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| 1714 | Forster, Thomas |  |
| Appointed Commander of the Jacobite forces in England |
| 1715 | Forster, Thomas | |
| Newcastle Leads a failed siege on Newcastle |
| Nov Newgate Arrested but escapes from Newgate prison |
| Nov Preston Forced to surrender |
| Nov London Goes into exile in France after his defeat at Preston |
| 9th Nov Preston Leads a Jacobite force into Preston without any resistance |
| 12th Nov Preston First day of the Royalist attack on the Jacobites at Preston |
| 14th Nov Preston The Royalists march into Preston & dissarm Forster's men, 1,500 prisoners are taken |
| 1715 | George I | |
| Sep Braemar 1st Jacobite rebellion breaks out in Braemar |
| Sep The "15" rebellion, an attempt to put James Edward Stuart on the throne |
| 13th Nov Sheriffmuir Defeats the Jacobites in battle |
| 1715 | Granville | |
| Plymouth A Jacobite landing is expected in Plymouth but Landsdowne suppreses the rebellion |
| Bath Landsdowne suppreses the centre of the Jacobite rebellion in Bath |
| 1715 | Wyndham, William | |
| Bath Assists Lansdown in arresting Jacobite leaders in Plymouth & Bath |
| 1719 | Clayton, Jasper | |
| 10th June Glenshiel Commands some of the Royalists who defeat the Jacobites |
| 1719 | Milburn, Richard | |
| 10th June Glenshiel Commands 200 Grenadiers of the Royalists who defeat the Jacobites |
| 1719 | Wightman, Joseph | |
| 9th June Glenshiel Marches down Glen Moriston to meet the Jacobites & arrive at Loch Cluanie |
| 10th June Glenshiel Commands the Royalists who defeat the Jacobites |
| 1744 | Charles Edward | |
| Dunkirk A storm ends the invasion plans of de Saxe |
| Dunkirk Marshal de Saxe prepares a fleet of 12,000 troops to support the Jacobites |
| 5th July Minden Boards the du Teillay at Minden on the mouth of the Loire |
| 10th July Channel Intercepted by the Lion & forced to return to France with arms & ammunition |
| 1745 | Charles Edward | |
| Lancaster Lancaster surrenders to the Jacobites |
| Derby The Jacobire Army reaches as far south as Derby |
| 13th July Nantes "The Young Pretender", sets sail from Nantes to begin a Jacobite rebellion |
| 19th Aug Glenfinnan 1,200 Jacobite forces gather & for the 2nd time the "old pretender" is proclaimed King |
| 19th Aug Glenfinnan The Jacobite Royal standard is raised at Glenfinnan |
| 4th Sep Perth Captures Perth |
| 17th Sep Edinburgh Occupies Edinburgh & Holyrood Palace |
| 17th Sep Edinburgh Proclaimed as James VIII but Edinburgh Castle is held by General Joshua Guest |
| 17th Sep Edinburgh Proclaims himself James VIII |
| 20th Sep Prestonpans Charles & Murray decisively defeat a British Army of 3,000 under General Sir John Cope |
| 20th Sep Prestonpans Victory gives Charles Edward complete control of Scotland |
| 21st Sep Prestonpans Defeats General Cope's dragoons |
| 3rd Nov Against the advice of Lord Murray, Charles begins the march into England |
| 15th Nov Carlisle Carlisle surrenders without a shot being fired |
| 29th Nov Manchester Manchester surrenders to the Jacobites |
| 4th Dec Deby Arrives at Derby but finds no English support |
| 4th Dec Derby Derby surrenders to the Jacobites |
| 4th Dec Derby Only 200 Englisman have joined the Jacobites since their march into England |
| 6th Dec Surrounded by an English force of 30,000 Charles Edward retreats back into Scotland |
| 18th Dec Penrith A Jacobite rearguard victory over an English detatchment |
| 26th Dec Glasgow The Camerons & the Prince arrive in Glasgow |
| 1745 | Cope, John | |
| Sep Prestonpans Court Martialled after defeat at Prestonpans but later acquitted |
| 20th Sep Prestonpans Defeated by Charles Edward Stuart during the Jacobite Rebellion |
| 1746 | Charles | |
| Falkirk The Jacobite "pretender", descendent of James II, defeats British dragoons |
