United Kingdom Chronology

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1603: Union of Crowns - the accession in 1603 of James VI, king of Scotland to the throne of England, under the name of James I, thus brought together these two countries under a single monarch, following the death of his cousin, Elizabeth, who reigned over England and Ireland, the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty, who died single and without a child. But it is not, strictly speaking, a personal union, nor a dynastic union, since the Crowns remain distinct and separate, despite James' efforts to create a new imperial throne of Great Britain. England and Scotland, although sharing the same monarch, therefore remained independent states until the 1707 Act of Union.
1688 : Glory Revolution - it has the consequence of overthrowing King James II and causes the arrival of the daughter of him, Mary II and her husband, William III, Prince of Orange following the Dutch invasion of England led by him. The revolution established a constitutional and parliamentary monarchy in place of Stuarts' autocratic government.
1690: 10 July, Battle of the Boyne, Ireland, opposing James II to William III; Victory of the latter.
1698: At the Treaty of Ryswick, France, which had supported the Stuarts, recognized William III as King of England.

1701: The English act of establishment of 1701 requires that the monarch be Protestant.
: King William III dies and his sister-in-law Anne succeeds him as queen.
Gibraltar is taken by the English and Dutch fleets combined under the command of Admiral George Rooke.
1704 : An English and Dutch army under the command of John Churchill of Marlborough, defeated the army of Louis XIV in Blindheim, Bavaria (Battle of Blenheim).
1707: The Act of Union unites England and Scotland as the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1708: Spanish Succession War - French invasion aborted with the pretender James Francis Edward Stuart.
1713: the peace of Utrecht.
1714: Queen Anne dies and King George I succeeds her; beginning of the Hanover dynasty.
1715: Jacobite rebellion.
1716: The attempt to secure peace for the Scottish Highlands.
1719: Spanish invasion attempt to support Jacobites - the fleet en route to England is scattered by storms, the troops land in Scotland and are defeated at the Battle of Glen Shiel.
1720: South Sea Company collapse, South Sea Bubble. It results in a stock market crash in London in which the depreciation of the average stock value is c. 98%.
1721: Whig Robert Walpole, who occupies a prominent position in the government as the First Lord of the Treasury, is traditionally considered the first holder of Prime Minister's title
King George I died and his son George II succeeded him as king.
: Jenkins' ear war - Prime Minister Ro