1215: Barons of King John draw up the Magna Carta, and invent democracy
1687: England's Brave Issac Newton invents gravity. Everyone stops floating around.
1707: England and Scotland, the two greatest nations on Earth, unite to form Ubernation Great Britain. The world looks on in awe.
1781: Great Britain starts the Industrial Revolution by building the world's first iron bridge. The world thanks Britain for dragging them out of the stone age.
1859: England's Brave Charles Darwin invents evolution. Will be used to troll Americans for centuries to come.
1928: Sir Alexander Fleming single handily kicks death in the balls by inventing antibiotics, saving billions worldwide
1942: Alan Turing invents the computer and defeats the Nazis. The British government call him a fag.
1953: Watson and Crick invent DNA. No one else understands.
1972: David Bowie releases the seminal The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
1989: Sir Tim invents the World Wide Web, the internet, WIMP, email, wi-fi and Sup Forums, all in one afternoon.
1997: Wing Commander Andy D. Green OBE, Uses superior British engineering to becoming the fastest man on earth, smashing the Land speed record by more than 100km/h
2012: Great Britain hosts the Greatest Olympics of All Time. The world bows down in amazement. England's Brave Andy Murray cements GB's reputation by becoming the Greatest Sportsman Ever.
2015: Sir Tysonious Furington defeats the evil communist Russian boxer Wladimir Bitchko freeing the world and boxing from his tyrannical reign and once again proving English warriors are the greatest the world has ever seen
2016: In the aftermath of the unrivalled success of the greatest British film of all time, (Star Wars: The force awakens) the rest of the world concedes that the planet would be better off under British rule once again
2018: Football comes home once again as England lift the FIFA World Cup