Thursday 13 October 1642 : Start of English Civil War
Thursday 13 October 1642 : Battle of Edge Hill
Monday 9 January 1643 : Battle of Bradock Down
Sunday 16 April 1643 : Christening date of Honor CLEMOW
Saturday 6 May 1643 : Battle of Stratton
Saturday 10 June 1643 : Burial date of Honor CLEMOW
Sunday 25 June 1643 : Battle of Lansdown Hill
Monday 3 July 1643 : Battle of Roundway Down
Monday 11 March 1644 : Battle of Newark
Wednesday 19 June 1644 : Battle of Cropredy Bridge
Saturday 22 June 1644 : Battle of Marston Moor
Friday 23 August 1644 : Battle of Lostwithiel
Friday 18 October 1644 : Battle of Newbury
Tuesday 29 April 1645 : Battle of Auldearn
Wednesday 4 June 1645 : Battle of Naseby
Sunday 22 June 1645 : Battle of Alford
Wednesday 3 September 1645 : Battle of Philiphaugh
Sunday 14 June 1646 : End of English Civil War
Thursday 18 June 1646 : Christening date of Jane CLEMOW
Sunday 5 September 1647 : Christening date of Robert CLEMOW
Monday 7 August 1648 : Battle of Preston
Saturday 20 January 1649 : End of reign of Charles I
Saturday 20 January 1649 : Charles I beheaded
Sunday 21 January 1649 : Start of reign of Charles II
Saturday 24 August 1650 : Battle of Dunbar
Sunday 22 December 1650 : Christening date of Sarah PRATER
Sunday 24 August 1651 : Charles II flees to France
Sunday 24 August 1651 : Battle of Worcester
Tuesday 6 December 1653 : Cromwell declared Lord Protector
1655 : Invention of pendulum clock by C Huygens
Friday 19 June 1657 : Christening date of Dorothy CLEMOW
Friday 21 January 1659 : Christening date of Ann CLEMOW
Saturday 19 May 1660 : Charles II restored to the throne
Friday 7 March 1662 : Christening date of William CLEMOW
Saturday 24 January 1663 : Burial date of Jane CLEMOW
Saturday 4 November 1665 : Christening date of Emanuell CLEMOW
November 1665 : Plague kills 20% of London's population
Thursday 23 August 1666 : Great Fire of London
Tuesday 31 March 1668 : Christening date of Honor CLEMOW
1669 : Formation of the Hudson's Bay Company
Monday 20 March 1671 : Burial date of Honor CLEMOW
Tuesday 30 January 1672 : Christening date of Robert CLEMOW
Monday 2 September 1672 : Marriage date of Robert CLEMOW = Sarah PRATER
Friday 27 March 1674 : Christening date of Francis CLEMOW
Wednesday 10 July 1678 : Burial date of William CLEMOW
Saturday 3 May 1679 : Archbishop Sharp murdered near St Andrews
Thursday 25 September 1679 : Marriage date of Thomas ENNER = Dorothy CLEMOW
Monday 10 April 1682 : Burial date of Dorothy
Saturday 29 April 1682 : Burial date of Sarah PRATER
Monday 22 January 1683 : Burial date of Emanuell CLEMOW
Sunday 15 April 1683 : Christening date of Mary CLEMOW
Tuesday 27 January 1685 : End of reign of Charles II
Wednesday 28 January 1685 : Start of reign of James VII
Friday 26 June 1685 : Battle of Sedgemoor
Sunday 25 April 1686 : Christening date of Emanuell CLEMOW
1686 : Sir Isaac Newton publishes law of gravitation
Friday 18 February 1687 : Christening date of Honor CLEMOW
Tuesday 30 October 1688 : William of Orange invades England
Saturday 1 December 1688 : James VII flees the country
Friday 18 January 1689 : End of reign of James VII
Monday 4 February 1689 : Start of reign of William III and Mary II
Wednesday 17 July 1689 : Battle of Killiecrankie
Tuesday 22 April 1690 : Christening date of Frances CLEMOW
Saturday 17 May 1690 : Burial date of Frances CLEMOW
Saturday 21 June 1690 : Battle of The Boyne
Saturday 27 December 1690 : Marriage date of John ANDREW = Ann CLEMOW
Sunday 23 August 1691 : Christening date of James CLEMOW
Sunday 30 August 1691 : Burial date of James CLEMOW
Wednesday 3 February 1692 : MacDonalds massacred at Glencoe
Thursday 29 September 1692 : Christening date of John CLEMOW
Sunday 7 January 1694 : Burial date of William CLEMOW
Monday 8 January 1694 : Christening date of Richard CLEMOW
Tuesday 27 December 1698 : Christening date of Thomas CLEMOW
Saturday 31 December 1698 : Marriage date of Richard HARRIS = Ann CLEMOW
Thursday 21 March 1700 : Scottish colony on Darien fails
Wednesday 25 February 1702 : End of reign of William III and Mary II
Thursday 26 February 1702 : Start of reign of Anne
Friday 28 May 1703 : Christening date of Elizabeth CLEMOW
Saturday 18 March 1704 : Christening date of James CLEMOW
1704 : Edmund Halley discovers Halley's comet
1706 : Act of Union
Sunday 30 March 1707 : Burial date of Thomas CLEMOW
Thursday 22 January 1708 : Christening date of Robert CLEMOW
Sunday 7 March 1708 : Marriage date of Robert CLEMOW = Jane RICHARDS
1708 : Invention of piano (hammerklavier)
Monday 27 December 1708 : Burial date of James CLEMOW
Friday 28 July 1710 : Burial date of Robert CLEMOW
Saturday 17 February 1711 : Marriage date of Richard HARRIS = Mary CLEMOW
Wednesday 21 July 1714 : End of reign of Anne
Thursday 22 July 1714 : Start of reign of George I
Saturday 9 October 1714 : Marriage date of Richard BENNY = Mary CLEMOW
Wednesday 2 November 1715 : Battle of Preston 2
Wednesday 2 November 1715 : Battle of Sheriffmuir
Saturday 27 April 1717 : Marriage date of John CLEMOW = Jane WEB
1717 : Machine gun invented by James Puckle
1719 : Birth date of WILLIAM LAWER
Saturday 30 May 1719 : Battle of Glen Shiel
August 1720 : Collapse of the "South Sea Bubble"
Sunday 18 December 1720 : Christening date of Sara CLEMOW
Tuesday 27 December 1720 : Christening date of Richard BENNY
Thursday 23 March 1721 : Robert Walpole appointed first Prime Minister
Saturday 23 February 1723 : Christening date of Dorothy CLEMMO
1723 : First use of Portland cement
1724 : Invention of mine pump steam engine by Newcomen
Monday 14 June 1725 : Troops fire on tax rioters in Glasgow
1725 : Rob Roy MacGregor sent to Newgate prison
Monday 17 October 1726 : Jonathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels"
Sunday 11 June 1727 : End of reign of George I
Monday 12 June 1727 : Start of reign of George II
1732 : Flying shuttle loom invented by John Kay
Friday 27 August 1736 : Capt. Porteous lynched at the Tollbooth in Edinburgh
1737 : General Wade completes military road building in the Highlands
Friday 30 March 1739 : Dick Turpin hanged for murder
Sunday 10 February 1740 : Marriage date of Emanuell CLEMOW = Jane CHARLS
1740 : 13% of Ireland's population die in famine
Saturday 30 April 1743 : Marriage date of James TRENERRY = Sara CLEMOW
Sunday 11 November 1744 : Marriage date of WILLIAM LAWER = Dorothy CLEMMO
1744 : Jacquard draw-loom invented
Wednesday 30 January 1745 : Christening date of William LAWER
Thursday 8 August 1745 : Start of Jacobite rebellion (the '45)
Thursday 8 August 1745 : Stuart standard raised at Glenfinnan
