Kingdom of the Isles[1]
- 890: The Kingdom of the Isles is established, including present-day Isle of Man and parts of Scotland.
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Kingdom of Man and the Isles
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Kingdom of Scotland
- 1266: Man is ruled by the king of Scotland.
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Kingdom of England
- 1290: Man is ruled by the king of England.
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Kingdom of Scotland
- 1293: Man is ruled by the king of Scotland.
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Kingdom of England
- 1296: Man is ruled by the king of England.
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Kingdom of Scotland
- 1313: Man is ruled by the king of Scotland.
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Kingdom of England
- 1317: Man is ruled by the king of England.
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Kingdom of Scotland
- 1328: Man is ruled by the king of Scotland.
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Kingdom of Man
- 1333: Man is restored as kingdom with William Montagu as king.
- 1399: Man gets under English suzerainity. Henry Percy becomes king.
- 15th century: Man develops a parliament with coopted members for life.
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Isle of Man → England/Great Britain/United Kingdom
- 1504: Man becomes a lordship as a English and later British crown dependency. Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby becomes lord of Mann.
- 1600: The Parliament becomes a permanent body.
- 1660: The Isle of Man gets a governor appointed by the lord of Mann.
- 1765: Lady Charlotte Murray sells the suzerainty of the island to the British government, and king George III of Great Britain becomes lord of Mann.
- 1866: The Isle of Man has a bicameral parliament, the house of keys with elected members and a legislative council with ex officio members
- 1919: Part of the members of the legislative council are elected by the house of keys. In reforms later the number of elected members is raised. As a result the Isle of Man has since that moment a governor as representative of the monarch and a bicameral parliament with a chamber elected in free elections on a universal suffrage and a council mainly elected by the chamber. The government is responsible to the parliament. Most of the elected members run as independent candidates.
- 1961: The Executive Council gets a chairman elected by parliament.
- 1986: The title of the chairman of the Executive Council is changed into chief minister.
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