The Timeline
From the Family Tree Forum Reference Library
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Our ancestors (like us) were shaped by the world they lived in and the sudden movement of a family, for example, from their birthplace to another part of the country could be explained by what was going on.
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Eleventh Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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| 1066 | William the Conqueror | Battle of Hastings | |||
| 1086 | Domesday book completed | ||||
| 1087 | William II | ||||
| 1095 | First Crusade | ||||
| 1100 | Henry I |
Twelfth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS | |
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| 1119 | Foundation of the Knights Templar | |||||
| 1120 | Henry I's heir drowns in shipwreck | |||||
| 1123 | St Bartholomews Hospital, London founded by Rahere | |||||
| 1124 | David I becomes King of Scotland | |||||
| 1135 | Stephen | |||||
| 1141 | Matilda | Civil War | ||||
| 1147 | Second Crusade | |||||
| 1154 | Henry II | |||||
| 1170 | Henry the Young King | |||||
| 1189 | Richard I | Third Crusade | ||||
| 1199 | John |
Thirteenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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| 1204 | Fourth Crusade | ||||
| 1215 | Signing of Magna Carta | ||||
| 1216 | Henry III | Two regents, William the Marshal and Hubert de Burgh, rule as Henry is only 9 | |||
| 1217 | Treaty of Lambeth | ||||
| 1218 | Henry III | Fifth Crusade | |||
| 1219 | Death of William the Marshal | ||||
| 1222 | Hugh de Burgh supresses an insurrection at Oxford | ||||
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| 1227 | Henry takes full control of government of England. Hug de Burgh retained as principal adviser. | ||||
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| 1232 | Peter des Riveaux appointed Treasurer of England | ||||
| 1236 | Henry marries Eleanor of Provence | ||||
| 1238 | Simon de Monfort marries Henry's sister, Eleanor | ||||
| 1258 | De Monfort leads the English barons to rebel. | ||||
| 1258 | Henry signs the Provisions of Oxford | ||||
| 1261 | Henry repudiates the Provisions of Oxford | ||||
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| 1264 | Battle of Lewes | ||||
| 1265 | Battle of Evesham | ||||
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| 1270 | Seventh Crusade | ||||
| 1272 | Edward I | ||||
| 1277 | English conquest of Wales begins | ||||
| 1290 | Death of Eleanor of Castile | Jews expelled from England | |||
| 1299 | Edward marries Margaret of France | Ottoman Empire begins |
Fourteenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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| 1307 | Edward II | ||||
| 1309 | Papacy moves to Avignon | ||||
| 1314 | Battle of Bannockburn | ||||
| 1319 | Battle of Mytton: Scots defeat English | ||||
| 1322 | Battle of Boroughbridge: crown defeats rebels | ||||
| 1323 | Truce between Robert Bruce and Edward II but warfare continues | ||||
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| 1327 | Edward III | Death of Robert Bruce | |||
| 1333 | Battle of Halidon Hill | ||||
| 1338 | Start of 100 Years War | ||||
| 1342 | Birth of Geoffrey Chaucer | ||||
| 1346 | Battle of Crecy | ||||
| 1346 | Battle Of Neville's Cross | ||||
| 1348 | Black Death reaches Europe | A third or more of the population died as a result of the Black Death | |||
| 1356 | Battle of Poitiers | ||||
| 1377 | Richard II | Papacy returns to Rome | |||
| 1381 | The Peasants' Revolt | ||||
| 1388 | Battle of Otterburn | ||||
| 1399 | Henry IV | ||||
| 1400 | Owen Glendower revolts in Wales | Chaucer dies, London, 25 OCT |
Fifteenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS | ||||||
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| 1413 | Henry V | ||||||||||
| 1415 | Battle of Agincourt | ||||||||||
| 1422 | Henry VI | ||||||||||