Tuesday 10 September 1745 : Battle of Prestonpans
Saturday 7 December 1745 : Battle of Clifton Moor
Monday 6 January 1746 : Battle of Falkirk
Saturday 5 April 1746 : Battle of Culloden - last true battle on British soil
Saturday 5 April 1746 : End of Jacobite rebellion (the '45)
Friday 30 January 1747 : Christening date of Jonathan LAWER
Monday 6 April 1747 : Parliament prohibits wearing of tartan
Saturday 12 December 1747 : Christening date of William LAWER
1748 : Bow Street Runners formed
Tuesday 1 May 1750 : Christening date of Grace LAWER
Saturday 22 August 1752 : UK adopts Gregorian calendar - next day is 14 September
Sunday 23 August 1752 : Christening date of Simon LAWER
Friday 20 October 1752 : Burial date of Richard CLEMOW
Sunday 19 November 1752 : Burial date of Jane CHARLS
Saturday 6 January 1753 : Burial date of John CLEMOW
1754 : Royal and Ancient golf club founded
Wednesday 16 January 1754 : Burial date of James CLEMOW
Monday 15 April 1754 : Burial date of Grace LAWER
Monday 29 April 1754 : Christening date of Theophilus LAWYER
Sunday 16 June 1754 : Burial date of Theophilus LAWYER
Monday 20 January 1755 : Christening date of Theophilus LAWER
Tuesday 15 April 1755 : Dr Johnson publishes dictionary
1756 : Start of Seven Years' War
Tuesday 11 May 1756 : Burial date of Theophilus LAWER
Sunday 20 June 1756 : 123 Britons die in the Black Hole of Calcutta
1757 : Clive defeats Bengalis - start of Empire in India
Wednesday 9 March 1757 : Christening date of Dorothy CLEMOW
Wednesday 29 June 1757 : William Pitt becomes Prime Minister
Sunday 17 September 1758 : Christening date of Grace LAWER
1760 : Turnpikes improve travelling by road
Sunday 31 August 1760 : Christening date of James LAWYER
Saturday 25 October 1760 : End of reign of George II
Sunday 26 October 1760 : Christening date of Anne CLEMOW
Sunday 26 October 1760 : Start of reign of George III
1761 : Link between tobacco and cancer established
1763 : End of Seven Years' War
Monday 25 April 1763 : Christening date of John LAWER
1764 : Invention of the spinning jenny by J Hargreaves
Sunday 21 September 1766 : Christening date of Thomas LAWER
1767 : Construction of Edinburgh's New Town begins
Sunday 6 May 1770 : Capt. Cook discovers Botany Bay
1774 : Isolation of oxygen by J Priestley
Tuesday 28 February 1775 : Marriage date of Jonathan LAWER = Mary WILLIAMS
Friday 24 April 1778 : John Paul Jones captures the Drake at Carrickfergus
1779 : Invention of spinning mule by Samuel Crompton
Sunday 2 July 1780 : "Gordon" riots in London
Monday 1 January 1781 : World's first iron bridge completed over the River Severn
1782 : Invention of modern steam engine by James Watt
1783 : First flight of hot-air balloon by Montgolfier brothers
1783 : First steam powered ship built by d'Abbans
Tuesday 4 February 1783 : Parliament proclaims an end to hostilities in America
Wednesday 3 September 1783 : UK, France, Spain, the Netherlands and the US sign the Treaty of Paris
Monday 2 August 1784 : First mail coach runs from Bristol to London
1785 : First power-driven loom invented by E Cartwright
Monday 3 January 1785 : Marriage date of Richard CURRA = Grace LAWER
1786 : Robert Burns publishes "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect"
1787 : Transportation of criminals to Botany Bay begins
Tuesday 28 April 1789 : Mutiny aboard HMS Bounty
Saturday 26 December 1789 : Marriage date of Thomas LAWER = Ann TIPPETT
1790 : Birth date of William STACEY
Monday 23 August 1790 : Christening date of Elizabeth (known as Betsey) LAWER
1791 : The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain is founded
Friday 1 June 1792 : Christening date of Jennifer LAWER
1793 : Invention of cotton gin by Eli Whitney
Friday 1 February 1793 : France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands
Sunday 14 September 1794 : Christening date of Mary LAWER
1795 : Poor Law devised
1796 : Discovery of Smallpox vaccine by E Jenner
Tuesday 21 February 1797 : French landing in Wales repulsed at Fishguard
Saturday 15 April 1797 : First naval mutiny at Spithead
Friday 30 June 1797 : Second naval mutiny at the Nore
1798 : Typhus epidemic kills thousands
Sunday 17 June 1798 : Christening date of John Tippett LAWER
Wednesday 9 January 1799 : Parliament passes the first income tax
1801 : Electric arc lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy
Sunday 17 June 1804 : Christening date of William LAWER
Monday 21 October 1805 : Nelson dies victorious at Trafalgar
Sunday 6 September 1807 : Christening date of Ann LAWER
Sunday 21 August 1808 : Sir Arthur Wellesley leads campaign in Peninsular War
Friday 28 July 1809 : French driven from Portugal
1811 : Luddites attack textile machinery
February 1811 : Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent due to King's insanity
1812 : French retreat from Moscow
Wednesday 12 August 1812 : Wellington takes Madrid
1815 : Humphry Davy invents mining safety lamp
Sunday 18 June 1815 : Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
1816 : Invention of bicycle by K D von Sauerbronn
1816 : Invention of phosphorous match by F Derosne
Monday 23 December 1816 : Marriage date of William STACEY = Elizabeth (known as Betsey) LAWER
1817 : Potato famine kills thousands in Ireland
1818 : Mary Shelley publishes "Frankenstein"
Sunday 18 January 1818 : Birth date of John COLLINS
1819 : Invention of stethoscope by R Laennec
1819 : MacAdam revolutionises road building
Thursday 17 June 1819 : Birth date of Elizabeth (Betsey) STACEY
Sunday 11 July 1819 : Christening date of Elizabeth (Betsey) STACEY
Saturday 29 January 1820 : End of reign of George III
Sunday 30 January 1820 : Start of reign of George IV
1822 : Invention of electric motor by Michael Faraday
1822 : Birth date of Fanny STACEY
1823 : Birth date of William STACEY
Monday 16 February 1824 : Christening date of Joseph STACEY
Monday 5 July 1824 : Christening date of William STACEY
Sunday 3 July 1825 : Christening date of John COLLINS
Tuesday 27 September 1825 : First passenger train service from Stockton to Darlington
ABT 1826 : Birth date of George Thomas TIPPETT
Monday 30 January 1826 : Telford's Menai suspension bridge completed
1827 : G S Ohm postulates Ohm's Law
Tuesday 22 January 1828 : Wellington becomes Prime Minister
1829 : George Stephenson builds first steam locomotive
Wednesday 28 January 1829 : William Burke hanged for murder in Edinburgh
Saturday 26 September 1829 : First proper police force established in London
Saturday 26 June 1830 : End of reign of George IV
Sunday 27 June 1830 : Start of reign of William IV
