— about 55 years ago
Date | Event |
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308-11-11 |
The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul. |
355-11-06 |
Emperor Constantine II crowns cousin Julianus keizer of Britain |
1618-07-16 |
Capt John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain |
1632-06-20 |
Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area |
1662-10-17 |
Charles II of Great Britain sells Dunkirk to France for 2.5 million livres (320,000 English pounds) |
1679-07-12 |
Britain's King Charles II ratifies Habeas Corpus Act allowing prisoners right to be imprisoned to be examined |
1689-01-22 |
Prince William of Orange (future King William III of Britain), summons Convention Parliament to discuss ruling jointly with his wife Mary |
1689-04-11 |
William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of Britain |
1700-02-27 |
Pacific Island of New Britain discovered |
1707-04-29 |
English and Scottish parliaments accept Act of Union; form United Kingdom of Great Britain |
1707-05-01 |
England, Wales & Scotland form United Kingdom of Great Britain |
1710-04-10 |
The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain. |
1712-07-20 |
The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain. |
1713-03-27 |
Spain loses Menorca and Gibraltar to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht |
1713-04-11 |
Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese & French peace treaty |
1713-06-23 |
The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada. |
1716-10-09 |
Britain & France sign treaty |
1718-12-17 |
France, Britain and Austria declare war on Spain. |
1721-04-03 |
Robert Walpole becomes Britain's 1st Lord of the Treasury - effective Prime Minister, although that term was never officially used (indeed, it was considered an insult) until much later. |
1725-09-03 |
Britain, France, Hannover & Prussia sign Covenant of Hannover |
1727-05-31 |
France, Britain & Netherlands sign accord of Paris |
1728-03-06 |
Spain & Britain sign (1st) Convention of Pardo |
1729-11-09 |
Spain, France & Britain sign Treaty of Seville |
1730-05-15 |
Robert Walpole becomes effectively Britain's 1st prime minister (was: chief min) |
1731-04-09 |
British mariner Robert Jenkins' ear cut off by Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean, later catalyst for war between Britain & Spain |
1739-10-30 |
Great Britain declares war on Spain: War of Jenkin's Ear [NS=Oct 19] |
1743-02-14 |
Henry Pelham becomes Britain's First Lord of Treasury |
1743-06-27 |
War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. The last time a British monarch would command troops in the field. |
1743-09-02 |
Britain/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms |
1743-09-13 |
Britain, Austria & Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms |
1744-03-15 |
French King Louis XV declares war on Britain |
1748-01-26 |
Britain, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty |
1751-09-13 |
Britain signs Austrian & Russian alliance |
1752-09-02 |
Last Julian calendar day in Britain and British colonies (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) |
1752-09-03 |
Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives |
1752-09-14 |
Britain (and American colonies) adopt Gregorian calendar (no Sept 3-Sept 13th) |
1755-09-19 |
Great Britain & Russia sign military agreement |
1756-05-17 |
Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War) |
1757-11-28 |
Britain condemns Convention of Kloster-Zeven |
1758-11-25 |
Britain captures Fort Duquesne (later Fort Pitt/Pittsburgh) from French |
1760-10-25 |
George III becomes King of Great Britain. |
1762-11-03 |
Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris |
1763-02-10 |
Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain |
1763-10-07 |
George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north & west of Alleghenies to white settlement |
1765-03-24 |
Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers |
1766-03-17 |
Britain repeals the Stamp Act |
1771-01-22 |
Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain |
1774-03-28 |
Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts |
1774-05-20 |
Britain gives Quebec, Labrador & territory north of Ohio |
1775-05-20 |
Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence from Britain |
1776-05-04 |
Rhode Island declares independence from Britain |
1776-07-01 |
1st vote on Declaration of Independence for Britain's North American colonies |
1776-07-04 |
US congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain |
1777-03-08 |
Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt. |
1778-02-06 |
Britain declares war on France |
1778-07-10 |
American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
1779-06-16 |
Spain declares war on Great Britain in support of the US, and the siege of Gibraltar begins. |
1779-09-27 |
John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain |
1780-12-20 |
Britain declares war on Holland |
1781-04-29 |
French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope |
1782-11-30 |
Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence |
1783-09-03 |
Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America |
1783-11-25 |
Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States |
1784-03-01 |
E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain |
1784-05-11 |
Britain & Tippu Sahib of Mysore sign peace treaty |
1784-05-20 |
Britain & Netherlands sign peace treaty (Peace of Paris) |
1786-09-26 |
Britain & France sign trade agreement |
1788-04-15 |
Britain, Netherlands & Prussia sign peace treaty |
1791-12-04 |
Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, 1st published |
1792-06-04 |
Capt George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain |
1793-02-01 |
France declares war on Great Britain and Netherlands |
1794-06-01 |
Glorious First of June; first naval battle between Britain (under Admiral Lord Howe) and France (Vice-Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse) during French Revolutionary Wars. Britain gains tactical win. |
1794-06-26 |
Battle of Fleurus; major victory by forces of the First French Republic under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Coalition Army (Great Britain, Hanover, Dutch Republic, and Habsburgs) first use of reconnaissance balloon |
1794-11-19 |
Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain |
1795-06-24 |
US & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty |
1795-09-15 |
Cape Colony surrenders to Britain |
1796-06-01 |
Last of Britain's troops withdraws from US |
1797-02-22 |
The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near Fishguard, Wales. |
1797-02-25 |
Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain |
1798-09-01 |
Britain signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India |
1798-12-24 |
Russia & Britain sign Second anti-French Coalition |
1799-03-07 |
The Royal Institution of Great Britain founded; dedicated to scientific research and education. |
1799-06-22 |
Britain & Russia decide to invade Bataafse Republic |
1801-01-01 |
The Irish Parliament votes to join the Kingdom of Great Britain, forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
1801-03-10 |
First census in Great Britain |
1801-10-01 |
Britain & France signs Preliminary of London |
1802-03-25 |
France, Netherlands, Spain & Great Britain sign Peace of Amiens |
1802-12-02 |
Britain sells Suriname to the Netherlands |
1803-05-18 |
Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland |
1804-10-02 |
Britain mobilizes to protect against French invasion |
1806-01-19 |
Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope |
1807-12-22 |
Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France |
1809-01-05 |
Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France |
1811-02-11 |
President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years |
1812-06-18 |
War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain |
1814-12-24 |
Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain War of 1812) signed |
1816-08-14 |
Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha |
1818-05-04 |
Netherlands & Britain sign treaty against illegal slave handling |
1818-10-20 |
US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country |
1820-01-30 |
British explorer Edward Bransfield aboard Williams sights Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica claims for Britain |
1824-03-17 |
Britain & Netherlands sign a trade agreement |
1825-02-22 |
Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary |
1826-06-20 |
Siam and Britain sign trade/peace treaty |
1829-03-22 |
The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece. |
1829-12-04 |
