Laurence

Just in case this is irony

Maybe we should switch the fixture to Ibrox

unless they cant aford to cut the grass, then we could play it at Hampden

Inter will remember the Lions that is for sure

The point I was trying to make, was that Celtic can now bank on having time to build a European squad in the knowledge that they can budget fully knowing that they will enter Europe for many years to come,given that their main rivals for the Scottish league championship are no longer in the running.

As we see in England the panic which big clubs experience towards the end of the season when they see Europe slipping from their grasp is there for all to see. The reason is they have budgeted for Europe and they may not get there

I take a more positive view than the contributers above , because with good buying of young talented players with potential, surely with a long term plan they can improve enough to win a few matches at that highest level. Maybe not straight away but in two or three years. Alex Fergusion took many years to build his first formidable United team.

Anyway lets be optimistic, doom and gloom is not my scene.

I wonder if the manager is up to it though?

Without any real contrition, without any sackcloth and ashes, from the old or the new Rangers it is hard to give Rangers any slack

It someone from the old regime or even the new regime had made truly heartfelt apology to the world of football, I think I would have said, " OK bend the rules", but as it is you can't really give them much of a break

All the time we hear talk of we can bring money to the game, we can save Scottish football, we can do this do that. But never we caused this mess , we robbed the game, we are to blame. We wish to help all we can. They seem to me to have a very selfish atitude to the whole dam business. If I am wrong tell me, but that's how they are coming across es[pecially in the Daily Record.

I suppose with Rangers out of the picture

Celtic now can prepare a 5 year programme before Rangers can be a significant force again in the SPL

Given sensible planning good management and a favourable draw at group stage , I feel within 6 years Celtic can really make an impact for Scotland in Europe.

I know all the usual suspects will make it hard , the City's United's Chelsea's Barcelona's and what have you. But if Porto can do it againt the odds, maybe Celtic with good planning and knowing they have a clear Scottish route to Europe, with good financial planning who knows?

The next 5 years may be good for Scotish football in Europe

Having played Rugby League myself at Colts level. I am really upset of the demise of Bradford, I much preferred the name Bradford Northern.

Silly to give teams the names of animals very American

Mind you Rangers old Bull seems to fit for the NewCo

The goode owd days, with 3rd Lanark

Bring them back

When Britsh Railways were breaking up I went to a meeting to change their name to a privitised name ( For Fire Prevention )

I suggested 3rd Lanark

One man in the audience realied what II meant by 3rd Lanark

Maybe we should remember nobody saved them, No Daily record campaign

By the way Don, Charles is always right

My wife is too

I am use to kosing arguments =t ha nose

help slipped into Lancashire dialect

Football Association

Could apply as a universal term me thinks

my interest in dates I think comes from working at the British Museum,

a creepy place that

The British Library was there too hence my fondnes for books. Not bad for a son of a mill worker who left school at 14. I do get a bit silly at times, please excuse. I am quite sensible really

_{The Biggot comes from a post made earlier in 1st or 3rd , I just picked up the thread.}

_{Not meant to be taken seriously}

_{I was just chucking dates around because I am no historian, just an old Guy full of misconceptions and proud of it}

_{We all live by misconceptions you know.}

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I say again British Charles unless you know different

I will check the other major nations maybe Real Madrid or A C Milan did similar,

No team has won the Scottish F A cup by 6 goals and not conceeded in earlier rounds ,

My little Lancashire cotton town pop cica 75,000 has outdone them all

Another record is in England they are the only team to have scored over 1000 goals in each of the four tiers of the Football league

I am told but I have not verified it yet that Bury spent more seasons in Division 1 of the football League than Manchester United, before WW2

Also Bury put Liverpool out of Div 1 via a playoff at Blackburn ( was known as a test match )

Bury did that after winning the Div 2 championship by a country mile after only one seson in the Football League

Hence the earned the name of " The shakers "

I nearly forgot Gigg Lane my grandad told me was the scene of the first ever football related riot. It happenned at a Lancashire Senior Cup Final Between Bury and Bolton Wanderers , when 3000 enraged fans charged onto the field of play. Bury won the match.

It's getting silly now - apologies

As we are talking in the nonsense section

I am led to believe that recruiting in Germany was not possible as Bismark the founder of Germany was not born

A lot of Scottish poems slagging of Germans were actually not contempory but written over hundred years later in Victorian times,

The biggest area of what is now Germany was Prussia

In fact the Jacobites referred to the Elector of Hanover

My school ( a catholic one, I was born protestant baptised twice once Protestant and once Catholic) ) taught me James abdicated) , he wanted to marry a catholic princess , The country wanted including Scotland no truck with Catholics , so he asked for it in my book. I was also taught that he chucked his seal of office his ring into the Thames. Shades of Edward 8th

The area George was from was Hanover a quite small area.

The Romans did refer to Germans , they had the sense to build a wall around it , similar to Hadrian’s wall to keep what are now Norhumbrian’s out of the the top end out of what is now England.

To me dates and history are of little concern to the present. Within my life time what is now a close friendly nation was dropping bombs every night on London ( don't get pedantic ans quote 1943 to be after the blitz) the point is relevant

I think it is also of interest that nearly twice as many protestant Scots fought in Cumberland's army against the Catholic Highlanders.

These may all be misconceptions on my part , but I like misconceptions when they fit my feelings..

Apparently Queen Anne had William buried in secret at midnight, nobody was invited, seemed a very popular family man in Royal circles

Please don't come and break my windows, it's all tongue in cheek, not really much bothered

Let it Be - Let it Be - Speaking words of Wisdom, - Let it be

Seems to fit

hi

I thought it was all public domain stuff

Sorry if I caused any offence

http://www.christoph...itishdates.html

I think you had better delete my original post

Don't want to cause the web site any problems

Laurence

Rangers is not the only club in Scotland.

You would think so reading the Daily Record - me thinks

To Doofers Dad - Well said sir

Maybe I will be there when ICT have a record score in the SFC Final

I did miss one of great interest to a bigotted Bury F C fan

British record F A cup final result 1903

Bury 6 Derby County 0

Bury won the F A cup without conceeding a goal throughout the whole of the competition.

Never been matched

Another date was Nov 5th 1949 Sheff Unt 4 Bury 4 , my first away football match

Scotland: General Provincial Council orders each parish to keep a register of baptisms and banns of marriage

1554-1558

Brief Catholic restoration under Queen Mary Tudor

1557

The First Covenant signed in Scotland (foundation of the Presbyterian Church)

1558

Scottish parish registers start

Chancery Proceedings Indexes begin

1558-1603

Reign of Elizabeth I - Policy of Plantation begins

System of counties adopted

1559

John Knox returns from Continent - strengthens case for Presbyterianism in Scotland

1560

Establishment of Protestantism in Scotland - commissary courts thrown into confusion - some records lost

1562

African slave trade starts

1563

Papal recusants heavily fined for non-attendance at Church

The Test Act excludes Roman Catholics from governmental office

1565

Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Darnley

1566

Murder of Riccio in Holyrood House

1567

Murder of Darnley outside Holyrood House in an explosion - marriage of Mary Queen of Scots and Bothwell

Earliest date in the French Protestant and Walloon registers

1568

Battle of Langside - Mary's flight to England and her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth I

1571

Beginning of penal legislation against Catholics in England

Opening of the Royal Exchange, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham

