Almanac Index 1757AD-1825

1757 AD        - (23 Jun)                   - Indian province of Bengal passes into British control after the Battle of Plassey
1760 AD        - (25 Oct)                   - George III succeeds his grandfather George II
                                                         - Tacky leads a slave rebellion in Jamaica
1763 AD        - (Apr)                        - Radical journalist John Wilkes is arrested for criticising the king
1765 AD        - (Mar)                       - Riots erupt in American colonies after parliament levies ‘stamp’ taxes
1767 AD        - (Jun)                         - American colonists are taxed on imports
1768-71 AD -                                  - Captain James Cook leads his first expedition to the Pacific
1770 AD        -                                  - Lord North becomes Prime Minister
1771 AD        -                                  - ‘Factory Age’ begins with the opening of Britian’s first cotton mill
1772 AD        -                                  - Slavery is effectively outlawed in England
1773 AD        -                                  - ‘Boston Tea Party’ heightens tensions in North American colonies
1775 AD        -                                  - (18 Apr) American War of Independence begins
1779 AD        -                                  - Penitentiary Act authorises state prisons
1780 AD        - (02 Jun-11 Jun)         - ‘Gordon Riots’ break out in protest against the Catholic Relief Act
1781 AD        - (19 Oct)                   - American defeat the British army at Yorktown, Virginia
                       - (29 Nov)                  - 133 Africans are thrown overboard the slave ship ‘Zong’
1783 AD        -                                 - Britain begins to evacuate loyalists from American colonies
                      - (Dec)                        - William Pitt the Younger becomes Prime Minister
1787 AD        - (13 May)                  - First fleet of convicts sails to Australia
                       - (22 May)                 - Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade is formed
1788 AD        -                                 - Under pressure from abolitionists, parliament investigates the slave trade
                      - (01 Jan)                    - First edition of ‘The Time’ of London is published
                      - (Nov-Feb)                - George III’s illness sparks a regency crisis
1789 AD        - (29 Apr)                   - Former slave Olaudah Equiano publishes his autobiography
                      - (14 Jul)                     - French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille
1791 AD        - (19 Apr)                   - Parliament rejects William Wilberforce’s bill to abolish the slave trade
1792-94 AD -                                  - Radical artisans from London Corresponding Society
1792 AD        - (07 Mar)                   - Sierra Leone is established under British Rule as a home for former slaves
1793 AD        -                                  - British troops attempts to suppress Toussaint L’Ouverture’s rebellion in Haiti
                       -                                 - Britain goes to war with France
1797 AD        - (Apr-Jun)                  - Naval mutinies occur at Spithead and the Nore
1798 AD        - (26 May)                  - Society of United Irishmen rebel against British Rule in Ireland
1799-18 AD -                                  - Trade Unions are outlawed
1801 AD       - (01 Jan)                    - Act of Union creates the United Kingdom
                      - (10 Mar)                  - Britain holds its first census
1801-03         - (18 Jul-09 Jun)          - Matthew Flinders circumnavigates Australia
1805 AD        - (21 Oct)                    - Royal Navy defeats a French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalger
1807 AD        - (25 Mar)                   - Britain abolishes the slave trade
1808 AD        -                                  - British West Africa Squadron is formed to suppress slave trading
1811-12         -                                  - Luddite protesters attack industrial machinery in protest against unemployment
1812-18 AD   -                                 - Hampden clubs are formed to advocate parliamentary reform
1815 AD        - (Mar)                        - Corn Laws are introduced to protect British agriculture
                       - (18 Jun)                    - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, defeats Napoleon at Waterloo
1817 AD        - (10 Mar)                   - Working class ‘Blanketeers’ mount a march to London
1819 AD        - (16 Aug)                   - Eleven die at the Peterloo massacre in Manchester
1820 AD        - (29 Jan)                     - George III dies and is succeeded by George IV
1825 AD       - (27 Sept)                    - World’s first steam locomotive passenger service begins