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[assume Great Britain unless specifed]
1700's1800's1900's2000's
First Survey - England & Wales
1784  1841
EnglandWales
Ordnance Surveyors’ Drawings
1789  1940
purchased a Ramsden theodolite
  1791
first one-inch map of Kent
  1801
Old Series (1 inch to 1 mile)
1805  1874
six inch to the mile valuation survey - Ireland
  1824
Ireland
Triangulation - Ireland
1824  1832
Ireland
Thomas Drummond invented the limelight
  1825
first survey parties northern counties - Ireland
  1825
Ireland
new boundary department - Ireland
  1825
Ireland
Baseline Measurement - Ireland
1826  1828
Ireland
datum for County Dublin - Ireland
  1837
Ireland
Primary Spirit Levelling - Ireland
1839  1843
Ireland
GB to be surveyed at the six-inch scale
  1840
County series mapping - Scotland (+)
1843  1943
Scotland
large scale town plans - Scotland (+)
1847  1895
Scotland
County series mapping - England & Wales (+)
1854  1947
EnglandWales
District and Tourist maps
1857  1987
the twenty-five inch survey
1863  1895
New Series
1872  1897
Revised New Series
1895  1904
One-inch 2nd edition - Scotland (+)
1898  1904
Scotland
Third edition
1903  1919
Fourth Edition
1911  1912
(World War One)
1914  1918
Popular edition
1919  1926
One-inch "Popular" edition - Scotland (+)
1921  1928
Scotland
OS split into OSGB, OSNI and OSI
  1922
Fifth Edition
1931  1939
(2nd World War)
1939  1945
War Revisions
1943  1945
New Popular (Sixth) Edition
1945  1947
One-Inch Seventh Series
1952  1971
25,000 Second Series (Pathfinder)
1953  1982
New Datum: Malin Head, Co Donegal - Ireland
  1958
Ireland
large-scale Aerial photography - Ireland
  1958
Ireland
metrication programme
  1969
50k first series - sheets 102 to 204
1972  1974
50k first series - sheets 1 to 101
1974  1976
50k Second Series
1977  1988
Landranger Series replaces 50k
1979  now
Landranger gets colour 'locale' photographs on cover
  1985
Outdoor Leisure Second Series
1993  1997
Explorer Maps
1994  now
[assume Great Britain unless specifed]
1700's1800's1900's2000's

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