1660 - 1685 King Charles II

1685 - 1688 King James II

1688 - 1702 King William III & Queen Mary II

1702 - 1714 Queen Anne

1714 - 1727 King George I

1727 - 1760 King George II

1760 - 1820 King George III

1820 1830 King George IV

1830 - 1837 King William IV

1837 - 1901 Queen Victoria

2nd Sept 1666 Great Fire of London Destroys 2/3 of city 1666 1st Mill built on site

1727-28 Midlands Famine in Britain. 1769-73 Famine in Bengal kills 10 million people. 1744 Great Storm 1747 Thomas Evison 1769 John Broughton

1815-46 Corn Laws to help British farmers. Tax on imported wheat. This made bread very expensive.

1755 Earthquake in Portugal kills 70,000 people. Aftermath kills nearly 250,000 in Morocco. 1794 1815
1756 - 1763 7 Years War with France War with France

1750

1750 9 million
a period known as the mini ice age which lasted from 1550 - 1852.

KEY Mill events Millers Events influencing mill Monarchs Famines Wars Earthquakes Floods Other events Photo link British Population

1837 - 1901 Queen Victoria

1850s onward The mechanisation of farming led to increased yields and cheaper production costs. 1850 Earthquake in China kills 300,000 people. 1860 80% of our food was produced in UK 1841 William Little 1868 Germain Little 1874 Mill blown down 1887 Chinas Haung Ho River flooded, killing 900,000 people

1878 First roller mill opened in Britain (Manchester)

1879 Tower mill built

1881 John C. Dickenson

1882 William Topham

1885 Walter J. Saunderson

1891 Thomas Rodgers

1850 20% of national income is from Agriculture 1853 1856 Crimean War

1870-c.1900 A series of bad harvests and imported grain from the prairies saw the Great Agricultural Depression. 1880-1 1st Boer War 1876-79 Famine in Asia kills 13 million in China & 5.25 million in India

1900 6% of national income is from Agriculture 1899-02 2nd Boer War 1900 Majority of food & goods are imported.

1850 21 million

From 1850 the climate warmed to that we know today.

1901 - 1917 Edward VII

1917 - 1936 King George V

1936 Edward VII

1936 - 1951 King George VI

1951 - Present Queen Elizabeth II

1951 - Present Queen Elizabeth II 1914 Flour Laws dictate to mills the 1970 percentage of flour needed to be extracted from Cyclone in Bangladesheach grain. Stone ground windmills could not kills nearly 500,000 achieve this. people 1972 100,000 Hutu people 1914 killed in Burundi. Sail comes off in a storm, other taken off to balance it.

1920 Chinese earthquake kills c.150,000 people 1920s Sails reduced to single sided. 1980 Cap replaced

1947 1959-61 Agriculture Act The Great Chinese Supported and Famine kills between funded a growth 15-43 million people in agriculture. 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invents 1960 World Wide Web 3% of national income WAAFs dinning hall is from Agriculture built now museum 2010 1984 Earthquake in Haiti Ethiopian Famine kills 1936 1939-45 1950 1962 kills over 220,000 over 1 million people. people Mill used as a George Rodgers Tom Rodgers Mill Closed 1984
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Preservation Society 1908 Earthquake in Sciliy kills c. 85,000 people 1971 Red river in Vietnam 1914-18 floods, killing 1st World War 1976 100,000 people 16.5 million people killed Earthquake in China kills Food rationing over 240,000 introduced people. Slightly cooler than today.

1960s 2 sails 2 sails 2 sails sail Wheat yields up 35% replaced 1931replaced replaced1948 replaced in a decade, due to Chinas Haung Ho Earthquake in fertilisers, pesticides 2000 River flooded, killing Turkmenistan kills 1927 1% of income over 1,000,000 people 110,000 people national and increased Earthquake in China mechanisation. is from Agriculture kills 200,00 people. 1928-30 1984 Drought in N.China Falklands kills 3 million people. War 1991 1939-45 1st Iraq 2nd World War War 40-72 million people killed 11/09/01 Terrorist attack 1960 on Twin Towers 52 million 2004 Southeast Asian earthquake kills 230,000 people.

2000 59 million

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Waltham Windmill Site - 2007

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