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- Black Death arrives in Britain
- Printing press invented
- Dissolution of the Monasteries in England
- Publication of Vesalius' The Fabric of the Human Body
- Royal Society meet in London for first time
- William Harvey publishes his book on the circulation of the blood
- Thomas Sydenham publishes Observationes Medicae
- Great Plague arrives in Britain
- Thomas Sydenham publishes Observationes Medicoe
- Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination
- Royal Jennerian Society established
- John Snow discovers the significance of the Broad Street pump in causing cholera
- Nightingale publishes Notes on Nursing
- Louis Pasteur begins his work creating vaccinations
- Joseph Lister uses carbolic acid in surgeries for first time
- Louis Pasteur discovers Germ Theory
- Robert Koch publishes his four hypotheses and discovers the bacteria causing tuberculosis
- Wiliam Roentgen discovers x-rays
- Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) founded
- Karl Landsteiner discovers blood groups
- First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) founded
- Paul Ehrlich discovers the first magic bullet, Salvarsan 606
- Albert Hustin discovers that sodium citrate stops blood from clotting
- First gas attacks, prompts issuing of gas masks
- First blood depot is used, at the Battle of Cambrai
- Fleming discovers penicillin
- Discovery of the second magic bullet, Prontosil
- Florey and Chain develop penicillin into a usable treatment
- National immunisation campaign against diphtheria launched
- NHS is launched
- Franklin, Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA
- Clean Air Act passed
- Human Genome project began