| 1440 | A decade of developing Johannes Gutenberg printing techniques | Eton College & Kings College Cambridge founded | |||||||||
| 1450 | Jack Cade's rebellion | ||||||||||
| 1454 | Johannes Gutenberg using movable type commercially | ||||||||||
| 1455 | Start of the Wars of the Roses | ||||||||||
| 1455 | First Battle of St Albans | ||||||||||
| 1456 | Johannes Gutenberg prints '42 Line' Bible in Catholic Mainz,Germany | 1461 | Edward IV | ||||||||
| 1470 | Henry VI | ||||||||||
| 1471 | Edward IV | Battle of Barnet | |||||||||
| 1476 | Caxton sets up first English printing press | ||||||||||
| 1483 | Edward V | ||||||||||
| 1483 | Richard III | ||||||||||
| 1485 | Battle of Bosworth Field | Richard III died in battle | |||||||||
| 1485 | Henry VII | ||||||||||
| 1486 | Henry married Elizabeth of York, uniting the houses of York and Lancaster | ||||||||||
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| 1491 | Perkin Warbeck claims to be Richard, Duke of York | ||||||||||
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus discovers America | ||||||||||
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| 1499 | Perkin Warbeck hanged |
Sixteenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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| 1502 | Death of Prince Arthur, heir to the throne | ||||
| 1503 | Death of Elizabeth of York, Henry's wife | ||||
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| 1509 | Henry VIII | Marriage of Henry and Catherine of Aragon | |||
| 1515 | Birth of Princess Mary | ||||
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| 1529 | Cardinal Wolsey accused of high treason | ||||
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| 1532 | Sir Thomas More gives up the Chancellorship | ||||
| 1533 | Henry excommunicated by the Pope | ||||
| 1534 | Act of Supremacy passed | ||||
| 1535 | |||||
| 1536 | Execution of Anne Boleyn | Act of Union between Wales and England | |||
| 1538 | Parish Registers started | ||||
| 1547 | Edward VI | ||||
| 1548 | |||||
| 1549 | First Act of Uniformity passed, making Roman Catholic mass illegal | The First Book of Common Prayer issued | |||
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| 1553 | Jane | ||||
| 1553 | Mary I | ||||
| 1554 | Marriage of Mary to Philip of Spain | Execution of Lady Jane Grey | |||
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| 1558 | Elizabeth I | ||||
| 1559 | Second Act of Supremacy | ||||
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| 1562 | Sumptuary law restricts hose, ruffs and swords | ||||
| 1563 to 1564 | Bubonic Plague in London | ||||
| 1564 | William Shakespeare baptised 26APR Statford-upon -Avon Warickshire | ||||
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| 1568 | Mary Queen of Scots flees to England and is imprisoned by Elizabeth | ||||
| 1577 to 1580 | Francis Drake circumnavigates the world | ||||
| 1586 | Mary Queen of Scots sent for trial | ||||
| 1587 | Execution of Mary Queen of Scots | ||||
| 1588 | Spanish Armada | ||||
| 1590 | First part of Edmund Spenser's "The Fairie Queen" published | ||||
| 1598 | Bishops' Transcripts introduced | ||||
| 1600 | East India Company founded |
Seventeenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS |
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| 1601 | Poor Law Act Relief granted to paupers only in their parish of legal settlement | Orphans and paupers' children became apprentices (see Poor Law Act) | |||
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| 1603 | James I | ||||
| 1604 | |||||
| 1605 | Gunpowder Plot | ||||
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| 1607 | Ulster colonized by Protestant settlers | Huge wave in Bristol Channel kills hundreds | Settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, USA | ||
| 1608 | Quebec city founded | ||||
| 1609 | |||||
| 1610 | Authorized Version of Bible | ||||
| 1611 | |||||
| 1612 | Henry Prince of Wales died of typhoid | ||||
| 1612 | 10 hanged at Lancaster for witchcraft | ||||
