1702AD - The Act of Settlement, the death of William III and the War of Spanish succession
1707AD - The beginnings of the United Kingdom
1714AD - The death of Queen Anne and the start of the Georgian era
1715AD - The 1715 rebellion
1720AD - The South Sea bubble
1721AD - Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister
1727AD - The death of George I
1739AD - Highwaymen
1744AD - Piracy pays
1745AD - The 1745 rebellion
1750AD - The Agrarian revolution
1752AD - Changing the calendar and losing 11 days
1756AD - Wars and ears
1757AD - Canals
1760AD - The death of George II
1763AD - John Wilkes and critical journalism, Johnson's Dictionary and the first daily newspaper
1768AD - Captain James Cook
1775AD - Wars in North America, France and Ireland
1779AD - The Industrial revolution
1783AD - William Pitt the younger
1788AD - George III's first period of illness
1791AD - John Wesley and the Methodist religion
1792AD - Mary Wollstonecraft and women's rights
1796AD - The first vaccination