Britain abolishes "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre) |
1830-12-20 |
Great Britain, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium |
1831-09-08 |
William IV is crowned King of Great Britain. |
1833-01-03 |
Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic |
1833-08-29 |
Britain's Slavery Abolition Act becomes law |
1837-06-20 |
Britain issues its 1st stamp, 1 penny Queen Victoria |
1839-02-26 |
Jem Mason on Lottery wins 1st Grand National Steeplechase (Britain) |
1839-11-04 |
The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain. |
1840-05-06 |
1st postage stamps (Penny Black) issued (Great Britain) |
1840-07-15 |
Great Britain, Russia, Austria & Prussia sign Quadruple Alliance |
1841-01-26 |
Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain |
1841-09-24 |
Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei (James Brooke appointed Rajah) |
1842-08-29 |
Great Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war |
1843-05-04 |
Great Britain annexes Natal |
1843-07-19 |
Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world. |
1846-08-05 |
Oregon territory divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel |
1848-01-01 |
Britain takes Mosquito Coast from Nicaragua |
1849-01-31 |
Corn Laws abolished in Britain |
1849-03-29 |
Great Britain formally annexs Punjab after defeat of Sikhs in India |
1851-07-24 |
Window tax abolished in Britain |
1852-01-01 |
National debt of Britain & Ireland is 765,126,582 pounds |
1854-02-17 |
Britain recognises independence of Orange Free State (South Africa) |
1854-02-23 |
Great-Britain & Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein |
1854-03-28 |
Britain & France declare war on Russia (Crimean War) |
1854-09-14 |
Allied armies, including those of Britain & France, land in Crimea |
1856-04-29 |
Peace between Britain & Russia |
1857-06-10 |
Britain passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system |
1858-08-16 |
Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan |
1860-01-28 |
Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua |
1861-03-16 |
Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain |
1861-05-13 |
Queen Victoria announces Britain's position of neutrality |
1862-03-10 |
Great Britain & France recognise independence of Zanzibar |
1862-06-07 |
The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade. |
1864-03-29 |
Great Britain gives the Ionian Islands back to Greece |
1865-07-05 |
Great Britain delegate's world 1st maximum speed laws |
1868-03-12 |
Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa (later renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho) |
1870-09-08 |
Netherlands & Britain sign "Koelietraktaat" Br-Indian contract work in Suriname |
1871-10-17 |
Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa |
1872-03-11 |
Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain. |
1872-07-18 |
The Ballot Act introduces the secret ballot in elections in Britain; previously votes were made openly. |
1872-09-14 |
Britain pays US$15½m for damages during Civil War |
1876-02-18 |
Direct telegraph link established between Britain & New Zealand |
1876-06-03 |
Lacrosse introduced in Britain & Canada |
1877-03-12 |
Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony, Southern Africa. |
1878-06-04 |
Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes |
1881-03-23 |
Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war |
1882-02-15 |
1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin |
1882-03-04 |
Britain's first electric trams run in East London. |
1883-08-01 |
Inland postal service begins in Great Britain |
1884-09-04 |
Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia. |
1884-12-16 |
Great Britain recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State |
1885-02-26 |
Congress of Berlin; gives Congo to Belgium & Nigeria to Great Britain |
1885-03-31 |
Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate |
1886-04-08 |
First Home Rule Bill for Ireland presented by Gladstone, the Liberal Prime Minister of Britain, to the House of Commons |
1886-08-01 |
Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand |
1886-10-30 |
Great Britain and Germany agree boundaries in East Africa |
1887-06-21 |
Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria |
1887-12-10 |
Austria-Hungary, Italy and Great Britain sign Balkan military treaty |
1890-03-04 |
The longest bridge in the Great Britain, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII. |
1890-07-01 |
Great-Britain & Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty |
1890-11-04 |
Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate |
1891-03-18 |
Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone |
1892-02-29 |
Britain & US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea |
1892-07-06 |
Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. |
1893-03-30 |
Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain |
1894-08-02 |
Death duties 1st introduced in Britain |
1895-01-12 |
The National Trust is founded in Britain. |
1896-08-27 |
Britain defeated Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM) |
1897-05-14 |
Great Britain signs treaty with Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia |
1897-08-10 |
Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Automobile Club) |
1898-06-09 |
China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years |
1898-09-02 |
Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain |
1899-10-11 |
South African Boers declare war on Great Britain |
1899-10-12 |
South Africa Boer Republic declares war on Britain |
1900-03-10 |
Regents for the King of Uganda and leading chiefs sign a treaty with Great Britain agreeing to the organization of the government, taxation, courts, military, and other functions of their country, which is under British protection. |
1900-05-18 |
Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga |
1900-05-19 |
Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago |
1900-08-20 |
Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games |
1900-09-03 |
With a proclamation by General Lord Roberts, Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South Africa |
1900-10-06 |
Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony) |
1900-10-16 |
Great Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Treaty, in which they agree to maintain the territorial integrity of China and support the 'open door' policy called for by US secretary of State |
1900-10-25 |
Great Britain annexes the former Boer South African Republic, renaming it the Transvaal Colony |
1901-01-22 |
After 63 years Britain stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series & begins King Edward VII series |
1901-07-25 |
Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps during the South African War |
1901-08-15 |
Great Britain issues a proclamation calling on the Boers to surrender by 15 September or face banishment and confiscation of their property |
1901-09-26 |
Great Britain annexes the Ashanti Kingdom and places it under the governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana) |
1901-10-25 |
In Great Britain, Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Affairs Secretary, makes an anti-German speech in Edinburgh; when word reaches Germany it leads to widespread agitation against the British and eventual breakdown of negotiations for an Anglo-German alliance |
1901-11-18 |
The USA and Great Britain sign the Second Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, or Interoceanic Ship Canal Treaty |
1901-11-26 |
Italy and Britain sign an agreement fixing the frontier between their colonies of Eritrea and Sudan in East Africa |
1901-11-27 |
Prince Ito of Japan comes to St Petersburg hoping to get the Russians to grant Japan concessions in Korea, but later drops this goal and decides to make an alliance with Britain |
1902-01-08 |
The United Irish League, a leading force for unification in all Ireland and independence from Britain, holds its convention in Dublin |
1902-01-30 |
Britain and Japan sign a treaty after months of negotiating which commits each country to supporting an independent China and Korea, although it acknowledges Japan's 'special interest' in Korea |
1902-05-19 |
Great Britain & Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria |
1902-05-24 |
Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain |
1902-05-31 |
Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal |
1902-08-09 |
Edward VII of Great Britain crowned having succeeded his mother Victoria |
1902-12-07 |
Britain and Germany issue an ultimatum to Venezuela demanding that President Cipriano Castro pay claims for damages caused during his takeover of the government in 1899 |
1903-05-01 |
