| 1 | 27.3.1625 | Event | King James I of Great Britain died |
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| 2 | 29.5.1630 | Birthday | King Charles II of Britain |
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| 3 | 10.4.1633 | Event | Bananas went on sale for the first time in Britain |
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| 4 | 28.3.1660 | Birthday | King George I, Became King of Great Britain in 1714 |
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| 5 | 28.5.1660 | Birthday | King George I of Britain |
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| 6 | 23.4.1661 | Event | King Charles II was crowned the King of Great Britain & Ireland |
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| 7 | 3.4.1721 | Event | Robert Walpole was elected as Britains first Prime Minister |
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| 8 | 28.5.1742 | Event | Britains first ever indoor swimming pool was opened |
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| 9 | 10.2.1763 | Event | The Peace of Paris ceeded Canada to Britain |
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| 10 | 22.1.1771 | Event | The Falkland Islands were given to Britain by the Spanish |
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| 11 | 30.3.1775 | Event | The British Parliament passed an act that meant that American colonies could only trade with Britain |
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| 12 | 3.9.1783 | Event | The American 'War of Independence' came to an end, when Britain signed a treaty in Paris |
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| 13 | 7.11.1783 | Event | At Tyburn, near Marble Arch in London, Britains last public hanging took place |
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| 14 | 7.12.1783 | Event | At the age of 24, William Pitt became Britains youngest ever Prime Minister |
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| 15 | 28.9.1794 | Event | Britain, Austria and Russia formed an alliance against France |
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| 16 | 26.5.1798 | Event | Income Tax was first introduced in Britain, on incomes over 200 pounds |
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| 17 | 9.1.1799 | Event | Income tax was introduced into Britain to raise funds for the Napoleonic War |
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| 18 | 25.12.1800 | Event | The first Christmas tree in Britain was erected at Windsor by Queen Charlotte, King George III's wife |
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| 19 | 10.3.1801 | Event | The first census in Britain took place |
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| 20 | 29.6.1801 | Event | The first census in Britain took place |
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| 21 | 24.12.1814 | Event | The war between America & Britain ended with the signing of a peace treaty, in Ghent |
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| 22 | 29.1.1820 | Event | King George III of Britain died at Windsor Castle, aged 81 |
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| 23 | 18.10.1826 | Event | Britains last national state lottery was held |
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| 24 | 4.7.1829 | Event | Britain's first regular bus service began running in London |
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| 25 | 29.9.1829 | Event | Britains police force began in London, with Robert Peels 'bobbies' |
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| 26 | 8.9.1831 | Event | William IV was crowned King of Britain |
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| 27 | 17.8.1836 | Event | The registration of births, deaths and marriages was introduced in Britain |
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| 28 | 10.1.1840 | Event | The postal service, the 'penny post', began in Britain |
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| 29 | 17.7.1841 | Event | Punch magazine was published in Britain for the first time |
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| 30 | 14.5.1842 | Event | The Illustrated London News, Britains first periodical, was published for the first time |
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| 31 | 29.8.1842 | Event | The 'Treay Of Nanking' was signed, ceeding Hong Kong to Britain |
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| 32 | 6.9.1852 | Event | Britains first free lending library opened in Manchester |
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| 33 | 23.11.1852 | Event | In St Helier Jersey, Britains first pillar boxes were brought into public use |
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| 34 | 30.8.1860 | Event | Birkenhead Street Railway began operation of Britains first trams |
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| 35 | 29.12.1860 | Event | Britain launched its first ironclad warship |
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| 36 | 28.9.1865 | Event | The first female doctor in Britain became qualified |
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| 37 | 2.8.1875 | Event | Britain's first roller skating rink was opened in London |
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| 38 | 18.2.1876 | Event | The first direct telegraph link from Britain to New Zealand was set up |
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| 39 | 15.1.1880 | Event | The first ever telephone directory in Britain was published |
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| 40 | 15.2.1882 | Event | The first ever shipment of frozen meat was sent from New Zealand to Britain |
