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Historical timeline

1692 - 1750
1751 - 1800
1801 - 1850
1851 - 1900
1901 - 1950
1951 - Today

Event Date Event
Union with Ireland
1801
First Census in U.K.
Spain declares war on Britain 1804
Battle of Trafalgar
1805
Thomas meets Harriot Mellon
End of Holy Roman Empire 1806
  1807 Slave Trade abolished in British Empire
Peninsular War begins 1808

Birth of Chopin
1810 Francis Burdett arrested and put in Tower
  1812 War with U.S.A.
East India company monopoly abolished 1813

Stephenson's steam engine
1814 Birth of Angela Burdett
  1815 Davy's Safety Lamp
Launch of HCS Thomas Coutts 1816
  Elgin Marbles acquired for British Museum
Sovereigns first issued 1817
Death of William Bligh
49th parallel established 1818
  1819 Singapore founded
Accession of George IV 1820
  1821 Death of Napoleon on St Helena

Harriot Coutts 50% partner/Coutts & Co
1822 Death of Thomas Coutts
  1823 Brighton Chain pier opened
Death of Byron 1824
National Gallery founded
First railway – Stockton to Darlington 1825
Trade Unions legalised

Edmund Antrobus Senior dies
1826 Last State lottery in U.K.

First crossing of the Atlantic under steam

Harriot Coutts marries Duke of St Albans
1827 A Dickie & WM Coulthurst made partners

Death of Beethoven
Accession of William IV 1830
Darwin’s survey
French Foreign Legion founded 1831
  1832 Morse’s electric telegram
Slavery abolished in British Empire 1833
Dickie dies

Houses of Parliament burn down
1834 Tolpuddle Martyrs
  1836 Battle of the Alamo

Death of Coutts Trotter
1837 Accession of Victoria Registration of births, marriages and deaths

Grace Darling
1838 Edward Marjoribanks Junior partner
  1840 Takeover of Hammersley's Bank
Hong Kong acquired by Britain 1841
Exchequer Bills forgery scandal
First Public Library opens 1842

Launch of “Great Britain
1843 H.L. Antrobus partner

Deaths of Sir Francis and Lady Burdett
1844 Bank Charter Act

First Co-op Society
Bank of Ireland founded 1845
Major railway speculation
Ether used in operation 1846
  1847 British Museum opened at Bloomsbury site
Communist Manifesto published 1848
Gold discovered in California

Attempt on Queen Victoria’s life
1849 Britain annexes Punjab

Invention of the safety pin
Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate 1850