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| 1714 |
| | | On the death of Queen Anne, the Act of Settlement delivers the British crown to the elector of Hanover, as George I | |
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| 1714 |
| | | The British government offers a massive £20,000 prize for a chronometer capable of keeping accurate time at sea | |
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| 1715 |
| | | A Jacobite uprising in Scotland on behalf of the Old Pretender ends in fiasco | |
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| 1715 |
| | | Colen Campbell creates interest in the Palladian style in Britain with the publication of his Vitruvius Britannicus | |
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| 1717 |
| | | The earl of Burlington employs Colen Campbell to remodel his Piccadilly house in the Palladian style | |
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| 1719 |
| | | Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, with its detailed realism, can be seen as the first English novel | |
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| 1720 |
| | | Shares in the South Sea Company rise rapidly and collapse within the year, in the so-called South Sea Bubble | |
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| 1721 |
| | | Robert Walpole becomes Britain's chief minister and holds the post for an unrivalled span of twenty-one years | |
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| 1724 |
| | | General Wade, commander-in-chief of North Britain, begins an impressive programme of road construction in the Scottish Highlands | |
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| 1726 |
| | | Jonathan Swift launches his hero on a series of bitterly satirical adventures in Gulliver's Travels | |
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