Wednesday 15 September 1830 : Liverpool to Manchester railway opens
1831 : Invention of the friction match by C Sauria
ABT 1831 : Birth date of Hannah STACEY
1832 : M Faraday invents electric dynamo
Wednesday 7 March 1832 : Christening date of Hannah STACEY
June 1832 : Cholera epidemic strikes Britain
Thursday 7 June 1832 : Parliament passes Reform Act
Monday 29 July 1833 : Slavery abolished throughout British Empire
March 1834 : Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation
1835 : Samuel Colt invents the revolver
1836 : Charles Darwin returns from South America
1836 : Invention of screw propeller by F P Smith
1836 : Birth date of Mary STACEY
Tuesday 14 June 1836 : Christening date of Mary STACEY
Wednesday 23 November 1836 : Christening date of Elizabeth STACEY
1837 : Invention of telegraph by S F B Morse
Tuesday 20 June 1837 : End of reign of William IV
Wednesday 21 June 1837 : Start of reign of Queen Victoria
April 1838 : First steam crossing of the Atlantic
September 1838 : Grace Darling rescues survivors of the "Forfarshire"
1839 : Rubber vulcanisation developed by C Goodyear
ABT 1840 : Development of photography
Wednesday 6 May 1840 : Penny Post introduced
Tuesday 2 June 1840 : Britain annexes New Zealand
Tuesday 6 July 1841 : First national census taken
September 1841 : Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
1842 : First use of ether as anesthetic by CW Long
ABT 1843 : Birth date of Mary Ann BEWS
Sunday 31 December 1843 : Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol"
June 1844 : Mines Act prohibits use of women and boys in mines
Thursday 4 July 1844 : Christening date of Sabina STACEY
Sunday 17 November 1844 : Marriage date of John COLLINS = Elizabeth (Betsey) STACEY
1845 : Invention of pneumatic tyre by R W Thompson
Monday 24 February 1845 : Birth date of Richard COLLINS
1846 : Birth date of Henry NUTE
July 1846 : Potato famine hits Ireland and Scotland
April 1847 : Thousands emigrate from Ireland on "Coffin" ships
Friday 1 September 1848 : Birth date of Elizabeth Jane COLLINS
Thursday 21 September 1848 : Birth date of John COLLINS
Sunday 8 October 1848 : Christening date of John COLLINS
Sunday 24 December 1848 : Christening date of Richard COLLINS
November 1849 : Cholera epidemic takes 2000 lives a week
Saturday 29 December 1849 : Marriage date of George Thomas TIPPETT = Hannah STACEY
1850 : Invention of refrigerator by Twining / Harrison
ABT 1850 : Birth date of William Stacey TIPPETT
Tuesday 21 May 1850 : Christening date of William Stacey TIPPETT
ABT 1851 : Birth date of Mary (?Anne) Jane CARNE
Monday 31 March 1851 : 1851 national census taken
Thursday 1 May 1851 : Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park
Sunday 28 September 1851 : Birth date of William COLLINS
ABT 1852 : Birth date of Eliza Ann
ABT 1852 : Birth date of John TIPPETT
Friday 23 April 1852 : Birth date of Mary Ann COLLINS
Tuesday 21 September 1852 : Christening date of John TIPPETT
1853 : Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory
ABT 1853 : Transportation of criminals to Australia ends
Tuesday 1 November 1853 : Christening date of Mary Hannah TIPPETT
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Britain and France declare war on Russia
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Start of Crimean War
Saturday 17 June 1854 : Birth date of James COLLINS
ABT 1855 : Birth date of Katherine Hannah Vercoe THOMAS
1855 : Invention of the safety match by J E Lundstrom
Monday 3 December 1855 : Birth date of Charles COLLINS
Tuesday 1 January 1856 : Christening date of Samuel Edmund TIPPETT
Tuesday 29 January 1856 : Birth date of Elizabeth Ann LEVERS
Sunday 2 March 1856 : Christening date of Charles COLLINS
Sunday 2 March 1856 : Christening date of James COLLINS
Sunday 30 March 1856 : End of Crimean War
Tuesday 24 February 1857 : Christening date of Edith TIPPETT
Sunday 10 May 1857 : Sepoy mutiny in India
Wednesday 14 October 1857 : Birth date of Henry (Harry) COLLINS
ABT 1858 : Birth date of Arthur Wesley TIPPETT
Tuesday 30 November 1858 : Christening date of Arthur Wesley TIPPETT
1859 : First oil well sunk by E L Drake in Pennsylvania
ABT 1859 : Birth date of Ellen
Friday 25 March 1859 : Christening date of Henry (Harry) COLLINS
Thursday 24 November 1859 : Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species"
ABT 1860 : Birth date of George T TIPPETT
Wednesday 25 April 1860 : Birth date of Thomas TIPPETT
1861 : Gatling gun invented by R J Gatling
Monday 8 April 1861 : 1861 national census taken
1862 : Birth date of Ellen COLLINS
Monday 24 February 1862 : Christening date of Emma TIPPETT
ABT 1863 : Birth date of Minnie Alice MANN
Saturday 10 January 1863 : London Underground opens
Thursday 19 February 1863 : Christening date of Ellen COLLINS
Tuesday 17 March 1863 : Death date of Ellen COLLINS
Tuesday 19 April 1864 : Birth date of Elizabeth FULLER
Sunday 15 May 1864 : Christening date of Elizabeth FULLER
Friday 24 June 1864 : Christening date of Fanny TIPPETT
Thursday 14 July 1864 : Birth date of Ellen COLLINS
Wednesday 27 July 1864 : Christening date of Ellen COLLINS
Tuesday 18 October 1864 : Marriage date of Richard COLLINS = Mary Ann BEWS
Sunday 16 July 1865 : Birth date of Frank COLLINS
Sunday 17 December 1865 : Christening date of Frank COLLINS
ABT 1866 : Invention of the breech-loading rifle
September 1866 : Cholera sweeps London
1867 : Invention of the typewriter by Sholes and Glidden
1867 : Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1867 : Joseph Lister pioneers antiseptic techniques
ABT 1867 : Birth date of Herbert TIPPETT
February 1868 : Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
1869 : D Mendeleev constructs Periodic Table of elements
Sunday 16 May 1869 : Birth date of Charles COLLINS
1870 : Burial date of William STACEY
1870 : Electric incandescent lamp invented by T A Edison
Tuesday 11 January 1870 : Burial date of Elizabeth (known as Betsey) LAWER
1871 : Birth date of Robert Henry NUTE
Saturday 25 March 1871 : Marriage date of Henry NUTE = Mary Ann COLLINS
Monday 3 April 1871 : 1871 national census taken
Monday 8 May 1871 : Birth date of Mary Ellen COLLINS
May 1872 : Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
December 1872 : "Marie Celeste" discovered abandoned
1873 : Birth date of Beatrice Annie NUTE
1873 : Invention of pianoforte by J Broadwood
Thursday 28 August 1873 : Birth date of James (Jim) Wesley COLLINS
Sunday 14 September 1873 : Christening date of James (Jim) Wesley COLLINS
Saturday 25 October 1873 : Marriage date of Robert GOODFELLOW = Elizabeth Jane COLLINS
