Dorothy Neville

Dorothy Neville

Female 1548 - 1608  (60 years)


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Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock
Fort Port-Royal is captured by the British
Fort Port-Royal captured by the British
Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament
Commonwealth registers start
Under the Act of Settlement Cromwell's opponents stripped of land
Provincial probate courts abolished - probates granted only in London
Provincial probate courts abolished - probates granted only in London
Commonwealther registers start
Battle of Worcester
The second English Civil War (1651-1652)
Scottish prisoners transported to the British settlements in America
The second English Civil War
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector
Coffee brought to England about this time
George Fox founds Society of Friends (Quakers)
Otto von Guericke invents a air pump
Theatres banned by Cromwell
Christmas banned by Cromwell
Commonwealth declared
King Charles I executed
'Rump' Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial
Cromwell's Irish campaign starts
King Charles II proclaimed King of Scots and England in Scotland
30th June: King Charles I executed
Commonwealth period - Oliver Cromwell
Society of Friends (Quakers) founded by George Fox
First practical thermometers made
Earliest Baptist registers survive from this year
Royalists sign articles of surrender at Oxford
Charles I surrenders to the Scottish Army at Newark
20th June: Royalists sign articles of surrender at Oxford
Battle of Naseby: Parliament's New Model Army crushes the Royalist forces
Battle of Philiphaugh in Scotland
Scotland: Each county and burgh ordered to raise and maintain a number of foot soldiers, according to population, to serve as militia - population of Scotland estimated at 420,000
Plague made its last appearance in Scotland
Battle of Philipburgh in Scotland
Battle of Marston Moor, near York - Parliamentarian forces beat the Royalists
Battle of Cropredy Bridge - Royalists beat the Parliamentarian forces
Earlist Indepenent (Congregational) registers
Battle of Alton - victory for Parliamentarians - Sir Richard Bolle killed in St Lawrence's church
Solomn League and Covenrant signed in Scotland
Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer
Abel Janszoon Tasman first European to set foot in New Zealand
Abel Janszoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania)
Battle of Turnham Green - Royalist forces withdraw in face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London
Charles I raises his standard at Nottingham - First Civil War in England (to 1649)
The Civil War interrupted the keeping of parish registers
English theatres closed by Puritans (till 1660)
22nd August - Charles I raises his standard at Nottinngham -
Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine
50,000 Irish killed in an uprising in Ulster
Charles I's policies cause insurrection in Ulster and Civil War in England
Charles I and the English Parliament acknowledge the Prebyterian Church in Scotland
Charles I policies cause insurrection in Ulster and Civil War in England -
Charles I forced to recall Parliament (the 'Long Parliament') due to Scottish invasion
Act of Toleration in England established religious toleration
Act of Toleration in England established religious tolerance
King Charles regarded protests against the prayerbook as treason - forced Scots to choose between their church and the King - a ?Covenant' swearing to resist these changes to the Death was signed in Greyfriars Church Edinburgh and was accepted by hun
Charles regarded protests against the prayer book as treason
Scottish Prayer Book published
Pequot War
Arrival of the St. Jehan in Port-Royal
PRE-DEPORTATION PERIOD
Hackney Carriages in use by now in London
Hackney Carriages in use by now in London
W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer
Letter Office of England & Scotland started
Flintlock small arms invented around this time (replaces matchlock)
Letter Office of England and Scotland started
Galileo summoned by Inquisition for publishing in favour of Copernican theory
Isaac de Razilly arrives at Le Heve
Isaac de Razilly sails from LaRochelle
Treaty of St Germain-en-Laye
Québec returned to France by the 'Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye'
Samuel de Champlain named the first Governor of New France
Renaissance Period - Art and Antiques
Baroque Period (Art and Antiques)
European diseases/epidemics kill indians
Parliament dissolved by King Charles I - did not meet for another 11 yea
Parliament desolved by King Charles I -
Québec captured by Britain
Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine
Writs issued by Charles I that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date
Charles I
The Company of One Hundred Associates formed to colonize New France
Death of King James VI & I
The size of bricks standardised in England around this time
King Charles I
The size of bricks standardised in England around this time
Carolean Age
Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion
Monopoly Act in England: patents protected
Edmund Gunter introduces the surveyor's chain (measurement of length)
Monopoly Act in England - patents protected
William Oughtred invents a slide ruler
First English newspaper appeared - Weekly News'
First Englaish Newspaper appears
Chimneys to be made of brick and to be four and a half feet above the roof
Chimneys to be made of brick and be four and half feet above roof