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| 41 | 4.3.1882 | Event | Britain's first electric trams ran in East London |
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| 42 | 26.3.1885 | Event | The first cremation in Britain took place in Surrey, at the Woking Crematorium |
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| 43 | 8.1.1886 | Event | Britain's longest railway tunnel, The Severn Railway Tunnel, was opened |
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| 44 | 2.8.1894 | Event | Death Duties were first introduced in Britain |
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| 45 | 28.1.1896 | Event | The first ever speeding fine in Britain was given |
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| 46 | 25.9.1897 | Event | Britains first motor bus service began operating |
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| 47 | 9.6.1898 | Event | China leased Hong Kong to Britain for 99 years |
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| 48 | 27.8.1900 | Event | Long distance bus services began in Britain |
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| 49 | 24.12.1904 | Event | The London Coliseum opened, with Britains first revolving stage |
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| 50 | 30.10.1905 | Event | Aspirin,developed by the German company Bayer,went on sale in Britain for the first time |
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| 51 | 9.11.1908 | Event | Britains first woman Mayor,Elizabeth Anderson was elected at Aldeburgh,Suffolk |
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| 52 | 1.1.1909 | Event | In Britain, the first ever old age pensions were paid |
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| 53 | 20.2.1910 | Event | Britain was struck by a hurricane force winds, killing several people |
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| 54 | 8.3.1910 | Event | The first pilots licence was issued in Britain |
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| 55 | 23.6.1911 | Event | King George V of Britain was crowned |
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| 56 | 4.10.1911 | Event | Britains first escalator went into service at Earls Court underground station |
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| 57 | 1.11.1911 | Event | The first Woman's Weekly magazine was published in Britain |
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| 58 | 15.7.1912 | Event | National Insurance contributions began in Britain |
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| 59 | 1.1.1913 | Event | Film censorship began in the Britain |
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| 60 | 4.8.1914 | Event | Britain declared war on Germany |
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| 61 | 27.11.1914 | Event | Britains first policewomen, Mary Allen and E.F Harburn began their duties in Grantham, Lincolnshire |
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| 62 | 1.2.1915 | Event | Passport photos were made obligatory in Britain |
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| 63 | 18.2.1915 | Event | During World War 1, Germany blockaded Britain with submarines |
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| 64 | 24.1.1916 | Event | Conscription began in Britain |
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| 65 | 24.5.1916 | Event | Conscription began in Britain |
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| 66 | 19.6.1917 | Event | Women over the age of 30 got the vote in Britain |
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| 67 | 15.11.1918 | Event | 'Victory' day was celebrated in Britain to mark the ending of the First World War |
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| 68 | 28.11.1919 | Event | Nancy Astor became Britain's first woman MP when she was elected at Plymouth |
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| 69 | 10.12.1919 | Event | The Smith brothers became the first pilots, to complete a flight from Britain to Australia |
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| 70 | 23.2.1920 | Event | Britain's first regular broadcasting service began, from Marconi's studios in Chelmsford |
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| 71 | 1.1.1921 | Event | Car tax discs were first introduced in Britain |
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| 72 | 18.7.1923 | Event | Women in Britain were given equal divorce rights with men |
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| 73 | 7.5.1926 | Event | The voting age for women in Britain was lowered to 21 |
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| 74 | 3.8.1926 | Event | Britains first traffic lights were set up in Piccadilly Circus |
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| 75 | 7.8.1926 | Event | Britain held its first ever motor racing grand prix at Brooklands |
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| 76 | 20.5.1927 | Event | Britain recognised the independence of Saudi Arabia |
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| 77 | 13.10.1927 | Event | Britain's first ever veteran car rally took place in London |
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| 78 | 5.11.1927 | Event | Britains first set of traffic lights came into operation in Wolverhampton |
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| 79 | 9.5.1928 | Event | Catholics & Protestant Nonconformists were allowed to hold public office in Britain |
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| 80 | 16.12.1929 | Event | Britains first airship, the R101, flew on its first trials |
