monmouth Rebellion

1687 : Sir Isaac Newton publishes law of gravitation

1688 : Start of the Nine Years War

9 Nov 1688 : William of Orange invades England at Torbay

11 Dec 1688 : James VII flees the country after William of Orange's invasion

28 Jan 1689 : End of reign of James VII

14 Feb 1689 : Start of reign of William III and Mary II

27 Jul 1689 : Battle of Killiecrankie - Jacobite uprising in Scotland

1 Jul 1690 : Battle of The Boyne in Ireland

13 Feb 1692 : MacDonalds massacred in Glencoe

1697 : End of the Nine Years War

21 Mar 1700 : Scottish colony on Darien fails

8 Mar 1702 : End of reign of William III and Mary II

9 Mar 1702 : Start of reign of Anne

1705 : Edmund Halley discovers Halley's comet

1707 : Act of Union

1709 : Invention of piano (hammerklavier)

1 Aug 1714 : End of reign of Anne

2 Aug 1714 : Start of reign of George I

9 Nov 1715 : Second Battle of Preston - Start of Jacobite rising (the '15)

13 Nov 1715 : Battle of Sheriffmuir

4 Feb 1716 : James "The Old Pretender" flees to France ending the uprising

1718 : Flintlock machine gun invented by James Puckle

10 Jun 1719 : Battle of Glen Shiel - Jacobites and Spanish defeated by the English

Aug 1720 : Collapse of the "South Sea Bubble"

23 Mar 1721 : Robert Walpole appointed first Prime Minister

1724 : First use of Portland cement

1725 : Rob Roy MacGregor sent to Newgate prison

1725 : Invention of mine pump steam engine by Thomas Newcomen

14 Jun 1725 : Troops fire on tax rioters in Glasgow

17 Oct 1726 : Jonathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels"

22 Jun 1727 : End of reign of George I

23 Jun 1727 : Start of reign of George II

1733 : Flying shuttle loom invented by John Kay

27 Aug 1736 : Capt. Porteous lynched at the Tollbooth in Edinburgh

1737 : General Wade completes military road building in the Highlands

30 Mar 1739 : Dick Turpin hanged for murder

1740 : 13% of Ireland's population die in famine

1745 : Jacquard draw-loom invented

19 Aug 1745 : Stuart standard raised at Glenfinnan - Start of Jacobite rebellion (the '45)

21 Sep 1745 : Battle of Prestonpans - "Hey Johnnie Cope"

18 Dec 1745 : Battle of Clifton Moor

17 Jan 1746 : Battle of Falkirk - Bonnie Prince Charlie defeats Hanovarian army

16 Apr 1746 : Battle of Culloden - last true battle on British soil - ends the rebellion

6 Apr 1747 : Parliament prohibits wearing of tartan

1748 : Bow Street Runners formed

22 Aug 1752 : UK adopts Gregorian calendar - next day is 14 September

1754 : Royal and Ancient golf club founded

15 Apr 1755 : Dr Johnson publishes dictionary

1756 : Start of Seven Years War

20 Jun 1756 : 123 Britons die in the Black Hole of Calcutta

1757 : Clive defeats Bengalis - start of Empire in India

29 Jun 1757 : William Pitt becomes Prime Minister

1760 : Turnpikes improve travelling by road

25 Oct 1760 : End of reign of George II

26 Oct 1760 : Start of reign of George III

1761 : Link between tobacco and cancer established

1763 : End of Seven Years War

1764 : Invention of the spinning jenny by James Hargreaves

1767 : Construction of Edinburgh's New Town begins

6 May 1770 : Capt. Cook discovers Botany Bay

1774 : Isolation of oxygen by Joseph Priestley

19 Apr 1775 : Battle of Lexington - Start of American War of Independence

24 Apr 1778 : John Paul Jones captures the Drake at Carrickfergus

1779 : Invention of spinning mule by Samuel Crompton

2 Jul 1780 : "Gordon" riots in London

1 Jan 1781 : World's first iron bridge completed over the River Severn

1782 : Invention of modern steam engine by James Watt

1783 : First steam powered ship built by Jouffroy d'Abbans

1783 : First flight of hot-air balloon by Montgolfier brothers

3 Sep 1783 : Treaty of Paris ends American War of Independence

2 Aug 1784 : First mail coach runs from Bristol to London

1785 : First power-driven loom invented by Edmund Cartwright

1786 : Robert Burns publishes "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect"