(Dec 16 old style): The Mayflower reaches America - founds Plymouth, New England (had initially set sail from Southampton on Aug 5)
Pilgrim Fathers land at Plymouth Rock
Manufacture of coke (the fuel, not the drink!) patented by Dud Dudley
The Mayflower reaches America
The earliest human-powered submarine invented
(Nov 24 old style): Colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas)
Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I
Register of Sasines (Land Leases) established in Scotland -
Tuesday Apr 23 (Julian calendar): Death of Shakespeare
Death of Shakespeare (23rd April)
The Globe Theatre in London burns during a performance of Henry the Eighth (finally pulled down in 1644)
A copper farthing was produced, as a silver coin would be too small
James VI & I created the title of baronet
Authorised (King James) Version of Bible in Britain
Plantation of Ulster with English and Scottish colonists
James VI & I established the Episcopal Church in Scotland - Prebyterians persecuted and many of their records lost
James VI established the Episcopal Church in Scotland -
Henry Hudson explorations
First use of telescope by Galileo - he observed the moons of Jupiter two years later in Jan 1610
Québec founded
Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope
Jamestown, Virginia settled - to become the first permanent British colony in North America
Jamestown is established
Flight of the Earls - leading Ulster families go into exile
Adoption of Union Flag as the flag of Great Britain' (the term Union Jack is used officially only when the Union Flag is flown from the Jack Mast of a Royal Naval vessel)
Guy Fawkes and co-conspirators executed
The London Company chartered to colonise Virginia: the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery leave England on 19th De c taking 144 days to reach America
Episcopacy established in Scotland (against wishes of the Scots)
12th April Adoption of Union Jack as the flag of "Great Britain"
Gunpowder plot at Westminster (Guy Fawkes, etc)
First Acadian settlement in Port-Royal
Gunpowder plot at Westminster (Guy Fawkes)
Settlement of New France
James I
Shakespeare: Othello' first presented
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First Acadian settlement on Saint-Croix Island
Settlement of New France
Coronation - James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of Great Britain
Death of Elizabeth I: union of Scottish and English crowns - under King James VI of Scots and I of England (d. 1625)
King James I
24th March - Death of Queen Elizabeth I
The crowns of England and Scotland unite.
Bodleian Library at Oxford University opened to the public
Dutch East India Company founded
Great English Poor Law Act passed
First use of fruit juice as a preventative for scurvy by James Lancaster
Great English Poor Law passed
British East India Company founded
Memoirs of Officers of the Royal Navy begin
The calendar changes from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar.
Scotland adopts New Year beginning 1st January (previously 25th March)
Bishop's transcripts of English and Welsh parish registers start - parish records were to be kept in 'great decent books of parchment' and copies or 'Bishop's Transcripts' of new entries were to be sent each month to the diocesan centre
Bishops transcript of English and Welsh parish registers start [some say 1597]
Poor Law Act for erection of parish workhouses for the Poor - Poor Rate collection allowed
Poor Law Act for erection of parish workhouses for the Poor -
Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, leads Irish rebellion against English rule (-1603)
British statute mile established by law
British statute mile established by law
Galileo invents a water thermometer
A Congregational (or Independent) Church formed in London
Scotland: Presbyterian Church formally established - all ministers equal - no bishops - secular commissaries appointed by the Crown
A congregational (or Independant) Church formed in London.
The Presbyterian Church is formally established.
Trinity College, Dublin, founded
Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope
Englishmen, William Lee invents the knitting machine
Defeat of Spanish Armada off Gravelines
Spanish Armada sighted off the Lizard (had set sail from Lisbon in late May)
Invention of shorthand by Dr Timothy Bright
29th July Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Raleigh's second expedition to New World lands in North Carolina - first child born in the New World of English parents was Virginia Dare (Aug 18)
Sir Francis Drake sinks the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringay Castle, near Peterborough
Introduction of potatoes to England
Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, by English at Fotheringay Castle near Peterborough
Foundation of Oxford University Press
Foundation of Oxford University Press
Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony in the New World, on Roanoke Island, Virginia (now in North Carolina) - the so-called 'Lost Colony'
Sir Humphrey Gilbert attempts to establish English authority at St John's, Newfoundland
University of Edinburgh founded
Foundation of Cambridge University Press by Thomas Thomas
Foundation of Cambridge University Press by Thomas Thomas
Gregorian calendar introduced in some couontires:
Francis Drake knighted by Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind after circumnavigating the world
English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism