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| 81 | 14.4.1931 | Event | The first Highway Code guide was published in Britain |
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| 82 | 26.3.1934 | Event | Driving tests were first introduced in Britain |
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| 83 | 1.6.1935 | Event | Driving 'L' plates were introduced in Britain |
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| 84 | 24.7.1935 | Event | Greetings telegrams were introduced in Britain |
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| 85 | 14.1.1937 | Event | The first Gallup Opinion Poll was conducted in Britain |
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| 86 | 9.7.1938 | Event | Gas masks were issued to Britain's population in preparation for war |
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| 87 | 31.12.1938 | Event | The breath test for drunk drivers began in Britain |
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| 88 | 31.3.1939 | Event | Britain and France agreed to support Poland if Germany took any action against it |
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| 89 | 27.4.1939 | Event | Conscription for men aged 20-21 was announced in Britain |
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| 90 | 21.8.1939 | Event | Civil Defence, because of the impending war, was started in Britain |
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| 91 | 3.9.1939 | Event | Britain and France declared war on Germany, starting World War 2 |
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| 92 | 30.9.1939 | Event | Identity cards were issued in Britain |
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| 93 | 8.1.1940 | Event | Because of the Second World War, food rationing in Britain began |
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| 94 | 8.8.1940 | Event | The Battle of Britain began |
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| 95 | 4.9.1940 | Event | The 'Battle of Britain' began, after Hitler threatened to raze British cities to the ground after British bombers attacked Munich |
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| 96 | 15.9.1940 | Event | The Battle of Britain came to an end, with victory for the RAF |
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| 97 | 22.6.1941 | Event | Battle of Britain - the RAF shot down 26 Nazi planes during the day |
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| 98 | 18.8.1941 | Event | The National Fire Service was established in Britain |
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| 99 | 8.12.1941 | Event | As a result of the attack on Pearl Harbour, Britain, the United States and Australia declared war on Japan |
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| 100 | 24.3.1942 | Event | The national loaf was introduced in Britain |
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| 101 | 15.6.1942 | Event | The tank war between Britain & Germany reached its peak in North Africa |
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| 102 | 13.12.1942 | Birthday | Howard Brenton, Playwright of the controversial 'Romans In Britain' |
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| 103 | 10.2.1944 | Event | The Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax was introduced in Britain |
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| 104 | 17.9.1944 | Event | Blackout regulations were lifted in Britain |
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| 105 | 15.6.1945 | Event | Family Allowance payments in Britain began |
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| 106 | 26.7.1945 | Event | The Labour Party won a landslide victory in Britain's general election |
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| 107 | 21.5.1946 | Event | Bread rationing in Britain began because of a global wheat shortage |
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| 108 | 30.5.1946 | Event | Bread rationing began in Britain |
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| 109 | 22.7.1946 | Event | Bread rationing began in Britain, after a poor wheat harvest |
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| 110 | 22.1.1947 | Event | The fresh meat ration was reduced to 1s (5p) per week in Britain |
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| 111 | 1.4.1947 | Event | The school leaving age in Britain was raised to fifteen |
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| 112 | 15.8.1947 | Event | India gained its independence from Britain |
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| 113 | 5.7.1948 | Event | The National Health Service was established in Britain |
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| 114 | 29.7.1948 | Event | Bread rationing in Britain ended |
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| 115 | 18.3.1949 | Event | NATO was set up by seven European countries including Britain |
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| 116 | 23.2.1950 | Event | Britain held a General Election; the Labour Party won |
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| 117 | 26.5.1950 | Event | Petrol rationing in Britain ended |
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| 118 | 31.7.1950 | Event | Sainsbury's opened Britains first self-service store |
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| 119 | 2.10.1950 | Event | Legal Aid was introduced in Britain |
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| 120 | 19.4.1951 | Event | The first 'Miss World' contest was held in London, as part of the Festival of Britain |
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| 121 | 3.5.1951 | Event | King George VI opened the Festival of Britain |