1787 : Transportation of criminals to Botany Bay begins

28 Apr 1789 : Mutiny aboard HMS Bounty

1791 : The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain is founded

1793 : Invention of cotton gin by Eli Whitney

1 Feb 1793 : France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands

1795 : Poor Law devised

1796 : Discovery of Smallpox vaccine by Edward Jenner

21 Feb 1797 : French landing in Wales repulsed at Fishguard

15 Apr 1797 : First naval mutiny at Spithead

30 Jun 1797 : Second naval mutiny at the Nore

1798 : Typhus epidemic kills thousands

1798 : Irish Rebellion

9 Jan 1799 : Parliament passes the first income tax

1801 : Electric arc lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy

21 Oct 1805 : Nelson dies victorious at the Battle of Trafalgar

21 Aug 1808 : Sir Arthur Wellesley leads campaign in the Peninsular War

28 Jul 1809 : French driven from Portugal

1811 : Luddites attack textile machinery

Feb 1811 : Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent due to King's insanity

Feb 1811 : Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent due to King's insanity

1812 : French retreat from Moscow

12 Aug 1812 : Wellington takes Madrid

1815 : Humphry Davy invents mining safety lamp

18 Jun 1815 : Napoleon defeated at Waterloo

1816 : Invention of bicycle by K D von Sauerbronn

1816 : Invention of stethoscope by Rene Laennec in Paris

1817 : Potato famine kills thousands in Ireland

1818 : Mary Shelley publishes "Frankenstein"

1819 : MacAdam revolutionises road building

29 Jan 1820 : End of reign of George III

30 Jan 1820 : Start of reign of George IV

1822 : Invention of electric motor by Michael Faraday

27 Sep 1825 : First passenger train service from Stockton to Darlington

1826 : Invention of the friction match by English chemist John Walker

30 Jan 1826 : Telford's Menai suspension bridge completed

1827 : Georg S Ohm postulates Ohm's Law of electric current

22 Jan 1828 : The Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister

1829 : George Stephenson builds first steam locomotive

28 Jan 1829 : Graverobber William Burke hanged for murder in Edinburgh

26 Sep 1829 : First proper police force established in London

26 Jun 1830 : End of reign of George IV

27 Jun 1830 : Start of reign of William IV

15 Sep 1830 : Liverpool to Manchester railway opens

1832 : Michael Faraday invents electric dynamo

Jun 1832 : Cholera epidemic strikes Britain

7 Jun 1832 : Parliament passes Reform Act

29 Jul 1833 : Slavery abolished throughout British Empire

Mar 1834 : Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation

1835 : Samuel Colt invents the revolver

1835 : Development of efficient screw propeller by Francis Pettit Smith

1836 : Charles Darwin returns from South America

1837 : Invention of telegraph by American Samuel F B Morse

1837 : John Deere invents the steel plough

20 Jun 1837 : End of reign of William IV

21 Jun 1837 : Start of reign of Queen Victoria

Apr 1838 : First steam crossing of the Atlantic

Sep 1838 : Grace Darling rescues survivors of the "Forfarshire"

1839 : Rubber vulcanisation developed by Charles Goodyear

23 Jul 1839 : Battle of Ghazni - British capture Ghazni, Afganistan

ABT 1840 : Development of photography

6 May 1840 : Penny Post introduced

2 Jun 1840 : Britain annexes New Zealand

6 Jul 1841 : First UK national census taken

Sep 1841 : Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister

Mar 1842 : Dr Crawford Long uses ether as anesthetic during surgery

31 Dec 1843 : Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol"

1844 : Invention of the safety match by Gustaf E Pasch

Jun 1844 : Mines Act prohibits use of women and boys in mines

1845 : Invention of pneumatic tyre by Scotsman Robert W Thompson

Jul 1846 : Potato famine hits Ireland and Scotland

Apr 1847 : Thousands emigrate from Ireland on "Coffin" ships

Nov 1849 : Cholera epidemic takes 2000 lives a week

1850 : Invention of refrigerator by Twining / Harrison

31 Mar 1851 : 1851 UK national census taken

1 May 1851 : Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park

ABT 1853 : Transportation of criminals to Australia ends

1853 : Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory

26 Mar 1854 : Britain and France declare war on Russia starting the Crimean War

25 Oct 1854 : Battle of Balaclava - Charge of the Light Brigade - Thin Red Line

30 Mar 1856 : Treaty of Paris ends Crimean War

10 May 1857 : Sepoy mutiny in India

1858 : First US oil well sunk by Col. Edwin Drake in Pennsylvania

Jun 1859 : Pig War - Dispute over border between USA and Britain in San Juan Islands