| 1746 | Charles Edward | |
| Jan Stirling Lays siege to Stirling Castle |
| 6th Jan Stirling The Jacobite army is reinforced by the arrival of Lady MacKintosh and 400 clansmen |
| 6th Jan Stirling The Prince's army arrives in the Stirling area |
| 16th Jan Plean Muir Draws up the Jacobite army in battle order sth of Bannockburn |
| 17th Jan Falkirk Charles Edward & his Highlanders defeat British dragoons capturing 7 guns & 700 men |
| 17th Jan Falkirk The rebels are led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart & Lord George Murray |
| 16th April Culloden Moor Ends the Stuart efforts to regain the British throne, the last land battle in Britain |
| 16th April Culloden Moor In 40 minutes 20% of the 5,000 Highland army is killed, Cumberland loses 50 from 9,000 |
| 1746 | Hawley, Henry | |
| Jan Edinburgh Captures Edindurgh then tries to releive the siege of Stirling |
| Jan Stirling Goes to the relief of General Blakeney but defeated at Falkirk |
| Jan Edinburgh Hawley occupies Edinburgh |
| 17th Jan Falkirk Captures Edindurgh then tries to releive the siege of Stirling but defeated at Falkirk |
| 1746 | Murray, George | |
| 17th Jan Falkirk The rebels are led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart & Lord George Murray |
| 1746 | William Augustus | |
| Carlisle Captures Carlisle from the Jacobites |
| Highlands Launches a campaign against the clans after Culloden & earns the name "Bloody Butcher" |
| 16th April Culloden Moor Charles & Murray attempt to surprise Cumberland but the Stuarts are defeated |
| 16th April Culloden Moor In 40 minutes 20% of the 5,000 Highland army is killed, Cumberland loses 50 from 9,000 |
| 16th April Culloden Moor The last land battle in Britain |
| 1746 | Wolfe, James | |
| 17th Jan Falkirk Present at the battle of Falkirk against Prince Charles Edward Stuart |
| 16th April Culloden Moor Present at the battle of Culloden |
| 1773 | North, Frederick | |
| 16th Dec London 1st tea ship is boycotted in Boston by the the British |
| 16th Dec Boston Merchants board a boycotted ship to hold a tea Party & throw its tea overboard |
| 16th Dec The example in Boston is soon followed by other American ports |
| 1774 | North, Frederick | |
| Boston Closes Boston harbour until the East India Company is reimbursed for lost tea |
| 1779 | Hastings, Warren | |
| Bengal Breaks up the coalition between Haidar Ali, the Marathas & the Nizam |
| 1780 | George | |
| 2nd June London Anti-Catholic riots break out in London |
| 1780 | Gordon | |
| London Catholic chapels, dwelling houses & breweries are sacked |
| London Rebels against the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1778 |
| London Rioting lasts for 6 days, 500 die in the disturbances & 25 of the rioters are hanged |
| 1787 | Bligh, William | |
| 9th Oct Deptford The HMS Bounty sets sail from Deptford |
| 1789 | Bligh, William | |
| The Admiralty orders a frigate to arrest the crew who had cast Captain Bligh adrift |
| 1790 | Christian, Fletcher | |
| 15th Jan Leads the rebellion of the Bounty |
| 1798 | Pitt the Younger, William | |
| Wolfe Tone leads an abortive rebellion of the United Irishmen |
| 23rd May Wexford May 23-June 21, a rebellion takes place in Wexford |
| 1798 | Stewart | |
| Wexford Suppresses an Irish rebellion |
| 1801 | Jervis, John | |
| Channel Flee Defeats sedition in the Channel Fleet |
| 1824 | M'Carthy, Charles | |
| Jan Essamako Captured by the Ahanti & killed |
| 1834 | Temple, Henry John | |
| Helps but down absolutist rebellion in Spain & Portugal |
| 1846 | Gough, Hugh | |
| 10th Feb Sobrahan Defeats the Sikhs |
| 1857 | Campbell, Colin | |
| Nov Lucknow Leads a 5,000 reinforcements into the residency at Lucknow |
| 16th Nov Lucknow Fights into the residency & rescues the occupants but leaves the city in rebel hands |