English Levant Company founded
Dover Straits earthquake, largest in the recorded history of England, mentioned by Shakespeare - dozens of ships sunk and a tsunami hit Calais
Congregational movement founded by Robert Browne about this time
Colonisation of Ireland
Colonisation of Ireland
Act of Uniformity in matters of religion enforced
Act of Uniformity in matters of religion enforced
Earliest Quaker registers begin
James Burbage opens first theatre in London
Colonial State Papers published
Opening of the Royal Exchange in London, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham - this building destroyed in Great Fire of London 1666
Presbyterianism introduced into England by Thomas Cartwright
Repeal of Act prohibiting lending of money on interest - gradual change from 'subsistence economy' to 'cash economy' resulted
Beginning of penal legislation against Catholics in England
Beginning of penal legislation against Catholics in England
Presbyterianism introduced into England by Thomas Cartwright
Pope Pius V issued the papal bull 'Regnans in Excelsis' to excommunicate Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England
Elizabeth I approved Sunday sports
Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection
Battle of Langside - Mary's flight to England and her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth I
Battle of Langside
Bottled beer invented in London
Mary Queen of Scots deposed and replaced by her 1 year old son James VI
Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
Murder of Darnley outside Holyrood House in an explosion
Murder of Darnley outside Holyrood House in an explosion
Murder of David Riccio (or Rizzio) in Holyrood House
Murder of Riccio in Holyrood House
Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, her first cousin
Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Darley
Shakespeare baptised - he is said to have been born on Apr 23, St George's Day; he certainly died on Apr 23, 1616
The English surrender Le Havre to the French after a siege
Papal recusants heavily fined for non-attendance at Church
Earliest English slave-trading expedition, under John Hawkins - between Guinea and the West Indies
African slave trade starts
Spire of St Paul's, highest in England, destroyed by fire
The first coins produced by machinery (known as a 'mill') rather than by hand, but it was a slow process and did not replace hand struck coinage until new machinery was introduced in 1663
Treaty of Berwick between Duc du Chatelherault (as governor of Scotland) and the English, agreeing to act jointly to expel the French from Scotland
Establishment of Protestantism in Scotland - commissary courts thrown into confusion - some records lost
Establishment of Protestantism in Scotland
Protestantism is established. Pope's authority is abolished. Celebrating mass becomes illegal.
Elizabeth I
Acts of Supremacy passed in Parliament, ending papal jurisdiction over England & Wales; established Church of England
Elizabeth crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle
Tobacco introduced to Europe
John Knox returns from Continent - strengthens case for Presbyterianism in Scotland
John Knox returns from Continent
Queen Mary Tudor of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth - Protestantism restored in England
Marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Fran?ois the Dauphin of France in Paris
French take Calais, last English possession in France
System of Counties adopted
Scottish parish registers start
Reign of Elizabeth I - Policy of Plantation begins
Scottish parish registers start
Queen Elizabeth I
The First Covenant signed in Scotland
Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake in Oxford
Michel Nostradamus publishes his prophecies
Mary I
Lady Jane Grey beheaded
Brief Catholic restoration under Queen Mary Tudor - married priests forced to separate at least 30 miles from their wives
Brief Catholic restoration under Queen Mary Tudor
Mary Tudor ('Bloody Mary') comes to the throne
Edward VI dies; Lady Jane Grey queen for a few days only
Jane
Queen Mary I
An 'Act of Uniformity' imposes the Protestant prayerbook of 1552 in England
Parishes are ordered to keep a register of baptisms and banns of marriage.
Scotland: General Provincial Council orders each parish to keep a register of baptisms and banns of marriage
Scotland: General Provincial Council orders
Walloon Protestants arrive as refugees from the Low Countries
Walloon Protestants arrive as refuges from the Low Countries
First Book of Common Prayer sanctioned by English Parliament
Edward VI
English Parliament declares enclosures legal
First Act of Uniformity in England made Catholic Mass illegal
Wedding ring finger changed from right to left hand
9th June First Book of Prayer sanctioned by English Parliament
Priests in England allowed to marry (about a third then did so) - but see 1554
Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, said to be the first 'modern' battle to be fought in the British Isles
Coronation of Edward VI in Westminster Abbey
Death of Henry VIII (succeeded by Edward VI, aged 9, to 1553)
Ivan the Terrible takes title 'Tsar of all the Russias'
Vagrants Act passed (able-bodied tramps can be detained as slaves)
English replaced Latin in church services in England and Wales
King Edward VI
English replaced Latin in chruch services in England and Wales
Trinity College, Cambridge founded by Henry VIII
Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII, sinks in the Solent - raised in 1982
