1714 - 1836
"Georgius Rex", but the Commons rule . . .
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Hanoverian dynasty (1714) . . . emergence of 'cabinet' government & prime ministers . . . early 18th century: beginnings of the Industrial Age . . . commerce & industry centred on major towns e.g. Birmingham . . . steam pumping . . . Jacobite rebellion & Culloden massacre (1745) . . . growth of world trade through expanding Empire (mid-18th C) . . . major agricultural advances [seed-drill, crop rotation, fertilisation, enclosures] (mid/latter 18th C) . . . American Independence (1776) . . . turnpike & canal building (by 1780's) . . . first rotary steam engine [Watt] (1782) . . . Irish parliament dissolved (1800) . . . rise, then fall of Napoleon . . . Trafalgar (1805) . . . abolition of slavery (1807) . . . Regency, achievements in arts and literature (1811-1820) . . . weaving industry transformed [power looms] (by 1812) . . . Corn law (1815) . . . Waterloo (1815) . . . Britain governs 25% of the world's population (1820) . . . Stockton & Darlington railway (1825) . . . Reform Bill [change without bloodshed] (1832) . . .
Harsh winters & occasionally poor summers * slow, irregular rise in mean temperatures by mid 19thC * but with short-period reversals * least 'westerly' period in the second Christian millennium: i.e. high tendency to blocking episodes * periods of significant volcanic activity (1752 - 1840's) * warm / pleasant summers 1790's - start 19th century. [ If the theory of industrial-forced global climate change are correct, then this period marks the start of the problem. ]				Weather Log
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