Useful Dates and Information

Ever wondered why you have lost track of someone whilst researching? Perhaps they were involved in a war, or cut down by a plague, perhaps even transported to Australia. Use these dates to see if they coincide with with your missing ancestors.



1642 - 1647 English Civil War - Phase 1
1642 Battle of Edgehill Aug
1643 First battle of Newbury
July 1644 Battle of Marston Moor
1644 Second Battle of Newbury
June 1645 Battle of Naseby
1647 - 1649 English Civil War - Phase 2
1648 Battle of Preston
1650 - 1651 English Civil War - Phase 3
1650 Battle of Dunbar
1651 Battle of Worcester
1652 - 1654 First Dutch War
1665 - 1667 Second Dutch War
1665 The Great Plague
1666 The Fire of London
1672 - 1674 Third Dutch War

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1701 - 1713 War of the Spanish Succession
1704 Battle of Blenheim
1706 Battle of Ramillies
1708 Battle of Oudenarde
1709 Battle of Malplaquet
1713 Treaty of Utrecht
1715 1st Jacobite Rising - Battle of Sheriffmuir
1739 War of Jenkins Ear
1740 - 1748 War of the Austrian Succession
1743 Battle of Dettingen
1745 Battle of Fontenoy
1745 - 1746 2nd Jacobite Rising - Battle of Culloden (16/Apr/1746)
1752 Britain adopts Gregorian calendar
1756 - 1763 7 years war - ended by Treaty of Paris
1759 Battle of Minden
1776 US Declaration of Independance
1793 - 1802 French Revolutionary War
1 June 1794 Battle of the Glorious
1797 Battle of Cape St Vincent
1797 Naval mutinies at the Nore and Spithaed
1797 Battle of Camperdown
1798 Battle of the Nile

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1801 Battle of the Baltic / Battle of Copenhagen
10 / 11 March 1801 UK Census
1803 - 1815 Napoleonic Wars
21 Oct 1805 Battle of Trafalgar
1807 Abolition of Slave Trade
1808 - 1814 Peninsular War
1811 -  1812 Luddite Riots
27/28 May 1811 UK Census
16 Jun 1815 Battle of Ligney and Quatre Bras
18 Jun 1815 Battle of Waterloo
1819 Peterloo Massacre
28/29 May 1921 UK Census
1830 The 'last' labourers revolt. At the end of the revolt, 457 prisoners were transported. Three boats carried the convicts - The Elisa and the Proteus to Van Diemen's Land and the Eleanor to New South Wales. The prisoners came from the following counties... 

44 - Berks
23 - Bucks
13 - Dorset
23 - Essex
24 - Gloucestershire
100 - Hampshire
5 - Hunts
22 - Kent
11 - Norfolk
11 - Oxford
7 - Suffolk
17 - Sussex
151 - Wiltshire

 
29/30 May 1831 UK Census
1833 Abolition of Slavery
6/7 June 1841 UK Census (records available)
30/31 Mar 1851 UK Census (records available)
1854 - 1856 Crimean War
1854 Crimean War - Battles of Alma. Balaclava, Inkerman
1855 Crimean War - Capture of Sebastopol
7/8 April 1861 UK Census (records available)
2/3 April 1871 UK Census (records available)
3/4 April 1881 UK Census (records available)
5/6 Aprl 1891 UK Census (records available)

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31Mar/1Apr 1901 UK Census (records available)
1914 - 1918 World War I
1939 - 1945 World War II