Henry's VIII's Rough Wooing' of the Scottish Borders
Mary of Guise, Regent of Scotland
Mary of Guise Regent of Scotland
Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned Queen of Scots' in Stirling (spelling of the royal house changes from Stewart to Stuart)
Henry VIII marries Catherine Parr, wife #6, who survives him
Death of King James V of Scots; his baby daughter Mary ?Queen of Scots' succeeds him just 6 days old
Catherine Howard executed
Ther Rout of Solway Moss and the death of King James V of Scots
Henry VIII proclaimed king (rather than feudal lord) of Ireland
Henry VIII proclaimed King (rather than feudal lord) of Ireland
First French settlement
Thomas Cromwell executed; Henry VIII marries Catherine Howard the same day, wife #5
Henry VIII divorces Anne of Cleves
First recorded horse racing event in Britain, at Chester
Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves, the 'Flanders Mare', wife #4
Statute of Wills allows freehold land to be bequeathed
Statute of Wills allows freehold land to be bequeathed
Henry VIII excommunicated by Pope Paul III
Henry VIII issues English Bible
English and Welsh parish registers start
English and Welsh parish registers start
Jane Seymour dies from complications in giving birth to a son, the future Edward VI
The authority of the Pope is declared void in England
Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour, wife #3 (she was crowned as Queen on 29th October)
Anne Boleyn executed
Wales and England legally united by the Laws in Wales Act of 1535
Dissolution of monasteries starts in England (to 1540)
Dissolution of monastries starts in England
Sir Thomas More executed
Reformation of the Catholic Church in England church (Henry VIII)
Reformation of the Catholic Church in England Church (Henry VIII)
Jacques Cartier explores Gulf of St. Lawrence
Anne Boleyn gives birth to a daughter Elizabeth, to become Queen Elizabeth I
Henry VIII excommunicated by Pope Clement VII
Henry VIII's marriage with Catherine of Aragon officially declared annulled
Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn secretly, wife #2 (she was crowned as Queen on 1st June)
Foundation of the Court of Session in Scotland
Foundation of the Court of Session in Scotland
Henry VIII recognised as Supreme Head of the Church of England
Diet of Speyer: origin of the word Protestant
St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle completed
Bishop Vesey's Grammar School founded in Sutton Coldfield
New Testament translated into English by William Tyndale
Sweden leaves the union
The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, becomes the first ship known to circumnavigate the world
Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, executed for treason
Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings
Three ships under the command of Ferdinand Magellan negotiate the Strait of Magellan, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific
Martin Luther fixes his 95 theses on church door at Wittenburg PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Treaty of London, a non-aggression pact between the major European nations: France, England, Holy Roman Empire, the Papacy, Spain, Burgundy and the Netherlands - sponsored by Cardinal Wolsey
Martin Luther fixes his 95 theses on church door at Wittenburg - regarded as start of the Reformation
Thomas More writes Utopia'
Thomas Wolsley invested as Cardinal
Recording of Testaments (wills) begins in Scotland
Recording of Testaments (wills) begins in Scotland
The recording of testaments (wills) begins.
Battle of Flodden, defeat of Scottish Army - death of King James IV of Scots
Battle of the Spurs - English troops under Henry VIII defeat a French force at Guinegate
Battle of Flodden, defeat of the Scotish Army
Urs Graf invents etching
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, exhibited to the public for the first time
The Auld Alliance' treaty with France - all Scottish citizens became French and vice versa
Admiralty founded in London
Admiralty founded in London
Henry VIII
Leonardo da Vinci designs a horizontal water wheel
Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein
Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon
Henry VIII becomes king of England (to 1547) at 17 years old
Naturalisation papers start in England
Naturalisation papers start in England
King Henry VIII
Thomas Aubert visits Newfoundland
Suggestion put forward that the New World be named America in honour of Amerigo Vespucci (on Martin Waldseem?ller's world map)
First printing press in Scotland set up in Edinburgh by Andrew Myllar
First printing press in Scotland set up in Edinburgh by Andrew Myllar
First contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican
Royal College of Surgeons founded in Edinburgh
Royal College of Surgeons founded in Edinburgh
Marriage of King James IV of Scots and Margaret Tudor
Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa (-1505)
Marriage of King James IV of Scots and Margaret Tudor
Gaspar de Corte-Real explorations
The first flush toilets appeared
Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne, executed
Henry VII Gaunt
King Henry VII
Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
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1383 
  • 1383—99 9999: Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
1832 
  • 4 Jan 1832—1937: Immigrants quarantined at Grosse Isle
    Canada's immigrant quarantine station opens at Grosse Isle
1837 
  • 6 1837—22 Jan 1901: Victoria