Thursday 20 November 1873 : Marriage date of William Stacey TIPPETT = Mary (?Anne) Jane CARNE
Saturday 9 May 1874 : Marriage date of William COLLINS = Katherine Hannah Vercoe THOMAS
1875 : Birth date of May Opana NUTE
ABT 1875 : Birth date of Elizabeth Thomas COLLINS
ABT 1875 : Birth date of Richard OSBOURNE
Thursday 4 February 1875 : Birth date of Percy COLLINS
Sunday 28 February 1875 : Christening date of Elizabeth Thomas COLLINS
Sunday 28 February 1875 : Birth date of Constance Mabel COLLINS
Sunday 29 August 1875 : Christening date of Percy COLLINS
Sunday 5 September 1875 : Christening date of Constance Mabel COLLINS
ABT 1876 : Birth date of Thomas John COLLINS
1876 : Invention of the telephone by A G Bell
Friday 4 February 1876 : Christening date of Thomas John COLLINS
1877 : Phonograph invented by Thomas Edison
1877 : Invention of reinforced concrete by J Monier
Sunday 8 April 1877 : Birth date of Arthur COLLINS
1878 : Birth date of May Ellen NUTE
Sunday 24 March 1878 : Marriage date of Charles COLLINS = Elizabeth Ann LEVERS
Sunday 12 May 1878 : Birth date of Edith Mary COLLINS
Sunday 30 June 1878 : Christening date of Edith Mary COLLINS
Tuesday 3 December 1878 : Birth date of Jane Hill COLLINS
Tuesday 8 April 1879 : Birth date of Emeline Jane COLLINS
Monday 9 June 1879 : Birth date of Richard Henry COLLINS
Sunday 29 June 1879 : Christening date of Emeline Jane COLLINS
Friday 25 July 1879 : Birth date of Albert COLLINS
Sunday 31 August 1879 : Christening date of Richard Henry COLLINS
Sunday 31 August 1879 : Christening date of Albert COLLINS
Monday 6 October 1879 : Birth date of Henry (Harry) Lewis COLLINS
Sunday 28 December 1879 : Tay Bridge disaster
1880 : Birth date of Ethel NUTE
Thursday 15 April 1880 : Birth date of Francis Charles COLLINS
Saturday 17 April 1880 : Marriage date of James COLLINS = Minnie Alice MANN
1881 : Birth date of Elizabeth Jane
ABT 1881 : Death date of Katherine Hannah Vercoe THOMAS
Wednesday 16 February 1881 : Death date of Richard Henry COLLINS
Wednesday 2 March 1881 : Birth date of Gilbert COLLINS
Thursday 24 March 1881 : Christening date of Gilbert COLLINS
Sunday 3 April 1881 : 1881 national census taken
Wednesday 10 August 1881 : Birth date of Mary Elizabeth COLLINS
Sunday 25 September 1881 : Christening date of Mary Elizabeth COLLINS
1882 : Isolation of tuberculosis bacteria by R Koch
Monday 21 August 1882 : Birth date of Roger COLLINS
Sunday 27 August 1882 : Birth date of Reginald COLLINS
Sunday 24 September 1882 : Christening date of Reginald COLLINS
1883 : Cholera bacteria isolated by Robert Koch
1883 : Birth date of Jessie Ann NUTE
Sunday 26 August 1883 : Krakatoa erupts
Wednesday 7 November 1883 : Marriage date of Henry (Harry) COLLINS = Elizabeth FULLER
1884 : Fountain pen invented by L E Waterman
ABT 1884 : Birth date of Alfred Henry JENNER
1884 : Birth date of John Arthur NUTE
Sunday 11 May 1884 : Birth date of Hubert COLLINS
Sunday 25 May 1884 : Christening date of Alfred Henry JENNER
Wednesday 30 July 1884 : Birth date of Rosa COLLINS
Sunday 28 September 1884 : Christening date of Rosa COLLINS
Wednesday 8 October 1884 : Birth date of Henry John COLLINS
Saturday 1 November 1884 : Birth date of Ethel Minnie COLLINS
1885 : Vaccine against rabies discovered by Louis Pasteur
1885 : First internal combustion carriage built by K. Benz
Monday 26 January 1885 : General Gordon killed at Khartoum
Sunday 1 March 1885 : Christening date of Ethel Minnie COLLINS
Friday 17 July 1885 : Death date of Mary Ellen COLLINS
Sunday 9 May 1886 : Birth date of Ann (Lewis?) Hart Dingle COLLINS
Thursday 13 May 1886 : Birth date of George KENDALL
Sunday 27 June 1886 : Birth date of Kate COLLINS
Sunday 1 August 1886 : Birth date of Clara COLLINS
1887 : Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle
1888 : Invention of hand-held camera by George Eastman
October 1888 : Jack the Ripper terrorises London's East End
Sunday 7 October 1888 : Birth date of Cecil COLLINS
Sunday 23 December 1888 : Christening date of Cecil COLLINS
1889 : Invention of the bolt-action rifle by P von Mauser
Thursday 21 February 1889 : Birth date of Frederick GOODWIN
Thursday 14 November 1889 : Completion of the Forth Bridge - first large steel structure
Friday 15 November 1889 : Birth date of Richard Edward Levers COLLINS
1890 : Discovery of diphtheria vaccine by E von Behring
1890 : Birth date of Rebecca NUTE
1890 : Birth date of Albert Edward Sylvest NUTE
Sunday 19 January 1890 : Christening date of Richard Edward Levers COLLINS
1891 : Death date of Mary Ann COLLINS
1891 : Invention of the zip fastener by W L Judson
Wednesday 1 April 1891 : 1891 national census taken
Thursday 16 April 1891 : Death date of John COLLINS
Sunday 19 April 1891 : Burial date of John COLLINS
Tuesday 16 June 1891 : Birth date of Ellen Mary Lewis COLLINS
Sunday 12 July 1891 : Christening date of Ellen Mary Lewis COLLINS
Tuesday 31 May 1892 : Birth date of Daisy Lillian COLLINS
1893 : Thomas Edison invents motion pictures
Tuesday 24 January 1893 : Birth date of Mary Grace COLLINS
Tuesday 16 May 1893 : Christening date of Mary Grace COLLINS
Friday 13 October 1893 : Death date of Henry John COLLINS
Friday 13 October 1893 : Death date of Cecil COLLINS
Saturday 21 October 1893 : Burial date of Cecil COLLINS
Saturday 21 October 1893 : Burial date of Henry John COLLINS
1894 : Tower Bridge opens in London
1895 : Discovery of x-rays by W K Roentgen
1895 : Birth date of Emily Olive COUCH
1895 : Wireless telegraphy invented by G Marconi
Wednesday 28 August 1895 : Birth date of Emmiline Henrietta Grace COLLINS
1896 : Burial date of Charles COLLINS
ABT 1896 : Birth date of Frank Norman SALMON
1896 : Discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel
Saturday 17 October 1896 : Christening date of Charles COLLINS
Saturday 17 October 1896 : Birth date of Charles COLLINS
Saturday 17 October 1896 : Death date of Charles COLLINS
Wednesday 25 November 1896 : Death date of Roger COLLINS
Thursday 24 December 1896 : Marriage date of Richard OSBOURNE = Jane Hill COLLINS
Tuesday 23 February 1897 : Birth date of Frank William WEAKFORD
Tuesday 22 June 1897 : Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
Sunday 13 November 1898 : Birth date of Emily Christina COLLINS
Tuesday 6 December 1898 : Death date of Elizabeth (Betsey) STACEY
Sunday 11 December 1898 : Burial date of Elizabeth (Betsey) STACEY
1899 : Invention of first tape recorder by V Poulsen
1899 : Introduction of aspirin by Felix Hoffman
Tuesday 10 January 1899 : Christening date of Emily Christina COLLINS