1571-1572

Presbyterianism introduced into England by Thomas Cartwright

1574

Colonial State Papers published - continued to 1738

1578

Earliest Quaker registers begin

1579

Act of Uniformity in matters of religion enforced

1580

Colonisation of Ireland

Congregational movement founded by Robert Browne about this time

1582

Gregorian calendar introduced in some countries: Spain and Portugal, France, Low Countries, part of Italy, Denmark

1583

Foundation of Cambridge University Press by Thomas Thomas

University of Edinburgh founded

1585

Foundation of Oxford University Press

Shakespeare started seriously to write about this time

1587

Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, by English at Fotheringay Castle, near Peterborough

Aug 11: Raleigh's second expedition to New World lands in North Carolina - first child born in the New World of English parents, Virginia Dare (Aug 18)

Introduction of potatoes to England

1588

Jul 29: Defeat of Spanish Armada (had set sail from Lisbon May 20)

Invention of shorthand by Dr Timothy Bright

1592

A Congregational (or Independent) Church formed in London

Scotland: Presbyterian Church formally established - all ministers equal - no bishops - secular commissaries appointed by the Crown

1593

British statute mile established by law

1597

Poor Law Act for erection of parish workhouses for the Poor - Poor Rate collection allowed

1598

Bishop's transcripts of English and Welsh parish registers start [some say 1597]

Edict of Nantes gives Huguenots toleration in France

1600

Memoirs of Officers of the Royal Navy begin

1601

Great English Poor Law Act passed

First use of fruit juice as a preventative for scurvy by James Lancaster

East India Company founded

1603

Mar 24: Death of Elizabeth I: union of Scottish and English crowns - under King James VI of Scots and I of England (d. 1625)

1606

Apr 12: Adoption of Union Jack as the flag of "Great Britain"

The London Company chartered to colonise Virginia

Episcopacy established in Scotland (against wishes of the Scots)

1607

Flight of the Earls - leading Ulster families go into exile

1610

James VI established the Episcopal Church in Scotland- Prebyterians persecuted and many of their records lost

1611

Plantation of Ulster with English and Scottish colonists

Authorised (King James) Version of Bible in England

James VI and I created the title of baronet

1616

Apr 23: Death of Shakespeare

Ben Jonson becomes first Poet Laureate

1617

Register of Sasines (land leases) established in Scotland - record of the transfer of land and property

1620

Dec 21 (Dec 16 OS): The Mayflower reaches America - founds Plymouth, New England

Manufacture of coke patented by Dud Dudley

1621

Chimneys to be made of brick and be four and a half feet above the roof

1622

First English newspaper appeared

1624

Monopoly Act in England: patents protected

1625

The size of bricks standardised in England around this time

Death of King James VI and I

1625-1649

Carolean Age

1629

Parliament dissolved by King Charles I - did not meet for another 11 years

1630-1750

Baroque Period (Art & Antiques)

1630-1750

Renaissance Period (Art & Antiques)

1635

Letter Office of England & Scotland started

Flintlock invented around this time

1636

Hackney Carriages in use by now in London

1637

Scottish Prayer Book published

1638

Charles regarded protests against the prayerbook as treason - forced Scots to choose between their church and the King - a "Covenant", swearing to resist these changes to the death, was signed in Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh and was accepted by hundreds of thousands of Scots (revival of Presbyterian Church)

1639

Act of Toleration in England established religious toleration

1641

Charles I's policies cause insurrection in Ulster and Civil War in England

Charles I and the English Parliament acknowledge the Prebyterian Church in Scotland

1642

Aug 22: Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham - First Civil War in England (to 1649)- first engagement at Edgehill - Scottish Covenanters side with the English rebels who take power - the Earl of Montrose sided with King Charles, strife spilled into Scotland

The Civil War interrupted the keeping of parish registers

English theatres closed by Puritans (till 1660)

1643

Solemn League and Covenant signed in Scotland

1644

Earliest Independent (Congregational) registers

Earliest Presbyterian registers

1644-5

Montrose's Venture (Montrose executed in 1650)

1645

Battle of Philiphaugh in Scotland

Inquisitions Post Mortem end

Scotland: Each county and burgh ordered to raise and maintain a number of foot soldiers, according to population, to serve as militia - population of Scotland estimated at 420,000

Plague made its last appearance in Scotland

1646

Jun 20: Royalists sign articles of surrender at Oxford

1647

Earliest Baptist registers survive from this year

1649

Jan 30: King Charles I executed

May 19: Commonwealth declared

Cromwell's Irish campaign starts

King Charles II proclaimed King of Scots and England in Scotland

1649-1660

Commonwealth Period - Oliver Cromwell

1650 George Fox founds Society of Friends (Quakers)

Coffee brought to England about this time

1651-1652

The second English Civil War

Scottish prisoners transported to the English settlements in America

1653

Commonwealth registers start

Commonwealth changed into Cromwell's Protectorate

Under the Act of Settlement Cromwell's opponents stripped of land (in Ireland?)

1653-1660

Provincial probate courts abolished - probates granted only in London

1657

Post Office established by Act of Parliament [others say 1660]

A few Jews permitted to settle in England

1658

Death of Oliver Cromwell

1658-1660

Richard Cromwell (son of Oliver) Lord Protector

1659

Feb 6: date of first known cheque to be drawn

1660s

Quaker-Scottish colony was established in East New Jersey

1660-

Restoration Period

1660

May 29: Restoration of British monarchy - 'Oak Apple Day' - theatres reopened

Commonwealth registers ended, Parish Registers resumed

Provincial Probate Courts re-established

Regicides are executed

Clarendon code restricts Puritans' religious freedom

Dec 8: First actress plays in London (Margaret Hughes as Desdemona)

Composition of light discovered by Newton

Honourable East India Company founded by British

First British in Japan

Scotland adopts Gregorian calendar

1661

Persecution of Non-conformists in England

Restoration of Episcopacy in Scotland

Board of Trade founded in London

Hand-struck postage stamps first used

Corporation Act prevents non-Anglicans from holding municipal office

1662

Hearth Tax

Poor Relief Act "Act of Settlement" - gave JPs the power to return any wandering poor to the parish of origin

Act of Uniformity - About 2,000 vicars and rectors driven from their parishes as nonconformists (Presbyterians and Independents) - Persecution of all non-conformists - Presbyterianism dis-established - Episcopalian Church of England restored

1663

Earliest Roman Catholic registers

1665

Great Plague of London

1666

Sep 2-6: Great Fire of London, after a drought beginning 27 June

Use of semaphore signalling pioneered by Lord Worcester

Act of Parliament - burials to be in woollen

1666-1689

Considerable religious unrest on Scotland (The Covenanters) - Covenanters Rising at St John's Town of Dalry

1669

Earliest Lutheran registers survive from this year

1670

Earliest Synagogue registers - Bevis Marks

1672

High Court of Justiciary established in Scotland

War with Holland - British Army increased to 10,000 men

1673

First Test Act deprives British Catholics and Non-conformists of Public Office

1675

Beginning of Whig party under Shaftsbury

Aug 10: Building of Royal Greenwich Observatory started

1677

Lee's "Collection of Names of Merchants in London" published

1678

Extension of Test Act to peers

1679

May 27: Habeas Corpus Act becomes law in England - (later repealed from time to time)

Tories first so named

Battle of Bothwell Brig in Scotland

Burial in Woollen more strictly enforced

1680

William Dockwra(y) begins his London Penny Post

1680-1770

Chinoiserie Period (Art & Antiques)

