1660 Restoration; overthrow of Puritanism; restoration of Monarchy, Church and Parliament; renewal of Stuart despotism.
1679 Habeas Corpus Act; prevented arbitrary imprison ment; guaranteed to the accused a fair trial.
1688 The " Glorious Fevolntion;" final overthrow of royal despotern, establishment of constitutional govern ment; Bill of Rights the third great guarantee of English liberty.
1693 Nati-3nal Debt began; revolution in British finance; Bank of England founded (1694); security of invest ment.
1704 -- Battle of Blenheim; saved England and Europe from French domination.
1707 Union with Scotland.. completed the union of Great Britain; new era in Scottish development.
1721 Walpole Prime Minister; cabinet systems; party government; inamorata! a peace policy which formed the foundation of England's future suprernaer.
1757 Battle of Plessey; conquest of India; saved England's Empire in the East.
1759 " Annus Mimbilis " the most wonderful year in England's history; geve her Canada; overthrew French supremacy; led to Treaty of Paris, and establishment of her great Colonial Empire.
17&3 Treaty of Versailles; IPitt Prime Minister; independ ence of New England colonies; overthrow of George III's absolutism.
1788 Settlement in. New South Wales; colonization of Australia. and establishment of Australasian Empire. 1789 Outbreak of French Revolution; overthmw of Conti nental feudalism; inaugurated revolt of the o ; Plunged Euv0Pe into 3reat wars; pmduced apoleon; arrested reform in England for 40 years.
1801 Union with Ireland; Pitt's failure to solve the Irish question. 1805 Trafalgar; f.nally established Britain's naval suprem acy. and saved her from Napoleon's domination.
1815 Waterloo.
1829 Catholic Emancipation Act; triumph of religious toleration in England; put an end to religious hatred and persecution.
1832 First Great Reform Bill; new phase in parliamentary reform; gave the franchise to the upper middle classes; added half a million voters.
1846 Repeal of the Corn Laws; triumph of free trade; cheap food for the masses.
1854-55 Crimean War.
1868 Second Great Reform Bill; gave the franchise to the lower middle classes; added over a million voters. 1869 Disestablishment of the Irish Church; gave to Ireland the religious liberty enjoyed by Great Britain; marked a new phase in the Irish question that of reform and attempted conciliation.
1879 Zulu War.
1882 British supremacy in Egypt established at Tel-el Kebir; end of the Anglo-French condominium; beginning of British conquest in North Africa.
1885 Third Great Reform Bill; gave the franchise to the laboring classes; completed popular representation; added over two million voters.
1899 South African War.
1901 Death of Queen Victoria.
1910 Death of King Edward VII.
1914 Great Britain declared war on Germany.
Redistribution Recommendations for Eng land and On 4 Oct. 1917 the report of the boundary commission was published as a blue book in three volumes. The commis sioners recommended the extinction of 27 Eng lish boroughs and merging them in county con stituencies in order to remove the confusion and inconveniences caused by overlapping boundaries. It was not intended to create any new parliamentary boroughs with a population of less than/0,000, yet in several cases it would be necessary to do so owing to peculiar local conditions. According to the estimated popula tion in 1914 (the last census was in 1911), the average population per member in the new con stituencies was given as 71,005 for England and 72,099 for Wales; the two countries to gether, 71,078. The general effect of the scheme will be to increase the number of members for English constituencies from 461 to 485; of Welsh constituencies from 34 to 35; total crease for England and Wales, 25 members.
Some of the changes under the redistribution scheme are given below. Birmingham is allotted 12 members instead of 7; Bradford, 4 instead of 3; Bristol, 5 instead of 4; Kingston-upon Hull, 4 members 'instead of 3; Leeds, 6, formerly 5, Leicester, 3 members, formerly 2; Liverpool, 11, formerly 9; Manchester, 10 mem bers, formerly 6; Portsmouth, 3, formerly 2; Sheffield, 7 members, formerly 5. New bor oughs created are Accrington, Barnsley, Black pool, Bootle, Bromley, Kent, Ealing, East Ham, Eccles, Edmonton, Hornsey, Ilford, Kingston upon-Thames, Leigh, Leyton, Morley, Nelson, Richmond, Surrey, Rossendale, -Rotherham, Smethwick, Southend-on-Sea, Southport, Tot tenham, Wallasey, Walisend, Walthamstow, Willesden, Wimbledon.