Timeline
1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 Wednesday 20 January 1563 : Marriage date of John LOSE = Thomasin AISH
Thursday 13 April 1564 : William Shakespeare born
Monday 14 July 1567 : End of reign of Mary Queen of Scots
Monday 14 July 1567 : Mary Queen of Scots forced to abdicate
Tuesday 15 July 1567 : Start of reign of James VI of Scotland (& I of England)
June 1570 : Elizabeth I excommunicated by Pope Pius V
1571 : Tyco Brahe produces first star catalogue
1584 : Sir Richard Grenville establishes first colony in Virginia
Sunday 29 January 1587 : Mary Queen of Scots beheaded
Tuesday 9 July 1588 : Spanish Armada sighted off the Lizard
1589 : Law of falling bodies postulated by Galileo
1589 : Invention of compound microscope by Z Janssen
June 1597 : Witch-hunt hysteria grips Scotland
Monday 14 March 1603 : End of reign of Elizabeth I of England
Tuesday 15 March 1603 : Union of the Crowns
April 1603 : James VI of Scotland crowned James I of England
November 1603 : Bubonic plague kills a quarter of London's population
Saturday 26 October 1605 : Guy Fawkes discovered plotting to blow up Parliament
January 1607 : More English settlers arrive in Virginia
1607 : Invention of the telescope by H Lippershey
1610 : King James version of the Bible published
1613 : John Napier discovers logarithms
1614 : Invention of clinical thermometer by S Santorio
Thursday 3 July 1617 : Christening date of Thomas LOSE
October 1620 : Pilgrim Fathers arrive at Plymouth Bay
Monday 12 April 1624 : Christening date of William LOSE
Sunday 25 April 1624 : Death date of William LOSE
1624 : Bubonic plague decimates London's population
Thursday 17 March 1625 : End of reign of James VI of Scotland (& I of England)
Friday 18 March 1625 : Start of reign of Charles I
Sunday 9 July 1626 : Christening date of Agnes LOSE
1631 : Invention of slide rule by W. Oughtred
Saturday 17 February 1638 : Scots sign first National Covenant
1638 : Production of first commercial steam engine
Tuesday 18 August 1640 : Battle of Newburn Ford
Monday 20 December 1641 : First clash between Roundheads and Cavaliers
Sunday 31 July 1642 : Marriage date of John ROBERTS = Margaret LOSE
Thursday 13 October 1642 : Battle of Edge Hill
Thursday 13 October 1642 : Start of English Civil War
Monday 9 January 1643 : Battle of Bradock Down
Saturday 6 May 1643 : Battle of Stratton
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
Monday 7 August 1648 : Battle of Preston
Saturday 20 January 1649 : Charles I beheaded
Saturday 20 January 1649 : End of reign of Charles I
Sunday 21 January 1649 : Start of reign of Charles II
Saturday 27 January 1649 : Christening date of Sarah LOSE
Saturday 24 August 1650 : Battle of Dunbar
Sunday 24 August 1651 : Battle of Worcester
Sunday 24 August 1651 : Charles II flees to France
Thursday 15 September 1653 : Christening date of Cicely LOSE
Tuesday 6 December 1653 : Cromwell declared Lord Protector
1655 : Invention of pendulum clock by C Huygens
Tuesday 29 November 1659 : Christening date of James LOSE
Saturday 19 May 1660 : Charles II restored to the throne
November 1665 : Plague kills 20% of London's population
Thursday 23 August 1666 : Great Fire of London
1669 : Formation of the Hudson's Bay Company
Thursday 31 October 1678 : Christening date of Mary LOSE
Saturday 3 May 1679 : Archbishop Sharp murdered near St Andrews
Friday 9 May 1684 : Christening date of Richard LOSS
Thursday 21 August 1684 : Marriage date of Thomas HAYWARD = Honour LOSE
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
1686 : Sir Isaac Newton publishes law of gravitation
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
Saturday 21 June 1690 : Battle of The Boyne
Wednesday 3 February 1692 : MacDonalds massacred at Glencoe
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
1704 : Edmund Halley discovers Halley's comet
1706 : Act of Union
1708 : Invention of piano (hammerklavier)
Tuesday 28 March 1710 : Christening date of Moses LOES
Saturday 5 August 1710 : Christening date of William LOSS
Sunday 22 February 1713 : Christening date of Thomson LOSS
Monday 26 October 1713 : Christening date of Priscilla LOES
Wednesday 21 July 1714 : End of reign of Anne
Thursday 22 July 1714 : Start of reign of George I
Wednesday 27 October 1714 : Christening date of Elizabeth LOES
Wednesday 2 November 1715 : Battle of Preston 2
