Today in United Kingdom History (Part 2)
Sub-Topics: Ascension Islands - Bermuda - Cayman Islands - England - Falkland Islands - Gibraltar - Guernsey - Isle of Man - Jersey - Montserrat - Northern Ireland - Scotland - Turks and Caicos Islands - Virgin Islands (British) - Wales
Historical Events
Results 101 - 200 of 1,821
1766-03-18 - Britain repeals the Stamp Act
1767-05-14 - British government disbands Americans import duty on tea
1767-06-29 - British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America
1770-03-05 - Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus becomes 1st black to die for American freedom
1771-01-22 - Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain
1772-06-10 - Burning of Gaspée, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders
1773-04-27 - British Parliament passes Tea Act (Boston won't like this)
1773-10-14 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland.
1774-03-07 - British close port of Boston to all commerce
1774-03-28 - Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts
1774-05-20 - Britain gives Quebec, Labrador & territory north of Ohio
1774-06-01 - Boston Port Bill: British govt orders Port of Boston closed
1774-06-02 - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters were not provided.
1774-07-04 - Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts
1774-10-21 - First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
1775-01-25 - Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx)
1775-04-18 - Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "British are coming!"
1775-04-20 - British begin siege of Boston
1775-05-20 - Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence of Britain
1775-10-16 - Portland, Maine burned by British
1775-11-07 - Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1775-12-31 - Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold
1776-03-02 - Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
1776-03-17 - British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1776-06-28 - Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack
1776-07-04 - Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain
1776-08-27 - British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island
1776-09-06 - 1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of NY)
1776-09-15 - British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution
1776-09-21 - 5 days after British take NY, a ¼ of city burns down
1776-09-21 - Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested
1776-10-11 - Brig Gen Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet defeated by British
1776-10-12 - British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in Bronx
1776-10-18 - Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover & Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx
1776-11-16 - British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution
1776-12-26 - Battle of Trenton-major British defeat
1777-01-03 - Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, NJ
1777-03-08 - Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
1777-07-06 - British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
1777-08-04 - Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus
1777-08-16 - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
1777-09-11 - Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British
1777-09-26 - British troops occupy Philadelphia during American Revolution
1777-09-27 - Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British [NS=Oct 6]
1777-09-30 - Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance
1777-10-04 - Gen George Washington's troops attacked British at Germantown Pa
1777-10-06 - Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British [OS=Sept 27]
1777-10-17 - British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY
1777-12-02 - British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
1778-06-18 - British Redcoats evacuate Phila
1778-06-27 - Liberty Bell came home to Phila after the British had left
1778-07-03 - British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in Wyoming, Pa
1778-07-10 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1778-08-31 - British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution
1779-02-24 - George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British
1779-06-16 - Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar begins.
1779-09-27 - John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain
1780-03-26 - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1780-05-12 - British troops occupy Charleston, South Carolina
1780-05-12 - Charleston, SC falls to British (Revolutionary War)
1780-08-16 - British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC
1780-09-21 - Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andre plans to West Point
1780-09-25 - Benedict Arnold joins the British
1780-10-07 - British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC
1780-11-20 - Britain declares war on Holland
1781-01-05 - British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Va
1781-02-03 - Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British
1781-03-15 - Battle of Guilford Court House, SC (British suffer heavy losses)
1781-04-29 - French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope
1781-06-03 - Jack Jouett rides to warn Jefferson of British attack
1781-08-30 - French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
1781-09-05 - Battle of Virginia Capes, French defeat British, traps Cornwallis
1781-09-06 - The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting a British victory.
1782-02-04 - British garrison surrenders to French & Spanish fleet
1782-03-27 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1782-04-12 - Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies: British fleet beats French
1782-07-06 - British-French sea battle at Negapatam (South-Indies)
1782-11-30 - Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
1782-12-14 - Charleston, SC evacuated by British
1783-11-25 - Britain evacuates NYC, their last military position in US
1783-12-07 - William Pitt Jr (24) becomes British premier
1784-03-01 - E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain
1785-05-09 - British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle
1786-08-11 - Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia
1788-06-11 - 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound, BC
1788-07-26 - Sydney, Australia settled by British colonists
1788-08-22 - Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
1789-06-09 - Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I
1791-12-04 - Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published
1792-05-08 - British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt Rainier, Wash
1792-06-04 - Capt George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain
1792-10-29 - Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1793-09-20 - British troops under maj-gen Williamson lands on (French) Haiti
1794-04-21 - NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect NYC from British
1794-06-01 - The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1794-11-19 - Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1795-02-07 - Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
1795-06-24 - US & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty
1795-09-16 - British capture Capetown South Africa
1795-09-16 - United Kingdom conquers Cape Town, South Africa.