King Edward VII of Great Britain visits Paris, where he is feted in a first step toward improving Anglo-French relations, culminating in the sighing of the Entente Cordiale on 8 April, 1904 |
1903-05-20 |
Britain's House of Commons begins a debate on the charges of poor administration and ill treatment of natives in Belgium's colony in the Congo Free State |
1903-06-06 |
President Emile Loubet of France and Minister of Foreign Affairs Theophile Declasse visit London, furthering the cause of Entente Cordiale between Britain and France |
1903-10-10 |
The Women's Social and Political Union was formed by Emmeline Pankhurst to fight for women's rights in Britain. |
1904-02-22 |
The Hague Tribunal gives its decision in claims against Venezuela; it sets the sum to be paid by Venezuela and gives preferential treatment to the three powers that initiated the block - Britain, Germany, and Italy |
1904-04-08 |
Great Britain and France establish their Entente Cordiale, a technical treaty settling long-standing disagreements over Morocco, Egypt, Africa, and the Pacific |
1904-07-06 |
Two Russian cruisers move into the Red Sea and begin to stop ships of Britain, Germany, and other nations they believe friendly to Japan |
1904-09-07 |
British forces in Tibet force the Dalai Lhama to sign a treaty that grants Britain trading posts in Tibet and guarantee that Tibet will not concede territory to foreign powers |
1906-02-27 |
France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides |
1906-03-24 |
"Census of the British Empire" shows Britain rules 1/5 of the world |
1906-06-05 |
Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet |
1906-07-04 |
Great Britain, France, and Italy declare independence of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), but all lay claim to their own 'spheres of influence' in that land |
1906-08-15 |
Kind Edward VII of Britain visits Kaiser Wilhelm in Germany to discuss the escalating rivalry between their nations' naval forces |
1907-01-12 |
Britain grants responsible government to former colony of Transvaal |
1907-05-16 |
In the Pact of Cartagena, Great Britain, France, and Spain agree to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast of Europe and Africa |
1907-08-03 |
Kaiser Wilhelm (Germany) meets with Tsar Nicholas (Russia) to discuss Germany's plan to build a railroad to Baghdad; the discussion helps move Russia towards Britain and eventually the Triple Alliance |
1907-08-31 |
Britain & Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia & Tibet |
1907-08-31 |
Britain, Russia & France form Triple Entente |
1907-09-05 |
King Edward VII of Great Britain meets Russia's Foreign Minister Alexander Izvolski in an attempt to strengthen Russia's relationship with Britain |
1908-01-23 |
US & Great Britain demand end of abuses in Congo |
1908-04-23 |
Denmark, Germany, Britain, France, Netherlands & Sweden sign North Sea accord |
1908-06-09 |
Kind Edward VII of Great Britain visits Tsar Nicholas II at Reval, Russia, where the two discuss the growing power of Germany and British plans for reform in Macedonia |
1908-08-11 |
King Edward VII of Britain meets with Kaiser Wilhelm of Friedrichshof, Germany; the main point of contention is the increasing size of Germany's navy |
1908-08-13 |
Kind Edward VII of Great Britain meets with Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria at Ischl; the King tries to persuade the Emperor to advise Germany against aggressive (anti-British) policies |
1908-10-28 |
The English Newspaper the Daily Telegraph prints an interview with Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, who characterises himself as personally friendly to Britain but suggests the German people people are hostile, causing uproar in both countries |
1909-01-01 |
In Great Britain, the Old Age Pension Law is finally instituted, providing pensions for every British subject over 70 with low income |
1910-05-20 |
Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII |
1910-09-22 |
The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. |
1911-06-22 |
King George V crowned king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and all his realms and territories beyond the sea. |
1911-07-13 |
Great Britain and Japan renew their alliance of 1902 for another four years; the reason Japan joins WWI on the Allies side |
1911-08-10 |
The Great Britain, the House of Commons votes on a salary - of £400 annually - for its members |
1911-09-18 |
Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown |
1911-11-18 |
Britain's first seaplane flies |
1912-02-08 |
British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength |
1912-02-26 |
Coal miners strike in Britain (settle on 1st March) |
1912-05-13 |
Royal Flying Corps forms in Great Britain |
1913-05-26 |
Emily Duncan becomes Great Britain's first woman magistrate. |
1914-08-02 |
Great Britain mobilizes |
1914-08-04 |
WWI: Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany |
1914-08-12 |
Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary |
1914-08-15 |
The first large public gathering of Boers in South Africa who do not want to support Britain in a war against Germany; British authorities will try to repress this movement, but discontent spreads |
1914-09-04 |
France, Russia, and Britain agree in a Pact of London that none will make a separate peace |
1914-09-05 |
Gr Britain/France/Belgium/Russia sign pact of London |
1914-09-09 |
Meeting held at Gaelic League headquarters between Irish Republican Brotherhood and other extreme republicans; initial decision made to stage an uprising while Britain is at war |
1914-09-11 |
Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there. |
1914-10-01 |
The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth |
1914-10-31 |
Great Britain & France declare war on Turkey |
1914-11-02 |
Great Britain annexes Cyprus |
1914-11-02 |
Great Britain declares the entire North Sea a military area: neutral ships will transit it at their own risk |
1914-11-05 |
Britain declares war on Turkey and annexes Cyprus, occupied since 1878; the immediate reason is to keep it from being taken by Turkey |
1914-12-17 |
Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate |
1915-01-19 |
1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die |
1915-02-10 |
US President Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans |
1915-02-18 |
Germany begins a blockade of Britain |
1915-04-04 |
Germany protests vigorously to the US, claiming it must insist that Britain lifts its blockade and assert American neutrality |
1915-04-26 |
Italy secretly signes Pact of London with Britain, France & Russia |
1915-10-16 |
Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria |
1915-10-21 |
William Jennings Bryan's successor as US Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, sends a note to Britain protesting interference with US shipping |
1915-11-12 |
Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago |
1916-01-12 |
Britain proclaims Gilbert & Ellice Is colony in Pacific |
1916-01-28 |
German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France |
1916-02-09 |
Britain's military service act enforced (conscription) |
1916-02-10 |
Military conscription begins in Britain |
1916-02-22 |
The House-Grey Memorandum, drafted by US and Britain, states: 'Should the Allies accept [the American idea of a conference to end the war] and should Germany refuse it, the United States would "probably" enter the war against Germany' |
1916-05-21 |
Britain begins "Summer Time" (daylight saving time) |
1916-05-24 |
Conscription begins in Britain |
1917-11-20 |
First successful tank use in battle (Britain breaks through German lines) at Battle of Cambrai WWI |
1918-02-06 |
Britain grants women (30 & over) vote |
1918-08-20 |
Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I |
1919-05-03 |
Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain |
1919-05-06 |
Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; Ger E Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German SW Africa to South Africa |
1920-01-21 |
14th Davis Cup: Australasia beats Great Britain in Sydney (4-1) |
1920-11-11 |
Great Britain's monument to her war dead, the Cenotaph in Whitehall, designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled |
1921-03-01 |
Rwanda ceded to Great Britain |
1921-03-17 |
Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London) |
1921-04-15 |
Black Friday in Britain: leaders of transport and rail unions announce a decision not to call for strike action in support of the miners; the epithet 'black' derives from a widespread feeling that the decision amounted to a breach of solidarity and a betrayal of the miners |
1921-06-19 |
Census held in Great Britain |
1922-02-21 |
Great Britain grants Egypt independence |