Wednesday 2 November 1715 : Battle of Sheriffmuir
Wednesday 27 March 1717 : Christening date of Priscilla LOES
1717 : Machine gun invented by James Puckle
Monday 10 February 1718 : Christening date of Rebecca LOES
Saturday 30 May 1719 : Battle of Glen Shiel
August 1720 : Collapse of the "South Sea Bubble"
Thursday 23 March 1721 : Robert Walpole appointed first Prime Minister
Friday 1 February 1723 : Christening date of Jacob LOES
1723 : First use of Portland cement
1724 : Invention of mine pump steam engine by Newcomen
Sunday 28 March 1725 : Christening date of Priscilla LOES
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
Tuesday 20 April 1731 : Christening date of William LOES
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
1740 : 13% of Ireland's population die in famine
1744 : Jacquard draw-loom invented
Thursday 8 August 1745 : Stuart standard raised at Glenfinnan
Thursday 8 August 1745 : Start of Jacobite rebellion (the '45)
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)
Monday 6 April 1747 : Parliament prohibits wearing of tartan
1748 : Bow Street Runners formed
Sunday 22 September 1751 : Christening date of Richard Laren LOSE
Saturday 22 August 1752 : UK adopts Gregorian calendar - next day is 14 September
1754 : Royal and Ancient golf club founded
Tuesday 15 April 1755 : Dr Johnson publishes dictionary
1756 : Start of Seven Years' War
Sunday 20 June 1756 : 123 Britons die in the Black Hole of Calcutta
1757 : Clive defeats Bengalis - start of Empire in India
Wednesday 29 June 1757 : William Pitt becomes Prime Minister
1760 : Turnpikes improve travelling by road
Saturday 25 October 1760 : End of reign of George II
Sunday 26 October 1760 : Start of reign of George III
1761 : Link between tobacco and cancer established
1763 : End of Seven Years' War
1764 : Invention of the spinning jenny by J Hargreaves
1767 : Construction of Edinburgh's New Town begins
Sunday 6 May 1770 : Capt. Cook discovers Botany Bay
ABT 1774 : Birth date of William LOZE
1774 : Isolation of oxygen by J Priestley
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
1786 : Robert Burns publishes "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect"
Thursday 4 May 1786 : Marriage date of John MARTYN = Elizabeth LOSE
1787 : Transportation of criminals to Botany Bay begins
Tuesday 28 April 1789 : Mutiny aboard HMS Bounty
Thursday 20 August 1789 : Marriage date of Richard WHITE = Ann LOSE
1791 : The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain is founded
1793 : Invention of cotton gin by Eli Whitney
Friday 1 February 1793 : France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands
1795 : Poor Law devised
Monday 9 November 1795 : Marriage date of Francis HOCKADAY = Joannah LOSE
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
Wednesday 9 January 1799 : Parliament passes the first income tax
Monday 20 May 1799 : Marriage date of Richard LOSE = Elizabeth STEER
Sunday 23 June 1799 : Christening date of Thomas LOSE
ABT 1800 : Birth date of Elizabeth
1801 : Electric arc lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy
Saturday 3 October 1801 : Christening date of Mary Ann LOSE
Sunday 25 September 1803 : Christening date of Ann LOSE
ABT 1804 : Birth date of Elizabeth
Sunday 15 April 1804 : Christening date of Richard LOSE
ABT 1805 : Birth date of William LOSE
1805 : Birth date of Mary
Monday 21 October 1805 : Nelson dies victorious at Trafalgar
ABT 1806 : Birth date of William LOSE
ABT 1806 : Birth date of William LOSE
ABT 1806 : Birth date of Elizabeth
Sunday 26 October 1806 : Christening date of Elizabeth LOSE
Wednesday 28 January 1807 : Christening date of Elizabeth LOSE
Sunday 21 August 1808 : Sir Arthur Wellesley leads campaign in Peninsular War
ABT 1809 : Birth date of Mary Grace
Sunday 19 March 1809 : Christening date of William LOSE
Friday 28 July 1809 : French driven from Portugal
Sunday 13 August 1809 : Christening date of Thomasin LOSE
1811 : Luddites attack textile machinery
ABT 1811 : Birth date of Elizabeth
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 16 April 1815 : Marriage date of Robert COUMBE = Grace LOSE
Sunday 18 June 1815 : Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
1816 : Invention of phosphorous match by F Derosne
1816 : Invention of bicycle by K D von Sauerbronn
Monday 12 August 1816 : Birth date of James Edward LOSE
Monday 7 October 1816 : Christening date of James Edward LOSE