1681

Second Test Act (against non-conformists) passed by Westminster Parliament

Oil lighting first used in London streets

1682

Pennsylvania founded by William Penn

Library of Advocates founded in Edinburgh - later National Library of Scotland

1683

Jun 6: Ashmolean Museum opened at Oxford - first museum in Britain

1684

Presbyterian settlement in Stuart's Town in South Carolina

Huguenot registers begin in London

1685

Earl of Argyll's Invasion of Scotland

James the Second (1685-1689, died 1701) - Monmouth rebellion and battle of Sedgemoor - British Army raised to 20,000 men

Judge Jeffreys and the Bloody Assizes - 320 executed, 800 transported

Revocation of the Edict of Nantes - drove thousands of Protestants (Huguenots) from France - many settled in England

1686

Release of all prisoners held for their religious beliefs

1688

Feb: Edward Lloyd's Coffee House - later became Lloyd's of London

Nov: The Glorious Revolution: James II abdicates - William of Orange lands in England - William of Hanover and Mary, daughter of James II, jointly take the throne - (only William, however, has regal power)

British Army raised to 40,000

Bill of Rights limits the powers of the monarchy over parliament

Hearth Tax abolished

Mutiny Act

1689

Deposed James VII and II flees to Ireland - defeated at the Battle of the Boyne (1690)

Earliest Royal Dutch Chapel registers

Siege of Londonderry

Toleration Act for Protestant non-conformists

Battle of Killiecrankie in Scotland

1690

Great Synagogue founded

Presbyterianism finally established in Scotland

Battle of the Boyne

1691

Earliest date in known German Lutheran registers

1692

The massacre of Glencoe - Clan Campbell side with the King and murder members of Clan McDonald [1691?]

1692

French intention to invade England came to naught

1694

National Debt came into effect in England

Bank of England founded by William Paterson (a Scot)

Triennial Act

1694-1699

Scotland: Poll Tax imposed on all over sixteen, except the destitute and insane

1695

Freedom of Press in England

Bank of Scotland founded

Act of Parliament imposes a fine on all who fail to inform the parish minister of the birth of a child (repealed 1706)

Start of "Dissenters" lists in parish registers - children born but not christened in the parish church - some were named "Papist" and others "Protestants"

1696

Act of Parliament establishes Workhouses

Education Act passed by Scottish Parliament

Window Tax (replaced Hearth Tax; increased in 1747; abolished 1851)

1697

Dec 2: Official opening of St Paul's Cathedral

1698

Invention of steam engine by Capt Thomas Savery

Darien Expedition: a disastrous attempt to establish a Scots settlement in Panama

Duties (taxes) on entries in parish registers - repealed after five years

1701

Act of Settlement bars Catholics from the British throne

1702-1714

Queen Anne Period (Art & Antiques)

1702

Mar 8: Anne Stuart becomes Queen

Mar 11: First English daily newspaper The Daily Courant (till 1735)

War of Spanish Succession (1702-1713)

1703

Repeal of Duties on entries in Parish Registers

1704

Battle of Blenheim

Penal Code enacted - Catholics barred from voting, education and the military

1705

First workable steam pumping engine devised by Thomas Newcomen

1707

Jan 1: Union with Scotland - Scots agree to send 16 peers and 45 MPs to English Parliament in return for full trading privileges - Scottish Parliament meets for the last time in March

May 1: English and Scottish Parliaments united by an Act of the English Parliament - The Kingdom of Great Britain established

Last use of veto by a British sovereign

1708

First Jacobite rising in Scotland

Earliest Artillery Muster Rolls

1709

First Copyright Act passed

1710

Tax on Apprentice Indentures

1711

Incorporation of South Sea Company, in London

1712

Imposition of Soap Tax (abolished 1853)

Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wenham)

Toleration Act passed - first relief to non-Anglicans

Patronage Act - patronage of ministers restored

1713

Treaty of Utrecht concludes the War of the Spanish Succession

1714

Aug 1: Queen Anne Stuart dies - George I Hanover becomes king (1714-1727)

Chancery Proceedings filed under Six Clerks

Schism Act

Landholders forced to take the Oath of Allegiance and renounce Roman Catholicism

Quarter Sessions Records from this date often mention Protestant dissenters and Roman Catholic recusants

1715

Riot Act passed

Second Jacobite rebellion in Scotland, under the Old Pretender ('The Fifteen')

1716

The Septennial Act of Britain leads to greater electoral corruption - general elections now to be held once every 7 years instead of every 3

1717

First Masonic Lodge opens in London

1719

Third abortive Jacobite rising

1720

South Sea Bubble, a stock-market crash on Exchange Alley

Manufacturing towns start to increase in population - rise of new wealth

1721

Robert Walpole (Whig) becomes first Prime Minister (to 1742)

Bailey's Northern Directory

1722

Last trial for witchcraft in Scotland

Knatchbull's Act, poor laws

1723

Excise tax levied for coffee, tea, and chocolate

The Waltham Black Acts add 50 capital offences to the penal code - people could be sentenced to death for theft and poaching

The Workhouse Act or Test - to get relief, a poor person has to enter Workhouse

1725-1726

Treaty of Hanover: France, Prussia, England v. Spain, Austria

1726

First circulating library opened in Edinburgh

Invention of the chronometer by John Harrison

1727

Board of Manufacturers established in Scotland

Jun 11: George I dies - George II Hanover becomes king

1729

Methodists begin at Oxford

1730

Irish famine

1730-1750

Rococo Period (Art & Antiques)

1731

Invention of seed drill by Jethro Tull

Invention of sextant by John Hadley

1732

Earliest Cavalry and Infantry Muster Rolls

1733

Excise crisis: Sir Robert Walpole wanted to add excise tax to tobacco and wine - Pulteney and Bolingbroke oppose the excise tax

Law forbidding the use of Latin in parish registers generally obeyed - some continued in Latin for a few years

1734

Kent's Directory

1738

Earliest Calvinistic Methodist registers

John Wesley has his conversion experience

1739

Wesley and Whitefield commence great Methodist revival

1741

Benjamin Ingham founded the Moravian Methodists or Inghamites - Earliest Moravian registers

Earliest Scotch Church registers

1742

England goes to war with Spain - incited by William Pitt the Elder (Earl of Chatham) for the sake of trade

1743

Jun 16: Battle of Dettingen - last time a British sovereign (George II) led troops in battle

1744

Church of Scotland split over taking of Burgess' Oath - Burghers and Anti-Burghers

First Methodist Conference

1745

Jacobite rebellion in Scotland ('The Forty-five')

Aug: Bonnie Prince Charlie (The Young Pretender) lands in the western Highlands - raises support among Episcopalian and Catholic clans - The Pretender's army invades Perth, Edinburgh, and England as far as Derby

1746

Apr 16: Battle of Culloden - last battle fought in Britain - 5,000 Highlanders routed by the Duke of Cumberland and 9,000 loyalists Scots - Young Pretender Charles flees to Continent, ending Jacobite hopes forever - the wearing of the kilt prohibited

1747

Abolition of Heritable Jurisdictions in Scotland

Act for Pacification of the Highlands

1748-1756

Countess of Huntington's (Calvinistic) Methodist Connexion founded

1750-1770

Gothic Revival Period (Art & Antiques)

1750-1805

Neo-Classical Period (Art & Antiques)

1752

Sep 3: Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted in England, making this Sep 14 - "Give us back our 11 days!"