    House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III; married (1840) Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became Prince Consort
1850 
  • 9 Sep 1850—5 Jan 1912: New Mexico Territory Organized
1863 
  • 2 1863—13 Feb 1912: Arizona Territory Organized
1890 
  • 5 Feb 1890—15 Nov 1907: Indian Territory Organized
    The most of the area that is present day Oklahoma was divided into Oklahoma and Indian Territory
  • 5 Feb 1890—15 Nov 1907: Oklahoma Territory Organized
    The most of the area that is present day Oklahoma was divided into Oklahoma and Indian Territory
1897 
1898 
  • 7 Jul 1898—20 Aug 1959: Territory of Hawaii was Oraganized
1899 
10 1900 
  • 1900—1900: School leaving age in Britain raised to 14 years
  • 1900—1900: Central Line opens in London: underground is electrified
  • 1900—1900: Escalator shown at Paris exhibition
  • 1900—1900: The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
  • 1900—1900: Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator
  • 9 Feb 1900—9 Feb 1900: Davis Cup tennis competition established
  • 27 Feb 1900—27 Feb 1900: Labour Party formed
11 1901 
12 1902 
  • 1902—1902: Marie Curie discovers radioactivity
  • 1902—1902: Cremation Act - cremation can only take place at officially recognised establishments, and with two death certificates issued
  • 1902—1902: Balfour's Education Act provides for secondary education
  • 1902—1902: Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner
  • 1902—1902: French physicist George Claude invents neon light
  • 1902—1902: The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie
  • 1902—1902: The birth of the Teddy Bear
  • 24 May 1902—24 May 1902: Empire Day (later Commonwealth Day) first celebrated
  • 31 May 1902—31 May 1902: Treaty of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War
  • 9 Aug 1902—9 Aug 1902: Coronation of Edward VII
13 1903 
  • 1903—1903: Women's Social and Political Union formed in Britain by Emmeline Pankhurst
  • 1903—1903: Henry Ford sets up his motor company
  • 1903—1903: Workers' Education Association (WEA) formed in Britain
  • 1903—1903: Canada loses the Alaska Boundary Dispute to the USA
  • 1903—1903: Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons
  • 1903—1903: Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens
  • 1903—1903: The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane
  • 1903—1903: Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers
  • 1903—1903: William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs
  • 14 Dec 1903—14 Dec 1903: First flight of Wilbur & Orville Wright
  • 4 1903—29 Apr 1903: Frank Slide, Alberta
    Turtle Mountain landslide, caused by mining, buries town and population of Frank in Alberta
14 1904 
  • 1904—1904: Leeds University established
  • 1904—1904: Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan
  • 1904—1904: Benjamin Holt invents a tractor
  • 1904—1904: John A Fleming invents a vacuum diode or Fleming valve
  • 8 Apr 1904—8 Apr 1904: France and UK sign the Entente Cordiale
  • 4 May 1904—4 May 1904: America takes over construction of the Panama Canal from the French (completed 1914)
15 1905 
  • 1905—1905: Germany lays down the first Dreadnought battleship
  • 1905—1905: Aliens Act in Britain: Home Office controls immigration
  • 1905—1905: The title 'Prime Minister' noted in a royal warrant for the first time - placed the Prime Minister in order of precedence in Britain immediately after the Archbishop of York
  • 1905—1905: Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2
  • 1905—1905: Mary Anderson receives a patent for windshield wipers
  • 9 Jan 1905—1 Sep 1905: Alberta and Saskatchewan join Canada
    Alberta and Saskatchewan become Canada's eighth and ninth provinces
  • 11 Apr 1905—11 Apr 1905: Einstein publishes Special Theory of Relativity
16 1906 
  • 1906—1906: Introduction of free school meals for poor children
  • 1906—1906: Amundsen traverses the North-West Passage
  • 1906—1906: William Kellogg invents Cornflakes
  • 1906—1906: Lewis Nixon invents the first sonar like device
  • 1906—1906: Lee Deforest invents electronic amplifying tube (triode)
  • 10 Feb 1906—10 Feb 1906: Launching of HMS Dreadnought, first turbine-driven battleship
  • 15 Mar 1906—15 Mar 1906: Rolls-Royce Ltd registered
  • 26 May 1906—26 May 1906: Vauxhall Bridge opened in London
  • 20 Sep 1906—20 Sep 1906: Launching of Cunard's RMS Mauretania on the Tyne
  • 6 1906—24 Jun 1906: Census of Northwest Provinces
    Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Quinquennial censuses instituted
17 1907 
  • 1907—1907: Lumiere develops a process for colour photography
  • 1907—1907: First airship flies over London
  • 1907—1907: New Zealand becomes a Dominion
  • 1907—1907: Imperial College, London, is established
  • 1907—1907: Leo Baekeland invents the first synthetic plastic called Bakelite
  • 1907—1907: Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere
  • 1907—1907: The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu
  • Jul 1907—Jul 1907: Leo Hendrik Baekeland patents Bakelite, the first plastic invented that held its shape after being heated
  • 1 Aug 1907—1 Aug 1907: Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island
  • 9 Nov 1907—9 Nov 1907: The Cullinan Diamond presented to Edward VII on his birthday
  • 11 1907—16 Nov 1907: Oklahoma
    46th State. The area that had been Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory were united to become one state.