Sunday 28 May 1899 : Death date of Emily Christina COLLINS
Saturday 3 June 1899 : Burial date of Emily Christina COLLINS
October 1899 : Start of Boer War
1900 : Invention of rigid airship by von Zeppelin
1900 : Invention of agricultural tractor by B Holt
August 1900 : Boxer rebellion in Peking
1901 : First successful safety razor sold by K Gillette
Tuesday 22 January 1901 : End of reign of Queen Victoria
Wednesday 23 January 1901 : Start of reign of Edward VII
Friday 2 August 1901 : Birth date of Rennie Leslie COLLINS
Sunday 27 October 1901 : Christening date of Rennie Leslie COLLINS
Sunday 1 December 1901 : Birth date of (Louie) Louise Helen FANNER
1902 : Death date of Hubert COLLINS
Saturday 5 April 1902 : 20 killed as terracing collapses at Ibrox Park
Sunday 1 June 1902 : End of Boer War
Wednesday 9 September 1903 : Birth date of Annie COLLINS
Friday 16 October 1903 : Death date of Henry (Harry) COLLINS
Friday 27 November 1903 : Christening date of Annie COLLINS
Wednesday 4 October 1905 : Convicted Suffragettes choose to go to prison
1906 : Wassermann test for syphilis developed
1907 : Albert Einstein postulates "E=mc²" theory
Saturday 6 November 1909 : Marriage date of Alfred Henry JENNER = Kate COLLINS
1910 : Invention of first synthetic plastic, Bakelite
Friday 6 May 1910 : End of reign of Edward VII
Saturday 7 May 1910 : Start of reign of George V
Sunday 31 July 1910 : Radio used to arrest Dr Crippen fleeing to Quebec
1911 : E. Rutherford puts forward nuclear model of the atom
Tuesday 3 January 1911 : Three policemen die in the Seige of Sidney Street
Thursday 31 August 1911 : Troops clash with strikers in north of England
Monday 15 April 1912 : SS Titanic sinks with loss of 1513 lives
Tuesday 21 May 1912 : Marriage date of George KENDALL = Ann (Lewis?) Hart Dingle COLLINS
Monday 25 November 1912 : Birth date of Everett Charles KING
Monday 10 February 1913 : Capt. Scott found dead in Antartica
June 1913 : Suffragette dies under King's horse at Epsom
Saturday 14 June 1913 : Birth date of Katie Elizabeth KENDALL
1914 : Invention of military tank by E Swinton
Thursday 26 March 1914 : Marriage date of Thomas Lionel GOODMAN = Mary Grace COLLINS
Sunday 28 June 1914 : Austrian Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
Tuesday 28 July 1914 : Start of World War I
Tuesday 28 July 1914 : Austria declares war on Serbia
Saturday 1 August 1914 : Germany declares war on Russia
August 1914 : Battle of Tannenberg
Monday 3 August 1914 : Germany declares war on France
Tuesday 4 August 1914 : Britain declares war on Germany
Tuesday 4 August 1914 : Germany invades Belgium
September 1914 : First Battle of the Marne
Sunday 4 October 1914 : First bombs fall on London
February 1915 : Start of German submarine blockade of Britain
Monday 8 March 1915 : Birth date of Mary Elizabeth Gwendoline GOODMAN
Wednesday 21 April 1915 : Birth date of George Collins KENDALL
Thursday 22 April 1915 : Germans first use of mustard gas at Ypres
Monday 26 April 1915 : British land in Turkey
Friday 7 May 1915 : SS Lusitania sunk by German submarine
Saturday 22 May 1915 : 200 soldiers killed in train crash at Quintinshill
Monday 6 September 1915 : Poland and Lithuania overrun by Germany
Thursday 14 October 1915 : Britain and France declare war on Bulgaria
Monday 20 December 1915 : British withdraw from Gallipoli
February 1916 : Battle of Verdun
Monday 24 April 1916 : 450 die in Easter Rising in Dublin
Wednesday 31 May 1916 : Battle of Jutland
Saturday 1 July 1916 : Start of Battle of the Somme
Sunday 27 August 1916 : Romaina declares war on Austria-Hungary
Monday 23 October 1916 : Birth date of Thomas (Paddy) ARMSTRONG
Wednesday 15 November 1916 : End of Battle of the Somme
Saturday 9 December 1916 : Marriage date of Frederick GOODWIN = Daisy Lillian COLLINS
Friday 6 April 1917 : USA declares war on Germany
Sunday 9 September 1917 : Birth date of Stella Minnie Grace LLOYD
October 1917 : Start of Battle of Caporetto
Sunday 7 October 1917 : Birth date of Dagnal Frederick GOODWIN
Monday 5 November 1917 : Birth date of Joyce Angelina KING
December 1917 : End of Battle of Caporetto
Friday 7 December 1917 : USA declares war on Austria-Hungary
Saturday 15 December 1917 : Russian Bolsheviks now allies with Germany
Thursday 21 March 1918 : Start of German offensive
Monday 1 April 1918 : Royal Air Force created
Saturday 18 May 1918 : Sinn Féin banned and leaders arrested
July 1918 : Second Battle of the Marne
Thursday 8 August 1918 : End of German offensive
Friday 4 October 1918 : Germany offers surrender
Sunday 20 October 1918 : Birth date of Marie Gladys LITTLEFIELD
Monday 11 November 1918 : End of World War I
Monday 11 November 1918 : Hostilities cease on Western Front
Saturday 21 December 1918 : Birth date of Gladys May ANSTISS
Saturday 28 December 1918 : Women allowed to vote for the first time
Monday 20 January 1919 : Birth date of Leslie Ralph JENNER
March 1919 : Spanish flu kills 150,000 throughout Britian
Saturday 19 April 1919 : Birth date of Esme Rosalie GOODWIN
Sunday 1 June 1919 : Christening date of Esme Rosalie GOODWIN
Sunday 21 December 1919 : Birth date of Colin GOODWIN
Sunday 28 December 1919 : Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
1920 : Birth date of Vera Joyce BOULTER
Thursday 11 March 1920 : Birth date of Evelyn Katherine GOODMAN
Sunday 30 May 1920 : Birth date of Ethel Eleanor KENDALL
Monday 18 October 1920 : State of emergency declared as miners strike
Friday 12 November 1920 : Birth date of Irene NICHOL
Sunday 21 November 1920 : "Bloody Sunday" - 12 Irish killed by the Black and Tans
Friday 28 January 1921 : Birth date of Henry Cecil JENNER
Tuesday 6 December 1921 : Irish Free State created
1922 : Banting and MacLeod isolate human insulin
Monday 13 March 1922 : Death date of Charles COLLINS
Sunday 27 January 1924 : Death date of Eliza Ann
Sunday 20 April 1924 : Marriage date of Frank William WEAKFORD = Annie COLLINS
Wednesday 23 April 1924 : First royal transmission by wireless
Wednesday 24 December 1924 : Death date of John COLLINS
Thursday 7 May 1925 : Death date of Elizabeth Ann LEVERS
Sunday 27 September 1925 : Birth date of Bernard STEVENS
Saturday 14 November 1925 : Birth date of Cynthia COLLINS
1926 : Invention of the liquid-fuelled rocket by R Goddard
1926 : First demonstration of television by J L Baird
Tuesday 27 April 1926 : Marriage date of Rennie Leslie COLLINS = (Louie) Louise Helen FANNER
Monday 10 May 1926 : TUC calls first General Strike
Monday 12 September 1927 : Birth date of Joan OTTAWAY
Saturday 7 January 1928 : River Thames floods killing 14