Year standardised to end Dec 31 (previously Mar 24)

1753

Earliest lnghamite registers

1754

Hardwicke Act (1753): Banns to be called, and Printed Marriage Register forms to be used - Quakers & Jews exempt

First British troops not belonging to the East India Company despatched to India

First printed Annual Army Lists

1755

Publication of Dictionary of the English Language by Dr Johnson

Period of canal construction began in Britain (till 1827)

1756

The Seven Years War with France (Pitt's trade war) begins

1757

India: The Nawab of Bengal tries to expel the British, but is defeated at the battle of Plassy - the East India Company forces are led by Robert Clive

Black Hole of Calcutta

The foundation laid for the Empire of India

1758

India stops being merely a commercial venture - England begins dominating it politically - The East India Company retains its monopoly although it ceased to trade

1759

Jan 15: British Museum opens to the public in London

Mar: First predicted return of Halley's comet

Wesley builds 356 Methodist chapels

1760

Oct 25: George II dies - George III Hanover, his grandson, becomes king

The date conventionally marks the start of the so-called "first Industrial Revolution"

Carron Iron Works in operation in Scotland

May 5: First use of hangman's drop - last nobleman to be executed (Laurence, Earl Ferrers) at Tyburn

1762

Earliest Unitarian registers

France surrenders Canada and Florida

Cigars introduced into Britain from Cuba

1763

Treaty of Paris - gives back to France everything Pitt fought to obtain - (Newfoundland [fishing], Guadaloupe and Martininque [sugar], Dakar [gum])

1764

Lloyd's Register of shipping first prepared

1765

Stamp Act passed

1767

First iron railroads built for mines by John Wilkinson

Newcomen's steam pumping engine perfected by James Watt

1768

The first edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" published in Edinburgh by William Smellie

1769

Arkwright invents water frame (textile production)

1770

Hargreaves's jenny invented (textile production)

Apr 28: James Cook discovers New South Wales

Clyde Trust created to convert the River Clyde, then an insignificant river, into a major thoroughfare for maritime communications

1772

May 14: Judge Mansfield rules that there is no legal basis for slavery in England

First Navy Lists published

1773-1858

The East India Company governs Hindustan

1773

Dec 16: Boston Tea Party

1775

Apr 19: Battle of Lexington: first action in American War of Independence (1775-1783) - Irish unrest

1776

Jul 4: American Declaration of Independence

1779

Crompton's mule invented (textile production)

First iron bridge built, over the Severn by John Wilkinson

First Spinning Mills operational in Scotland

1780

May 4: First Derby run at Epsom

Jun 2-8: The Gordon Riots - Parliament passes a Roman Catholic relief measure - for days, London is at the mercy of a mob and destruction is widespread

Earliest Wesleyan registers

Male Servants Tax

The English Reform Movement - until now, only landowners and tenants--freeholders with 40 shillings per year or more--allowed to vote, and in open poll books

1782

Gilbert's Act establishes outdoor poor relief - the way of life of the poor beginning to alter due to industrialisation - New factories in rapidly expanding towns required a workforce that would adjust to new work patterns

James Watt patents his steam engine

1783

Duty on Parish Register entries (3d per entry - repealed 1794)

Sep 3: Treaty of Versailles (England/U.S.)

1784

Pitt's India Act - the Crown (as opposed to officers of the East India Company) has power to guide Indian politics

Wesley breaks with the Church of England

First edition of The Times (called The Daily Universal Register for 3 years)

Aug 2: First mail coaches in England (4pm Bristol/8am London)

First golf club founded at St Andrews

Invention of threshing machine by Andrew Meikle

1785

Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children (by 1851, enrols more than 2 million)

1787

Earliest known Swedenborgian (Church of the New Jerusalem or Jerusalemite) registers

1788

Jan 26: First convicts (and free settlers) arrive in New South Wales

First steamboat demonstrated in Scotland [but see 1802]

Law passed requiring that chimney sweepers be a minimum of 8 years old (not enforced)

First slave carrying act, the Dolben Act of 1788, regulates the slave trade - stipulates more humane conditions on slave ships

King George III's mental illness occasions the Regency Crisis - Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox attack ministry of William Pitt - trying to obtain full regal powers for the Prince of Wales

1789

Jul 14: The French Revolution begins - storming of the Bastille

Publication of Gilbert White's 'Natural History of Selborne'

1790

Forth and Clyde Canal opened in Scotland

1791

Sugar prices rise steeply

John Bell, printer, abandons the "long s" (the "s" that looks like an "f")

Establishment of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain

Dec 4: First publication of The Observer - oldest Sunday newspaper

1792

Repression in Britain (restrictions on freedom of the press) - Fox gets Libel Act through Parliament, requiring a jury and not a judge to determine libel

Boyle's Street Directory published

Oct 1: Introduction of Money Orders in Britain

Coal-gas lighting invented by William Murdock, an Ayrshire Scot

Dec 1: King's Proclamation drawing out the British militia

1793

Feb 11: England declares war on France (1793-1802)

Execution of Louis XVI

Apr 15: £5 notes first issued by the Bank of England

1794

Abolition of Parish Register duties

Battle of Glorious First of June

Oct 6: The prosecutor for Britain, Lord Justice Eyre, charges reformers with High Treason - he argued that, since reform of parliament would lead to revolution and revolution to executing the King, the desire for reform endangered the King's life and was therefore treasonous

1795

The Famine Year

Foundation of the Orange Order

Speenhamland Act proclaims that the Parish is responsible for bringing up the labourer's wage to subsistence level - towards the end of the eighteenth century, the number of poor and unemployed increased dramatically - price increases during the Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815) far outstripped wage rises - many small farmers were bankrupted by the move towards enclosures and became landless labourers - their wages were often pitifully low

Pitt and Grenville introduce "The Gagging Acts" or "Two Bills" (the Seditious Meetings and Treasonable Practices Bills) - outlawed the mass meeting and the political lecture

Consumption of lime juice made compulsory in Royal Navy

1796

Holden's Triennial Directory published

Pitt's "Reign of Terror": More treason trials - leading radicals emigrate

1797

England in Crisis, Bank of England suspends cash payments

Feb 26: First £1 note issued by Bank of England

Apr-Jun: Mutinies in the British Navy at Spithead and Nore

Tax on newspapers (including cheap, topical journals) increased to repress radical publications

1798

Feb-Oct: The Irish Rebellion; 100,000 peasants revolt; approximately 25,000 die - Irish Parliament abolished

First planned human experiment with vaccination, to test theories of Edward Jenner

1799

Jan 9: Pitt brings in 10% income tax

Jul 12: Repressive legislation in Britain against political associations and combinations

Foundation of Royal Military College Sandhurst by the Duke of York

Foundation of the Royal Institution of Great Britain

Post Office New Annual Directory

1800

Jul 2: Parliamentary union of Great Britain and Ireland

Electric light first produced by Sir Humphrey Davy

Use of high pressure steam pioneered by Richard Trevithick

Earliest Bible Christian registers

Royal College of Surgeons founded

1801

Union Jack official British flag

Jun 29: First census puts the population of England and Wales at 9,168,000 - population of Britain nearly 11 million (75 per cent rural)

1802

Mar 27: Treaty of Amiens signed by Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands - the "Peace of Amiens," as it was known, brought a temporary peace of 14 months during the Napoleonic Wars - one of its most important cultural effects was that travel and correspondence across the English Channel became possible again

Charlotte Dundas on Clyde, first practical steamship, built by William Symington

First British Factory Act

1803

Invention of paper-making machine (Foudrinier)

Peace of Amiens ends on 12 May - resumption of war with France - The Napoleonic Wars (1803-18l5)

William Cobbett began unofficial publication of Parliamentary reports (taken over by Hansard report in 1811)

First publication of Debrett's Peerage by John Debrett

Early locomotive constructed by Richard Trevithick

First public railway opens (Wandsworth to Croydon)