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| 122 | 1.9.1951 | Event | Britains first supermarket opened in Earls Court, London |
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| 123 | 31.10.1951 | Event | In Britain, 'Zebra' crossings came into use for the first time |
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| 124 | 22.12.1951 | Birthday | Duke Of Westminster, Second only to the Queen, as Britains richest landlord |
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| 125 | 3.10.1952 | Event | Britain test detonated its first atomic bomb, on an island off the coast of Australia |
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| 126 | 3.2.1953 | Event | Hurricane force winds,and high tides, caused havoc on the east coast of Britain, leaving many drowned, & thousands homeless |
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| 127 | 4.2.1953 | Event | Sweets were taken 'Off Ration' in Britain |
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| 128 | 25.5.1953 | Event | Road transport was denationalised in Britain |
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| 129 | 26.9.1953 | Event | Sugar rationing in Britain came to an end |
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| 130 | 3.7.1954 | Event | Food rationing in Britain officially ended |
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| 131 | 25.2.1955 | Event | Britain's largest ever aircraft carrier, the Ark Royal, was completed |
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| 132 | 17.11.1955 | Event | Anglesey in North Wales became the first authority in Britain to introduce fluoride into the drinking water |
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| 133 | 5.3.1956 | Event | Telephone weather forecasts began in Britain for the first time |
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| 134 | 3.6.1956 | Event | Third class travel by rail was abolished in Britain |
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| 135 | 20.8.1956 | Event | Britain's first nuclear power station, Calder Hall, began operating |
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| 136 | 3.10.1956 | Event | The Bolshoi Ballet performed in Britain for the first time |
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| 137 | 17.10.1956 | Event | Britains first atomic energy power station (Calder Hall) was opened by the Queen |
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| 138 | 5.12.1956 | Event | Britains first woman judge, Miss Rose Heilbron, was appointed |
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| 139 | 14.5.1957 | Event | Petrol rationing in Britain, imposed the previous year, ended |
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| 140 | 23.9.1957 | Event | An Asian flu epidemic swept across Britain |
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| 141 | 17.2.1958 | Event | The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was formed in Britain |
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| 142 | 10.7.1958 | Event | Britain's first parking meters were installed in London |
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| 143 | 17.8.1958 | Event | Britain announced plans to continue nuclear testing on Christmas Island |
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| 144 | 28.7.1959 | Event | Postcodes were introduced in Britain |
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| 145 | 3.10.1959 | Event | Postcodes were introduced in Britain |
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| 146 | 21.10.1960 | Event | Britains first nuclear powered submarine, 'Dreadnought', was launched at Barrow in Lancashire |
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| 147 | 31.12.1960 | Event | The farthing coin ceased to be legal tender in Britain |
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| 148 | 30.1.1961 | Event | The first contraceptive pills went on sale in Britain |
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| 149 | 23.4.1961 | Event | The National Census day took place in Britain |
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| 150 | 10.8.1961 | Event | Britain first applied for membership of the EEC |
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| 151 | 9.10.1961 | Event | Britains youngest ever Conservative MP, Margaret Thatcher, was given her first governmental job |
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| 152 | 24.10.1961 | Event | Malta was granted independence from Britain |
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| 153 | 11.1.1962 | Event | There was an outbreak of smallpox in Britain |
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| 154 | 26.4.1962 | Event | Britain's first satellite, Ariel, was launched |
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| 155 | 6.8.1962 | Event | Jamaica became independent from Britain |
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| 156 | 5.3.1963 | Event | Britain had its first frost free night since December 22 of previous year |
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| 157 | 28.3.1964 | Event | Radio Caroline, Britains first 'pirate' radio station, began broadcasting from a ship at sea |
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| 158 | 13.8.1964 | Event | The last ever hangings in Britain took place |
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| 159 | 21.9.1964 | Event | Malta became independent from Britain within the Commonwealth |
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| 160 | 24.1.1965 | Event | Winston Churchill, Britains wartime prime minister, died |
