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| 1613 | James I attempts to impose Anglicism in the Bailiwick. |
| 1642 | The English Civil war began and surprisingly Guernsey backed the Parliamentarians. Castle Cornet under the command of Lieutenant Governor, Sir Peter Osborne held out for 8 years and lobbed over 10,000 cannon balls onto St Peter Port. |
| 1644 | Parliamentarian forces invade Jersey but do not defeat the Royalist forts until 15 December 1651 |
| 1651 | Royalists under Sir Peter Osborne surrender Castle Cornet on 19 December 1651. He went down in history as the last person to take down the Royal Standard |
| 1663 | Anglicism established in Guernsey |
| 1664 | Sir George Carteret becomes Lord of Alderney ( a friend of Samuel Pepys |
| 1672 | The Keep at Castle Cornet blows up killing the Governor's wife |
| 1689 | Guernsey's neutrality is revoked by William III. |
| 1736 | Braye Harbour established in Alderney. |
| 1742 | Town Hospital established in Guernsey |
| 1751 | Castel Hospital building begins |
| 1769 | Sir Isaac Brock born |
| 1780 | Work begins on Fort George |
| 1783 | Thomas de la Rue born |
| 1787 | John Wesley visits Guernsey |
| 1789 | Aristocrats fleeing from France settled in the islands and became loyal British subjects. However with the threat of attack from Napoleon, Martello towers started to appear all around Guernsey and Jersey, based on a design from Cape Mortella in Corsica. |
| 1792 | Glasshouses started to be built in Guernsey in which grapes for table wine were grown and even to this day, a collection of glasshouses is known as a Vinery. |
| 1799 | Royal Court House built in Guernsey. 6,000 Russian troops billeted in Alderney following Allied defeat by Napoleon |
| 1810 | Granite exports from Guernsey begin. Many quarrymen came to the island from Cornwall and between 1810 and 1841, the population of St Sampson parish more than doubled from 650 to 1,567. |
| 1815 | Prison built in Guernsey and large ships launched. |
| 1816 | First Guernsey bank notes printed to pay for the Vegetable market building - 40,000 £1 notes. |
| 1822 | Guernsey's Meat Market built |
| 1827 | First mail to arrive by steam on PS Watersprite |
| 1834 | Silver was discovered in Sark and by 1841 the population had grown to 790. The major shareholder, Ernest Le Pelly, Seigneur was the major shareholder but following a flood of the mine, he almost became bankrupt and sold his Fief to Mrs T G Collings. Her descendant is the present Seigneur |
| 1836 | Tomatoes started to be grown in Guernsey. In Alderney over the ensuing years, the Victorians built 13 forts in Alderney and completed the Murs de Haut. However, none were ever used in war. The massive Alderney breakwater was also built to provide protection to the British fleet but could not withstand the massive storms and the 1471 metres originally built is now down to half that length |