18 1908 
  • 1908—1908: Lord Baden-Powell starts the Boy Scout movement
  • 1908—1908: Separate courts for juveniles established in Britain
  • 1908—1908: Coal Mines Regulation Act in Britain limits men to an eight hour day
  • 1908—1908: Border Ports established
    Ports of entry established for customs and immigration
  • 1908—1908: The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry
  • 1908—1908: Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger
  • 1908—1908: Model T first sold
  • 1908—1908: J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter
  • 1908—1908: Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates
  • 1 Jul 1908—1 Jul 1908: SOS became effective as an international signal of distress
  • 12 Aug 1908—12 Aug 1908: First 'Model T' Ford made
19 1909 
20 1910 
  • 1910—1910: Halley's comet reappears
  • 1910—1910: Tango becomes popular in North America and Europe
  • 1910—1910: Madame Curie isolates radium
  • 1910—1910: Dr Crippen caught by radio telegraphy; hanged 23 Nov at Pentonville
  • 1910—1910: Constitutional crisis in Britain
  • 1910—1910: Railway strike and coal strikes in Britain
  • 1910—1910: Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture
  • 1910—1910: Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris
  • 6 May 1910—6 May 1910: Edward VII dies - George V becomes King
  • 5 Jun 1910—20 Jan 1936: George V
    House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck. Accession, Jan 20, abdication, Dec 10.
21 1911 
  • 1911—1911: Strikes by seamen, dock and transport workers (1911-1912)
  • 1911—1911: Rutherford: theory of atomic structures
  • 1911—1911: First British Official Secrets Act
  • 1911—1911: British MPs receive a salary
  • 1911—1911: Parliament Act in Britain reduces the power of the House of Lords
  • 1911—1911: Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system
  • 6 Jan 1911—1 Jun 1911: Census of Canada
    Census of 9 Provinces and 2 Territories counts 7,206,643 individuals
  • 2 Apr 1911—2 Apr 1911: Census: Population - England and Wales: 36 Million; Scotland: 4.6 Million; N Ireland: 1.25 Million
  • 22 Jun 1911—22 Jun 1911: Coronation of George V
  • 14 Dec 1911—14 Dec 1911: National Insurance introduced in Britain
22 1912 
  • 1912—1912: Britain nationalises the telephone system
  • 1912—1912: Discovery of the 'Piltdown Man' - hoax, exposed in 1953
  • 1912—1912: Irish Home Rule crisis grows in Britain
  • 1912—1912: Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras
  • 1912—1912: The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole
  • 1912—1912: Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912
  • 18 Jan 1912—18 Jan 1912: Captain Scott's last expedition - he and his team reach the south pole on Jan 18th; all die on the way back, their bodies found in November
  • 14 Apr 1912—14 Apr 1912: The 'unsinkable' Titanic sinks on maiden voyage - loss of 1,513 lives
  • 13 May 1912—13 May 1912: Royal Flying Corps (later the RAF) founded in Britain
  • 1 Jun 1912—6 Jan 1912: New Mexico
    47th State
  • 5 1912—13 May 1912: 17th Amendment passed by Congress
  • 2 1912—14 Feb 1912: Arizona
    48th State
  • 8 1912—2 Jan 1959: Alaska Territory Organized
  • 6 1912—30 Jun 1912: Saskatchewan tornado
    The worst tornado in Canadian history claims 28 lives in Regina
23 1913 
  • 1913—1913: Geiger invents his counter to measure radioactivity
  • 1913—1913: Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley of Sheffield
  • 1913—1913: Trade Union Act in Britain establishes the right to use Union funds for political purposes
  • 1913—1913: Suffragette demonstrations in London - Mrs Pankhurst imprisoned
  • 1913—1913: Third Irish Home Rule Bill rejected by House of Lords - threat of civil war in Ireland - formation of Ulster Volunteers to oppose Home Rule
  • 1913—1913: The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne
  • 1913—1913: The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy
  • 1913—1913: Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra
  • 1913—1913: Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper
  • 2 Mar 1913—3 Feb 1913: 16th Amendment ratified
  • 4 Mar 1913—4 Mar 1921: Woodrow Wilson
    Woodrow Wilson U.S. Presidency Woodrow Wilson U.S. Presidency
  • 3 Apr 1913—3 Mar 1921: Woodrow Wilson
  • 4 Jun 1913—4 Jun 1913: Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby and dies
  • 4 Aug 1913—8 Apr 1913: 17th Amendment ratified
24 1914 
  • 1914—1914: Chaplin and De Mille make their first films
  • 1914—1914: Irish Home Rule Act provides for a separate Parliament in Ireland; the position of Ulster to be decided after the War
  • 1914—1918: World War One
    Canadian forces fight in Europe during World War 1
  • 1914—1914: Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask
  • 6 Jan 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
    Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