24 Nov 1859 : Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species"

1861 : Gatling gun invented by R J Gatling

8 Apr 1861 : 1861 UK national census taken

10 Jan 1863 : London Underground opens

ABT 1866 : Invention of the breech-loading rifle

Sep 1866 : Cholera sweeps London

1867 : Invention of reinforced concrete by Joseph Monier

1867 : Invention of the typewriter by Sholes and Glidden

1867 : Alfred Nobel invents dynamite

1867 : Joseph Lister pioneers antiseptic techniques

Feb 1868 : Disraeli becomes Prime Minister

1869 : Dmitri Mendeleev constructs Periodic Table of elements

1869 : Invention of the bolt-action rifle by Paul Mauser

1870 : Electric incandescent lamp invented by Thomas Edison

3 Apr 1871 : 1871 UK national census taken

May 1872 : Gladstone becomes Prime Minister

Dec 1872 : "Marie Celeste" discovered abandoned

10 Mar 1876 : Invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell

1877 : Phonograph invented by Thomas Edison

Sep 1878 : Second British invasion of Afghanistan

22 Jan 1879 : Battle of Rorke's Drift - Zulu War

28 Dec 1879 : Tay Bridge disaster

3 Apr 1881 : 1881 UK national census taken

1882 : Isolation of tuberculosis bacteria by Robert Koch

1883 : Cholera bacteria isolated by Robert Koch

26 Aug 1883 : Krakatoa erupts causing global changes in weather

1884 : Capillary feed fountain pen invented by Lewis E Waterman in the US

1885 : Vaccine against rabies discovered by Louis Pasteur

1885 : First internal combustion carriage built by Karl F Benz

26 Jan 1885 : General Charles Gordon killed at Khartoum by the Mahdi's troops

1887 : Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1888 : Invention of hand-held camera by George Eastman

Oct 1888 : Jack the Ripper terrorises London's East End

14 Nov 1889 : Completion of the Forth Bridge - first large steel structure

1890 : Discovery of diphtheria vaccine by Pierre Paul Emile Roux

1891 : Invention of the zip fastener by Whitcomb L Judson

1 Apr 1891 : 1891 UK national census taken

1893 : Thomas Edison invents motion pictures

1894 : Tower Bridge opens in London

1895 : Wireless telegraphy invented by Guglielmo Marconi

8 Nov 1895 : Discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen

1896 : Discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel

22 Jun 1897 : Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee

13 Jul 1898 : Pierre and Marie Curie detect a new element, later called Polonium

26 Dec 1898 : Pierre and Marie Curie detect a new element, later called Radium

1899 : Invention of first magnetic recorder by Valdemar Poulsen

1899 : Introduction of aspirin by Felix Hoffman

11 Oct 1899 : Start of Boer War

1900 : Invention of rigid airship by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin

28 Feb 1900 : Relief of Ladysmith

17 May 1900 : Relief of Mafeking

Aug 1900 : Boxer rebellion in Peking

1901 : First successful safety razor sold by K Gillette

22 Jan 1901 : End of reign of Queen Victoria

23 Jan 1901 : Start of reign of Edward VII

31 Mar 1901 : 1901 UK national census taken

5 Apr 1902 : 20 killed as terracing collapses at Ibrox Park

31 May 1902 : End of Boer War

24 Nov 1904 : Invention of caterpillar track by Benjamin Holt

4 Oct 1905 : Convicted Suffragettes choose to go to prison

1906 : Wassermann test for syphilis developed

1907 : Albert Einstein postulates "E=mc²" theory

1910 : Invention of first synthetic plastic, Bakelite

1910 : Domestic refrigerators begin to appear in the US

6 May 1910 : End of reign of Edward VII

7 May 1910 : Start of reign of George V

31 Jul 1910 : Radio used to arrest Dr Crippen fleeing to Quebec

1911 : Ernest Rutherford puts forward nuclear model of the atom

1911 : Marie Curie becomes the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes

3 Jan 1911 : Three policemen die in the Seige of Sidney Street

2 Apr 1911 : 1911 UK national census taken

31 Aug 1911 : Troops clash with strikers in north of England

15 Apr 1912 : SS Titanic sinks with loss of 1513 lives

10 Feb 1913 : Explorer Capt. Scott found dead in Antartica

4 Jun 1913 : Emily Davison, a Suffragette, dies under King's horse at Epsom

28 Jun 1914 : Austrian Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo

28 Jul 1914 : Austria declares war on Serbia - Start of World War I

1 Aug 1914 : Germany declares war on Russia

Aug 1914 : Battle of Tannenberg

3 Aug 1914 : Germany declares war on France

4 Aug 1914 : Britain declares war on Germany

4 Aug 1914 : Germany invades Belgium

Sep 1914 : First Battle of the Marne

4 Oct 1914 : First bombs fall on London

19 Oct 1914 : Maj.Gen. Ernest Swinton suggests development of the military tank

Feb 1915 : Start of German submarine blockade of Britain

22 Apr 1915 : Germans first use of mustard gas at Ypres

26 Apr 1915 : British land in Turkey

7 May 1915 : SS "Lusitania" sunk by German submarine

22 May 1915 : 200 soldiers killed in train crash at Quintinshill

6 Sep 1915 : Poland and Lithuania overrun by Germany

14 Oct 1915 : Britain and France declare war on Bulgaria

20 Dec 1915 : British withdraw from Gallipoli

Feb 1916 : Battle of Verdun

24 Apr 1916 : Easter Rising - insurrection in Ireland

31 May 1916 : Battle of Jutland is largest naval battle of WWI

1 Jul 1916 : Start of Battle of the Somme

27 Aug 1916 : Romaina declares war on Austria-Hungary

15 Nov 1916 : End of Battle of the Somme

6 Apr 1917 : USA declares war on Germany

Oct 1917 : Start of Battle of Caporetto

Dec 1917 : End of Battle of Caporetto

7 Dec 1917 : USA declares war on Austria-Hungary

15 Dec 1917 : Russian Bolsheviks now ally with Germany

21 Mar 1918 : Start of German offensive

1 Apr 1918 : Royal Air Force created

18 May 1918 : Sinn Féin banned and leaders arrested

Jul 1918 : Second Battle of the Marne

8 Aug 1918 : End of German offensive

4 Oct 1918 : Germany offers surrender

11 Nov 1918 : End of WWI - Hostilities cease on Western Front

28 Dec 1918 : Women allowed to vote for the first time

21 Jan 1919 : Start of the Irish War of Independence

Mar 1919 : Spanish flu kills 150,000 throughout Britian, 50m-100m worldwide

28 Dec 1919 : Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister

18 Oct 1920 : State of emergency declared as miners strike

21 Nov 1920 : "Bloody Sunday" - 12 Irish killed by the Black and Tans

19 Jun 1921 : 1921 UK national census taken

11 Jul 1921 : Truce ends Irish War of Independence

6 Dec 1921 : Irish Free State created

1922 : Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate human insulin

5 Oct 1922 : Last casualty of the Irish war

23 Apr 1924 : First royal transmission by wireless

1926 : First demonstration of television by John Logie Baird

1926 : Invention of the liquid-fuelled rocket by Robert Goddard

10 May 1926 : TUC calls first General Strike

7 Jan 1928 : River Thames floods killing 14

24 May 1930 : Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia

5 Oct 1930 : Airship R101 crashes in France killing 48

26 Apr 1931 : 1931 UK national census taken

12 Feb 1932 : Whipping of children under 14 is banned

30 Sep 1932 : Unemployment reaches 25%

1934 : Invention of first practical radar by Watson-Watt

21 Sep 1934 : 262 killed in blast at Gresford colliery

18 Mar 1935 : Thousands protest in Wales at "means test"

1936 : Invention of helicopter by Henrich Focke

1936 : Sir Frank Whittle invents the jet engine

20 Jan 1936 : End of reign of George V

21 Jan 1936 : Start of reign of Edward VIII

11 Nov 1936 : Jarrow Crusade reaches London

10 Dec 1936 : Edward VIII abdicates

10 Dec 1936 : End of reign of Edward VIII

11 Dec 1936 : Start of reign of George VI

28 May 1937 : Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister

1938 : Discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassmann

11 Jul 1938 : Last British troops leave Eire

25 Aug 1939 : IRA bomb Coventry killing 5

Sep 1939 : Children evacuated from London and major cities

1 Sep 1939 : Germany invades Poland

