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Year(AD)	Days
1588	Admiral Drake defeated the Spanish ‘Armada’; England became the ‘Mistress of the Seas’.
1600	Establishment of the British East India Company in India (31st December).
1605	Gunpowder plot in England to blow up the English parliament
1616	Shakespeare passes away
1649	Trial and execution of Charles I, beginning of Commonwealth
1649 – 60	The Commonwealth and the Protectorate in England.
1660	Restoration of monarchy in England.
1665	The great plague in London
1679	Habeas Corpus Act.
1688	The Glorious or Bloodless Revolution in England. Despotic rule of the Stuarts ended, and the Parliament rule began. Establishment of parliamentary supremacy and abolition of the Divine Rights of Kings.
1704	Battle of Blenheim; Marlborough and Eugene inflicted a crushing defeat of the French army.
1707	Union of England and Scotland.
1763	Treaty of Paris; it ended the Seven Years War (1756 – 63); weakened France, made England a great colonial power.
1776	Declaration of American Independence and formation of a Federal Republic of 13 states called the Union States of America.
1783	Treaty of Versailles; England recognised the independence of the United States of America.
1789	George Washington elected First President of USA. Beginning of French Revolution; Fall of the Bastille Fort (July 14).
1798	Battle of the Nile. The English under Nelson gained victory over the French.
1805	Battle of Trafalgar; Death of Nelson. Battle of Austerliz – Napolean Bonaparte rounted a combined army of the Russians and the Austrians.
1815	Battle of Waterloo-  Napolean was defeated and exiled to St. Helena. Congress of Vienna, it aimed at rearranging the map of Europe; The Vienna settlement proved unsatisfactory because it disregarded national claims.
1821	Death of Napoleon at St. Helena (May 5).
1827	Battle of Navatino; the allied fleets of England, Russia and France destroyed the Turkish fleet; This victory practically secured the independence of Greece.