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| 161 | 16.2.1965 | Event | A government report recommended closing half of Britain's railway network |
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| 162 | 2.5.1965 | Event | Britains 'Early Bird' satellite began tranmitting TV programmes |
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| 163 | 12.8.1965 | Event | In Britain, the first ever female high court judge was appointed |
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| 164 | 30.9.1965 | Event | Britains first woman High Court judge was appointed |
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| 165 | 22.12.1965 | Event | The maximum speed limit in Britain was set at 70mph |
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| 166 | 31.1.1966 | Event | Britain banned all trade with Rhodesia, Africa |
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| 167 | 4.8.1966 | Event | Britain appointed its first Ombudsman, Sir Edmund Compton |
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| 168 | 11.10.1966 | Event | The General Post Office announced the introduction of a postcode for every home & business in Britain |
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| 169 | 4.3.1967 | Event | The first North Sea gas was pumped ashore in Britain |
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| 170 | 27.6.1967 | Event | Barclays Bank opened Britains first cash dispenser |
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| 171 | 1.7.1967 | Event | Colour television began broadcasting in Britain on BBC2 |
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| 172 | 14.7.1967 | Event | Abortion was legalised in Britain |
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| 173 | 17.12.1967 | Event | Alec Rose completed a solo 14,500 mile voyage, from Britain to Australia |
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| 174 | 31.1.1968 | Event | The Island of Mauritius became independent of Britain |
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| 175 | 26.9.1968 | Event | Theatre censorship in Britain was abolished |
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| 176 | 29.1.1969 | Event | Britain was refused entry into the European Economic Community |
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| 177 | 12.5.1969 | Event | The legal age for voting in Britain was lowered from 21 to 18 |
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| 178 | 31.7.1969 | Event | The halfpenny ceased to be legal tender in Britain |
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| 179 | 14.10.1969 | Event | The first 50 pence coin was issued in Britain |
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| 180 | 18.12.1969 | Event | The death penalty was abolished in Britain |
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| 181 | 2.3.1970 | Event | Rhodesia became an independent republic from Britain |
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| 182 | 16.7.1970 | Event | Britain had a state of emergency when dockers went on strike |
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| 183 | 11.1.1971 | Event | The first divorce in Britain was granted under the new Divorce Act |
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| 184 | 15.2.1971 | Event | Britain changed its currency to the decimal system |
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| 185 | 1.9.1971 | Event | The one penny and threepenny coins, ceased to be legal tender in Britain |
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| 186 | 24.9.1971 | Event | Britain expelled over 100 Russian diplomats for spying |
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| 187 | 28.10.1971 | Event | The House of Commons voted in favour of Britain joining the European Common Market |
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| 188 | 9.2.1972 | Event | A State of Emergency was declared in Britain because of the third month of a miners strike |
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| 189 | 16.2.1972 | Event | There were power cuts in Britain, as power stations ran out of coal during the miners strike |
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| 190 | 17.2.1972 | Event | The House of Commons voted in favour of Britain joining the Common Market |
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| 191 | 23.10.1972 | Event | 'Access' credit cards came into use in Britain |
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| 192 | 1.1.1973 | Event | Britain became a member of the European Economic Community |
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| 193 | 1.4.1974 | Event | Britain re-organised its local government system, changing many county names |
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| 194 | 2.1.1976 | Event | Gales throughout the Britain caused widespread damage |
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| 195 | 19.2.1976 | Event | Iceland broke off diplomatic relations with Britain over the 'cod war' |
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| 196 | 27.4.1976 | Event | Britain began exporting oil from the North Sea |
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| 197 | 24.5.1976 | Event | Concordes from Britain & France flew to Washington D.C for the first time |
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| 198 | 28.7.1976 | Event | Britain broke off diplomatic links wih Uganda |
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| 199 | 1.8.1976 | Event | Trinidad and Tobago became an independent country from Britain |
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| 200 | 1.1.1977 | Event | Britain (along with others) extended its fishing limit to 200 miles |