3 Sep 1939 : Britain and France declare war on Germany - Start of WWII

29 Sep 1939 : UK National Register of civilians for the issue of ID cards

17 Dec 1939 : The German battleship "Graf Spee" scuttled off Montevideo

ABT 1940 : New element Plutonium (Z=94) is discovered

10 May 1940 : Churchill takes over as Prime Minister of Great Britain

10 May 1940 : Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg

12 May 1940 : Germany invades France

26 May 1940 : Allied evacuation from Dunkirk begins

10 Jun 1940 : Italy invades France

10 Jun 1940 : Italy declares war on France and Britain

14 Jun 1940 : Germans enter Paris unopposed

22 Jun 1940 : France surrenders to Germany

14 Nov 1940 : Coventry bombed by the Luftwaffe

17 Apr 1941 : Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany

27 Apr 1941 : British leave Greece

22 Jun 1941 : Germany attacks Russia

14 Aug 1941 : Britain and USA sign Atlantic Charter

7 Dec 1941 : Japan attack USA at Pearl Harbour

11 Dec 1941 : Britain and USA declare war on Japan

11 Dec 1941 : Germany and Italy declare war on USA

1942 : New element Promethium (Z=61) is discovered

15 Feb 1942 : British surrender Singapore to Japanese

9 Apr 1942 : USA surrenders Bataan peninsula to Japanese

6 May 1942 : USA surrenders Corregidor Island to Japanese

10 Jun 1942 : Lidice, Czechoslovakia razed by Germans

8 Nov 1942 : British and US troops land in North Africa

14 Jan 1943 : Casablanca conference

1 Feb 1943 : Germans surrender at Stalingrad

12 May 1943 : War in Africa ends

25 Jul 1943 : Mussolini deposed

3 Sep 1943 : Allies land in Italy

8 Sep 1943 : Italy surrenders

10 Sep 1943 : Germans take Rome

22 Nov 1943 : Cairo conference

28 Nov 1943 : Teheran Conference

1944 : New element Curium (Z=96) is discovered

1944 : New element Americium (Z=95) is discovered

22 Jan 1944 : British and US troops land at Anzio

4 Jun 1944 : British and US troops enter Rome

6 Jun 1944 : D-Day landings in Normandy

25 Aug 1944 : Paris liberated

13 Oct 1944 : Athens liberated

20 Oct 1944 : USA invades Philippines

16 Dec 1944 : Battle of the Bulge

11 Feb 1945 : Yalta agreement

28 Apr 1945 : Mussolini executed at Lake Como

1 May 1945 : Hitler's suicide announced

2 May 1945 : Berlin falls

7 May 1945 : VE Day. Germany surrenders

16 Jul 1945 : The "Trinity" test is the first detonation of an atomic bomb

17 Jul 1945 : Potsdam conference

6 Aug 1945 : USA drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

8 Aug 1945 : USSR declares war on Japan

9 Aug 1945 : USA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

14 Aug 1945 : Japan surrenders

2 Sep 1945 : VJ Day. Japanese sign surrender aboard USS Missouri - End of WWII

Feb 1946 : 50,000 "GI brides" shipped out to the USA

Dec 1946 : Fuel and food shortages continue

20 Nov 1947 : Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh

1 Jan 1948 : Railways nationalised

28 Jun 1948 : Troops break dockers' strike

Dec 1948 : Labour government constructs "Welfare State"

1949 : New element Berkelium (Z=97) is discovered

1949 : Radiocarbon dating technique discovered by Willard Libby

15 Mar 1949 : Clothes rationing ends

18 Apr 1949 : Eire becomes Republic of Ireland

ABT 1950 : Albert Einstein puts forward theories of relativity

1950 : New element Californium (Z=98) is discovered

28 Jun 1950 : Royal Navy enters Korean War

25 Dec 1950 : Stone of Destiny taken from Westminster Abbey

8 Apr 1951 : 1951 UK national census taken

7 Jun 1951 : Soviet spies Burgess and MacLean disappear

1952 : New element Fermium (Z=100) is discovered

1952 : New element Einsteinium (Z=99) is discovered

6 Feb 1952 : End of reign of George VI

7 Feb 1952 : Start of reign of Elizabeth II

20 Oct 1952 : Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya

1 Nov 1952 : US detonates the first hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll

24 Nov 1952 : "Mousetrap" opens in London

11 Dec 1952 : Derek Bentley sentenced to hang for the murder of PC Miles in Croydon

1953 : Discovery of measles vaccine by Enders and Peebles

1953 : A canyon is discovered along the centre of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