Monday 9 January 1928 : Birth date of Brenda WEAKFORD
Sunday 30 September 1928 : Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming
Tuesday 7 January 1930 : Birth date of Keith COLLINS
Saturday 24 May 1930 : Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia
Monday 28 July 1930 : Birth date of Philip Leslie COLLINS
Sunday 5 October 1930 : Airship R101 crashes in France killing 48
Friday 9 October 1931 : Birth date of John Edward WEAKFORD
Friday 12 February 1932 : Whipping of children under 14 is banned
Friday 6 May 1932 : Death date of Charles COLLINS
Friday 30 September 1932 : Unemployment reaches 25%
Monday 13 November 1933 : Birth date of Roger Clive COLLINS
1934 : Invention of first practical radar by Watson-Watt
Friday 21 September 1934 : 262 killed in blast at Gresford colliery
Monday 18 March 1935 : Thousands protest in Wales at "means test"
Sunday 7 April 1935 : Birth date of Jill Lesley WEAKFORD
1936 : Invention of helicopter by H Focke
1936 : Sir Frank Whittle invents the jet engine
Monday 20 January 1936 : End of reign of George V
Tuesday 21 January 1936 : Start of reign of Edward VIII
Monday 27 July 1936 : Birth date of Ann Roberta BUTLER
Wednesday 11 November 1936 : Jarrow Crusade reaches London
Thursday 10 December 1936 : Edward VIII abdicates
Thursday 10 December 1936 : End of reign of Edward VIII
Friday 11 December 1936 : Start of reign of George VI
Friday 28 May 1937 : Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister
1938 : Discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassmann
Monday 28 March 1938 : Death date of Albert COLLINS
Monday 11 July 1938 : Last British troops leave Eire
Thursday 27 October 1938 : Birth date of Pamela Mavis NEAL
Thursday 9 February 1939 : Birth date of Elizabeth Margaret COLLINS
Friday 25 August 1939 : IRA bomb Coventry killing 5
Friday 1 September 1939 : Germany invades Poland
September 1939 : Children evacuated from London and major cities
Sunday 3 September 1939 : Britain and France declare war on Germany
Sunday 3 September 1939 : Start of World War II
Sunday 17 December 1939 : the Graf Spee scuttled off Montevideo
Friday 10 May 1940 : Churchill takes over as Prime Minister
Friday 10 May 1940 : Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
Saturday 11 May 1940 : Marriage date of Christopher Roy CAVE = Evelyn Katherine GOODMAN
Sunday 12 May 1940 : Germany invades France
Sunday 26 May 1940 : Allied evacuation from Dunkirk begins
Saturday 1 June 1940 : Birth date of Nicholas Stephen BUTCHER
Monday 10 June 1940 : Italy declares war on France and Britain
Monday 10 June 1940 : Italy invades France
Friday 14 June 1940 : Germans enter Paris unopposed
Saturday 22 June 1940 : France surrenders to Germany
Sunday 25 August 1940 : Marriage date of Dagnal Frederick GOODWIN = Marie Gladys LITTLEFIELD
Thursday 14 November 1940 : Coventry bombed
Thursday 17 April 1941 : Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany
Sunday 27 April 1941 : British leave Greece
Sunday 22 June 1941 : Germany attacks Russia
Thursday 14 August 1941 : Britain and USA sign Atlantic Charter
Sunday 7 December 1941 : Japan attack USA at Pearl Harbour
Thursday 11 December 1941 : Germany and Italy declare war on USA
Thursday 11 December 1941 : Britain and USA declare war on Japan
Sunday 15 February 1942 : British surrender Singapore to Japanese
Saturday 28 March 1942 : Birth date of Janet Marie GOODWIN
Thursday 9 April 1942 : USA surrenders Bataan peninsula to Japanese
Monday 20 April 1942 : Birth date of James Andrew ARMSTRONG
Wednesday 6 May 1942 : USA surrenders Corregidor Island to Japanese
Wednesday 10 June 1942 : Lidice, Czechoslovakia razed by Germans
Sunday 8 November 1942 : British and US troops land in North Africa
Thursday 14 January 1943 : Casablanca conference
Saturday 23 January 1943 : Birth date of David Michael HAYES
Monday 1 February 1943 : Germans surrender at Stalingrad
Wednesday 12 May 1943 : War in Africa ends
Sunday 25 July 1943 : Mussolini deposed
Friday 3 September 1943 : Allies land in Italy
Wednesday 8 September 1943 : Italy surrenders
Friday 10 September 1943 : Germans take Rome
Monday 22 November 1943 : Cairo conference
Sunday 28 November 1943 : Teheran Conference
Saturday 22 January 1944 : British and US troops land at Anzio
Sunday 4 June 1944 : British and US troops enter Rome
Saturday 15 July 1944 : Birth date of Janet Patricia ROGERS
Friday 25 August 1944 : Paris liberated
Sunday 27 August 1944 : Birth date of Celia GOODWIN
Friday 13 October 1944 : Athens liberated
Friday 20 October 1944 : USA invades Philippines
Saturday 16 December 1944 : Battle of the Bulge
Wednesday 10 January 1945 : Marriage date of Henry Cecil JENNER = Vera Joyce BOULTER
Sunday 11 February 1945 : Yalta agreement
Saturday 28 April 1945 : Mussolini killed at Lake Como
Tuesday 1 May 1945 : Hitler's suicide announced
Wednesday 2 May 1945 : Berlin falls
Monday 7 May 1945 : VE Day. Germany surrenders
Tuesday 19 June 1945 : Birth date of Ian George KENDALL
Tuesday 17 July 1945 : Potsdam conference
Monday 6 August 1945 : USA drops atom bomb on Hiroshima
Wednesday 8 August 1945 : USSR declares war on Japan
Thursday 9 August 1945 : USA drops atom bomb on Nagasaki
Tuesday 14 August 1945 : Japan surrenders
Sunday 2 September 1945 : VJ Day. Japanese sign surrender aboard USS Missouri
Sunday 2 September 1945 : End of World War II
February 1946 : 50,000 "GI brides" shipped out to the USA
Sunday 12 May 1946 : Marriage date of Leslie Ralph JENNER = Gladys May ANSTISS
December 1946 : Fuel and food shortages continue
Thursday 20 February 1947 : Birth date of Patricia JENNER
Monday 30 June 1947 : Marriage date of Ronald GREENHALGH = Mary Elizabeth Gwendoline GOODMAN
Thursday 20 November 1947 : Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh
Thursday 1 January 1948 : Railways nationalised
Wednesday 26 May 1948 : Birth date of Christine WINDER
Monday 28 June 1948 : Troops break dockers' strike
Saturday 18 September 1948 : Birth date of Stewart JENNER
Sunday 3 October 1948 : Birth date of David JENNER
December 1948 : Labour government constructs "Welfare State"
Tuesday 22 February 1949 : Birth date of Elizabeth Ann ARMSTRONG
Tuesday 15 March 1949 : Clothes rationing ends
Monday 18 April 1949 : Eire becomes Republic of Ireland
Monday 3 October 1949 : Birth date of Christopher WINDER
Friday 11 November 1949 : Birth date of Kevin Charles BAMPTON
ABT 1950 : Albert Einstein puts forward theories of relativity
February 1950 : Death date of Elizabeth FULLER
Wednesday 28 June 1950 : Royal Navy enters Korean War
Thursday 9 November 1950 : Birth date of Diana GOODWIN
