History - The Victorians

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AD
1714	George I crowned King of England.
1715	The Jacobite revolt under the 'Bonnie Price Charles'
1717	Foundation of the Freemasons
1727	George II crowned King of England
1753	British Museum Established
1760	George III crowned King of England
1764	James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny
1768	Captain Cook's Voyage to Australia and New Zealand
1772	Slavery Outlawed in England
1773	Parliament passes the Tea Act
1775	Start of the American War of Independence. Ends in 1783
1789	Start of the French Revolution, ends in 1799.
1796	Smallpox Vaccination started
1808	Peninsular Wars. Wars against Napoleon in Spain. Ends in 1814
1811	Ludite Riots begin
1819	Queen Victoria is born.
1820	George IV crowned King of England
1825	Stockton to Darlington railway opened
1826	The first photograph is taken.
1829	Scotland Yard Created
1830	William IV crowned King of England
1831	Cholera epidemic
1832	Reform Act
1834	Slavery is banned in all of the British colonies.
1835	The Engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel starts to build the London to Bristol railway for GWR. It is finished in 1841.
1837	William IV dies

During the Hanoverian or Georgian period the British Empire expanded with the conquests of Canada and India. The Napoleonic wars ended with Britain virtually having Naval supremacy on a global scale.

The Agricultural and Industrial revolutions gave the newly established Great Britain an unprecedented advantage allowing her almost global domination of World trade.

Even so this new Global Super Power status did not prevent the American colonies from declaring independence and successfully establishing the United States of America.

Discovery and technological innovation continued at a fantastic pace with great individuals such as Captain Cook charting the Oceans and Cartwright and Hargreaves inventing the power loom and spinning Jenny.