Semaphore signalling perfected by Admiral Popham

Commissioners for Highland Roads and Bridges created in Scotland

1804

Dec 12: Spain declares war on Britain

1805

Oct 21: Admiral Nelson's victory at Trafalgar

1806

Earliest Primitive Methodist registers

1807

Mar 25: Parliament passes Act prohibiting slavery and the importation of slaves from 1808 - but does not prohibit colonial slavery

Gas lighting in London streets

1808

Peninsular War (1808-1814)

1810

Bible Christians denomination formed by schism in Wesleyan Methodists

1811

Feb 5: Prince of Wales (future George IV) made Regent after George III deemed insane

Nov: Luddite uprisings (machine breaking) in the Midlands against weaving frames started - went on until 1815 - groups of workmen rebelled against the increased mechanisation of textile production by destroying the new machinery - government fears revolutionary conspiracy - damaging property or taking Luddite oaths become capital offences

1812

Prime Minister Perceval assassinated

Jun 18: Start of American "War of 1812" against England and Canada

Oct-Dec: Napoleon retreats from Moscow with catastrophic losses

Comet steamship launched in Scotland

1813

'Policy for the Improvement of the Highlands' approved by British Parliament

Ireland: First recorded "12th of July" sectarian riots in Belfast

Rose's Act (1812) established a printed format for baptism & burial registers

1814

"Year of the Burning" in Sutherland and Ross

Act of Burial in Woollen repealed

First Pigot's Commercial Directory printed

Jan 1: Invasion of France by Allies

Apr 6: Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba

Sugar prices reach record heights

1815

Jun 18: The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena

Corn Bill passed with enormous benefit to landlords

1816

Economic depression

Income tax abolished

1817

Johnstone's London Directory printed

1818

First steamship (Savannah) to cross Atlantic (26 days)

1819

Aug 16: Peterloo Massacre at Manchester - a large, orderly group of 60,000 meets at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester - demand Parliamentary Reform - mounted troops charge on the meeting, killing and maiming many people

Dec: Six Acts passed against radical political Unions - prohibits assemblies similar to St. Peter's Fields and imposes press censorship

1820

Jan 29: Accession of George IV, previously Prince Regent

Cato Street Conspiracy

Aug 17: Trial of Queen Caroline to prove her infidelities so George IV can divorce her - George tries to secure a Bill of Pains and Penalties against her - Caroline is virtually acquitted because bill passed by such a small majority of Lords

1822

Caledonian canal opened

1823

New laws concerning marriage by licence

Scottish testaments prior to 1823 transferred to S.R.O.

1824

Combination Acts repealed (Trades Unions allowed)

1825

Horse-drawn buses in London [but see 1829]

Stockton to Darlington Railway opens

Hobhouse makes amendments to Acts to protect Child Labour in cotton factories

1826

Scotland's first commercial railway was opened, Edinburgh to Dalkeith

White's first Commercial Directory - Hull

1828

Apr 28: Repeal of Test and Corporation Acts - had kept non-Anglicans (Catholics and Dissenters) from holding public office and deprived them of other rights

1829

Apr 4: Catholic Emancipation Act restores civil liberties to Roman Catholics

Earliest Irvingite registers

First two omnibuses (pulled by three horses) introduced by George Schillibeer

London Metropolitan police force formed

George Stephenson's Rocket

Lucifer matches first manufactured

1830

Jun 26: George IV dies - his brother, William IV, accedes to the throne

First mail carried by rail between Liverpool & Manchester

Agricultural 'Swing' Riots in southern England, repressed with many transportations

1830-1880

Eclectic Period (Art & Antiques)

1831

First Reform Bill introduced by Lord George Russell

A list of all parish registers dating prior to 1813 compiled

British Association founded

Faraday discovers electro-magnetic induction

1832

Jun 7: Reform Bill passed - Representation of the People Act - dramatic effects for grossly underrepresented places like Scotland (the number of Scottish people allowed to vote increased from 4,000 to 65,000 out of 2.5 million people) - changed voting from an aristocratic privilege to a middle class right, but by later standards not much was accomplished - approximately doubled the electorate to about 800,000 voters out of a total population in Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales of around 24 million (1831 census), and increasing by 1 million a year

Electoral Registers introduced

Electric telegraph invented by Morse

1833

Factory Act forbids employment of children below age of 9

1834

Slavery abolished in British possessions

Poor Law amendment, tightening up relief

'Tolpuddle Martyrs' transported for Trades Union activities

Dec 23: Hansom Cab patented by Joseph Hansom

1835

Christmas becomes a national holiday

Earliest Universalist registers

Municipal Corporations Act

Word 'socialism' first used

First surviving photograph taken by William Fox Talbot

1836

First Potato famine in Ireland

Economic downturn that lasts until 1842

Newspaper tax reduced from 4 pence to one penny

1837

Mar 14: Wheatstone & Cooke send first British telegraph message

Jun 20: William IV dies - accession of Queen Victoria (to 1901)

Jul 1: Compulsory registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths in England & Wales

Jul 20: Euston Railway station opens - first in London

1838

First Ocean Steamers to the U.S.

Chartism, a working-class movement for the extension of the franchise, comes into existence - 6-point charter: universal suffrage, secret ballot, annual elections, payment of Members, no property qualification for MPs, equal electoral districts

1838-1849

The Chartist Movement

1839

Bicycle invented

Chartist riots

1840

Jan 10: Uniform Penny Postage introduced nationally

Last convicts landed in NSW (some say 1842 or 1849)

Population Act relating to taking of censuses in Britain

1841

Feb 10: Penny Red replaces Penny Black postage stamp

June 6: First full census in Britain in which all names were recorded

1842

Mail steamship to India

Civil Registration in Channel Islands started

Government report 'The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population'

Laws outlawing women and children in the mines

1843

First Christmas card in England

Brunel's 'Great Britain' launched

Disruption of the Church of Scotland - 474 ministers signed the Deed of Demission and formed the Free Church of Scotland (the "Wee Free")

Factory safety regulations enacted

1844

Outdoor Relief Prohibition Order - parish relief received only in a workhouse

1845

Excise tax on glass production repealed

Potato famine in Ireland (to 1848) - temporary repeal of the Corn Laws

Kelly's Directories

Tarmac laid for first time (in Nottingham)

First voyage of 'Great Britain' - to America

Royal Naval Biographical Dictionary published

1846

Free Church of Scotland formed

An anaesthetic used for the first time in England

1847

United Succession becomes the United Presbyterian Church

Ten Hours Act shortens factory work day to ten hours for women and children

1848

General revolutionary movement throughout the Continent

Rotary press first introduced

Public Health Act

1849

Civil Registration of Births in Isle of Man started

1850

Telegraph cable Dover to Calais [others say 1851]

1851

Mar 30: Second full British Census - improvements in data compared with the first

May 1: Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations ("Crystal Palace" exhibition) opened in Hyde Park

Photography is popularised by introduction of "wet collodion" process

Gold discovered in Australia

1852

First voyage of 'Great Britain' to Australia

1854

Sep 14: Allied armies land in Crimea

Cigarettes introduced into Britain

1855

Jan 1: Registration of births, marriages & deaths made compulsory in Scotland

First London pillar boxes

Cellulose nitrate, first synthetic plastic material, invented by Alexander Parkes

1857

Transatlantic cable laid

London postal districts introduced

1857-8

Indian Mutiny

1858

Jan: Legally proved Wills start to be entered into an index (Eng & W) - taken out of ecclesiastical jurisdiction

