It's unfortunate - since you started this thread - that you seem unable to do more than just pop in with the same old tired schtick nobody gives a toss about.

Britannia, THE Britannia, not this thread, deserves better, and flipping the pages of a calendar to spot a couple of yearly dates that represent the sum total of your patently vague acquaintance with the subject is just sad.

Here, learn something, man! Below is good on-line site for beginners. There are also things called books out there, on the very subject.

BBC History