| 1613 | |||||
| 1614 | New York founded by Dutch (New Amsterdam) | ||||
| 1615 | |||||
| 1616 | Shakespeare dies 23APR Statford-upon-Avon | ||||
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| 1620 | Pilgrim Fathers settle in New England | ||||
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| 1624 | Fire destroys much of Dunfermline | ||||
| 1625 | Charles I | ||||
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| 1627 | England goes to war with France | ||||
| 1628 | |||||
| 1629 | 11 years rule without Parliament commences | ||||
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| 1634 | First writs for Ship Money issued | ||||
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| 1637 | John Hampden tried for non payment of Ship Money | New Prayer Book introduced in Scotland | |||
| 1638 | |||||
| 1639 | First Bishops War against Scots | ||||
| 1640 | Second Bishops war Battle of Newburn Ford | ||||
| 1641 | Star Chamber and Court of High Commission abolished | Protestation Returns required by Parliament | |||
| 1641 | Irish Rebellion | ||||
| 1642 to 1651 | English Civil Wars | ||||
| 1642 | Royalists victory at Powick Bridge 23 Sep | ||||
| 1642 | Battle of Edgehill 23 Oct | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Braddock Down 19 Jan | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Hopton Heath 16 Mar | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Stratton 16 May | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Chalgrove 17 Jun | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Adwalton Manor 30 Jun | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Roundway Down 13 Jul | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Newbury 20 Sep | ||||
| 1643 | Battle of Winceby 11 Oct | ||||
| 1644 | Battle of Nantwich 25 Jan | ||||
| 1644 | Battle of Cheriton 29 Mar | ||||
| 1644 | Battle of Cropredy Bridge 29 Jun | ||||
| 1644 | Battle of Marston Moor 2 Jul | ||||
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| 1647 | George Fox's spiritual revelation that leads to founding Quakers | ||||
| 1648 | Frondes civil wars in France | ||||
| January 1649 | Regicide of Charles I | England declared a republic | |||
| 1649 to 1660 | Interregnum | Possible gaps in Parish records | |||
| 1649 | Irish royalists defeated at Wexford and the Siege of Drogheda | ||||
| 1650 | Scots royalists defeated at Dunbar | Cape Town founded | |||
| 1651 | Scots royalists defeated at Worcester | Charles II flees into exile | |||
| 1652 to 1654 | First Dutch War | ||||
| 1652 | Pasqua Rosee opens London's first Coffee House | ||||
| 1653 | Oliver Cromwell | ||||
| 1654 | |||||
| 1655 | Parliament dismissed. Country divided into 11 districts, each with a Major-General | Jamaica captured from the Spanish | |||
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| 1658 | Richard Cromwell | Oliver Cromwell dies | |||
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| 1660 | Charles II | Samuel Pepys begins diary | |||
| 1661 | |||||
| 1662 | Poor Relief Act (Act of Settlement) | The parish responsible for the relief of the poor. | |||
| 1662 | Book of Common Prayer (the current traditional C of E prayer book) | ||||
| 1663 | Mens' wigs become fashionable | ||||
| 1664 | |||||
| 1665-67 | 2nd Dutch War | The Oxford Gazette (later the London Gazette) first published | |||
| 1665 | Five Mile Act | Great Plague | |||
| 1666 | Great Fire of London | ||||
| 1666 | The Oxford Gazette becomes the London Gazette | ||||
| 1667 | John Milton writes "Paradise Lost" | ||||
| 1668 | Bombay granted to East India Company | ||||
| 1669 | |||||
| 1670 | Secret Treaty of Dover | ||||
| 1671 | |||||
| 1672-74 | 3rd Dutch War | ||||
| 1673 | Test Act | ||||
| 1674 | |||||
| 1675 | Royal Observatory established at Greenwich | ||||
| 1676 | St Paul's Cathedral begun by Sir Christopher Wren | ||||
| 1677 | Act for burying in Woollen | ||||
| 1678 | Popish plot fabricated by Titus Oates | "Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan | |||