31 Jan 1953 : Ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in the Irish Sea

3 Feb 1953 : Hundreds die as East Coast is flooded

30 May 1953 : Edmund Hillary reaches the top of Mount Everest

1954 : Discovery of first polio vaccine by Jonas E Salk

4 Mar 1954 : First successful kidney transplant carried out in Boston

May 1954 : "Teddy Boys" appear

3 Jul 1954 : Rationing ends

1955 : New element Mendelevium (Z=101) is discovered

13 Jul 1955 : Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged

31 Oct 1956 : Britain invades Suez

Apr 1957 : IBM delivers the first compiler for the FORTRAN language

17 Oct 1957 : Air borne radiation leaks from Windscale nuclear plant

1958 : New element Nobelium (Z=102) is discovered

6 Feb 1958 : 7 members of Manchester United die in plane crash

5 Dec 1958 : First motorway in Britain, M6 Preston Bypass opens

1959 : Lewis Urry invents the alkaline battery

31 Dec 1960 : National Service abolished

1961 : New element Lawrencium (Z=103) is discovered

23 Apr 1961 : 1961 UK national census taken

27 Mar 1963 : Dr Beeching proposes cutting 25% of rail lines

5 Jun 1963 : John Profumo resigns after sex scandal

4 Nov 1963 : The Beatles appear in the Royal Variety Show

10 Dec 1963 : Aden Emergency

1964 : New element Rutherfordium (Z=104) is discovered

11 Jan 1964 : US Surgeon General reports that smoking may be a health hazard

21 Dec 1964 : Death penalty abolished in Britain

28 Oct 1965 : Brady and Hindley charged with Moors Murders

21 Oct 1966 : 144 die in Aberfan as coal bing buries school

1967 : Emergence of Flower Power

1968 : New element Dubnium (Z=105) is discovered

1968 : Thomas Gold describes radio pulsars as fast rotating neutron stars

2 Jan 1968 : Dr Christian Barnard performs first successful heart transplant

5 Mar 1969 : London gangsters the Kray twins sentenced to life

4 Apr 1969 : Dr Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart

2 Jan 1971 : 66 die when barriers collapse at Ibrox Park

15 Feb 1971 : British currency goes decimal

25 Apr 1971 : 1971 UK national census taken

15 Nov 1971 : Intel release the first microprocessor, the 4004

22 Jan 1972 : Britain joins the EEC

30 Jan 1972 : 13 shot in another Bloody Sunday in Derry

Feb 1972 : Miners strike leads to power cuts

1 Feb 1972 : First scientific hand-held calculator produced by Hewlett-Packard

8 Mar 1973 : IRA begins mainland bombing

17 Dec 1973 : Three day week introduced

1974 : New element Seaborgium (Z=106) is discovered

12 Nov 1974 : Lord Lucan escapes and disappears

11 Jul 1975 : Inflation reaches 25%

Nov 1975 : Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Micro-Soft

1 Apr 1976 : Apple Computer Company formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

Aug 1976 : Drought causes water shortages

18 Jan 1977 : Legionella bacteria isolated as the cause of Legionnaire's Disease

2 Apr 1977 : Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time

11 Sep 1977 : Last wild infection of smallpox is reported in Somalia

16 Feb 1978 : CBBS, the first computer bulletin board is created in Chicago, Illinois

13 Dec 1978 : Jeremy Thorpe, MP charged with incitement to murder

Jan 1979 : "Winter of Discontent". Strikes cause food shortages and power cuts

1979 : VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software is released

4 May 1979 : Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister

2 Sep 1979 : Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim

5 May 1980 : SAS storms Iranian embassy in London

1981 : Dr Bruce Reitz performs the first heart-lung transplant at Stanford Hospital

1981 : New element Bohrium (Z=107) is discovered

5 Apr 1981 : 1981 UK national census taken

12 Apr 1981 : The IBM Personal Computer is released

Jul 1981 : Riots break out in 8 inner city areas

1982 : Rich Skrenta writes the Elk Cloner computer virus, the first to escape into the wild

