1600 - 1900 England

  • Long Parliament

  • English Civil War

  • Charles I executed

  • Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector

  • Cromwell dies

  • Isaac Newton's "Principia"

  • Glorious Revolution

  • Locke's 2nd Treatise of Government

  • Act of Union with Scotland

  • Enclosure Act

  • Hanoverian Dynasty begins

  • Kay's Flying Shuttle invented

  • William Pitt the Elder becomes Prime Minister

  • Cartwright's power loom invented

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

  • Jeremy Bentham's ideas about utilitarianism

  • Act of Union with Ireland

  • Luddites protest against new machines

  • Corn Laws passed

  • Ricardo's Iron Law of Wages

  • Reform Act

  • Poor Laws

  • Chartists

  • Queen Victoria coronation

  • Irish Potato Famine

  • Corn Laws repealed

  • Darwin's Origin of Species published

  • Reform Act

  • Gladstone becomes Prime Minister

  • Reform Act

  • Kipling's "White Man's Burden"

  • Queen Victoria abdicates