1817 : Potato famine kills thousands in Ireland
1818 : Mary Shelley publishes "Frankenstein"
Wednesday 24 June 1818 : Birth date of Ann LOSE
Monday 3 August 1818 : Christening date of Ann LOSE
ABT 1819 : Birth date of Ann
1819 : Invention of stethoscope by R Laennec
1819 : MacAdam revolutionises road building
ABT 1820 : Birth date of Ann
ABT 1820 : Birth date of James Edward LOSE
Saturday 29 January 1820 : End of reign of George III
Sunday 30 January 1820 : Start of reign of George IV
Thursday 10 February 1820 : Marriage date of Henry ORCHARD = Ann LOSE
1822 : Invention of electric motor by Michael Faraday
Sunday 27 January 1822 : Christening date of Betsey LOSE
Friday 10 May 1822 : Birth date of Joseph LOZE
Monday 3 June 1822 : Christening date of Joseph LOZE
ABT 1824 : Birth date of Richard LOSE
Sunday 30 May 1824 : Christening date of Richard LOSE
Tuesday 27 September 1825 : First passenger train service from Stockton to Darlington
Monday 21 November 1825 : Marriage date of William LOSE = Elizabeth PENGELLY
ABT 1826 : Birth date of James LOSE
1826 : Birth date of William LOSE
Tuesday 3 January 1826 : Christening date of Mary Ann LOSE
Monday 30 January 1826 : Telford's Menai suspension bridge completed
Sunday 16 July 1826 : Christening date of William LOSE
1827 : G S Ohm postulates Ohm's Law
Sunday 25 February 1827 : Christening date of Mary LOSE
ABT 1828 : Birth date of Susanna
ABT 1828 : Birth date of Hannah MATTHEWS
Tuesday 22 January 1828 : Wellington becomes Prime Minister
ABT 1829 : Birth date of Jane
ABT 1829 : Birth date of Elizabeth
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
Sunday 22 November 1829 : Christening date of James LOSE
ABT 1830 : Birth date of William LOZE
Saturday 26 June 1830 : End of reign of George IV
Sunday 27 June 1830 : Start of reign of William IV
Saturday 28 August 1830 : Christening date of William Pengelly LOSE
Wednesday 15 September 1830 : Liverpool to Manchester railway opens
ABT 1831 : Birth date of John LOSE
1831 : Birth date of John Pengelly LOSE
1831 : Invention of the friction match by C Sauria
1832 : M Faraday invents electric dynamo
June 1832 : Cholera epidemic strikes Britain
Thursday 7 June 1832 : Parliament passes Reform Act
ABT 1833 : Birth date of John LOASE
ABT 1833 : Birth date of William LOSE
Monday 29 July 1833 : Slavery abolished throughout British Empire
ABT 1834 : Birth date of Elizabeth LOAS
ABT 1834 : Birth date of Mary LOZE
ABT 1834 : Birth date of Mary COOK
March 1834 : Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation
Sunday 16 March 1834 : Christening date of Elizabeth LOSE
ABT 1835 : Birth date of William CROCKER
ABT 1835 : Birth date of Margaret LOSE
1835 : Samuel Colt invents the revolver
ABT 1836 : Birth date of Mary LOSE
1836 : Charles Darwin returns from South America
1836 : Invention of screw propeller by F P Smith
ABT 1836 : Birth date of Maria
ABT 1836 : Birth date of Elizabeth LOSE
ABT 1836 : Birth date of Jane
ABT 1836 : Birth date of Betsy LOSE
1837 : Invention of telegraph by S F B Morse
ABT 1837 : Birth date of Susanna LOSE
ABT 1837 : Birth date of John LOSE
Sunday 12 February 1837 : Christening date of Susanna LOSE
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
ABT 1840 : Birth date of Reuben BANES
ABT 1840 : Birth date of Nancy LOASE
Wednesday 6 May 1840 : Penny Post introduced
Tuesday 2 June 1840 : Britain annexes New Zealand
ABT 1841 : Birth date of Richard LOAS
ABT 1841 : Birth date of Thomas BALE
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 1842 : Birth date of Henry LOSE
Sunday 31 December 1843 : Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol"
June 1844 : Mines Act prohibits use of women and boys in mines
ABT 1845 : Birth date of James LOSE
1845 : Birth date of Silas TEBUTT
ABT 1845 : Birth date of Grace KIFF
1845 : Invention of pneumatic tyre by R W Thompson
1846 : Birth date of Louisa Jane CHAMMEN
1846 : Birth date of Emma Jane LOSE
July 1846 : Potato famine hits Ireland and Scotland
April 1847 : Thousands emigrate from Ireland on "Coffin" ships
ABT 1849 : Birth date of Thomas LOSE
November 1849 : Cholera epidemic takes 2000 lives a week
1850 : Invention of refrigerator by Twining / Harrison
ABT 1850 : Birth date of John LOSE
ABT 1850 : Birth date of Sophia COOMBE
ABT 1851 : Birth date of Rhoda
1851 : Marriage date of William Pengelly LOSE = ?