1922-02-28 |
Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain |
1923-01-01 |
Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMSR. |
1923-02-23 |
Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5% |
1923-05-25 |
Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader |
1923-06-19 |
Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war |
1923-09-12 |
Britain takes over Southern Rhodesia from British South Africa Co |
1924-01-22 |
Government of Stanley Baldwin resigns in Great Britain |
1924-01-23 |
Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour government in Britain |
1924-04-01 |
Imperial Airways forms in Britain |
1924-11-22 |
Britain orders Egyptians out of Sudan |
1925-04-03 |
Great Britain goes back to gold standard |
1925-04-28 |
Netherlands & Great Britain return to gold standard |
1925-07-31 |
Unemployment Insurance Act passed in Britain |
1925-12-06 |
Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy) |
1927-05-20 |
Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda) |
1927-12-14 |
Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain |
1929-05-27 |
2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England |
1929-06-05 |
Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain |
1930-04-22 |
US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty |
1930-07-01 |
Great Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq |
1931-07-26 |
26th Davis Cup: France beats Great Britain in Paris (3-2) |
1931-09-21 |
Britain abandons gold standard; pound devalues 20% |
1931-11-14 |
Ottawa Mint Act is proclaimed in Britain |
1932-06-13 |
Great Britain & France sign peace treaty |
1932-10-03 |
Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations |
1933-06-27 |
4th Ryder Cup: Great Britain wins, 6½-5½ at Southport & Ainsdale, England |
1933-07-30 |
28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2) |
1933-09-11 |
Britain's Fred Perry thwarts Australian Jack Crawford's bid for a Grand Slam by defeating him at US Tennis championship |
1933-12-21 |
Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony of Great Britain |
1934-03-26 |
Driving tests introduced in Britain |
1934-07-31 |
29th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats USA in Wimbledon (4-1) |
1935-03-13 |
Driving tests introduced in Great Britain |
1935-07-02 |
Great Britain boxing team beat US team in 1st international Golden Gloves |
1935-07-24 |
1st greetings telegram sent in Britain |
1936-12-10 |
Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI |
1937-01-01 |
Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain. |
1937-05-12 |
Coronation of King George VI of Great Britain (and his other realms and territories beyond the sea) at Westminster Abbey. |
1937-07-01 |
Britain begins using 999 emergency phone number |
1937-07-27 |
32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1) |
1937-11-17 |
Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement |
1938-02-27 |
Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain |
1938-04-16 |
Great Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia |
1938-06-04 |
10th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland wins 7½-4½ at the Old Course at St Andrews |
1939-02-25 |
1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden |
1939-02-28 |
Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain |
1939-03-31 |
Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany |
1939-04-06 |
Great Britain & Poland sign military pact |
1939-06-07 |
George VI & Elizabeth become the 1st king & queen of Britain to visit USA |
1939-08-23 |
John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats |
1939-09-03 |
WWII: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada |
1939-09-05 |
New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands,we stand' |
1939-09-06 |
1st German air attack on Great Britain in WW II |
1939-09-30 |
Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war. |
1939-10-06 |
Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain |
1940-01-08 |
Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar) |
1940-01-08 |
World War II: Britain introduces food rationing. |
1940-03-18 |
Benito Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain |
1940-04-29 |
Norwegian King Haakon & government flee to Britain |
1940-06-10 |
Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II |
1940-06-18 |
Winston Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons |
1940-07-02 |
Hitler orders invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion) |
1940-07-05 |
Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy government in France |
1940-07-10 |
Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attacked shipping convoys in English Channel |
1940-07-19 |
Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender |
1940-08-13 |
Hermann Goering's "Adler Tag" (Eagle day); 45-48 German aircraft shot down over Southern England (Battle of Britain) |
1940-08-17 |
Hitler orders total blockade of Great Britain |
1940-08-18 |
Battle of Britain - 'The hardest day": Luftwaffe attacks the RAF in largest ever air battle |
1940-08-20 |
1st Polish squadrons fight along allies in the Battle of Britain |
1940-09-03 |
US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for Newfoundland base lease |
1940-09-15 |
Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe |
1940-10-31 |
Battle of Britain, fought between the RAF and Luftwaffe over the English Channel and southern England, ends |
1941-03-11 |
FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain) |
1941-03-27 |
Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years |
1941-05-16 |
Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia |
1941-05-16 |
Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham) |
1941-05-18 |
Italian army in Ethiopia under general Aosta surrenders to Britain |
1941-12-08 |
US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II |
1942-01-20 |
Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain |
1942-01-21 |
Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain |
1942-01-22 |
Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain |
1942-01-23 |
Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain |
1942-03-21 |
Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk |
1942-05-21 |
Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia |
1942-10-23 |
During WW II, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt |
1943-01-11 |
US & Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China |
1943-05-19 |
Churchill pledges Britain's full support to US against Japan |
1943-10-08 |
Great Britain establishes bases on Azores |
1943-10-12 |
US bombs Rabaul, New Britain |
1944-07-26 |
The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed "gasometer"). |
1944-12-03 |
Britain's Home Guard ('Dad's Army') is officially stood down at a special farewell parade in Hyde Park, London. |
1945-01-20 |
The Hungarian Provisional Government concludes an armistice with the USSR, US, and Britain, agree to pay reparations and to join the war against Germany |
1945-03-08 |
"Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain |
1945-06-04 |
US, Russia, Britain & France agree to split occupied Germany |
1945-07-26 |
Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain and China demand the Japanese surrender during WWII |
1945-07-26 |
Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister after election defeat |
1945-08-08 |
US, USSR, Britain & France sign Treaty of London, set down procedures for Nuremberg trials |
1945-10-08 |
US President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada |
1946-03-22 |
Britain signs treaty granting independence to Jordan |
1946-05-25 |
Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day); Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan |
1946-08-13 |
Britain diverts illegal immigrants bound for Palestine to Cyprus |
1946-10-06 |
US Pres Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine |
1947-01-01 |
Britain nationalizes its coal industry |
1947-07-09 |
Britain's Princess Elizabeth & Lt Philip Mountbatten's engagement |
1947-08-14 |
Pakistan gains independence from Great Britain |
1947-08-15 |
India gains independence from Great Britain, remains a dominion until 1950 |
1948-03-18 |
France & Great Britain & Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels |
1948-07-05 |
Britain's National Health Service Act begins |
1948-07-15 |
Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain |
1948-08-14 |
14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain |
1948-11-17 |
Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry |
1949-01-29 |
Great Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand & Switzerland recognize Israel |