| 1857 | Cavanagh, Thomas | |
| Nov Lucknow Becomes the 1st civilian to be awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at Lucknow |
| Nov Lucknow Goes through enemy lines & guides Campbell's reinforcements into the British residency |
| Nov Lucknow Slips through enemy lines & guides Campbell's forces into the British residency |
| 1857 | Temple, Henry John | |
| 10th May Meerut Oubreak of the Indian Mutinty |
| 1857 | Victoria | |
| London Confirms Albert's title as "Prince Consort" |
| 1858 | Campbell, Colin | |
| Cawnpore Helps crush the Indian mutiny & recaptures Cawnpore |
| Lucknow Uses 20,000 men, the largest army ever seen in India, to recapture Lucknow |
| 1858 | Canning, George | |
| Suppresses a mutiny & earns the nickname "Clemency Canning" |
| 1858 | Victoria | |
| Calls for leniency in dealing with the Indian rebels |
| 1862 | Gordon, Charles George Hamilton | |
| Tientsin Appointed Commander of the Royal Engineers |
| Storms towns occupied by the T'ai P'ing rebels |
| 1865 | Gordon, Charles George Hamilton | |
| Chan Chu Fu Ends the T'ai P'ing rebellion |
| 1866 | Russell | |
| 17th Feb London Habeas Corpus is suspended in Ireland |
| 1876 | Gladstone, William Ewart | |
| Comes out of retirement after the Turkish repression of Bulgaria's rebellion |
| 1878 | Gordon, Charles George Hamilton | |
| London Many of the rebel leaders under Sulieman are rounded up & shot |
| 1879 | Gordon, Charles George Hamilton | |
| The slave trade under Sulieman is wiped out |
| 1879 | Wolsey, Garnet | |
| Dec Transvaal Wolsey subdues the Sekhukhuni rebellion & captures their paramount chief |
| 1896 | Baden-Powell, Robert | |
| Matabele Helps suppress the Matabele uprising in Rhodes ia |
| 1910 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| Tonypandy Uses troops to maintain order during a Welsh miners strike |
| 1914 | Asquith, Henry Herbert | |
| 30th Mar London Successor to Seely during the "Curragh Mutiny" & threat of Irish civil war |
| 1914 | Casement, Roger | |
| Ireland Meets the Kaiser & persuades him that he can foment trouble in Ireland |
| 1916 | Asquith, Henry Herbert | |
| April Dublin The Easter Rebellion breaks out in Dublin |
| 1916 | Casement, Roger | |
| London Forms a brigade of Irish POW's for an Irish Republican rebellion |
| 1916 | Maxwell, John | |
| 1st May Dublin Crushes the last remnants of the Easter Rebellion in Dublin |
| 1st May Dublin Takes the surrender of the last of the rebels, over 1,000 prisoners have been taken |
| 1917 | Allenby, Henry Hynman | |
| 10th July Cairo Grants Lawrence a œ200,000 monthly subsidy to support Arab rebellion against the Turks |
| 1922 | Lloyd George, David | |
| 14th April Dublin Irish Republic rebels occupy 4 government courts in Dublin |
| 28th June Dublin Civil war continues for a year |
| 28th June Dublin The Irish Government attacks the Republicans who surrender 3 days later |
| 1929 | MacDonald, James Ramsey | |
| 31st Aug Palestine British troops restore order in Palestine |
| 1952 | Attlee, Clement Richard | |
| 19th Oct British troops are despatched to Kenya folowing Mau Mau disturbances |
| 1954 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| April Operation Anvil leads to the detention of over 16,000 Mau Mau suspects in Kenya |
| 1976 | Callaghan, James | |
| 27th Oct The National Executive of the Labour Party vote to protest to Parliament about cuts |
| 1990 | Thatcher, Margaret Hilda | |
| 19th April London 44 Conservative MP's rebel against the Hong Kong Citizenship Bill |
| 2003 | Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| Feb 122 Labour MP's back a motion stating the case for war in Iraq has not been proven |
| Mar 139 Labour MPs oppose the government's policy of war in Iraq |