Jan 31: 'Great Eastern' launched

East India Company dissolved

1859

Darwin publishes Origin of Species

1861

American Civil War begins

Apr 7: Third full British Census

Dec 15: Prince Albert dies

1863

Football Association founded

London's first Underground Railway opens

1864

Civil Registration in Ireland starts

Civil Registration of marriages in Isle of Man starts

1865

End of American Civil War - slavery abolished in USA

William Booth founds Salvation Army

1867

Dominion of Canada founded

The Second Reform Bill - vote given to town householders

Fanny Adams murdered in Alton

1868

Last British election for which Poll Books available

Last convicts landed in Australia (Western Australia)

1869

Nov 18: Suez Canal opens

Cutty Sark launched

Ballbearings, celluloid, margarine, washing machine all invented

1870

GPO takes over the privately-owned Telegraph Companies

Oct 1: First British postcard - halfpenny post

Board Schools start attempting to impose consistent spelling

Dr. Thomas Barnardo opens his first home for destitute children

1870-1900

Art & Crafts Period (Art & Antiques)

1871

Apr 2: Fourth full British census

Jun 29: Trades Unions legalised in Britain

1872

Secret Ballot introduced in Britain (no further Poll Books produced)

Licensing hours introduced

Penalties introduced for failing to register births, marriages & deaths (Eng & Wales)

1874

Factory Act introduces 56-hour week

1875

London's main sewage system completed

Captain Webb swims channel

Submarine invented

Artisan's Dwellings Act

Climbing Boys Act passed

1876

Bell invents telephone

Annual centralised list of Scottish Wills from now (and most from 1823 also)

Civil Registration of deaths in Isle of Man started

Victoria proclaimed Empress of India

1877

Edison invents microphone and phonograph

First tennis championships at Wimbledon

1878

Edison & Swan invent electric lamp

1879

First telephone exchanges opened in London & Manchester

Tay Bridge Disaster - bridge collapsed in storm taking train with it - enquiry revealed corners had been cut during construction to reduce costs

1880

Education Act: schooling compulsory for 5-10 year olds

1881

Apr 3: Fifth full British Census

Postal Orders introduced

1883

Parcel post starts in Britain

1884

The Third Reform Bill - vote given to agricultural workers

1884-1918

Art Noveau Period (Art & Antiques)

1885

Carl Benz builds single-cylinder motor car

Eastman makes first coated photographic paper

Secretary for Scotland appointed

1886

Crofters Act

1887

Jun 21: Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee

1888

County Councils set up in Britain

1889

Celluloid film produced

Dock Strike - docker's won their "Docker's Tanner", 6 old pennies

1890

London's first electric Underground

Mar 4: Forth railway bridge opens - took six years to build

1891

Mar 18: First telephone link between London & Paris

Apr 5: Sixth full British Census

Primary education made free and compulsory

1892

Electric oven invented

Shop Hours Act - limit 74 hours per week for under-18s

May 20: Last broad-gauge train leaves Paddington for Plymouth

Married Women's Property Act

1893

Keir Hardy founds Independent Labour Party

Henry Ford's first car

Zip fastener invented

1894

Jan 1: Manchester Ship Canal opens

Local Government Act passed (start of civil parish councils, etc)

Picture postcard introduced in Britain

Jun 30: Tower Bridge opens

1895

Jan 12: The National Trust founded in England

Mar 22: First public showing of film on screen in Paris by LumiËres

Rˆntgen discovers x-rays

Gugliemo Marconi invents wireless telegraphy - message over a mile

Safety razor invented by King C Gillette

Jul 12: First recorded motor journey of any length (56 miles) in Britain

Oct 17: First people in Britain to be charged with motor offences - John Henry Knight and James Pullinger of Farnham, Surrey

1896

Opening of the Underground Railway (the "shooglie") in Glasgow - remains the only underground in Scotland

1897

Jun 22: Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

1898

First photograph using artificial light

Zeppelin builds airship

The Curies discover Radium

1899-1902

Boer War

1899

Oct: Start of Boer War

Valdemar Poulsen invents tape recorder

Aspirin invented

1900

Commonwealth of Australia founded

1901

Jan 22: Queen Victoria dies - Edward VII king

Mar 31: Seventh full British Census (available for inspection Jan 2002)

Britain's first submarine launched

Dec 12: First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi

1902

Balfour's Education Act provides for secondary education

1905

Einstein publishes theory of relativity

1906

Labour Party formed

Free school meals for poor children

1907

School medical system begins

1909

Jan 1: Old Age Pensions Act came into force

Bleriot flies across the Channel

Beveridge Report prompts creation of labour Exchanges

1910

Union of South Africa formed

May 6: Edward VII dies - George V king

1911

Census: Pop. E&W 36M, Scot 4.6M, NI 1.25M

Dec 14: National Insurance in Britain

1911-1912

Strikes by seamen, dock and transport workers

1912

Apr 14: The 'unsinkable' Titanic sinks on maiden voyage

Captain Scott's last expedition

1914-1918

First World War (the "Great War")

1914

Aug 4: war declared

1916

Easter Rising in Ireland - after the leaders are executed, public opinion backs independence

1917

First use of massed tanks (Cambrai)

George V adopts Windsor as surname

Mar 12: USA enters the war

1918

Vote for women over 30, men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons)

Nov 11: Peace treaty signed at Versailles

1918-1939

Art Deco Period (Art & Antiques)

1919

First woman in House of Commons (Viscountess Astor)

Alcock and Brown fly Atlantic

Sir Ernest Rutherford publishes account of splitting the atom

1920

Regular cross-channel air service starts

1921

Census: Pop. E&W 37.9M, Scot 4.9M, NI 1.25M

Dec 6: Irish Free State and Northern Ireland formed

Irish Regiments of British Army disbanded

1922

BBC begins transmissions

1923

Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy

First Wembley cup final (West Ham 0, Bolton 2) - "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" popular song of the time, became West Ham anthem

1924

First Labour government, headed by Ramsey MacDonald

1926

Apr 26: General Strike begins, till May 12 (mine workers for 6 months more)

1928

Women over 21 get vote - same qualification for both sexes

1929

Abolition of Poor Law system in Britain

Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

Wall Street crash

1930

Oct 5: R101 airship disaster

1931

Census: Pop. E&W 40M, Scot 4.8M, NI 1.24M

Oct 21: National Government formed to deal with economic crisis

1933

Jan 30: Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

Oxford Union: "This House will in no circumstances fight for King and Country"

1936

Jan 20: George V dies; Edward VIII king

First public TV transmission

Jet engine first tested

Jul 18: Spanish Civil War starts

Dec 5: Edward VIII abdicates (announced Dec 10) - carol that Xmas: "Hark the Herald Angels sing, Mrs Simpson's got our King"

Duke of York becomes George VI

1937

Largest ocean liner ever built, Queen Elizabeth, launched on Clydebank

1939-45

Second World War (the "Peoples War")

1939

Sep 3: War declared

1941

No census - total pop. estimated at 48.2M

1944

Jun 6: D-Day invasion of Normandy

1945

May 8: VE Day

Jun 26: UN Charter signed

Sep 2: VJ Day

1947

Jan 1: Coal Mines nationalised

Apr 1: School leaving age raised to 15 in Britain

1948

Jan 1: British Railways nationalised

Jul 1: Berlin airlift starts (to 12 May 1949)

1949

Mar 15: Clothes rationing ends

1950

May 19: Points rationing ends

May 26: Petrol rationing ends

Jun 25: Korean War starts ( to 27 Jul 1953)