1949-04-03 |
North Atlantic Treaty signed by US, Britain, France & Canada |
1949-04-09 |
UN Intl Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel & awards Britain damages |
1949-05-09 |
Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway, London |
1950-01-06 |
Britain recognizes Communist government of China |
1950-02-07 |
US & Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime |
1951-05-03 |
The Festival of Britain opens. |
1951-08-13 |
Great Britain & Iraq sign new oil contract |
1952-02-26 |
PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb |
1952-03-01 |
Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain |
1952-10-01 |
Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion) |
1953-02-05 |
Sweet rationing imposed in WWII ends in Britain |
1953-10-14 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia |
1953-10-26 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field Australia |
1954-05-06 |
Roger Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4) |
1954-05-07 |
US, Great Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO |
1954-06-15 |
Great Britain's 2 biggest steel factories nationalized |
1954-07-03 |
Food rationing ends in Britain |
1954-09-20 |
Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy |
1954-10-19 |
Egypt & Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs |
1954-10-23 |
Britain, England, France & USSR agree to end occupation of Germany |
1955-05-07 |
USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great Britain |
1955-05-15 |
Vienna Treaty: Britain, France, US & USSR restore Austria's independence |
1955-05-31 |
Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to rail strike |
1955-07-13 |
The last execution of a woman in Britain, Ruth Ellis, takes place at Holloway Prison, London. |
1956-04-17 |
Premium Savings Bonds introduced in Great Britain |
1956-05-16 |
Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia |
1956-06-13 |
After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control |
1956-07-20 |
Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam |
1956-09-10 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia |
1956-10-04 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
1956-10-11 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
1956-10-22 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
1956-10-31 |
Britain & France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal |
1956-11-05 |
Britain & France land forces in Egypt in reaction to seizure of Suez Canal |
1957-01-10 |
Anthony Eden resigns & Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britain |
1957-03-15 |
3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain) |
1957-03-20 |
Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it |
1957-04-11 |
Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule. |
1957-05-31 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) |
1957-08-31 |
Malaysia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain |
1957-09-14 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia |
1957-09-25 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
1957-10-05 |
12th Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland win, 7½-4½ at Lindrick Golf Club (Rotherham, Yorkshire, England) |
1957-10-09 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
1957-10-17 |
Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit the White House |
1957-11-08 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1958-03-19 |
Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London |
1958-03-31 |
USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same |
1958-04-28 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1958-08-18 |
Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales) |
1958-08-22 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1958-09-02 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1958-09-11 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1958-09-23 |
Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
1958-09-26 |
Columbia (US) beats Sceptre (Britain) in 18th America's Cup |
1958-10-01 |
Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia |
1959-02-19 |
Britain, Turkey & Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence |
1959-04-23 |
1st heliport in Britain opens in London |
1959-05-24 |
Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in Great Britain |
1959-07-28 |
Great-Britain starts using postal codes |
1960-06-26 |
British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain |
1960-08-16 |
Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus |
1960-10-01 |
Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1960-10-17 |
US & Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases |
1960-10-18 |
In Britain, News Chronicle & Daily Mail merge, & London Evening Star merges with Evening News |
1961-01-16 |
Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain |
1961-05-01 |
Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain |
1961-11-16 |
Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries |
1961-12-04 |
The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain |
1961-12-09 |
Tanganyika gains independence from Britain, takes name Tanzania |
1961-12-18 |
Britain's EMI Records originally rejects the Beatles |
1962-08-31 |
Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day) |
1962-10-18 |
Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA |
1962-11-29 |
Great Britain & France decide to jointly build Concord(e) |
1962-12-07 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963-03-11 |
Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain |
1963-05-25 |
Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket |
1963-06-24 |
Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain |
1963-07-25 |
US, Russia & Britain sign nuclear Test ban treaty |
1963-08-05 |
Britain, USA & USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty |
1963-09-24 |
US Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limiting nuclear testing |
1963-12-10 |
Zanzibar gains independenence from Great Britain |
1964-02-06 |
France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel |
1964-03-25 |
Britain sets memorial for the late President John F Kennedy |
1964-04-16 |
9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery" |
1964-07-17 |
Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1964-10-24 |
Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1964-11-08 |
IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion |
1965-07-26 |
Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (Natl Day) |
1965-09-10 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1965-11-11 |
Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian Smith |
1965-12-12 |
Beatles' last concert in Great Britain (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales) |
1965-12-22 |
Great Britain sets national maximum road speed at 70 miles per hour |
1966-04-16 |
Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain |
1966-09-30 |
Botswana (formerly Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1966-10-04 |
Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1966-11-30 |
Barbados gains independence from Great Britain (National Day) |
1966-12-23 |
Britain's rock TV show "Ready Steady Go" last program |
1967-03-01 |
Dominica & St Lucia gain independence from Britain |
1967-03-03 |
Grenada gains partial independence from Britain |
1967-03-16 |
Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down |
1967-04-25 |
Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland |
1967-05-11 |
Great Britain, Ireland & Denmark apply for EG membership |
1967-05-19 |
USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US banning nuclear weapons in space |
1967-08-05 |
Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) & Radio London close down |
1967-09-09 |
Uganda declares independence from Great Britain |
1967-11-30 |
Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman |
1968-03-12 |
Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1968-04-23 |
1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 new pence, replacing shilling and two-shilling pieces) |
1968-07-01 |
US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty |
1968-08-11 |
The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam locomotives make the 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returns to Liverpool before having their fires dropped for the last time - this working was known as the Fifteen Guinea Special. |
1968-09-06 |
Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1968-09-26 |
Theatre censorship ends in Britain |
1969-05-29 |
Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice |
1969-10-27 |
St Vincent & Grenadines gains associated status with Britain |