Monday 31 March 1851 : 1851 national census taken
Thursday 1 May 1851 : Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park
1852 : Birth date of William Pengelly LOSE
ABT 1852 : Birth date of William LOSE
1853 : Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory
ABT 1853 : Transportation of criminals to Australia ends
1854 : Birth date of Richard LOSE
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Britain and France declare war on Russia
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Start of Crimean War
1855 : Invention of the safety match by J E Lundstrom
ABT 1856 : Birth date of Joseph G LOSE
1856 : Marriage date of William LOZE = Hannah MATTHEWS
Sunday 30 March 1856 : End of Crimean War
ABT 1857 : Birth date of Thomas LOZE
ABT 1857 : Birth date of William LOASE
Sunday 10 May 1857 : Sepoy mutiny in India
ABT 1858 : Birth date of Annie
1858 : Birth date of James Edwin LOSE
ABT 1859 : Birth date of Thomas LOSE
1859 : First oil well sunk by E L Drake in Pennsylvania
ABT 1859 : Birth date of Mary E LOSE
ABT 1859 : Birth date of Eliza R
ABT 1859 : Birth date of Elizabeth LOZE
ABT 1859 : Birth date of Edwin James LOSE
ABT 1859 : Birth date of Emily E
Thursday 24 November 1859 : Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species"
ABT 1860 : Birth date of Henry LOSE
1860 : Birth date of Eliza Emily GIST
1860 : Birth date of William LOZE
ABT 1860 : Birth date of Mary C Jane LOASE
1861 : Gatling gun invented by R J Gatling
ABT 1861 : Birth date of Ellen B
Monday 8 April 1861 : 1861 national census taken
1863 : Birth date of Ada HODGKIN
ABT 1863 : Birth date of Mary A
ABT 1863 : Birth date of Fred BANES
ABT 1863 : Birth date of John Edward LOSE
Saturday 10 January 1863 : London Underground opens
ABT 1864 : Birth date of John LOZE
ABT 1864 : Birth date of Charlotte E L
ABT 1865 : Birth date of Jane WOOLCOCKS
Saturday 9 December 1865 : Marriage date of Thomas BALE = Grace KIFF
Tuesday 12 December 1865 : Christening date of Sarah Ellen LOZE
ABT 1866 : Birth date of Mary LOZE
1866 : Marriage date of James LOSE = Sophia COOMBE
ABT 1866 : Invention of the breech-loading rifle
1866 : Marriage date of ? = Nancy LOSE
September 1866 : Cholera sweeps London
1867 : Joseph Lister pioneers antiseptic techniques
ABT 1867 : Birth date of William Henry WINSOR
ABT 1867 : Birth date of Henry CROCKER
1867 : Marriage date of Silas TEBUTT = Emma Jane LOSE
1867 : Invention of the typewriter by Sholes and Glidden
1867 : Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1868 : Marriage date of Richard LOSE = Mary COOK
1868 : Birth date of Hannah LOZE
February 1868 : Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
ABT 1869 : Birth date of Robert LOSE
1869 : D Mendeleev constructs Periodic Table of elements
ABT 1869 : Birth date of Joseph WILKINSON
ABT 1869 : Birth date of William A LOSE
ABT 1870 : Birth date of Geneva LOSE
1870 : Electric incandescent lamp invented by T A Edison
ABT 1870 : Birth date of Betsy Anne LOZE
ABT 1870 : Birth date of Elizabeth E A WINSOR
ABT 1870 : Birth date of Mary CROCKER
ABT 1871 : Birth date of Albert W LOSE
Monday 3 April 1871 : 1871 national census taken
ABT 1872 : Birth date of Florence E WINSOR
ABT 1872 : Birth date of Jane LOSE
1872 : Marriage date of William Pengelly LOSE = ?
May 1872 : Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
December 1872 : "Marie Celeste" discovered abandoned
1873 : Birth date of Elizabeth LOSE
ABT 1873 : Birth date of Alice
1873 : Invention of pianoforte by J Broadwood
1874 : Birth date of Samuel LOZE
1874 : Birth date of Frances ILEY
ABT 1874 : Birth date of Edward LOSE
ABT 1875 : Birth date of Minnie LOSE
1876 : Invention of the telephone by A G Bell
ABT 1876 : Birth date of Ellen BANES
ABT 1876 : Birth date of George LOSE
ABT 1876 : Birth date of Jane H
1877 : Phonograph invented by Thomas Edison
1877 : Invention of reinforced concrete by J Monier
1877 : Birth date of Charles Henry LOSE
ABT 1877 : Birth date of Jane HAYGARTH
ABT 1878 : Birth date of Frank BANES
Sunday 28 December 1879 : Tay Bridge disaster
ABT 1880 : Birth date of Mary E LOSE
ABT 1880 : Birth date of Harold TEBUTT
ABT 1880 : Birth date of Ellen
BEF 1881 : Death date of William LOSE
1881 : Marriage date of James Edwin LOSE = ?