Famous Birthdays
Results 101 - 200 of 2,319
1758-09-29 - Horatio Nelson, Burnham Thorpe Britain, naval hero (Trafalgar)
1759-10-25 - Baron Grenville, (Whig) British PM (1806-07)
1760-10-01 - William Beckford, British writer (Epsiodes of Vathek)
1761-11-21 - Dorothy Jordan, British actress (d. 1816)
1762-08-12 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
1762-11-01 - Spencer Perceval, (Tory), British PM (1809-12)
1764-03-13 - Charles Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
1764-05-05 - Robert Craufurd, British general (d. 1812)
1764-06-21 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840)
1765-08-21 - William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1837)
1765-11-20 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain (d. 1819)
1766-07-20 - Thomas Bruce, earl of Elgin & Kincardine, British diplomat
1768-10-02 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (d. 1854)
1768-11-08 - Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840)
1769-05-01 - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30)
1770-01-25 - Francis Burdett, British politician
1770-04-11 - George Canning, (C) British PM (1827)
1770-04-14 - George Canning, London, British PM (1827)
1770-05-22 - Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
1770-06-07 - Earl of Liverpool, (C) British PM (1812-27)
1771-02-24 - Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher
1772-11-28 - Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)
1773-04-06 - James Mill, Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India)
1773-06-13 - Thomas Young, British philologist/physician (light interference)
1775-07-23 - Francois-Eugene Vidocq, British police detective
1775-12-14 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860)
1777-06-24 - John Ross, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1856)
1777-07-09 - Henry Hallam, British lawyer/historian
1777-11-02 - Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
1778-02-05 - Robert Peel, British PM (1834-46)/founder (Tories)
1778-03-19 - Edward Pakenham, British general (d. 1815)
1778-09-19 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1868)
1778-11-25 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (d. 1856)
1779-03-15 - William Lamb, (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41)
1779-03-15 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848)
1780-12-26 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872)
1781-03-17 - Ebenezer Elliott, British Poet. Know as the "Corn Law Rhymer'" (d. 1849)
1781-11-30 - Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
1782-11-01 - Viscount Goderich, (Tory), British PM (1827-28)
1783-08-07 - Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (d. 1810)
1784-10-19 - Leigh Hunt, British writer (Lord Byron)
1784-12-07 - Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842)
1785-11-18 - David Wilkie, British artist (d. 1841)
1786-04-04 - John Franklin, British explorer (Arctic)
1786-05-08 - Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
1786-11-18 - Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor
1787-06-28 - Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces
1788-02-05 - Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British conservative premier/founder (Bobbies)
1790-06-19 - John Gibson, British (?) sculptor
1791-06-21 - Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)
1792-08-13 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1849)
1792-08-18 - John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM (1846-52, 1865-66)
1792-10-20 - Colin Campbell/Lord Clyde, British officer (Sepoy-uprising)
1794-05-24 - William Whewell, British philosopher (History of Inductive Science)
1794-06-18 - George Grote, British historian
1795-04-05 - Henry Havelock, British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39)
1795-07-25 - James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army)
1797-08-09 - Charles Robert Malden, British naval officer (d. 1855)
1797-09-16 - Anthony Panizzi, Librarian at British Museum
1799-03-29 - Edward Stanley, Earl Derby (C), British PM (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68)
1800-01-24 - Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer
1800-04-15 - James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic)
1800-04-16 - George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888)
1800-09-30 - Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881)
1802-01-03 - Charles Pelham Villiers, British House of Commons member (d. 1898)
1803-08-15 - James Douglas, father of British Columbia
1804-02-08 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1834)
1804-07-20 - Richard Owen, British zoologist
1804-09-14 - John Gould, British ornithologist (d. 1881)
1804-12-21 - Benjamin Disraeli, (Tory) British PM (1868, 1874-80)
1805-07-05 - Robert Fitz Roy, British naval officer and scientist (d. 1865)
1805-12-21 - Thomas Graham, British chemist (d. 1869)
1805-12-22 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893)
1809-12-29 - William Ewart Gladstone, (Lib) British PM (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94)
1810-11-26 - William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British const (hydr crane)
1812-04-22 - Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist (d. 1894)
1812-12-14 - Charles J Canning, English earl/1st viceroy of British-Indies
1813-01-04 - Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor (stenographic shorthand)
1814-05-14 - Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
1815-05-27 - Henry Parkes, British journalist/premier of Australia
1815-08-05 - Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica)
1817-03-05 - Austen H Layard, British archaeologist/diplomat
1817-06-30 - Joseph D Hooker, British botanist
1819-05-24 - Victoria Alexandrine, Queen of Great Britain (1837-1901)
1819-05-30 - William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)
1819-07-08 - Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)
1820-03-30 - Anna Sewell, British author (d. 1878)
1820-11-23 - Isaac Todhunter, British mathematician (d. 1884)
1821-11-02 - Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
1821-11-23 - Charles Meryon, British/French etcher
1823-01-08 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British zoologist/co-discoverer (evolution)
1823-05-22 - Isabella Glyn Dallas, British Shakepearean actress (d. 1889)
1824-06-20 - George E Street, British (?) architect
1824-06-26 - Kelvin, [William Thomson], British physicist (Kelvin Scale)
1825-09-04 - Dadabhai Naoroji, 1st Indian in British parliament
1827-05-04 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)
1829-01-05 - Sir Roger Tichborne, missing U.K. heir who was the subject of the longest criminal trial in British history (d. c.1854)
1830-02-03 - Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C), British PM (1885-1902)
1832-01-04 - George Tryon, British admiral (d. 1893)
1832-04-13 - James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (electricstatic generator)
Famous Deaths
Results 101 - 200 of 985
1781-09-28 - William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717)