  • 28 Jun 1914—28 Jun 1914: Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
  • 4 Aug 1914—4 Aug 1914: Britain declares war on Germany, citing Belgian neutrality as reason
  • 5 Aug 1914—5 Aug 1914: British cableship Telconia cut through all five of Germany's undersea telegraph links to the outside world
  • 15 Aug 1914—15 Aug 1914: Panama Canal opened, the Canal cement boat 'Ancon' making the first official transit (plans for a grand opening were cancelled due to the start of WW1)
  • Oct 1914—Oct 1914: Battle of Ypres - beginning of trench warfare on western front
  • 27 Nov 1914—27 Nov 1914: First policewoman goes on duty in Britain
  • 16 Dec 1914—16 Dec 1914: German battleships bombard Hartlepool and Scarborough
  • 6 1914—19 Jun 1914: Alberta coal mine disaster
    The worst coal mining disaster in Canadian history claims 189 lives in Hillcrest
  • 5 1914—30 May 1914: Empress of Ireland sinks
    1,014 lives are lost when ship sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence
25 1915 
  • 1915—1915: Junkers construct first fighter aeroplane
  • 1915—1915: First automatic telephone exchange in Britain
  • 1915—1915: A new constitution establishes a two-chamber parliament elected by universal suffrage
  • 1915—1915: Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City
  • 19 Jan 1915—19 Jan 1915: First Zeppelin air raid on England, over East Anglia - four killed
  • Feb 1915—Feb 1915: Submarine blockade of Britain starts
  • Apr 1915—Apr 1915: Second Battle of Ypres - poison gas used for first time
  • 25 Apr 1915—25 Apr 1915: Gallipoli campaign starts (declared ANZAC Day in 1916)
  • 7 May 1915—7 May 1915: RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off coast of Ireland - 1,198 died
  • 16 May 1915—16 May 1915: First meeting of a British WI (Women's Institute) took place in Llanfairpwll (aka Llanfair PG), Anglesey
26 1916 
  • 1916—1916: Compulsory military service introduced in Britain
  • 1916—1916: Women get vote in Manitoba
    Manitoba is the first province to give women the right to vote
  • 1916—1916: Radios tuners invented, that received different stations
  • 1916—1916: Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly
  • Feb 1916—Feb 1916: Battle of Verdun - appalling losses on both sides, stalemate continues
  • 24 Apr 1916—24 Apr 1916: Easter Rising in Ireland - after the leaders are executed, public opinion backs independence
  • 21 May 1916—21 May 1916: First use of Daylight Saving Time in UK
  • 31 May 1916—31 May 1916: Battle of Jutland - only major naval battle between the British and German fleets
  • 5 Jun 1916—5 Jun 1916: Sinking of HMS Hampshire and death of Kitchener
  • 3 Aug 1916—3 Aug 1916: Sir Roger Casement hanged at Pentonville Prison for treason
  • 15 Sep 1916—15 Sep 1916: First use of tanks in battle, but of limited effect (Battle of the Somme 1 July to 18 Nov: over 1 million casualties)
  • 7 Dec 1916—7 Dec 1916: Lloyd-George becomes British Prime Minister of the coalition government
  • 6 1916—29 Jun 1916: Ontario forest fire
    A forest fire in northern Ontario claims 233 lives
27 1917 
  • 1917—1917: Ministry of Labour is established in Britain
  • 1917—1917: Battle of Cambrai - first use of massed tanks, but effect more psychological than actual
  • 1917—1917: Income Tax introduced
  • 1917—1917: Gideon Sundback patented the modern zipper (not the first zipper)
  • Feb 1917—Feb 1917: February revolution in Russia; Tsar Nicholas abdicates
  • 6 Apr 1917—11 Nov 1918: World War I
    World War I World War I
  • 16 Apr 1917—16 Apr 1917: Lenin returns to Russia after exile
  • 17 Apr 1917—17 Apr 1917: USA declares war on Germany
  • 26 May 1917—26 May 1917: George V changes surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor (Royal proclamation on 17 July)
  • 12 Jun 1917—6 Dec 1917: The Halifax Explosion
    Canada's worst single disaster, claims 1600 lives, injures 9000 and leaves 6000 homeless in Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Jul 1917—Jul 1917: Battle of Passchendaele - little gained by either side (Jul-Nov)
  • 4 Sep 1917—12 Apr 1917: WW1 - Vimy Ridge
    Canadian Corps take Vimy Ridge in France but 3,600 die and another 5,000 wounded
  • 7 Nov 1917—7 Nov 1917: 'October' Revolution in Russia - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government; Lenin becomes Chief Commissar
  • 6 Dec 1917—6 Dec 1917: Halifax (Nova Scotia) Explosion, one of the world's largest artificial non-nuclear explosions to date: a ship loaded with wartime explosives blew up after a collision, obliterating buildings and structures within two square kilometres of the explosion
  • 9 Dec 1917—9 Dec 1917: British forces capture Jerusalem
  • 12 1917—17 Dec 1917: 18th Amendment passed by Congress
28 1918 
  • 1918—1918: War of Independence in Ireland
  • 1918—1918: Vote for women over 30, men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons)
