| A | B |
|---|
| 1839 | The first photographic negative was produced |
| 1851 | The Great Exhibition was held in Crystal Palace |
| 1863 | The Football Association was formed |
| 1870 | The first Education Act meant elementary education was compulsory for all 5-10 year olds |
| 1875 | The English Channel was swum for the first time |
| 1876 | The telephone was invented |
| 1877 | Wimbledon was created as a tennis centre |
| 1832 | The Great Reform Act was passed |
| 1893 | The Labour Party was founded |
| 1801 | The first national census was taken in England |
| 1831 | A Cholera epidemic struck England |
| 1842 | The Mines Act banned women and children from working in the mines |
| 1848 | The Public Health Act gave councils the right to improve conditions |
| 1888 | The Matchgirls strike |
| 1784 | The first mail coach ran |
| 1825 | The Stockton-Darlington railway was completed |
| 1815 | The Battle of Waterloo ended the Napoleonic Wars |
| 1807 | The slave trade was abolished |
| 1833 | Slavery was abolished in all British colonies |
| 1776 | America won her independence from Britain |
| 1781 | James Watt invented the rotary engine |
| 1776 | James Watt invented the steam engine |
| 1856 | Henry Bessemer invented a steel converter |
| 1750 | Britain's population was about 11 million |
| 1825 | Britain's population was about 21 million |
| 1900 | Britain's population was about 40 million |