ABT 1881 : Birth date of Jannet J LOSE
Sunday 3 April 1881 : 1881 national census taken
1882 : Isolation of tuberculosis bacteria by R Koch
ABT 1882 : Birth date of Jefe BANES
1883 : Death date of Mary Grace
1883 : Birth date of Matilda Annie LOSE
1883 : Death date of William Pengelly LOSE
ABT 1883 : Birth date of Daisy TEBUTT
1883 : Cholera bacteria isolated by Robert Koch
1883 : Birth date of Rose Ethel LOSE
Sunday 26 August 1883 : Krakatoa erupts
1884 : Birth date of William LOZE
ABT 1884 : Birth date of Mildred M LOSE
1884 : Fountain pen invented by L E Waterman
1884 : Marriage date of John Edward LOSE = Ada HODGKIN
1884 : Marriage date of William LOZE = Jane WOOLCOCKS
1884 : Birth date of Linda May LOSE
1885 : Vaccine against rabies discovered by Louis Pasteur
1885 : First internal combustion carriage built by K. Benz
ABT 1885 : Birth date of Jane E LOSE
ABT 1885 : Birth date of John G LOSE
Monday 26 January 1885 : General Gordon killed at Khartoum
1886 : Birth date of Richard LOSE
1887 : Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle
ABT 1887 : Birth date of William Ed LOSE
ABT 1887 : Birth date of Escot Edwin P LOSE
ABT 1887 : Birth date of Winifred TEBUTT
1887 : Death date of Mary LOZE
ABT 1888 : Birth date of Blanch Cora LOSE
1888 : Birth date of Lillian Helena LOSE
ABT 1888 : Birth date of Wilfred TEBUTT
1888 : Marriage date of Thomas LOSE = Eliza Emily GIST
1888 : Marriage date of John Pengelly LOSE = Louisa Jane CHAMMEN
1888 : Birth date of Mary Jane LOSE
1888 : Invention of hand-held camera by George Eastman
October 1888 : Jack the Ripper terrorises London's East End
1889 : Birth date of William Arthur LOSE
1889 : Birth date of Mabel H LOSE
ABT 1889 : Birth date of Arthur H LOSE
1889 : Birth date of Richard Samuel LOSE
1889 : Invention of the bolt-action rifle by P von Mauser
Thursday 14 November 1889 : Completion of the Forth Bridge - first large steel structure
1890 : Death date of James Edward LOSE
ABT 1890 : Birth date of Leonard C LOSE
ABT 1890 : Birth date of Ernest A LOSE
1890 : Discovery of diphtheria vaccine by E von Behring
1890 : Marriage date of William A LOSE = Frances ILEY
1890 : Birth date of John James LOSE
ABT 1891 : Birth date of Leila TEBUTT
1891 : Invention of the zip fastener by W L Judson
1891 : Birth date of Edith Annie LOSE
ABT 1891 : Birth date of Florence A LOSE
1891 : Death date of Mabel H LOSE
Wednesday 1 April 1891 : 1891 national census taken
1892 : Birth date of William Albert LOSE
ABT 1892 : Birth date of Ethel M PURDUE
ABT 1893 : Birth date of Gladys Edith V LOSE
1893 : Birth date of Dorothy LOZE
1893 : Death date of John Pengelly LOSE
1893 : Thomas Edison invents motion pictures
1893 : Birth date of Walter Ernest LOSE
Saturday 18 March 1893 : Birth date of Richard Leslie LOSE
1894 : Marriage date of William LEWIS = Sarah Ann Blodwen SMITH
ABT 1894 : Birth date of Elizabeth LOSE
1894 : Tower Bridge opens in London
1894 : Birth date of Amy W GOODMAN
1894 : Birth date of Rosina Amelia LOSE
ABT 1894 : Birth date of Elizabeth LOSE
Monday 1 October 1894 : Birth date of Frederick LOSE
Tuesday 30 October 1894 : Birth date of Blodwen LEWIS
ABT 1895 : Birth date of Robert LOSE
1895 : Birth date of Roland James LOSE
1895 : Discovery of x-rays by W K Roentgen
1895 : Wireless telegraphy invented by G Marconi
Monday 4 March 1895 : Birth date of Samuel Owen LOZE
1896 : Marriage date of Joseph WILKINSON = Geneva LOSE
1896 : Birth date of Sidney Alfred KIFF
1896 : Birth date of Gladys Ann LOSE
1896 : Birth date of John Moyses LOSE
1896 : Birth date of Ephenia (Effie) Heripath NORMAN
1896 : Discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel
1897 : Birth date of Charles Edward LOSE
ABT 1897 : Birth date of Winifred LOSE
Tuesday 22 June 1897 : Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
1898 : Birth date of Violet LOSE
ABT 1898 : Birth date of Deborah LOSE
1899 : Birth date of Stanley George LOSE
ABT 1899 : Birth date of Gertrude WILKINSON
ABT 1899 : Birth date of Henry C LOSE
ABT 1899 : Birth date of John H LOSE
1899 : Invention of first tape recorder by V Poulsen
1899 : Introduction of aspirin by Felix Hoffman
Thursday 27 July 1899 : Birth date of Harold Stanley LOSE
October 1899 : Start of Boer War
1900 : Invention of agricultural tractor by B Holt