| 1679 | Habeas Corpus Act | ||||
| 1682 | Pennsylvania founded | ||||
| 1685 | James II | Battle of Sedgmoor | Edict of Nantes revoked and many Huguenots settle in England | ||
| 1687 | Newton publishes Principia | ||||
| 1688 | The Glorious Revolution | ||||
| 1689 | William and Mary | Battle of Killiecrankie | Freedom of worship for Protestant dissenters | ||
| 1692 | Glencoe Massacre | ||||
| 1693 | National Debt founded | Land tax first introduced | |||
| 1694 | Death of Mary; William rules alone | Foundation of the Bank of England | |||
| 1695 | Press licensing abandoned in England(freedom of the press) | ||||
| 1696 | Window Tax introduced |
Eighteenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS | |
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| 1701 | Act of Settlement | |||||
| 1702 | Anne | War of Spanish Succession starts | The Daily Courant published - first daily newspaper | |||
| 1703 | ||||||
| 1704 | Battle of Blenheim | |||||
| 1705 | The Earl of Peterborough captures Barcelona | Newcomen patents steam pump | ||||
| 1706 | Marlborough defeats the French at the Battle of Ramilles | |||||
| 1707 | Act of Union | |||||
| 1708 | Capture of Minorca | Prince George of Denmark, Anne's husband, dies | ||||
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| 1713 | The Treaty of Utrecht | |||||
| 1714 | George I | End of the War of Spanish Succession | ||||
| 1715 | Jacobite Rebellion defeated | |||||
| 1716 | The Septennial Act (General Elections to be held every 7 years) | |||||
| 1717 | ||||||
| 1718 | Thomas Lombe's silk spinning patent | |||||
| 1719 | "Robinson Crusoe" published | |||||
| 1720 | South Sea Bubble burst | |||||
| 1721 | Robert Walpole becomes the first prime minister | |||||
| 1722 | Death of Duke of Marlborough | |||||
| 1726 | "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift published | Death of Sophia Dorothea, wife of George I | ||||
| 1727 | George II | Death of Sir Isaac Newton | ||||
| 1733 | Kay's flying shuttle | |||||
| 1736 | Witchcraft finally abolished as a crime | |||||
| 1737 | Death of Queen Caroline | |||||
| 1738 | Methodism begins | |||||
| 1739 | War of Jenkins Ear | |||||
| 1740 | War of the Austrian Succession | |||||
| 1745 | 2nd Jacobite rebellion | |||||
| 1746 | Battle of Culloden | |||||
| 1750 | London earth tremors cause panic | |||||
| 1752 | Gregorian calendar introduced | |||||
| 1753 | Foundation of the British Museum | Marriage Act | ||||
| 1755 | War with France | |||||
| 1756 to 1763 | Seven Years' War | |||||
| 1760 | George III | |||||
| 1763 | August hailstorms ruin Sussex harvest | |||||
| 1768 | Royal Academy of Arts founded | Spinning jenny | ||||
| 1770 | Lord North becomes Prime Minister | Cook charts New South Wales | ||||
| 1773 | Boston Tea Party | |||||
| 1775 | American War of Independence | James Watt develops the steam engine | ||||
| 1776 | Bridgewater canal completed | American Declaration of Independence | ||||
| 1778 | First iron bridge built | |||||
| 1778 | Bramah's flushing watercloset patented | |||||
| 1779 | Crompton's Mule | |||||
| 1780 | 4th Anglo-Dutch war | Gordon Riots in London | ||||
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| 1783 | Britain recognises U.S. independence | |||||
| 1783 to 1801 | William Pitt the Younger Prime Minister | |||||
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| 1785 | Separation of the Methodist Church from the Church of England | Cartwright's Power Loom | ||||
| 1788 | Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) dies in Rome | |||||
| 1788 | Settlement of Australia by Britons begins | |||||
| 1789 | French Revolution | |||||
| 1790 | ||||||
| 1791 | Publication of "The Rights of Man" by Thomas Paine | The Board of Ordnance started mapping southern Britain | ||||
| 1793 | War with France | |||||
| 1796 to 1808 | Anglo-Spanish War | |||||
| 1796 | Grand Junction (Union) Canal opens | |||||
| 1796 | Jenner develops smallpox vaccine | |||||
