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| Birth of Cartwright, John Cartwright, John |  |
| Birth of John Cartwright |
| Captain William IV | |
| Appointed Captain |
| Commander in Chief Cornwallis, Charles | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief, India |
| Diplomacy Pitt the Younger, William | |
| Negotiates a favourable commercial Treaty with France |
| Education of Wellesley Wellesley, Arthur | |
| Angers Enters School of Equitation, Angers , Anjou |
| Election Grey, Charles | |
| Northumberland 1st elected to Parliament, MP for Northumberland for the next 20 yrs |
| Governor General India Cornwallis, Charles | |
| Appointed Governor General of India, 1st term |
| Invention Musket Nock, Henry | |
| London Invents the breech-loading musket |
| Invention Threshing Meikle, Andrew | |
| London Invents the first successful threshing machine |
| Slavery Wilberforce, William | |
| Wilberforce receives a letter from Captain Sir Charles Middleton, MP, and father-in-law of his old friend Gerard Edwards , which was to ignite again his old interest in the subject of the slave trade |