ABT 1900 : Birth date of Benjamin LOSE
ABT 1900 : Birth date of Emily E LOSE
ABT 1900 : Birth date of Oryl D LOSE
1900 : Marriage date of Charles Henry LOSE = Jane HAYGARTH
1900 : Invention of rigid airship by von Zeppelin
August 1900 : Boxer rebellion in Peking
BEF 1901 : Marriage date of Albert W LOSE = Ellen
BEF 1901 : Death date of John LOASE
ABT 1901 : Birth date of Elsie M LOSE
1901 : Birth date of Thomas Gilbert LOZE
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
Saturday 5 April 1902 : 20 killed as terracing collapses at Ibrox Park
Sunday 1 June 1902 : End of Boer War
1903 : Death date of Jane
Monday 16 February 1903 : Birth date of Henry Oswald LOZE
1904 : Death date of Ann LOSE
1905 : Death date of Thomas LOSE
1905 : Death date of William LOZE
1905 : Death date of Mary Jane LOSE
Wednesday 4 October 1905 : Convicted Suffragettes choose to go to prison
1906 : Wassermann test for syphilis developed
1906 : Marriage date of ? = Matilda Annie LOSE
1907 : Albert Einstein postulates "E=mc²" theory
Thursday 13 June 1907 : Birth date of Horace LOZE
1908 : Death date of Blanch Cora LOSE
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
1911 : Death date of Rosina Amelia LOSE
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
1912 : Death date of Ann
Monday 15 April 1912 : SS Titanic sinks with loss of 1513 lives
1913 : Marriage date of MASON = Linda May LOSE
1913 : Death date of James LOSE
Monday 10 February 1913 : Capt. Scott found dead in Antartica
June 1913 : Suffragette dies under King's horse at Epsom
1914 : Death date of John James LOSE
1914 : Invention of military tank by E Swinton
1914 : Marriage date of Richard Samuel LOSE = MCGLINCHEY
1914 : Marriage date of PALMER = Lillian Helena LOSE
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
1915 : Marriage date of Walter Ernest LOSE = WALSH
1915 : Birth date of Gladys E A LOSE
1915 : Marriage date of TELFORD = Rose Ethel LOSE
February 1915 : Start of German submarine blockade of Britain
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
1916 : Marriage date of SMITH = Gladys Ann LOSE
1916 : Death date of Jane WOOLCOCKS
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
Wednesday 15 November 1916 : End of Battle of the Somme
1917 : Marriage date of William Arthur LOSE = Ethel M PURDUE
ABT 1917 : Birth date of Thomas LEWIS
Friday 6 April 1917 : USA declares war on Germany
October 1917 : Start of Battle of Caporetto
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
1918 : Birth date of Harold A LOSE
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
Monday 11 November 1918 : End of World War I
Monday 11 November 1918 : Hostilities cease on Western Front
Saturday 28 December 1918 : Women allowed to vote for the first time
1919 : Birth date of Edna I LOSE
March 1919 : Spanish flu kills 150,000 throughout Britian
Sunday 28 December 1919 : Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
Monday 31 May 1920 : Birth date of John Pengelly LOSE
Monday 18 October 1920 : State of emergency declared as miners strike
Sunday 21 November 1920 : "Bloody Sunday" - 12 Irish killed by the Black and Tans
1921 : Marriage date of Henry Oswald LOZE = Amy W GOODMAN
1921 : Marriage date of Harold Stanley LOSE = HARRIS
Tuesday 6 December 1921 : Irish Free State created
1922 : Marriage date of Frederick LOSE = DAVISON
1922 : Birth date of Meta LOZE
1922 : Birth date of Iris R LOZE
1922 : Marriage date of Samuel Owen LOZE = WILLIAMS
1922 : Banting and MacLeod isolate human insulin
1922 : Marriage date of Thomas Gilbert LOZE = Violet LEWIS
1923 : Birth date of Violet R LOSE
1923 : Marriage date of GERRY = Edith Annie LOSE
1923 : Marriage date of RITSON = Violet LOSE
1923 : Death date of Iris R LOZE
1923 : Death date of Annie
1923 : Death date of Richard Samuel LOSE
Wednesday 21 November 1923 : Birth date of Derrick LOSE
1924 : Birth date of John H LOZE
Wednesday 23 April 1924 : First royal transmission by wireless
1925 : Death date of Sophia COOMBE
1925 : Birth date of William R V LOZE
1925 : Birth date of Winifred E LOSE
1926 : First demonstration of television by J L Baird
1926 : Invention of the liquid-fuelled rocket by R Goddard
1926 : Birth date of John H LOZE
1926 : Birth date of Deborah M M LOSE
