1200s – Ships wrecked in St Peter Port harbour
1503 – Henry VIII comes to the throne
1545 – Sinking of the Tudor Mary Rose
1588 – The Spanish Armada attacks
1600 – East India Company established
1600s – Wrecking of the Mingary ship
1642 – Civil War breaks out
1650 – Start of the Commonwealth
1653 – Loss of the Swan
1660 – Restoration of Charles II
1668 – East India Company controls Bombay
1677 – Thirty ships built as backbone to future British navy
1703 – Great Storm: wrecking of the Stirling Castle
1706 – Wrecking of the Hazardous Prize
1707 – Union of England and Scotland
1793 – Start of the Napoleonic Wars
1805 – Battle of Trafalgar. Wrecking of the Earl of Abergavenny
1811 – Loss of the Pomone
1815 – Battle of Waterloo and end of Napoleonic Wars
1837 – Ascension of Queen Victoria
1843 – SS Great Britain – first propeller-driven steamship to cross the Atlantic
1860 – HMS Warrior – first iron warship in Britain
1912 – Sinking of the Titantic
1914–18 – World War I
1939 – World War II breaks out
1944 – Invasion of France. Destruction of HMS Lawford
1945 – End of World War II
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