| Date | Event |
|---|
| 1 Jan 1660 | Pepys’ First Diary Entry, |
| 7 May 1663 | Theatre Royal Drury Lane Opens |
| 14 Nov 1665 | London Gazette First Published |
| 2 Sep 1666 | Great Fire of London begins |
| 31 May 1669 | Last Entry in Pepys Diary |
| 26 Nov 1703 | Great Storm Kills 10,000 |
| 23 Jun 1725 | Malt Tax Riots Begin |
| 20 Jun 1726 | First Municipal Fire Brigade formed |
| 9 Mar 1761 | The Hexham Riot |
| 29 Apr 1770 | Captain Cook lands in Australia |
| 9 Oct 1779 | First Luddite riots |
| 7 Jun 1780 | Gordon Riots - Day of Death |
| 15 Oct 1783 | First manned balloon flight |
| 7 Jan 1785 | First aerial crossing of the channel in a balloon |
| 16 Aug 1819 | Peterloo Massacre |
| 4 Jul 1829 | First regular bus service |
| 29 Sep 1829 | Metropolitan Police Force Established |
| 19 Mar 1834 | Tolpuddle Martyrs Sentenced |
| 25 Jan 1839 | Fox Talbot Shows First Photos |
| 10 Jan 1840 | Postal service (penny post) begins in Britain |
| 10 Feb 1840 | Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert |
| 1 May 1851 | Great Exhibition opens |
| 24 Nov 1859 | Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' is published |
| 1860 | The first public flushing toilet opens |
| 1863 | London Underground opens |
| 13 Oct 1884 | World adopts Greenwich Meantime |
| 31 Aug 1888 | Jack the Ripper’s First Victim |
| 1891 | Free education for every child |
| 6 Jul 1895 | First Car Ride in Britain |
| 22 Jun 1897 | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee |
| 10 Oct 1903 | Emmeline Pankhurst forms the Suffragette Movement |
| 1 Jan 1909 | Old-Age Pensions First Paid |
| 10 Apr 1912 | Titanic sets sail on maiden voyage |
| 3 May 1926 | The Great General Strike Begins |
| 4 Oct 1936 | The Battle of Cable Street |
| 8 Jan 1940 | Food Rationing Begins |
| 1994 | Channel Tunnel links Britain back to the European continent |
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