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1. Act of Supremacy
2. Adam Smith Publishes The Wealth of Nations
3. Amnesty International Exposes Cruelty of Death Penalty
4. Amnesty International Is Founded
5. Amnesty International Starts Program to Prevent Torture
6. The Anglo-Japanese Treaty Brings Japan into World Markets
7. Atlantic Charter Is Signed
8. The Balfour Declaration Supports a Jewish Homeland in Palestine
9. Bank of England Is Chartered
10. The BBC Begins Television Broadcasting
11. Behan’s The Hostage Is Presented by the Theatre Workshop
12. Britain Acquires the Cape Colony
13. Britain Announces Mad Cow Disease Has Infected Humans
14. Britain Signs Agreement to Leave Hong Kong in 1997
15. The British Broadcasting Corporation Is Chartered
16. The British Labour Party Is Formed
17. A British Labour Party Victory Leads to Takeovers of Industry
18. British Leyland Motor Corporation Forms by Merger
19. British North America Act
20. British Queen Elizabeth Begins Paying Taxes After Castle Fire
21. British Workers Go on General Strike
22. Britten Completes Peter Grimes
23. Chapman Determines the Lunar Atmospheric Tide at Moderate Latitudes
24. Chartist Movement
25. Churchill Becomes British Prime Minister
26. Commonwealth Created by Statute of Westminster
27. Concorde Flies Passengers at Supersonic Speeds
28. The Concorde Flies Passengers at Supersonic Speeds
29. Darwin Publishes On the Origin of Species
30. Dawes Plan
31. Ealing Comedies Mark a High Point in British Film
32. Eliot Publishes The Waste Land
33. The Entente Cordiale
34. Faraday Converts Magnetic Force into Electricity
35. The First International Is Founded
36. Fleming Discovers Penicillin
37. Fleming Discovers Penicillin in Molds
38. Fleming Files a Patent for the First Vacuum Tube
39. Ford Buys Jaguar
40. Former Chilean Dictator Pinochet Is Arrested in London
41. Franchise Act of 1884
42. Francis Bacon Publishes Novum Organum
43. The Globe Theatre Opens in London
44. Golding’s Lord of the Flies Spurs Examination of Human Nature
45. Great Britain Announces Plans to Privatize British Telecom
46. Great Britain Establishes the Royal National Theatre
47. Great Britain Passes Acts to Provide Unemployment Benefits
48. Great Britain Passes the National Health Service Act
49. Great Fire of London
50. Haldane Develops Stage Decompression for Deep-Sea Divers

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