Monday 10 May 1926 : TUC calls first General Strike
1927 : Marriage date of Stanley George LOSE = ROBINSON
1927 : Birth date of Hilda F M LOSE
Friday 25 March 1927 : Birth date of Robert Wallis LOZE
1928 : Birth date of Vera Doreen KIFF
1928 : Marriage date of Leonard C LOSE = WEST
Saturday 7 January 1928 : River Thames floods killing 14
Sunday 30 September 1928 : Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming
1929 : Death date of Thomas LOZE
1929 : Marriage date of William Albert LOSE = CALLAND
1930 : Birth date of Frederick Reginald O LOZE
Saturday 24 May 1930 : Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia
Sunday 5 October 1930 : Airship R101 crashes in France killing 48
1932 : Birth date of (Samuel G) Aubrey LOZE
Friday 12 February 1932 : Whipping of children under 14 is banned
Friday 30 September 1932 : Unemployment reaches 25%
1933 : Death date of John H LOZE
1934 : Invention of first practical radar by Watson-Watt
1934 : Marriage date of FINNAMORE = Dorothy LOZE
Friday 21 September 1934 : 262 killed in blast at Gresford colliery
1935 : Marriage date of Horace LOZE = ?Milly HADDY
1935 : Marriage date of Roland James LOSE = LADLEY
Monday 18 March 1935 : Thousands protest in Wales at "means test"
1936 : Invention of helicopter by H Focke
1936 : Death date of Frances ILEY
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
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
1937 : Birth date of (Ernest) Peter G LOZE
Friday 28 May 1937 : Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister
1938 : Discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassmann
Monday 11 July 1938 : Last British troops leave Eire
1939 : Death date of Louisa Jane CHAMMEN
Friday 25 August 1939 : IRA bomb Coventry killing 5
September 1939 : Children evacuated from London and major cities
Friday 1 September 1939 : Germany invades Poland
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
1940 : Death date of Amy W GOODMAN
Friday 10 May 1940 : Churchill takes over as Prime Minister
Friday 10 May 1940 : Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
Sunday 12 May 1940 : Germany invades France
Sunday 26 May 1940 : Allied evacuation from Dunkirk begins
Monday 10 June 1940 : Italy invades France
Monday 10 June 1940 : Italy declares war on France and Britain
Friday 14 June 1940 : Germans enter Paris unopposed
Saturday 22 June 1940 : France surrenders to Germany
Thursday 14 November 1940 : Coventry bombed
1941 : Birth date of (Randolph) Dennis LOZE
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
1942 : Marriage date of Henry Oswald LOZE = Lillian GOODMAN
Sunday 15 February 1942 : British surrender Singapore to Japanese
Thursday 9 April 1942 : USA surrenders Bataan peninsula to Japanese
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
1943 : Marriage date of JERRARD = Edna I LOSE
1943 : Death date of William LOZE
Thursday 14 January 1943 : Casablanca conference
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
Friday 25 August 1944 : Paris liberated
Friday 13 October 1944 : Athens liberated
Friday 20 October 1944 : USA invades Philippines
Saturday 16 December 1944 : Battle of the Bulge
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 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
1946 : Marriage date of Derrick LOSE = BRIDGWATER
February 1946 : 50,000 "GI brides" shipped out to the USA
December 1946 : Fuel and food shortages continue
1947 : Marriage date of Harold A LOSE = BULLOCK
Thursday 20 November 1947 : Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh
1948 : Marriage date of Robert Wallis LOZE = Vera Doreen KIFF
1948 : Death date of Hannah LOZE
Thursday 1 January 1948 : Railways nationalised
Monday 28 June 1948 : Troops break dockers' strike
December 1948 : Labour government constructs "Welfare State"
1949 : Marriage date of BROWN = Winifred E LOSE
1949 : Marriage date of FERRIS = Meta LOZE
1949 : Marriage date of BAKER = Gladys E A LOSE
Tuesday 15 March 1949 : Clothes rationing ends
Monday 18 April 1949 : Eire becomes Republic of Ireland
ABT 1950 : Albert Einstein puts forward theories of relativity
1950 : Birth date of Christopher Wallis LOZE
1950 : Marriage date of John Pengelly LOSE = NASH
Wednesday 28 June 1950 : Royal Navy enters Korean War