Monday 25 December 1950 : Stone of Destiny taken from Westminster Abbey
Thursday 7 June 1951 : Soviet spies Burgess and MacLean disappear
Wednesday 6 February 1952 : End of reign of George VI
Thursday 7 February 1952 : Start of reign of Elizabeth II
Sunday 24 February 1952 : Birth date of Clifford Leslie JENNER
Wednesday 26 March 1952 : Birth date of Sally Jane STEVENS
Friday 21 November 1952 : Birth date of Robert Dagnal GOODWIN
Monday 24 November 1952 : "Mousetrap" opens in London
Thursday 11 December 1952 : Derek Bentley sentenced to hang
1953 : Discovery of measles vaccine by Enders and Peebles
Saturday 31 January 1953 : Ferry Princess Victoria sinks in the Irish Sea
Tuesday 3 February 1953 : Hundreds die as East Coast is flooded
Saturday 28 February 1953 : Marriage date of Colin GOODWIN = Stella Minnie Grace LLOYD
Saturday 30 May 1953 : Edmund Hillary reaches the top of Mount Everest
1954 : Discovery of first polio vaccine by J E Salk
1954 : Marriage date of John HAY = Jill Lesley WEAKFORD
May 1954 : "Teddy Boys" appear
Saturday 5 June 1954 : Marriage date of Philip Leslie COLLINS = Joan OTTAWAY
Saturday 3 July 1954 : Rationing ends
Saturday 11 September 1954 : Death date of Richard OSBOURNE
Wednesday 13 July 1955 : Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged
Monday 6 February 1956 : Death date of Kate COLLINS
Wednesday 31 October 1956 : Britain invades Suez
1957 : Death date of Seraphine KING
Monday 7 January 1957 : Birth date of Yvonne ALLAN
Tuesday 7 May 1957 : Birth date of David GOODWIN
Saturday 11 May 1957 : Marriage date of Roger Clive COLLINS = Ann Roberta BUTLER
Sunday 18 August 1957 : Marriage date of Bernard STEVENS = Brenda WEAKFORD
Saturday 21 September 1957 : Marriage date of John Edward WEAKFORD = Rita PATTERSON
Thursday 17 October 1957 : Air borne radiation leaks from Windscale
Monday 6 January 1958 : Birth date of Adrian Lesley COLLINS
Thursday 6 February 1958 : 7 members of Manchester United die in plane crash
Wednesday 25 June 1958 : Birth date of Mark CONWAY
Thursday 21 August 1958 : Death date of (Louie) Louise Helen FANNER
Wednesday 27 August 1958 : Birth date of Deborah Ann JENNER
Friday 5 December 1958 : First motorway in Britain, M6 Preston Bypass opens
Monday 12 January 1959 : Death date of Jane Hill COLLINS
February 1959 : Death date of Annie COLLINS
Sunday 17 May 1959 : Birth date of Mark Trevor COLLINS
Sunday 12 July 1959 : Christening date of Mark Trevor COLLINS
Thursday 19 November 1959 : Death date of Thomas John COLLINS
1960 : Death date of Jill Lesley WEAKFORD
Saturday 13 February 1960 : Birth date of Louise Helen COLLINS
Thursday 9 June 1960 : Birth date of Antonietta Vittoria DEL RICCIO
Monday 19 September 1960 : Birth date of Christopher William STEVENS
Friday 21 October 1960 : Birth date of Lance Gregory COLLINS
Saturday 31 December 1960 : National Service abolished
Tuesday 14 February 1961 : Birth date of Lynne Margaret COLLINS
Sunday 2 July 1961 : Birth date of Lesley WEAKFORD
Sunday 22 October 1961 : Birth date of Jill ROBINSON
Friday 2 March 1962 : Birth date of Catherine WINDER
Saturday 1 September 1962 : Marriage date of Michael STRUTT = Janet Marie GOODWIN
Sunday 2 September 1962 : Death date of Ann (Lewis?) Hart Dingle COLLINS
Friday 28 September 1962 : Death date of Elizabeth Jane
1963 : Death date of Thomas Lionel GOODMAN
Wednesday 27 March 1963 : Dr Beeching proposes cutting 25% of rail lines
Wednesday 5 June 1963 : John Profumo resigns after sex scandal
Monday 4 November 1963 : The Beatles appear in the Royal Variety Show
Wednesday 6 November 1963 : Birth date of Caroline WEAKFORD
Monday 29 June 1964 : Birth date of Tracy Anne KOHLBECK
Saturday 3 October 1964 : Marriage date of Nicholas Stephen BUTCHER = Elizabeth Margaret COLLINS
Monday 21 December 1964 : Death penalty abolished in Britain
Wednesday 9 June 1965 : Birth date of Richard Donald John WILD
Saturday 28 August 1965 : Marriage date of David Michael HAYES = Celia GOODWIN
Thursday 28 October 1965 : Brady and Hindley charged with Moors Murders
Friday 25 February 1966 : Birth date of Zena SNELGROVE
Monday 15 August 1966 : Birth date of Rachel Louise BUTCHER
Friday 21 October 1966 : 144 die in Aberfan as coal bing buries school
1967 : Emergence of Flower Power
Sunday 26 March 1967 : Birth date of Nicholas WEAKFORD
Thursday 1 June 1967 : Birth date of Paula SLY
Wednesday 7 June 1967 : Birth date of Ian STEVENS
Saturday 30 December 1967 : Birth date of Ashley Mark STRUTT
Monday 13 May 1968 : Birth date of Karen Thelma PARSONS
Wednesday 7 August 1968 : Birth date of Paul Joseph BEDFORD
Saturday 26 October 1968 : Death date of Rennie Leslie COLLINS
Wednesday 5 March 1969 : London gangsters the Kray twins sentenced to life
Saturday 15 March 1969 : Birth date of Catherine Margaret BUTCHER
Sunday 24 August 1969 : Death date of Alfred Henry JENNER
Wednesday 17 December 1969 : Birth date of Dominic David HAYES
Thursday 23 April 1970 : Divorce date of Philip Leslie COLLINS = Joan OTTAWAY
Friday 8 May 1970 : Birth date of Harvey Michael STRUTT
Saturday 2 January 1971 : 66 die when barriers collapse at Ibrox Park
Monday 15 February 1971 : British currency goes decimal
Monday 7 June 1971 : Death date of George KENDALL
Tuesday 5 October 1971 : Birth date of Rebecca HAYES
Saturday 22 January 1972 : Britain joins the EEC
Sunday 30 January 1972 : 13 shot in another Bloody Sunday in Derry
February 1972 : Miners strike leads to power cuts
Saturday 22 July 1972 : Marriage date of Kevin Charles BAMPTON = Diana GOODWIN
Wednesday 28 February 1973 : Birth date of Russell Mark HAYES
Thursday 8 March 1973 : IRA begins mainland bombing
Saturday 24 March 1973 : Marriage date of Philip Leslie COLLINS = Pamela Mavis NEAL
Friday 15 June 1973 : Birth date of Clive Darren FORD
Monday 17 December 1973 : Three day week introduced
Tuesday 23 July 1974 : Birth date of Karl Thomas COLLINS
Tuesday 1 October 1974 : Death date of Frederick GOODWIN
Monday 7 October 1974 : Burial date of Frederick GOODWIN
Tuesday 12 November 1974 : Lord Lucan escapes and disappears
June 1975 : Marriage date of Clifford Leslie JENNER = Julie NILLS
Monday 9 June 1975 : Birth date of Zoe Ellen WINDER
Friday 11 July 1975 : Inflation reaches 25%
Friday 19 March 1976 : Birth date of Jessica Leah HAYES
Monday 3 May 1976 : Birth date of Julie WINTER
Monday 31 May 1976 : Marriage date of Raymond John HARTRIDGE = Sally Jane STEVENS
August 1976 : Drought causes water shortages
Tuesday 11 January 1977 : Birth date of Hannah Jane BAMPTON
Saturday 2 April 1977 : Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time