Sep 9: Soap rationing ends

1951

Census: Pop. E&W 43.7M, Scot 5M. NI 1.37M

May 3: Festival of Britain opens on South Bank, London

1952

Feb 6: George VI dies; Elizabeth II queen, returns from Kenya

Feb 21: Identity Cards abolished in Britain

Nov: Hydrogen Bomb detonated

1953

Feb 4: Sweet rationing ends

May 29: Everest conquered

Jun 2: Coronation of Elizabeth II

Sep 26: Sugar rationing ends (after nearly 14 years)

1954

May 6: First sub 4 minute mile (Roger Bannister)

Jul 3: Food rationing officially ends in Britain

1956

Jun3: 3rd class travel abolished on British Railways

Sep 25: Submarine telephone cable across the Atlantic opened

Oct 31: Britain and France invade Suez

Nov 16: Suez canal blocked (till 5 Jun 1975)

1957

Jun 1: Premiun Bonds first prizes drawn

Oct 4: Sputnik launched

1958

Feb 25: CND launched

Jul 26: Charles created Prince of Wales

1959

May 24: Empire Day becomes Commonwealth Day

Aug: BMC Mini car launched

Sep 5: Introduction of Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) in Britain

Oct 3: Postcodes introduced in Britain

Nov 1: First section of M1 motorway opened

1960

Feb 3: Macmillan 'wind of change' speech in S. Africa

Mar 17: New ú1 notes issued by Bank of England

Mar 18: Last steam locomotive of British Railways named

Sep 12: MoT tests on motor vehicles introduced

Oct 1: HMS Dreadnought (nuclear submarine) launched

1961

Jan 1: Farthing ceases to be legal tender

Mar 8: First US Polaris submarines arrive at Holy Loch

Mar 13: Black & White £5 notes cease to be legal tender

Mar 14: New English Bible (New Testament) published

Apr 12: Yuri Gagarin flight into space and back

Apr 23: Census: Pop. E&W 46M, Scot 5.1M, NI 1.4M

May 1: Betting shops legal in Britain

Oct 10: Volcanic eruption on Tristan da Cunha - whole population evacuated to Britain

1962

May 25: Consecration of new Coventry Cathedral (old destroyed in WW2 blitz)

Jun 15: First nuclear generated electricity to supplied National Grid (from Berkeley, Glos)

Jul 10: First live TV between US and Europe (Telstar)

Oct 24: Cuba missile crisis - brink of nuclear war

Dec 22: No frost-free nights in Britain till 5 Mar 1963

1963

Mar 27: Beeching Report on British Railways (the 'Beeching Axe')

Aug 1: Minimum prison age raised to 17

Aug 8: 'Great Train Robbery' on Glasgow to London mail train

Sep 17: Fylingdales (Yorks) early warning system operational

Sep 25: Denning Report on Profumo affair

Nov 18: Dartford Tunnel opens

Nov 22: President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas

1964

Apr 9: First Greater London Council (GLC) election

Apr 21: BBC2 TV starts

Sep 4: Forth road bridge opens

'Beatlemania' begins

1965

Feb 7: First US raids against N Vietnam

Apr 6: Launch of Early Bird commercial communications satellite

Aug 1: TV ban on cigarette advertising in Britain

Sep 21: Oil strike by BP in North Sea

Oct 28: Death penalty abolished in Britain for murder [some say 18 Dec 1969]

Nov 11: Declaration of UDI in Rhodesia

Dec 22: 70mph speed limit on British roads

1966

Feb 3: Soft landing on moon by unmanned Luna 9

Mar 23: Archbishop of Canterbury meets Pope in Rome

May 16: Seamen's strike (ended 1 Jul)

Jul 30: World Cup won by England at Wembley (4-2 in extra time v West Germany)

Sep 8: First Severn road bridge opens

Oct 21: Aberfan disaster - slag heap slip kills 144, incl. 116 children

Dec 1: First Christmas stamps issued in Britain

1967

Jan 27: Three US astronauts killed in fire during launch pad test

Mar 18: Torrey Canyon oil tanker runs aground off Lands End

May 28: Francis Chichester arrives in Plymouth after solo non-stop circumnavigation (knighted 7 Jul)

Jul 1: First colour TV in Britain

Jul 13: Public Record Act - records now closed for only 30 years (but census still closed for 100 years)

Jul 18: Withdrawal from East of Suez by mid-70s announced

Sep 3: Sweden changes rule of road to drive on right

Sep 20: QE2 launched on Clydebank

Sep 27: Queen Mary arrives Southampton at end of last transatlantic voyage

Oct 5: Introduction of majority verdicts in English courts

Dec 3: First human heart transplant (in S Africa)

1968

Feb 18: British Standard Time introduced

Apr 23: Issue of 5p and 10p decimal coins

May 6: Enoch Powell 'Rivers of Blood' speech on immigration

May 10: Student riots in Paris

Jul 29: Pope encyclical condemns all artificial forms of birth control

Sep 15: Severe flooding in England

Sep 16: Two-tier postal rate starts in Britain

Oct 5: Beginning of disturbances in N Ireland

1969

Mar 2: Maiden flight of Concorde

Mar 7: Victoria Line tube opens in London

Apr 17: Voting age lowered from 21 to 18

Jul 1: Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle

Jul 21: First men land on the moon

Jul 31: Halfpenny ceases to be legal tender

Oct 14: 50p coin introduced in Britain (reduced in size 1998)

1970

Mar 16: Publication of complete New English Bible

Jun 17: Decimal postage stamps first issued for sale in Britain

Jul 30: Damages awarded to Thalidomide victims

Nov 20: Ten shilling note goes out of circulation in Britain

1971

Jan 1: Divorce Reform Act (1969) comes into force

Jan 3: Open University starts

Feb 15: Decimalisation of coinage in Britain

Aug 9: Internment without trial introduced in N Ireland

Oct 28: Parliament votes to join Common Market

1972

Feb 9: Power workers crisis

Oct 5: United Reformed Church founded out of Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in E&W

1973

Jan 1: Britain enters Common Market (with Ireland and Denmark)

Jan 27: Vietnam ceasefire agreement signed

Apr 1: VAT introduced in Britain

Dec 31: Energy crisis - Three-day week (till 9 Mar 1974) to conserve power

1974

Aug 8: President Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal

Several new 'counties' formed

1975

Feb 11: Margaret Thatcher becomes leader of Conservative party (in opposition)

Apr 30: End of Vietnam war

Jun 5: Suez canal reopens (after 8 years closure)

Nov 3: First North Sea oil comes ashore [some say 11 June]

Dec 27: Equal Pay Act and Sex Discrimination Act come into force

1976

Jan 21: Concorde enters supersonic passenger service

Aug 6: Drought Act 1976 comes into force

Deaths exceeded live births in E&W for first time since records began in 1837

1977

Mar 23: Lib-Lab pact

Jun 1: Road speed limits: 70mph dual roads; 60mph single

Jun 7: Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations in London

1978

Apr 8: Regular broadcast of proceedings in Parliament starts

May 1: First May Day holiday in Britain

Jul 25: World's first 'test tube' baby, Louise Browne born in Oldham

Oct 15: Pope John Paul II, first non-Italian for 450 years

Nov 30: Publication of The Times suspended - industrial relations problems (until 13 Nov 1979)

1979

Feb 1: Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran

Mar 1: 32.5% of Scots vote in favour of devolution (40% needed) - Welsh vote overwhelmingly against

