| Year |
Event |
| 1503 |
Argameols disappears, probably during very violent storms, which are a big problem on the coast at this time. |
| 1538 |
Dissolution of smaller monasteries by Henry the VIII, soon after having his wife Anne Boleyn executed. |
| 1547 |
Henry the VIII dies. |
| 1558 |
Elizebeth I becomes Queen of England. |
| 1564 |
Shakespeare born. |
| 1575 |
Croxteth Hall built |
| 1577 |
Drake starts his voyage around the world. |
| 1580 |
Drake returns. |
| 1582 |
Gregorian Calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII |
| 1588 |
Spanish Armada defeated. |
| 1600 |
East India Company founded. |
| 1603 |
Accession of James the
VI of Scotland as James the I of England and the joining of the two crowns. |
| 1605 |
Gunpowder plot, Guy Fawkes. |
| 1612 |
Speke hall finally finished or at least residents stopped upgrading it. |
| 1616 |
Death of Shakespeare. |
| 1630's |
Hawslookers appointed by the Manors of Birkdale and Ainsdale to watch the dunes and bring before the courts anyone stealing Starr Grass (Marram). |
| 1642 |
Charles the first attempts to arrest the Five Members. Outbreak of the English Civil War. First general engagement at Edgehill. |
| 1644 |
Liverpool put under siege by Prince Rupert. Marston Moor a decisive battle of the civil war roundheads lose to the royalists. |
| 1645 |
New Model Army formed, and main Royalist army crushed. |
| 1646 |
Charles the I surrenders to the Scots. |
| 1647 |
Charles the First handed over to parliament, he's seized by the army but manages to escape and runs to Carisbrooke Castle. |
| 1648 |
First import of Tobacco into Liverpool Docks from America.
 |
| 1648 |
Second Civil War starts, New Model Army defeats Scots and Royalist forces. Army refashions parliament. |
| 1649 |
Charles the First executed. |
| 1651 |
Oliver Cromwell's victory at Worchester, now King of England. |
| 1658 |
Oliver Cromwell dies. |
| 1660 |
Restoration of the Monarchy in England and the crowning of Charles the Second. |
| 1665 |
Great Plague in London. |
| 1666 |
Great Fire of London. |
| 1681 |
Charles the Second begins to rule without parliament. |
| 1688 |
William of Orange lands in England the start of the 'glorious revolution'. |
| 1690 |
Battle of Boyne defeat of James II by William III. |
| 1691 |
Capitulation of Irish Supporters of James II, on conditions which aren't fulfilled. |
| 1693 |
National Debt of England begun. |
| 1694 |
Bank of England founded. |
| 1695 |
Press licensing abandoned, freedom of the press started. |
| 1699 |
Liverpool declared a parish. |
| 1700 |
Liverpool's population around 4,000. |
| 1702 |
Croxteth Hall rebuilt, mainly the Queen Anne designed west front. |
| 1704 |
Woolton Hall built and home for the Molyneux
familiiy. |
| 1707 |
Act of union, English and Scottish parliaments united. |
| 1709 |
First Ship sets sail for Africa to increase business necessary to extend the Old Docks.
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| 1710 |
Liverpool builds the first wet dock in the world. By the end of the 18th century Liverpool has a complete set of docks whereas in the rest of the world most places had one. 
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| 1710 |
Tory government in England. |
| 1715 |
Jacobite rising defeated at Preston and Sherrifmuir. |
| 1718 |
Bluecoat Charity School building work completed. |
| 1719 |
Formby lighthouse completed and used for the first time. |
| 1720 |
Bishop Gastrell takes a census of the area, North Meols and Birkdale, it has a population of under 1200. |
| 1721 |
Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime Minister. |
| 1733 |
The Hesketh family moves out of Meols Hall, leaving the estate to fall into disrepair and leaving the running of the estates to an agent and the tenant farmers. |
| 1739 |
The chapel for Formby at Ravenmeols destroyed in a great storm. |
| 1743 |
George the II is the last British King to personally command an army into battle this is at Dettington. He defeats the French there. |
| 1745 |
Jacobite rebellion under Prince Charles Edward, initial success at Prestonpans and march on Derby. |
| 1746 |
The new Formby Chapel of St Peter opened in this year. |
| 1746 |
Jacobites destroyed by Cumberland at the battle of Culloden. |
| 1749 |
Liverpool Town Hall started, designed by John Wood of Bath. |
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