Sunday 3 April 1977 : Birth date of Wayne Richard JENNER
Wednesday 25 May 1977 : Birth date of Mark Daniel FORD
Thursday 9 June 1977 : Birth date of Gavin Lloyd WINDER
Sunday 27 November 1977 : Death date of John Edward WEAKFORD
Saturday 5 August 1978 : Death date of David GOODWIN
Wednesday 27 September 1978 : Birth date of Matthew Karl BAMPTON
Saturday 9 December 1978 : Marriage date of Ian George KENDALL = Janet Patricia ROGERS
Wednesday 13 December 1978 : Jeremy Thorpe charged with incitement to murder
January 1979 : "Winter of Discontent" causes chaos
Monday 1 January 1979 : Death date of Ellen Mary Lewis COLLINS
Thursday 4 January 1979 : Death date of Mary Grace COLLINS
Thursday 1 February 1979 : Death date of Daisy Lillian COLLINS
Wednesday 7 February 1979 : Burial date of Daisy Lillian COLLINS
Friday 16 February 1979 : Birth date of James Walter Thomas ARMSTRONG
April 1979 : Death date of Bernard STEVENS
Friday 4 May 1979 : Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister
Sunday 2 September 1979 : Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim
Friday 21 December 1979 : Birth date of Ross Charles JENNER
1980 : Death date of Julie NILLS
Wednesday 19 March 1980 : Death date of Gladys May ANSTISS
Monday 5 May 1980 : SAS storms Iranian embassy in London
Saturday 27 September 1980 : Marriage date of Leslie Ralph JENNER = Esme Rosalie GOODWIN
Wednesday 5 November 1980 : Birth date of Damian Paul HAYES
Monday 6 April 1981 : Birth date of Ian David George KENDALL
July 1981 : Riots break out in 8 inner city areas
Friday 2 April 1982 : Argentina invades Falkland Islands
Monday 14 June 1982 : British troops regain control of Falklands
Saturday 31 July 1982 : Birth date of Gemma HARTRIDGE
Tuesday 17 August 1982 : Birth date of Benjamin Charles BAMPTON
Friday 7 January 1983 : Marriage date of Robert Dagnal GOODWIN = Yvonne ALLAN
Wednesday 26 January 1983 : Birth date of Thomas Steven Rowe RICHARDS
Friday 25 March 1983 : Death date of Richard Edward Levers COLLINS
Sunday 25 September 1983 : 134 IRA prisoners escape from the Maze prison
Sunday 23 October 1983 : Death date of Dagnal Frederick GOODWIN
Friday 28 October 1983 : Burial date of Dagnal Frederick GOODWIN
May 1984 : Coal strikes crushed by riot police
Saturday 12 May 1984 : Birth date of Ross Dagnal GOODWIN
Saturday 25 August 1984 : Marriage date of Mark Trevor COLLINS = Jill ROBINSON
Tuesday 4 September 1984 : Birth date of Joseph Ian BAMPTON
Friday 12 October 1984 : IRA bombs Tory conference in Brighton
Saturday 11 May 1985 : 40 killed as fire destroys Bradford City stand
Saturday 17 August 1985 : Marriage date of Clifford Leslie JENNER = Zena SNELGROVE
Sunday 23 February 1986 : Death date of Frank Norman SALMON
Thursday 13 March 1986 : Birth date of Simon Robert GOODWIN
Sunday 18 May 1986 : Death date of George Collins KENDALL
Saturday 30 May 1987 : Birth date of Ruth Miriam COLLINS
Saturday 30 May 1987 : Marriage date of Lance Gregory COLLINS = Tracy Anne KOHLBECK
Friday 16 October 1987 : Hurricane hits southern England
Wednesday 18 November 1987 : 30 die in King's Cross Underground fire
Wednesday 6 July 1988 : North sea oil rig Piper Alpha explodes
Thursday 22 December 1988 : Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Lockerbie killing 270
Sunday 22 January 1989 : Death date of Emmiline Henrietta Grace COLLINS
Tuesday 14 March 1989 : Birth date of Katherine JENNER
Saturday 8 April 1989 : Birth date of Daniel James COLLINS
Saturday 15 April 1989 : 94 football fans crushed to death at Hillsborough
September 1989 : Thousands of Scots elect not to pay new Poll Tax
Thursday 19 October 1989 : "Guildford Four" released from prison
Saturday 26 May 1990 : Marriage date of Richard Donald John WILD = Rachel Louise BUTCHER
Thursday 23 August 1990 : British and US troop build up in Persian Gulf
Thursday 17 January 1991 : Operation "Desert Storm" defeats Iraq
Thursday 7 February 1991 : Downing Street hit by IRA mortar bomb
Thursday 14 March 1991 : "Birmingham Six" released from prison
Saturday 3 August 1991 : Marriage date of Ian STEVENS = Heather Jane KEMP
Tuesday 8 October 1991 : Death date of Roger Clive COLLINS
Sunday 26 April 1992 : Marriage date of Paul Joseph BEDFORD = Rebecca HAYES
Wednesday 6 May 1992 : Birth date of Harry Nicholas WILD
Saturday 15 August 1992 : Marriage date of John Alexander Robertson WALKER = Catherine Margaret BUTCHER
Saturday 7 November 1992 : Death date of Annie BLACKMAN
Saturday 16 April 1994 : Marriage date of Mark CONWAY = Louise Helen COLLINS
Tuesday 20 September 1994 : Death date of Irene NICHOL
Monday 3 July 1995 : Birth date of Joshua Luke BEDFORD
Saturday 8 July 1995 : Marriage date of Harvey Michael STRUTT = Linda Jane COLLINGWOOD
September 1995 : Britain hit by worst drought for over 250 years
Saturday 21 October 1995 : Marriage date of Ashley Mark STRUTT = Julie WINTER
February 1996 : Major oil spill from "Sea Empress" at Milford Haven
Tuesday 12 March 1996 : Birth date of Madelaine Grace WILD
Saturday 16 March 1996 : Birth date of Faye Rachel Kimberley COLLINS
Friday 29 March 1996 : Birth date of Daisy-May Louise CONWAY
Wednesday 10 July 1996 : Birth date of Matthew Thomas COLLINS
Tuesday 30 July 1996 : Birth date of Angus WALKER
Friday 16 August 1996 : Birth date of James Paul BEDFORD
Monday 2 September 1996 : Birth date of Amber Rose STRUTT
Saturday 5 October 1996 : Marriage date of Shaun PRITCHARD = Jessica Leah HAYES
Monday 21 July 1997 : Divorce date of Mark Trevor COLLINS = Jill ROBINSON
Saturday 6 September 1997 : Funeral of Diana Princess of Wales held in London
Friday 20 February 1998 : Burial date of Marie Gladys LITTLEFIELD
Saturday 21 March 1998 : Marriage date of Dominic David HAYES = Lynne Alyson CANNELL
Friday 28 August 1998 : Marriage date of Harvey Michael STRUTT = Paula SLY
Monday 14 September 1998 : Birth date of Conor Mark STRUTT
Thursday 1 July 1999 : After 292 years Scotland again has its own parliament
Sunday 15 August 1999 : Birth date of Cherrie Blossom HAYES
Wednesday 19 January 2000 : Birth date of Beatrice Margaret Rose WALKER
Thursday 23 March 2000 : Death date of Thomas (Paddy) ARMSTRONG
Friday 21 April 2000 : Birth date of Erin Claire STRUTT
November 2000 : Heavy rain causes worst flooding since records began
2001 : Divorce date of Nicholas Stephen BUTCHER = Elizabeth Margaret COLLINS
February 2001 : Foot and mouth disease closes UK countryside
Thursday 18 October 2001 : Death date of Joan OTTAWAY
Friday 26 October 2001 : Burial date of Joan OTTAWAY
Saturday 30 March 2002 : Queen Mother dies aged 101