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Historical timeline
1692 - 1750
1751 - 1800
1801 - 1850
1851 - 1900
1901 - 1950
1951 - Today
National Debt introduced Salem witch trials held |
1692 | Massacre at Glencoe John Campbell set up as goldsmith banker in the Strand |
| 1694 | Bank of England founded | |
| Bank of Scotland founded | 1695 | |
James II dies in exile |
1696 | St. Paul's consecrated Captain Kidd hanged for piracy |
| Accession of Queen Anne Death of Samuel Pepys |
1702 | George Middleton enters the business |
| 1704 | John Campbell commissioned to make collars for Order of the Thistle | |
| Union of England & Scotland | 1707 | |
| 1708 | Middleton made a partner/C & M | |
| Death of John Campbell | 1712 | |
Fahrenheit's temperature scale created |
1714 | Accession of George I |
Bank makes set of silver dressing plate for Prince of Wales |
1716 | Parliament's term extended to 7 years |
Blackbeard killed |
1718 | First machine gun patented |
Russia expels Jesuits |
1719 | Bank moves to North side of the Strand |
Bank stops payment due to English & French crises |
1720 | South Sea Bubble and Mississippi Bubble |
| 1721 | Robert Walpole first Prime Minister | |
| Middleton clear of debt - resumes lending Birth of Joshua Reynolds |
1723 | Death of Sir Christopher Wren |
Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" published |
1726 | Lloyd's list first issued |
George Campbell a partner/M & C |
1727 | Accession of George II Isaac Newton dies |
| Birth of Robert Adam | 1728 | |
| 1730 | John Coutts married Jean Stuart of Allanbank | |
| Excise Crisis Invention of the Flying Shuttle |
1733 | Birth of James Coutts |
Birth of Thomas Coutts |
1735 | Walpole moves into 10 Downing Street |
| Move to 59 Strand | 1739 | Dick Turpin hanged |
Richardson's "Pamela" published |
1741 | David Bruce becomes a partner/M & C & B |
| 1745 | "God Save The King" first performed | |
| Battle of Culloden | 1746 | Wearing of Scottish Tartan prohibited (ended 1782) |
| Death of George Middleton at Bath (only year a loss made) | 1747 | |
| 1749 | Birth of Goethe | |
| Death of Bach | 1750 |