Mar 31: Withdrawal of Royal Navy from Malta

May 4: Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister

Aug 27: Lord Mountbatten killed in bomb blast of coast of Sligo

Sep 18: ILEA voted to abolish corporal punishment in its schools

Nov 13: The Times returns to circulation

1980

May 5: SAS storm Iranian Embassy in London to free hostages

Dec 8: John Lennon assassinated in New York

1981

Jan 25: Launch of SDP by 'Gang of Four'

Mar 29: First London marathon run

Apr 5: Census day in Britain

Apr 12: US Shuttle launched

Apr 25: Worst April blizzards this century in Britain

Jul 29: Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer

1982

Jan 26: Unemployment reached 3 million in Britain (1 in 8 of working population)

Mar 18: Argentinians raised flag in South Georgia

Apr 2: Argentina invades Falkland (Malvinas) Islands

Apr 5: Royal Navy fleet sails from Portsmouth for Falklands

Jun 14: Ceasefire in Falklands

Jun 21: Birth of Prince William of Wales

Oct 11: Mary Rose raised (sank 1545)

Oct 31: Thames Barrier raised for first time

Nov 4: Lorries up to 38 tonnes allowed on Britain's roads

Dec 12: Women's peace protest at Greenham Common (Cruise missiles arrived 14 Nov 1983)

1983

Jan 17: Start of breakfast TV in Britain

Jan 31: Seat belt law came into force

Apr 21: £1 coin into circulation in Britain

Oct 7: Plans to abolish GLC announced

1984

Jan 9: FTSE index exceeded 800

Jun 22: Inaugural flight of Virgin Atlantic

Oct 12: Bomb explodes at Tory conference hotel in Brighton - 4 killed

Oct 24: High Court orders sequestration of NUM assets

Dec 3: British Telecom privatised - shares make massive gains on first day's trading

George Orwell got it wrong (his book '1984', written in 1948)

1985

Mar 3: Miners agree to call off strike

Mar 11: Al Fayed buys Harrods

Jul 13: Live Aid pop concert raises over £50M for famine relief

Sep: Wreck of Titanic found (sank 1912)

1986

Mar 31: GLC and 6 metropolitan councils abolished

Apr 28: Chernobyl nuclear accident - radiation reached Britain 2 May

May 7: Mannie Shinwell, veteran politician, dies aged 101

1987

Terry Waight kidnapped in Beirut (released Nov 1991)

Car ferry "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes off Zeebrugge - 188 die

Order of the Garter opened to women

Oct: The 'Hurricane' sweeps southern England

'Black Monday' in the City of London - Stock Market crash

1988

Copyright Act

Dec 21: Lockerbie disaster - Pan Am flight 103 blows up over Scotland

1989

Poll Tax implemented in Scotland

House of Commons proceedings first televised

1990

Margaret Thatcher resigns as Conservative party leader (and Prime Minister)

Poll Tax implemented in England & Wales - riots

Aug 2: Iraq invades Kuwait

Channel Tunnel excavation teams meet in the middle

1991

Poll Tax replaced (by Council Tax)

Robert Maxwell drowns at sea

1992

Coal industry privatised

1993

Jul: Ratification of Maastricht Treaty

Betty Boothroyd first woman Speaker of the House of Commons

1994

Nov: National Lottery starts

Channel Tunnel open to traffic

If the bigots knew their history they'd know that the Battle of the Boyne was a significant date and event in the history of Scotland. The Usurper King William of Orange against the deposed King James II of England and VII of Scotland. And typical as those people are they celebrate a battle on 12th July that actually took place the day before.

I like dates very much, 12th or 13th of July hardly matters

King William was actually the husband of the Queen Mary, daughter of James, who abdicated. William to all intents and purposes in modern times was similar to Prince Philip.

If the Scots were so interested in the British crown, why did they not join the Caveliers to defeat Cromwell?

Anyway not to spark an off topic row I have posted elsewhere

I could say the money I paid in taxation whether income, or VAT, or on my fuel, contributed to Rangers being in a better position to defeat ICT and a whole host of other teams.

That really makes me cross.

I have just had a letter ( I have a small business) from the tax authority demanding several thousands pounds, not for last year but for the future years, on a guesstemate of my potential earnings.

I just wonder who knew about Rangers demise within the club, surely all the players , their accountants, the club auditors, the management, all got letters from the Revenue explaining their tax was outstanding. Were Rangers giving the players false documents( P60) about tax paid. I just wonder?

On Sky today A poll of the old Rangers club , idicated over 80% of them were happy with a fresh start in Division 3

Surely that is all that matters. The genuine spectators have been hurt enough.

Let them support their new team in the SFL division 3 with safeguards that the books are properly audited and a fan club representitive attends all board meetings.

Which is how all clubs should operate anyway in my opinion.

No lightning striking twice should be the order of the day.

Could be a new song for the New rangers

Not my own work read it on the Daily Record site

Oliver! meeting Fagan Song - You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two ...

Made me smile -

Any other suggestions for a new song for a new club

Somewhere over a Rainbow - perhaps

or

Never felt more like singing the blues

????

I noticed in this mornings Daily Record the following

The Headline

'OUT'

After 120 years in the top flight of Scottish football, Rangers are Out

I take issue with this because the club that applied for membership of the SPL has never kicked a ball

Do The press not realise this is a new company with no history, and no debts. and no records

I think and it is just my opinion, the NewCo should send all the parifinallia of the discredited and bancrupt earlier Rangers to the Kelvingrove museum. Just like Milton Keynes Dons did with all the relics they got from the old Wimbledon. They are now on display in the Merton Borough Town Hall.

A New start a new day and forget the past Daily Record. It's history.

Hanging on to diccredit past will do the Rangers no good at all.

1) New British Government will remove all military basis from Scotland

2) Masive redundances in The Scottish military as regiments are closed down

3) Redundances on the Clyde as all ship building and ship repairs are moved to Belfast

4) Scotland would have to finance embassies in all capital cities in the world

5) The Royal Mail only have charter with the UK, New postal service will be required, Liklihood of post office closures

6) wages in the Irish republic are lower than in the UK

6)All Scots travelling to England will need a green card insurance

7) All Scots travelling to England will need a E111 National Insurance xard to get mefical service in Edgland

8) It is not a given that the Bank of England will support the bankcrupt Scottish banks

8) It is not known if the European banking system will axxept Scot;and into the Euro

9) It is not known how much of the UK National debt will be given to Scottland

9) It is not known how much responsibility fot places like Falklands or Gibralter Scotland will have to accept

10 If Scotland go for a lower corporation tax , England will drop theirs lower, the big boy always wins a fight

10) There are only about 2,000.000 paye tax payers in Scotland, many of whom pay to English offices having English earnings, how caqn they suport a nation

11) The millions of Scots living in England, will have no vote, they will end up living in a foreign land

12 Buy a car in England , it will have to be re-registered with Scottish plates

Many Scots have died for the Union flag, It is flown proudly throughout the world on all British merchant and naval ships, It is reconised as the symbol of a proud nation. Dont take the blue out of the Union jack

If you want Scotland to be a backwater in International terms like the Irish Republic then go along with the silly idea, but if you want Scotland to stay as part of a proud and respected Union vote No

It's a no brainer

it will cost me over 100 pounds a week in extra airmail

because the domestic rates of parcel post to England won't apply

Always suposing the Royal Mail don't leg it out of Scotland

so you know how I feel

Also if the Bank of England refuse to support the Scottish Pound I will have to trade in Euros

The European Central Bank will determine the Scottish budget, if the Euro applies