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==Twentieth century==
==Twentieth century==


1914-18 First World War.
1914-18     '''First World War.'''
 
===The inter-war years===


1914-15 Asquith's Liberal Government
1914-15 Asquith's Liberal Government
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1937-40 Chamberlain's Conservative Government.
1937-40 Chamberlain's Conservative Government.


1939-45    Second World War
1939-45    '''Second World War'''


1940-45 Churchill's Wartime Coalition Government.
1940-45 Churchill's Wartime Coalition Government.
===Post-war Britain===


1945    Churchill's Conservative Government.
1945    Churchill's Conservative Government.

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(Sources: 1700-1899 Norman Davies: The Isles, A History", Macmillan 1999 Appendix 42 page 977 ) Template:TOC-right


Eighteenth century

1707    Act of Union - with Scotland.

1713    Treaty of Utrecht.

1714     Hanoverian succession.
              George I (1714-27)

1727    Geoge II (1727-1760)

1715    First Jacobite Rising

1739-48    War of Jenkins Ear - with Spain.

1744-8 War of the Austrian Succession.

1745    Second Jacobite Rising - "the '45"

1746    Battle of Culloden.

1756-63 Seven Years War - acquisition of India and Canada.

1760    George III (1760-1820).

1776-81 War of American Independence - the creation of the United States of America.

1787     Kingdom of Ireland granted autonomy.

1793-1815 French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.

Nineteenth century

1801    Act of Union - with Ireland.

1805    Battle of Trafalgar.

1815    Battle of Waterloo.

1820    George IV (1820-30).

1830    William IV (1830-37).

1837     Queen Victoria (1837-1901)/

1845-50 Irish Famine.

1846    Repeal of Corn Laws.

1833-36 Crimean War.

1857-58 Indian Mutiny.

1898    Battle of Omdurman

1899-1902 Boer War.

Twentieth century

1914-18     First World War.

The inter-war years

1914-15 Asquith's Liberal Government

1915-16 Asquith's Coalition Government.

1919-23 Lloyd George's Coalition Governments.

1923-24 Baldwin's First Conservative Government

1924     Macdonald's First Labour Government.

1924-29 Baldwin's Second Conservative Government.

1929-31 Macdonald's Second Labour Government.

1931-35 Macdonald's National Government.

1935-37 Baldwin's National Government.

1937-40 Chamberlain's Conservative Government.

1939-45    Second World War

1940-45 Churchill's Wartime Coalition Government.

Post-war Britain

1945    Churchill's Conservative Government.

1945- Atlee's Labour Government

Twenty-first century