Walpole's premiership
1721–1742 · Event
Sir Robert Walpole serves as de-facto first Prime Minister; sets the pattern of cabinet government.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
Around 1721
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- George Washington (1732)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)