1970-03-01 |
White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain |
1970-04-02 |
Qatar gains independence from Britain |
1970-04-20 |
74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30 |
1970-10-10 |
Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1971-02-15 |
After 1,200 years Great Britain abandons 12-shilling system for the decimal currency |
1971-05-27 |
23rd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 13-11 |
1971-07-01 |
Britain & Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands |
1971-08-15 |
Bahrain gains independence from Britain |
1971-09-01 |
Qatar declares independence from Britain |
1971-09-03 |
Qatar regains complete independence from Britain |
1971-09-16 |
A number of Unionists resign over the proposed tripartite talks involving Northern Ireland, Britain, and the Republic of Ireland |
1971-09-24 |
90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying |
1971-09-27 |
Tripartite talks involving the prime ministers of Northern Ireland, Britain, and the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) of the Republic of Ireland take place at Chequers, England |
1971-10-28 |
Great Britain becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit |
1971-11-25 |
Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson proposes that Britain should work towards a withdrawal from Northern Ireland, with the consent of Protestants, after a period of 15 years; as part of the proposal the Republic of Ireland would rejoin the British Commonwealth |
1972-03-08 |
1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa) |
1972-03-24 |
Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland |
1972-05-30 |
The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain. |
1972-10-23 |
Access credit cards introduced in Great Britain |
1972-10-30 |
The Northern Ireland Office issues a discussion document 'The Future of Northern Ireland'; the paper states Britain's commitment to the union as long as the majority of people wish to remain part of the United Kingdom |
1973-01-01 |
Britain, Ireland & Denmark become 7th-9th members of Common Market |
1973-03-08 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army undertakes its first operation in Great Britain, planting four car bombs in London; 10 members of PIRA are arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country |
1974-02-07 |
Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1974-05-08 |
50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted |
1974-05-23 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1974-11-25 |
Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21 |
1975-10-01 |
Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles |
1976-01-21 |
Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France |
1976-06-01 |
Great Britain & Iceland end the "cod war" |
1976-06-11 |
Australian band AC/DC begin their 1st headline tour of Britain |
1976-11-01 |
Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule |
1977-06-09 |
Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain celebrated with fireworks |
1977-11-26 |
'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM. |
1978-04-15 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test |
1978-09-01 |
Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia |
1978-11-18 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1978-12-10 |
67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1) |
1979-02-22 |
St Lucia gains independence from Britain |
1979-08-29 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1979-12-11 |
Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) |
1980-04-26 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1980-07-30 |
Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France |
1980-10-24 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1980-12-17 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1981-02-24 |
Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer |
1981-11-01 |
Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1981-11-12 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test |
1982-04-02 |
Several thousand Argentine troops seize the Falkland (Malvinas) Islands from Great Britain |
1982-04-25 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1982-04-26 |
Argentina surrenders to Britain on S Georgia near Falkland Island |
1982-05-23 |
BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina |
1982-05-28 |
Pope John Paul II is 1st reigning pope to visit Great Britain (Adrian IV was born in England, as Nicholas Breakspear) |
1982-05-29 |
1st papal visit to Britain since 1531 |
1982-06-14 |
Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict |
1982-06-16 |
Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners |
1982-07-12 |
Britain announces it is returning 593 Argentine POWs |
1983-04-22 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1983-07-16 |
20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident |
1983-11-11 |
1st US cruise missiles arrive in Great Britain |
1983-12-31 |
Brunei gains complete independence from Britain |
1984-03-12 |
National Union of Mine Workers in Britain begins a 51 week strike |
1984-04-16 |
88th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:10:34 |
1984-05-01 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1984-06-30 |
Last sixpence minted in Great-Britain (in use since 1551) |
1984-07-11 |
Britain's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe |
1984-08-09 |
Daley Thomas of Britain sets decathalon record (8,847) in LA Cal |
1984-09-19 |
Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997 |
1984-09-26 |
Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
1984-12-09 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1985-04-15 |
89th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:14:05 |
1985-05-27 |
Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
1985-12-05 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test |
1986-03-05 |
"Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper) |
1986-06-24 |
In Britain, Foreign Office Minister Lynda Chalker, meets Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress to discuss means of ending Apartheid without violence |
1986-07-13 |
Zola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games, a direct consequence of Britain's refusal to support economic sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa |
1986-10-24 |
Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria |
1987-01-12 |
Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training |
1987-07-16 |
Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1987-08-11 |
France & Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf |
1987-09-13 |
Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours |
1988-10-19 |
Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members |
1988-10-20 |
Britain ends suspects' right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA |
1989-01-13 |
Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th"/Jerusalem virus |
1989-03-07 |
Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses" |
1989-08-17 |
32nd Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland, 12½-11½ |
1989-12-08 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test |
1990-02-13 |
US, Britain & France give Germany OK to reunify |
1990-10-30 |
Britain and France complete the "Chunnel" under the English Channel |
1990-11-14 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1990-11-28 |
Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Major |
1991-06-29 |
Britain's Nick Brown, 591st rank beats 10th-seeded Goran Ivanisevic 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 in 2nd round at Wimbledon |
1992-03-19 |
Britain's Prince Andrew & Sarah, Duchess of York, announce separation |
1992-04-06 |
Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin & TV-AM radio licenses |
1992-04-08 |
After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue |
1992-07-26 |
Britain honours her dead in the Falklands war |
1992-10-27 |
Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of Tolkien |
1994-11-30 |
Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, "Live at the BBC", is released in Britain |
1995-05-10 |
Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Fein |
1995-09-10 |
35th Walker Cup: Britain-Ireland beats US, 14-10 |
1996-06-22 |
29th Curtis Cup: Great Britain & Ireland wins 11-6 |
1997-07-01 |
Britain hands Hong Kong and the New Territories - ceded in 1841 - to the People's Republic of China. |
1997-09-25 |
Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph) |
1997-10-15 |
Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (763.035 mph) |
1998-01-25 |
Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement |
1998-02-03 |
Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale in Britain |
1998-02-27 |
Britain's House of Lords agree's to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first born son |
1999-10-26 |
Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament. |
2006-02-22 |
At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78€ million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent. |
2012-03-25 |
Peter Cruddas, treasurer of Britain's Conservative Party, resigns after being caught on film selling access to British Prime Minister David Cameron |
2015-11-29 |
Davis Cup final: Andy Murray clinches title for Great Britain |
2016-04-21 |
Beacons and gun salutes as Britain's Queen Elizabeth turns 90 |
2016-06-23 |
Britain votes on EU membership after tight and bitter campaign |
2016-06-24 |
Oil prices dive as Britain votes to leave EU |
2016-06-24 |
Britain votes to leave European Union |
2016-06-25 |
Obama says US special relationship with Britain will endure |
2016-07-14 |
David Cameron steps down as Britain's Prime Minister |
2016-07-15 |
Britain warns citizens after truck attack kills 73 in Nice |
2016-08-18 |
China miffed at falling behind Britain in Olympic medals table |
2017-03-17 |
Britain's GCHQ agency denies wiretapping Donald Trump |
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Date | Event |
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40-06-13 |
Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman general and Governor of Britain, conquered Wales and Northern England |
1683-03-01 |
Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II of Great Britain (d. 1737) |
1683-10-30 |
George II [August], King of Great-Britain (1727-60) |
1711-07-10 |
Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain (d. 1783) |
1713-05-30 |
Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1757) |
1722-12-30 |
Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1770) |
1723-03-05 |
Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773) |
1725-03-11 |
Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807) |
1737-01-29 |
Thomas Paine, Thetford Great Britain, English/American political essayist (Common Sense, Age of Reason) |
1738-06-04 |
George III, London England, King of Great Britain (1760-1820) |
1753-03-26 |
Benjamin Thompson, physicist (Royal Inst of Great Britain, Woburn MA) |
1758-09-29 |
Horatio Nelson, Burnham Thorpe Britain, naval hero (Trafalgar) |
1765-11-14 |
Robert Fulton, Little Britain, Pen., inventor and engineer (1st commercial steamboat), (d. 1815) |
1778-09-19 |
Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868) |
1809-08-06 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Somersby, England, Poet Laureate of Great Britain |
1813-01-04 |
Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand) |
1819-05-24 |
Victoria Alexandrine, Queen of Great Britain (1837-1901) |
1833-01-21 |
Norman Willis, union leader (Britain's Trades Union Congress) |
1838-03-18 |
Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903) |
1844-12-01 |
Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain/Ireland |
1854-01-01 |
James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough) |
1863-01-17 |
David Lloyd George, (L-PM-Britain, 1916-22) |
1863-09-13 |
Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel 1934) |
1865-06-03 |
George V, Saksen-Coburg [Windsor], King of Great Britain (1910-36) |
1866-10-12 |
Ramsay MacDonald, BBC: The Voice of Britain |
1867-08-03 |
Stanley Baldwin, BBC: The Voice of Britain |
1869-03-03 |
Henry Wood, Naked Britain |
1877-08-01 |
Charlotte Hughes, 1990 (oldest person in Great Britain) |
1882-04-24 |
Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (d. 1970) |
1884-10-18 |
Emanuel Shinwell, Home Fires: Britain - 1940-1944 |
1887-06-26 |
Anthony G de Rothschild, Britain, philanthropist |
1888-04-06 |
Leonard Brockington, Listen to Britain |
1889-02-22 |
Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain) |
1890-12-22 |
Harry Pollitt, Droylsden United Kingdom, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain |
1891-01-25 |
Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Britain, actress (Cleopatra) |
1895-07-26 |
Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person (d. 1922) |
1896-05-21 |
John Verney, The Battle for The Battle of Britain |
1904-10-16 |
Reginald Dixon, Sheffield, Britain, theatre organist, (d. 1985) |
1907-05-14 |
Mohammad Ayub Khan, Britain Welcomes the President of Pakistan |
1907-08-19 |
Humphrey Jennings, Listen to Britain |
1908-03-17 |
Radie Britain, composer |
1910-12-10 |
Sydney Streeter, Battle of Britain |
1911-11-10 |
Harry Andrews, Battle of Britain |
1912-05-02 |
Nigel Patrick, Battle of Britain |
1913-9-02 |
Bill Shankly, Fifty Bighearted Years: The Variety Club of Great Britain's Tribute to Arthur Askey |
1914-03-19 |
Peter Masefield, Great Britain |
1914-11-22 |
Peter Townsend, The Battle for The Battle of Britain |
1914-12-27 |
Stewart McAllister, Listen to Britain |
1915-12-07 |
Lorna Arnold, Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster |
1916-02-07 |
John Baskcomb, Battle of Britain |
1916-07-01 |
Robert Stanford-Tuck, Battle of Britain |
1916-11-27 |
Gordon Batt, Britain Needs You: The Fighting Few |
1917-02-01 |
'Ginger' Lacey, Battle of Britain |
1918-09-27 |
Martin Ryle, Britain, radio astronomer/astronomer royal (1972-82) |
1919-01-21 |
Eric Brown, Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain 'Winkle' Brown |
1919-9-08 |
Chris Doll, The Battle for The Battle of Britain |
1920-03-14 |
Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Great Britain, high jumper (Oly-silver-36, 48) |
1920-9-01 |
Tom Chatto, Battle of Britain |
1922-05-27 |
Wilfred Greatorex, Battle of Britain |
1922-9-15 |
Lady Mary Soames, A Picture of Britain |
1923-02-24 |
Norman Moore, When Britain Went Wild |
1923-08-17 |
W.G. Foxley, Battle of Britain |
1925-01-07 |
Gerald Malcolm Durrell, Britain, zoologist/writer (Mockery Bird) |
1926-04-21 |
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, London UK, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, 1952- ) |
1928-07-30 |
Paul Bisciglia, Asterix in Britain |
1929-03-06 |
David Sheppard, The Other Britain |
1929-06-28 |
Peter Hall, Made in Britain |
1929-12-28 |
Brian Redhead, Discover Britain by Train |
1930-04-09 |
Malte Petzel, Battle of Britain |
1931-04-17 |
John Bartlett, tennis player (Davis Cup capt-Britain) |
1932-03-25 |
Peter Walker, Strike: When Britain Went to War |
1932-06-08 |
Lady Littler, CEO (Gaming Board for Great Britain) |
1932-08-14 |
Dom Philip Jebb, headmaster (Downside School Great Britain) |
1933-08-21 |
Barry Norman, Britain, film critic (Film Greats) |
1935-11-10 |
Faynia Williams, 1st Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards |
1938-01-26 |
Paul Neuhaus, Battle of Britain |
1938-10-28 |
David Dimbleby, A Picture of Britain |
1939-01-10 |
Tony Soper, When Britain Went Wild |
1939-09-25 |
Leon Britain, British politician, vice president (Commission of European Communities) |
1939-10-14 |
Helmut Kircher, Battle of Britain |
1939-11-09 |
Manfred Reddemann, Battle of Britain |
1940-04-01 |
Martine Messager, Asterix in Britain |
1940-06-27 |
Eric Richard, Made in Britain |
1942-02-05 |
Angus Calder, Home Fires: Britain - 1940-1944 |
1943-07-19 |
David Griffin, Battle of Britain |
1944-01-02 |
Nicolas Silberg, Asterix in Britain |
1944-01-28 |
Bobby Ball, The Fattest Man in Britain |
1945-9-30 |
Myles Hoyle, Battle of Britain |
1946-05-07 |
Brian Turner, A Taste of Britain |
1946-06-21 |
Lord Saatchi, Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain |
1946-12-27 |
Janet Street-Porter, A Taste of Britain |
1949-08-27 |
Dan Cruickshank, Dan Cruickshank & the Family That Built Gothic Britain |
1950-06-24 |
David Freud, What Makes Britain Rich? |
1950-07-06 |
Jonathon Porritt, When Britain Went Wild |
1950-10-09 |
Brian Cumby, The Boats That Made Britain: A Time Team Special |
1952-03-24 |
Jan Sanctorum, Asterix in Britain |
1952-06-22 |
Alastair Stewart, Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Who Changed Britain |
1954-08-26 |
Steve Wright, Britain's wacky DJ/actor (Funny Man) |
1955-01-03 |
Trish Williamson, Good Morning Britain |
1955-11-20 |
Timothy Kristian Charles Mace, Great Britain, cosmonaut |
1956-03-06 |
Colin Wilson, 1st Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards |
1958-05-21 |
Michael Crick, Britain's High Street Gamble |
1958-11-28 |
Kriss Akabusi, Great Britain, 4X400 runner (Olympic-silver-1984) |
1959-03-18 |
Stephen Copp, Britain's Sexiest Security Videos |
1959-06-10 |
Clint Boon, Britain on Call |
1959-12-11 |
Phil Woolas, Strike: When Britain Went to War |
1960-02-19 |