1781-10-16 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
1782-05-20 - William Emerson, British mathematician (b. 1701)
1782-10-02 - Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732)
1783-12-16 - Sir William James, British naval commander (b. 1720)
1785-08-26 - George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (b. 1716)
1785-11-25 - Richard Glover, British poet (b. 1712)
1786-04-10 - John Byron, British naval officer (b. 1723)
1787-04-02 - Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)
1787-06-20 - Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63
1787-11-03 - Robert Lowth, British bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
1787-12-18 - Francis William Drake, British Admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1724)
1788-12-06 - Jonathan Shipley, British bishop and politician (b. 1714)
1791-06-05 - Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
1792-04-03 - George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706)
1792-10-28 - John Smeaton, British civil engineer (b. 1724)
1793-02-01 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (b. 1717)
1794-01-31 - Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
1794-04-18 - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
1794-04-27 - William Jones, British Orientalist/jurist, dies at 47
1794-06-18 - James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
1794-07-17 - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
1794-08-06 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
1795-01-03 - Josiah Wedgwood, British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, dies at 64
1795-07-09 - Henry Seymour Conway, British general and statesman (b. 1721)
1795-12-23 - Henry Clinton, British general (b. 1730)
1796-03-19 - Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
1796-07-16 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
1796-08-01 - Robert Pigot, British army officer (b. 1720)
1797-03-02 - Horace [Horatio] Walpole, British horror writer, dies at 79
1797-05-25 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (b. 1719)
1797-07-09 - Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68
1798-05-10 - George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40
1799-01-26 - Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)
1799-08-05 - Richard Howe, British admiral (b. 1726)
1801-04-02 - Thomas Dadford Junior, British canal engineer (b. circa 1761)
1802-02-02 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)
1803-11-23 - Roger Newdigate, British politician (b. 1719)
1804-11-23 - Richard Graves, British writer (b. 1715)
1804-12-19 - Mary Bright, British PM Rockingham, dies
1805-02-25 - Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
1805-05-07 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737)
1805-10-05 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (b. 1738)
1806-01-23 - William Pitt, the Younger, PM Great Britain (1783..1806), dies at 46
1806-05-24 - John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (b. 1723)
1806-07-10 - George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)
1806-10-28 - Charlotte Turner Smith, British poet and novelist (b. 1749)
1807-09-14 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724)
1808-11-10 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (b. 1724)
1809-01-16 - John Moore, British general (b. 1761)
1809-10-30 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
1810-03-07 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
1811-05-28 - Henry Dundas, British minister (b. 1742)
1811-11-27 - Andrew Meikle, British mechanical engineer (b. 1719)
1812-01-23 - Robert Craufurd, British general (b. 1764)
1812-05-11 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (assassinated) (b. 1762)
1813-01-03 - Bennelong, Australian aboriginal interlocutor between his tribe and the British settlers (b. c. 1764)
1813-07-06 - Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (b. 1735)
1814-08-31 - Arthur Phillip, British admiral, first Governor of New South Wales (b. 1738)
1814-11-18 - William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
1815-06-18 - Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1758)
1815-09-09 - John Singleton Copley, British painter, dies at 77
1817-12-07 - William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies at 63
1819-12-19 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician (b. 1765)
1820-01-29 - George III, king of Great-Britain (1760-1820), dies at 81
1820-01-29 - King George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1738)
1820-03-11 - Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81
1822-04-25 - Frederick "William" Herschel, German/British astronomer, dies at 83
1827-08-08 - George Canning, British minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 57
1828-12-04 - Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
1831-05-31 - Samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer (b. 1757)
1833-01-23 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (b. 1757)
1834-01-12 - William Wyndham Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
1834-02-06 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
1834-07-25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet, dies at 61
1835-02-15 - Henry Hunt, British politican, dies
1835-05-13 - John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies
1836-11-26 - John MacAdam, British road builder (b. 1756)
1837-06-20 - William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
1839-08-10 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
1840-05-26 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (b. 1764)
1841-11-14 - Thomas Bruce, Count of Elgin & Kincardine, British diplomat, dies
1842-03-13 - Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
1843-01-09 - William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773)
1843-12-18 - Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Viceroy of India (b. 1748)
1844-11-14 - John Abercrombie, British physician (b. 1780)
1845-07-17 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
1845-10-12 - Elizabeth Fry, British social reformer and philanthropist (b. 1780)
1848-11-24 - William Lamb 2nd viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834..41), dies at 69
1849-05-25 - Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator (b. 1777)
1849-08-02 - Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies
1849-12-02 - Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1850-07-02 - Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62
1851-03-04 - James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809)
1851-12-19 - J M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam & Speed), dies at 76
1852-11-27 - Ada Lovelace, British mathematician (b. 1815)
1854-01-08 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (b. 1768)
1854-03-06 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (b. 1778)
1855-04-30 - Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor, dies at 68
1855-07-09 - Lord Raglan Commander of the British forces during the Crimean War