| 1798 | Nelson wins Battle of the Nile |
Nineteenth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS | |
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| 1800 | Census Act | |||||
| 1801 | Regents Canal opens | Census 10th March (of limited use to family historians | ||||
| 1801 | First Ordnance Survey map published, the 1 inch map of Kent | |||||
| 1802 | ||||||
| 1803 | War with France | |||||
| 1804 to 1806 | William Pitt Prime Minister | |||||
| 1805 | Battle of Trafalgar | |||||
| 1806 | State funeral of Nelson | |||||
| 1807 | Abolition of Slavery Act | |||||
| 1808 to 1814 | Peninsular War | |||||
| 1809 | ||||||
| 1810 | First curry house opens in England | |||||
| 1811 | Prince George appointed Regent when his father's health deteriorates (porphyria) | Census 27th May (of limited use to family historians) | ||||
| 1812-15 | Anglo-American War | |||||
| 1812 | Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated | First commercial European paddle steamer | Rose's Act passed. Entry of baptisms, marriages and burials in Anglican churches standardised in bound volumes | |||
| 1813 | Publication of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen | |||||
| 1815 | Napoleon defeated at the Battle of Waterloo | Leeds Liverpool canal completed | ||||
| 1816 | Davy lamp improves mining safety | Year without a summer due to volcanic eruption | ||||
| 1817 | Peterloo Massacre | |||||
| 1818 | Death of Queen Charlotte | |||||
| 1819 | ||||||
| 1820 | George IV | Failure of the Cato Street Conspiracy | ||||
| 1821 | Census May 28th (of limited value to family historians) | |||||
| 1822 | Caledonian Canal completed | |||||
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| 1825 | First railway, Stockton-Darlington | |||||
| 1826 | Machine breaking & riots in Lancashire | First steamship crosses Atlantic | ||||
| 1829 | The Catholic Relief Act passed - Catholics permitted to becomes MPs | Metropolitan Police established | Stephenson's "Rocket" locomotive | |||
| 1830 | William IV | Liverpool & Midlands Railway opens | ||||
| 1830 | Census: 30th May (of limited use to family historians | |||||
| 1833 | Slavery Abolition Act | |||||
| 1834 | Poor Law Amendment Act | Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation to Australia | ||||
| 1835 | ||||||
| 1836 | Sentence of Tolpuddle Martyrs remitted under public pressure | |||||
| 1837 | Victoria | Electric Telegraph invented | Civil Registration introduced | |||
| 1838 | Daguerrotype photographical process | Public Record Office established | ||||
| 1839 to 42 | First Afghan War | |||||
| 1839 | Foundation of the anti-Corn Law League | |||||
| 1840 | Uniform Penny Post introduced | Victoria married Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | ||||
| 1841 | Thomas Cook travel company founded | London-Brighton railway completed | Census: 6th June | |||
| 1843 | Rebecca riots in Wales | |||||
| 1844 | Safety match invented in Sweden | |||||
| 1845 | Start of the Irish Potato Famine | Emigration from Ireland rises steeply | ||||
| 1845 to 1872 | New Zealand Colonial Wars | |||||
| 1846 | Repeal of the Corn Laws | |||||
| 1847 | First use of chloroform in childbirth | |||||
| 1848 | Foundation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | |||||
| 1849 | ||||||
| 1850 | ||||||
| 1851 | The Great Exhibition | Australian Gold Rush | Census: 30th March | |||
| 1852 | Foundation of the Museum of Manufactures (later the Victoria & Albert Museum) | |||||
| 1853 | Compulsory Vaccination Act | |||||
| 1854 to 1856 | The Crimean War | |||||
| 1854 | Broad Street cholera outbreak | John Snow discovers cause of cholera | ||||
| 1855 | Civil Registration introduced in Scotland | |||||
| 1856 | Crinoline becomes popular | Synthetic dyes invented | ||||
| 1856 | Bessemer converter enables large scale steel production | |||||
| 1857 | The Museum of Manufactures moved to South Kensington and became South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria and Albert Museum) | Matrimonial Causes Act | ||||
