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Historical timeline
1692 - 1750
1751 - 1800
1801 - 1850
1851 - 1900
1901 - 1950
1951 - Today
| Event | Date | Event |
| 1751 | China conquers Tibet | |
| Gregorian calendar adopted in Britain | 1752 | |
Dr Johnson's Dictionary published |
1755 | Marriage of Mary Peagrum and James Coutts |
Mozart born |
1756 | Black Hole of Calcutta |
| 1758 | Halley's Comet | |
| Wolfe captures Quebec | 1759 | British Museum opens |
| Accession of George III | 1760 | Deaths of George Campbell and Mary Coutts |
| Thomas Coutts becomes a partner/J & T Coutts (profit £5,800) | 1761 | |
| 1762 | James Coutts M.P. for Edinburgh | |
| Canada ceded to Britain | 1763 | Thomas Coutts marries Susannah Starkie |
| "Victory" launched | 1765 | |
| 1768 | Royal Academy founded | |
| Falkland Island crisis | 1770 | Beethoven born |
| Boston Tea Party | 1773 | |
| 1775 | Turner born | |
| American Declaration of Independence | 1776 | |
| 1777 | Edmund Antrobus partner | |
| Death of James Coutts at Gibraltar | 1778 | La Scala opened |
| Invention of the Spinning Mule | 1779 | |
| Drummond retires from Bank | 1780 | First Building Society founded |
| John Antrobus partner Last Tyburn execution |
1783 | First manned balloon ascent |
First specially built Royal Mail coach ran |
1784 | East India Act |
| 1785 | Bachelor Tax | |
| MCC founded | 1787 | |
First convicts arrive in Australia |
1788 | "Times" first published |
Mutiny on the Bounty |
1789 | Start of French Revolution Thanksgiving Day first celebrated in U.S.A. |
| Robarts, Curtis & Co founded | 1791 | |
| 1792 | Britain's first Embassy to China | |
Bank of England first issued £5 note Sophia Coutts marries Francis Burdett |
1793 | Louis XVI beheaded Coutts Trotter partner |
Nelson lost his eye |
1794 | Gift of Chinese wallpaper |
| 1795 | Start of major refurbishment of 59 Strand (ended 1802) | |
| Susan Coutts marries Earl of Guilford |
1796 | Jenner's smallpox injection |
| Bank of England first issued £1 note |
1797 | First top hat worn in London |
| 1798 | Edward Marjoribanks partner | |
| Income Tax introduced in Britain as a temporary measure The Luttine sank |
1799 | Discovery of the Rosetta Stone |