1982 : New element Meitnerium (Z=109) is discovered

2 Apr 1982 : Argentina invades Falkland Islands

14 Jun 1982 : British troops regain control of Falklands

1 Jan 1983 : The ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet

May 1983 : The first report of the virus which causes AIDS is published

25 Sep 1983 : 134 IRA prisoners escape from the Maze prison

1984 : New element Hassium (Z=108) is discovered

22 Jan 1984 : The Apple Macintosh computer is introduced

May 1984 : Coal strikes crushed by riot police

12 Oct 1984 : IRA bombs Tory conference in Brighton

11 May 1985 : 40 killed as fire destroys Bradford City stand

1 Sep 1985 : The wreck of the RMS "Titanic" is located off the coast of Newfoundland

23 Jul 1986 : Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson at Wesminster Abbey

16 Oct 1987 : Hurricane hits southern England

18 Nov 1987 : 30 die in King's Cross Underground fire

29 Dec 1987 : The antidepressant drug Prozac appears in the US

6 Jul 1988 : North sea oil rig Piper Alpha explodes

17 Nov 1988 : The Netherlands is the second country to be connected to the Internet

22 Dec 1988 : Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Lockerbie killing 270

23 Mar 1989 : Fleischmann and Pons erroneously claim to have produced cold fusion

15 Apr 1989 : 94 football fans crushed to death at Hillsborough

Sep 1989 : Thousands of Scots decide not to pay new Poll Tax

19 Oct 1989 : "Guildford Four" released from prison

23 Aug 1990 : British and US troop build up in Persian Gulf

13 Nov 1990 : The first known Web page is written

1991 : Sumio Iijima discovers carbon nanotubes

17 Jan 1991 : Operation "Desert Storm" defeats Iraq

7 Feb 1991 : Downing Street hit by IRA mortar bomb

14 Mar 1991 : "Birmingham Six" released from prison

21 Apr 1991 : 1991 UK national census taken

9 Dec 1992 : Prince Charles and Princess Diana separate

22 Mar 1993 : Intel ships the first Pentium CPU chips

24 Apr 1993 : Massive truck bomb devastates Bishopsgate in London

1994 : New element Roentgenium (Z=111) is discovered

1994 : New element Darmstadtium (Z=110) is discovered

Mar 1994 : Fred and Rosemary West arrested for murder in Gloucester

6 May 1994 : The Channel Tunnel opens linking England and France by rail

Sep 1995 : Britain hit by worst drought for over 250 years

1996 : New element Copernicium (Z=112) discovered

Feb 1996 : Major oil spill from "Sea Empress" at Milford Haven

5 Jul 1996 : In Scotland, "Dolly" the sheep is the first mammal to be cloned

31 Aug 1997 : Princess Diana dies after car crash in Paris

15 Aug 1998 : Car bomb explodes in Omagh killing 29

1999 : The first "Blackberry", a wireless two-way pager introduced

12 May 1999 : First meeting of the new Scottish Parliament

Jun 1999 : New element with atomic number 114 discovered

5 Oct 1999 : Rail crash at Ladbroke Grove, Paddington kills 31

Sep 2000 : Fuel protests and panic buying lead to petrol shortages

2001 : Foot-and-mouth disease closes UK countryside

29 Apr 2001 : 2001 UK national census taken

2 Jul 2001 : The first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools

7 Oct 2001 : Operation "Enduring Freedom" begins the Afghanistan War

8 Mar 2002 : Bubble Fusion reported at Oak Ridge but it cannot be reproduced

30 Mar 2002 : The Queen Mother dies aged 101

4 Jun 2002 : Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her golden jubilee

Mar 2003 : First digital camera to use an organic LED display is released by Kodak

20 Mar 2003 : Operation "Iraqi Freedom" starts the Iraq War

27 Oct 2004 : Remains of a new species of human, Homo floresiensis, is discovered

26 Dec 2004 : A tsunami in the Indian Ocean kills over 225,000 people

7 Jul 2005 : Four suicide bombers kill 52 in the London morning rush hour

30 Nov 2005 : Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant

24 Aug 2006 : The planet Pluto is redesignated as a dwarf planet

Dec 2006 : Ipswich prostitute murders - five bodies are found

27 Jun 2007 : Tony Blair steps down as Prime Minister

4 Sep 2007 : The complete human genome is published

Sep 2008 : Emerging global financial crisis plunges UK into recession

10 Sep 2008 : The LHC particle accelerator at CERN begins test runs

14 Jun 2009 : First death in UK from Swine Flu virus

Jul 2009 : The largest ever Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard is found in Staffordshire

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