| 1858 | Secular Court of Probate created | |||||
| 1861 | Census: 7th April | |||||
| 1861 | Death of Prince Albert from typhoid | |||||
| 1861 to 1865 | American Civil War | Lancashire Cotton Famine | ||||
| 1863 | Formation of Football Association | First underground railway opens in London | ||||
| 1867 | Suez canal opens | |||||
| 1870 | Education Act makes primary education compulsory | First Barnardo's Home opens | ||||
| 1871 | Trade Unions legalized | Penny farthing bicycle invented | Census: 2nd April | |||
| 1874 to 1880 | Benjamin Disraeli Prime Minister (Conservative) | |||||
| 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone | |||||
| Edison invents phonograph | ||||||
| 1878 to 80 | Seond Afghan War | |||||
| 1879 | Zulu War | |||||
| 1880 to 1881 | First Boer War | |||||
| 1881 | Census: 3rd April | |||||
| 1883 | First electric railway opens in Brighton | |||||
| 1887 | Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee | |||||
| 1891 | Census: 5th April | |||||
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| 1893 | First Matabele War | Marconi invents Wireless Telegraph | ||||
| 1894 | ||||||
| 1895 | Rontgen discovers X rays | |||||
| 1896 | Second Matabele War | |||||
| 1897 | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee | |||||
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| 1899 | Museum of South Kensington becomes the Victoria and Albert Museum | Bayer begin marketing Aspirin | ||||
| 1899 to 1902 | Second Boer War |
Twentieth Century
| YEAR | MONARCH | POLITICAL/CONFLICTS | SOCIAL/EPIDEMICS | INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES | NOTABLE EVENTS | |
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| 1901 | Edward VII | Australia granted dominion status | ||||
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| 1903 | Wilbur and Orville Wright make the first flight | |||||
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| 1906 | San Francisco earthquake | |||||
| 1907 | First mention of a brassiere in Vogue | New Zealand granted dominion status | ||||
| 1908 | Triple Entente between Russia, France and Britain signed | 4th Olympic Games held in London | ||||
| 1909 | Old age pension introduced in Britain | |||||
| 1910 | George V | |||||
| 1911 | National Insurance Act | Census 2nd April | ||||
| 1912 | Sinking of the Titanic | |||||
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| 1914 to 1918 | World War One | |||||
| 1917 | Russian Revoution | |||||
| 1918 | Qualification of Women Act | Influenza pandemic | First opportunity for women to vote | |||
| 1919 | Third Afghan War (May-Aug) | Lady Astor becomes the first woman MP | ||||
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| 1924 | First Labour Government formed by Ramsay MacDonald | |||||
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| 1926 | General Strike in support of coalminers | Formal Legal Adoption Commenced | ||||
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| 1928 | Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin | |||||
| 1929 | The Wall Street Crash | Start of the Great Depression | ||||
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| 1936 | Edward VIII January to December | |||||
| 1936 | George VI | Maiden voyage of the liner the Queen Mary | ||||
| 1937 | Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson | |||||
| 1939 to 1945 | World War Two | |||||
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| 1947 | Notably severe winter in UK | India and Pakistan granted independence | ||||
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| 1952 | Elizabeth II | Polio vaccine developed | ||||
| 1954 | Rationing finally ends | |||||
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| 1969 | Apollo 11 moonlanding - 1st man on the moon | |||||
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| 1971 | Introduction of decimal currency | |||||
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