Prince Andrew, Albert Christian Edward, of Britain/Duke of York |
1960-11-19 |
Sian Busby, 2nd Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards |
1961-01-19 |
Wayne Hemingway, Bouffants, Beehives and Bobs: The Hairdos That Made Britain |
1962-01-04 |
Simon Steggall, The Untold Battle of Britain |
1963-04-16 |
Nick Berry, Britain, actor (Wicksy-EastEnders) |
1963-05-30 |
Helen Patricia Sharman, Great Britain, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12) |
1963-10-05 |
Nick Robinson, Five Days That Changed Britain |
1964-01-30 |
Dana Hursey, 14 Days in Great Britain |
1964-03-10 |
Edward Anthony Richard Louis, Prince of Britain/Elizabeth II son |
1964-12-31 |
Lowri Turner, The Most Useless Teenager in Britain |
1964-9-25 |
Jeff Green, Is Britain Christian? |
1965-01-28 |
Stacey Owen, Breast of Britain #8 |
1966-04-29 |
Olivia MacDonald, The Day Britain Stopped |
1966-05-10 |
Jonathan Edwards, Britain, triple jumper (Olympics-gold/silver-92, 96) |
1967-02-14 |
Stelios Haji-Iannou, What Makes Britain Rich? |
1968-9-17 |
Barry Austin, The Fattest Man in Britain |
1969-08-26 |
Ricky Bottalico, New Britain CT, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies) |
1970-01-20 |
Anita St Rose, Miss Universe-Great Britain (1996) |
1970-06-30 |
Nia Dryhurst, Pagans and Pilgrims: Britain's Holiest Places |
1970-07-03 |
Kim Benson, Made in Britain |
1970-10-10 |
Jade Newman, Ben Dover's Banned in Britain |
1970-10-13 |
Paul Potts, British Opera singer and winner of Britain's Got Talent |
1972-01-21 |
Andrea Carnevali, A Picture of Britain |
1972-03-16 |
Anita Guy, Britain's Got Talent |
1972-07-25 |
Britain Spellings, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon |
1973-12-27 |
Bert Appermont, The Story of Britain |
1974-04-10 |
Henning Wehn, An Immigrant's Guide to Britain |
1975-04-28 |
Melinda Smith, Seven Ages of Britain |
1975-12-30 |
Liz Fuller, Miss Great Britain Final 2010 |
1976-05-16 |
Gordon Fraser, Coked Up Britain |
1978-02-11 |
Brian Bogulski, Britain's Roswell |
1978-11-04 |
Syrus Mokhtari, 14 Days in Great Britain |
1979-02-13 |
Rachel Reeves, Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story |
1981-05-20 |
Paul Harrison, Wild Britain with Ray Mears |
1982-04-11 |
Ian Bell, Daily Mirror: The Pride of Britain Awards |
1983-08-04 |
Caroline Carter, Little Britain's Big Swim |
1984-01-19 |
Adam Warner, The Kids Britain Doesn't Want |
1985-03-01 |
Nicholas Ebanks, Idiots Guide to Britain |
1988-02-03 |
Alexander Richardson, When Hitler Invaded Britain |
1988-11-22 |
Fuad Alakbarov, Azerbaijanis in Britain |
1988-12-15 |
Kiki McCaffery, Britain's Biggest Storm |
1989-04-10 |
Richard Perry, Idiots Guide to Britain |
1989-07-13 |
Dexter Britain, Till We Meet Again |
1990-03-22 |
Eugenie, Princess of Britain |
1990-04-13 |
Jon McEvoy, Britain's Cleverest Animal |
1996-04-03 |
Tom Glenwright, Pensioner Britain |
Date | Event |
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1734-03-25 |
William IV, Prince of Orange-Nassau marries princess Anne of Great Britain, eldest daughter of King George II at St. James' Palace |
1973-11-14 |
Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey |
1986-01-03 |
Britain's greatest golfer Nick Faldo (28) weds manager's secretary Gill Bennett |
1986-07-23 |
Britain's Prince Andrew (26) weds Sarah Ferguson (26) at Westminster Abbey in London, England |
1999-01-23 |
Princess of Monaco Caroline (42) weds dynastic head of the House of Hanover and Britain's King George I descendant Prince Ernst August (45) in Monaco |
Date | Event |
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93-08-23 |
Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (b. 40) |
1649-01-30 |
Charles I, King of Great Britain (1625-49), beheaded for treason |
1727-06-11 |
King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660) |
1727-07-23 |
Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain |
1737-02-14 |
Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685) |
1737-11-20 |
Caroline of Ansbach, queen of Great-Britain, dies |
1744-10-18 |
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1660) |
1751-12-19 |
Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724) |
1760-10-25 |
George II (August), king of Great Britain (1727-60), dies at 76 |
1766-01-01 |
James III Edward, Old Pretender/king of Gt Britain/Ireland, dies at 77 |
1770-01-20 |
Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722) |
1794-04-18 |
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714) |
1806-01-23 |
William Pitt, the Younger, PM Great Britain (1783..1806), dies at 46 |
1865-07-25 |
"James Barry", military surgeon, first womanin Great Britain to become a qualified medical doctor |
1868-05-07 |
Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778) |
1901-01-22 |
Victoria, [Alexandrine], Britain's Queen (1837-1901), dies at 81 |
1925-11-20 |
Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain, dies at 80 |
1936-01-20 |
George V, King of Britain (1910-36), dies at 70 |
1937-11-05 |
Ramsay MacDonald, BBC: The Voice of Britain |
1943-01-09 |
Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain), dies at 53 |
1944-08-19 |
Henry Wood, Naked Britain |
1946-01-03 |
William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason |
1947-12-14 |
Stanley Baldwin, BBC: The Voice of Britain |
1950-09-24 |
Humphrey Jennings, Listen to Britain |
1952-02-06 |
George VI, King of Britain (1936-52), dies at 56 |
1953-03-24 |
Mary, [Victoria Mary] of Teck, Queen of Great Britain and consort of George V, dies at 85 |
1953-03-24 |
Mary, queen of Great-Britain/North-Ireland, dies at 85 |
1960-06-27 |
Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain dies at 69 |
1965-01-24 |
Winston Churchill, PM of Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55), dies at 90 |
1967-10-08 |
Clement R Attlee, premier pf Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84 |
1970-02-15 |
Sir Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (b. 1882) |
1972-05-28 |
Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies at 77 |
1981-09-21 |
Nigel Patrick, Battle of Britain |
1981-09-29 |
Bill Shankly, Fifty Bighearted Years: The Variety Club of Great Britain's Tribute to Arthur Askey |
1982-08-08 |
Tom Chatto, Battle of Britain |
1983-03-08 |
William Walton, Battle of Britain |
1986-05-08 |
Emanuel Shinwell, Home Fires: Britain - 1940-1944 |
1986-05-25 |
John Verney, The Battle for The Battle of Britain |
1986-12-29 |
[Maurice] Harold MacMillan, PM of Great-Britain (1957-63), dies at 92 |
1987-05-05 |
Robert Stanford-Tuck, Battle of Britain |
1988-02-16 |
Rosie Newman, Britain at War |
1989-03-06 |
Harry Andrews, Battle of Britain |
1989-05-30 |
'Ginger' Lacey, Battle of Britain |
1990-11-14 |
Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at 87 |
1994-01-23 |
Brian Redhead, Discover Britain by Train |
1995-06-19 |
Peter Townsend, The Battle for The Battle of Britain |
1995-10-09 |
Alec Douglas-Home, PM of Britain (1963-64), dies |
1997-08-07 |
Vincent Gulliver, Britain's oldest man, dies at 109 |
2002-10-14 |
Wilfred Greatorex, Battle of Britain |
2004-02-04 |
Gordon Batt, Britain Needs You: The Fighting Few |
2004-10-13 |
Chris Doll, The Battle for The Battle of Britain |
2005-03-05 |
David Sheppard, The Other Britain |
2005-06-27 |
Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914) |
2006-02-14 |
Peter Masefield, Great Britain |
2007-01-10 |
Martine Messager, Asterix in Britain |
2007-11-09 |
Trish Williamson, Good Morning Britain |
2008-06-05 |
Angus Calder, Home Fires: Britain - 1940-1944 |
2008-07-30 |
Anne Armstrong U.S. ambassador to Britain (b. 1927) |
2010-04-18 |
Paul Bisciglia, Asterix in Britain |
2010-12-05 |
W.G. Foxley, Battle of Britain |
2011-03-23 |
Peter Hall, Made in Britain |
2012-09-04 |
Sian Busby, 2nd Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards |
2014-03-25 |
Lorna Arnold, Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster |
2014-05-31 |
Lady Mary Soames, A Picture of Britain |
2015-02-26 |
Brian Cumby, The Boats That Made Britain: A Time Team Special |
2015-10-21 |
Norman Moore, When Britain Went Wild |
2016-03-31 |
Battle of Britain Hurricane pilot Tony Pickering dies aged 95 |
2016-05-03 |
Jonathan Cainer, 'Britain's greatest astrologer' dies aged 58 of suspected heart attack |
2016-08-10 |
Britain's richest landlord Duke of Westminster Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor dies aged 64 |
2017-02-14 |
Britain's 'oldest donkey' has died at the age of 53 |
2017-05-17 |
Few Mourn as One of Britain's Most Evil Serial Killers, Ian Brady, Dies Aged 79 |
2017-05-27 |
Britain's Got Talent star Tina Humphrey dead aged 45 after battle with cancer |
2017-07-29 |
Diversity's Robert Anker dead: Britain's Got Talent star dies aged 27 after car accident |