A New Queen
France recognises James Edward Stuart as James III of England and VIII of Scotland - but Queen Anne comes to the throne
The Battle of Blenheim
The Duke of Marlborough commands the alliance of the Dutch Republic, the Holy Roman Empire, Britain, Portugal and the German States against France in the War of Spanish Succession
Union with Scotland
The English and Scottish Parliaments join together
England loses an Admiral
Sir Cloudesley Shovell is among 1,500 English sailors drowned as the British fleet is wrecked off the Scillies
End of the War and Marlborough Accused
Louis XIV withdraws from Spain as France admits defeat
The King of England Who Could Not Speak English
The fleet is mobilised, 10 battalions are recalled from Flanders and the garrisons are put under arms as George, Elector of Hanover, lands in Greenwich
The Hanoverians and the Jacobite Rising
Parliament passes the Riot Act as 10,000 men rebel against George I's rule in Scotland
Macgregors and the South Sea Bubble
The wars with France leave Britain with a £50million debt
Walpole, the First Prime Minister
Robert Walpole accuses the Tories of being Jacobites
New Hanoverians, Death, Gin and Defoe
Cheap gin and a lack of medical knowledge means more people are dying than being born
Monarchy, Cabinet, Dirty Taxes at the Crossroads
The Prime Minister stabilizes the economy, the monarchy and the Whig Party
George II and Turnip Townsend
George II accedes to the throne and sacks the Prime Minister
Queen Caroline and the Emergence of Pitt
Austria goes to war against Spain
A Bottled Ear, Grog and Rule Britannia
The Whigs demand war with Spain
Patronage and the Fall of Walpole
England joins Austria in the War of Austrian Succession against Frederick the Great of Prussia and France
The Final Charge of an English King
The Jacobites rise against the British throne
Bonnie Prince Charlie, Culloden and God Save the King
Charles Edward Stuart flees a massacre at Culloden Moor dressed as a woman
Hogarth, the Price of Gin & Pitt the Elder
Jacobite peers are beheaded
A Treaty of Serene and Potent Kings
England loses war in Europe
Clive of India
Clive defeats the French in India
Pitt and a New Calendar
The Seven Years War begins
Black Hole of Calcutta, Minorca and the Seven Years War
Outrage as British prisoners suffocate
Pitt's Militia, Canada and Act of Marriage
Pitt plans to invade Canada
1757 - The First World War
Britain and France fight a savage war in America
India
The East India Company wins India for the British Empire
The Death of George II and the Fall of Pitt
The British win Canada
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