Monday 25 December 1950 : Stone of Destiny taken from Westminster Abbey
1951 : Marriage date of (Samuel G) Aubrey LOZE = Christine TRELAISE
1951 : Death date of Ada HODGKIN
1951 : Birth date of Aubrey N LOZE
Thursday 7 June 1951 : Soviet spies Burgess and MacLean disappear
1952 : Marriage date of HARPER = Hilda F M LOSE
1952 : Death date of (Ernest) Peter G LOZE
Wednesday 6 February 1952 : End of reign of George VI
Thursday 7 February 1952 : Start of reign of Elizabeth II
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
Sunday 24 May 1953 : Birth date of Alan Robert LOZE
Saturday 30 May 1953 : Edmund Hillary reaches the top of Mount Everest
1954 : Discovery of first polio vaccine by J E Salk
1954 : Death date of Ethel M PURDUE
May 1954 : "Teddy Boys" appear
Saturday 3 July 1954 : Rationing ends
Monday 16 May 1955 : Birth date of Anita Yvonne LOZE
Wednesday 13 July 1955 : Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged
Wednesday 31 October 1956 : Britain invades Suez
1957 : Marriage date of Frederick Reginald O LOZE = TOY
Thursday 17 October 1957 : Air borne radiation leaks from Windscale
1958 : Birth date of Michael K LOZE
1958 : Death date of William Arthur LOSE
Thursday 6 February 1958 : 7 members of Manchester United die in plane crash
Friday 5 December 1958 : First motorway in Britain, M6 Preston Bypass opens
1960 : Marriage date of (Samuel G) Aubrey LOZE = ?
1960 : Death date of Leonard C LOSE
1960 : Birth date of Beverley A LOZE
Saturday 31 December 1960 : National Service abolished
1961 : Death date of Roland James LOSE
1961 : Death date of Charles Henry LOSE
1963 : Death date of Walter Ernest LOSE
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
Monday 21 December 1964 : Death penalty abolished in Britain
Thursday 28 October 1965 : Brady and Hindley charged with Moors Murders
Friday 21 October 1966 : 144 die in Aberfan as coal bing buries school
1967 : Emergence of Flower Power
1967 : Death date of Mildred M LOSE
Wednesday 5 March 1969 : London gangsters the Kray twins sentenced to life
1970 : Birth date of Dawn Elizabeth LOZE
Saturday 2 January 1971 : 66 die when barriers collapse at Ibrox Park
Monday 15 February 1971 : British currency goes decimal
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
1973 : Death date of Harold Stanley LOSE
Thursday 8 March 1973 : IRA begins mainland bombing
Monday 17 December 1973 : Three day week introduced
1974 : Marriage date of Aubrey N LOZE = STEWART
Tuesday 12 November 1974 : Lord Lucan escapes and disappears
1975 : Death date of Samuel Owen LOZE
1975 : Marriage date of David WARREN = Anita Yvonne LOZE
Friday 11 July 1975 : Inflation reaches 25%
1976 : Marriage date of Christopher Wallis LOZE = Elizabeth PERRY
1976 : Death date of Frederick LOSE
August 1976 : Drought causes water shortages
1977 : Death date of Henry Oswald LOZE
Saturday 2 April 1977 : Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time
Wednesday 13 December 1978 : Jeremy Thorpe charged with incitement to murder
January 1979 : "Winter of Discontent" causes chaos
Friday 4 May 1979 : Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister
Sunday 2 September 1979 : Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim
Monday 5 May 1980 : SAS storms Iranian embassy in London
July 1981 : Riots break out in 8 inner city areas
1982 : Death date of Richard Leslie LOSE
Friday 2 April 1982 : Argentina invades Falkland Islands
Monday 14 June 1982 : British troops regain control of Falklands
Sunday 25 September 1983 : 134 IRA prisoners escape from the Maze prison
1984 : Marriage date of WESTLAKE = Beverley A LOZE
May 1984 : Coal strikes crushed by riot police
Friday 12 October 1984 : IRA bombs Tory conference in Brighton
1985 : Death date of Derrick LOSE
Saturday 11 May 1985 : 40 killed as fire destroys Bradford City stand
1986 : Death date of John Pengelly LOSE
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
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
1990 : Death date of Horace LOZE
Thursday 23 August 1990 : British and US troop build up in Persian Gulf
1991 : Death date of Robert Wallis LOZE
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
1992 : Marriage date of DAVIS = Dawn Elizabeth LOZE
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