CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

1620. Sailing of the Mayflower. 
1623. Re-creation of dukedoms. Massacre of Amboyna. 
1625. CHARLES I. 
1628. Petition of Right. 
1629. First British capture of Quebec. 
1629-1640. The "Eleven Years' Tyranny." 
1638-1639. National Covenant. Bishops' war in Scotland. 
1640. The Long Parliament. 
1642. First Civil War. 
1648. Second Civil War. 
1649. THE COMMONWEALTH. Abolition of monarchy and the House of Lords. 
1650-1651. Navigation Acts and Dutch War. 
1653. THE PROTECTORATE. First Cromwellian constitution. 
1657. Second Cromwellian constitution. 
1658. Cromwell's death. 
1660. The Restoration. CHARLES II. 
1662. The last Act of Uniformity. 
1664. War with the Dutch: conquest of New Netherlands 
1667. Fall of Clarendon. The Cabal administration. 
1670. Treaty of Dover. 
1672. Declaration of Indulgence. 
1673. Danby. The Test Act. 
1678. Titus Gates' Plot. 
1679. Habeas Corpus Act. 
1681. Charles II's triumph over the Whigs. 
1685. JAMES II. Monmouth's and Argyll's rebellions. 
1688. The Revolution. WILLIAM III and MARY. 
1689. Bill of Rights. Toleration Act. 
1690. Battle of the Boyne. 
1694. Bank of England established. 
1696. The Whig Junto. 
1701. Act of Settlement. 
1702. ANNE. War with France. 
1704. Capture of Gibraltar. England becomes a Mediterranean power. 
1707. Act of Union with Scotland. 
1708. Capture of Minorca. 
1708-1710. Whig ministry. 
1710-1714. Tory ministry. 
1713. Peace of Utrecht. 
1714. GEORGE I and the Hanoverian dynasty. 
1721-1742. Walpole's administration. Evolution of the Cabinet and Prime 
      Minister. Growth of imports and exports, 
1727. GEORGE II. 
1739. War with Spain. 
1741-1748. War of the Austrian Succession. Clive in India. 
1756-1763. Seven Years' War. 
1757. Battle of Plassey. 
1759. Capture of Quebec. 
1760. GEORGE III. 
1764-1779. Inventions by Arkwright, Hargreaves, and Crompton. Beginning 
      of the Industrial Revolution. 
1765. Grenville's Stamp Act. 
1770. Lord North Prime Minister. Captain Cook surveys Australia and New 
      Zealand. 
1774. The Quebec Act. 
1776. Declaration of American Independence. Adam Smith's Wealth of 
      Nations. 
1778-1779. France and Spain join the Americans. 
1780. The "Armed Neutrality." Warren Hastings saves India. 
1781. Fall of Yorktown. 
1782. Volunteer movement In Ireland. Irish parliamentary independence. 
1783. American Independence granted. 
1784. Pitt Prime Minister: his India Bill.