  • 1918—1918: The superheterodyne radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong
  • 1918—1918: Charles Jung invented fortune cookies
  • 18 Jan 1918—18 Jan 1918: Bentley Motors founded
  • 8 Mar 1918—8 Mar 1918: Start of world-wide 'flu pandemic
  • Jul 1918—Jul 1918: Second Battle of the Marne: last major German offensive in WW1 (Jul-Aug)
  • 1 Oct 1918—1 Oct 1918: Arab forces under Lawrence of Arabia capture Damascus
  • 11 Nov 1918—11 Nov 1918: Armistice signed
  • Dec 1918—Dec 1918: First woman elected to House of Commons, Countess Markiewicz as a Sinn Fein member refused to take her seat
29 1919 
  • 1919—1919: Sir Ernest Rutherford publishes account of splitting the atom
  • 1919—1919: Britain adopts a 48-hour working week
  • 1919—1919: Soldier Settlement Act
    Land grants awarded to 25,000 veteran soldiers
  • 1919—1919: The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite
  • 1919—1919: Short-wave radio invented
  • 1919—1919: The flip-flop circuit invented
  • 1919—1919: The arc welder invented
  • 6 Apr 1919—4 Jun 1919: 19th Amendment passed by Congress
  • 15 Jun 1919—15 Jun 1919: Alcock and Brown complete first nonstop flight across the Atlantic
  • 28 Jun 1919—28 Jun 1919: Treaty of Versailles signed
  • 1 1919—16 Jan 1919: 18th Amendment ratified
30 1920 
  • 1920—1920: Thompson patents his machine gun (Tommy gun)
  • 1920—1920: Marconi opens a radio broadcasting station in Britain
  • 1920—1920: Regular cross-channel air service starts
  • 1920—1920: After a referendum, northern Schleswig is returned to Denmark
  • 1920—1920: The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson
  • 1920—1920: The Band-Aid (pronounced 'ban-'dade) invented by Earle Dickson
  • Feb 1920—Feb 1920: First roadside petrol filling station in UK - opened by the Automobile Association at Aldermaston on the Bath Road
  • 8 1920—18 Aug 1920: 19th Amendment ratified
31 1921 
  • 1921—1921: First birth control clinic
  • 1921—1921: Insulin discovery announced
  • 1921—1921: Railway Act in Britain amalgamates companies - only four remained
  • 1921—1921: Newfoundland census
    Census taken in Newfoundland
  • 1921—1921: Artificial life begins -- the first robot built
  • 1921—1921: John Larson invented the lie detector
  • 6 Jan 1921—1 Jun 1921: Census of Canada
    counts 8,787,949 individuals
  • 4 Mar 1921—2 Aug 1923: Warren G. Harding
    Warren G. Harding U.S. Presidency Warren G. Harding U.S. Presidency
  • 3 Apr 1921—2 Aug 1921: Warren Harding
    Warren Harding dies of an embolism in San Francisco. He had taken ill on 31 Jul 1921
  • 19 Jun 1921—19 Jun 1921: Census: Population - England and Wales: 37.9 Million; Scotland: 4.9 Million; N Ireland: 1.25 Million
  • 6 Dec 1921—6 Dec 1921: Anglo-Irish Treaty signed in London, leading to the formation of the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland
  • 11 1921—21 Nov 1921: Canada's Coat of Arms proclaimed by George V
32 1922 
  • 1922—1922: Law of Property Act - the manorial system effectively ended
  • 1922—1922: Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting
  • 1922—1922: The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released
  • 1 Jun 1922—1 Jun 1922: Royal Ulster Constabulary founded
  • Oct 1922—Oct 1922: BBC established as a monopoly, and begins transmissions in November (2LO in London on 14 Nov; 5IT in Birmingham and 2ZY in Manchester on 15 Nov)
33 1923 
  • 1923—1923: First American broadcasts heard in Britain
  • 1923—1923: Hubble shows there are galaxies beyond the Milky Way
  • 1923—1923: Roads in Great Britain classified with A and B numbers
  • 1923—1923: Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal
  • 1923—1923: The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
  • 1923—1923: John Harwood invented the self-winding watch
  • 1923—1923: Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food
  • 1 Jan 1923—1 Jan 1923: The majority of the railway companies in Great Britain grouped into four main companies, the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, LMSR - lasted until nationalisation in 1948
  • 16 Feb 1923—16 Feb 1923: Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun
  • 8 Mar 1923—4 Mar 1929: Calvin Coolidge
    Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies
  • 28 Apr 1923—28 Apr 1923: First Wembley cup final (West Ham 0, Bolton 2) - 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles ' popular song of the time became the West Ham anthem
  • 2 Aug 1923—4 Mar 1929: Calvin Coolidge
    Calvin Coolidge U.S. Presidency Calvin Coolidge U.S. Presidency
  • 28 Sep 1923—28 Sep 1923: First publication of Radio Times
34 1924 
  • 1924—1924: The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg
  • 1924—1924: Notebooks with spiral bindings invented
  • 4 Jan 1924—4 Jan 1924: First Labour government in Britain, headed by Ramsay MacDonald
  • 5 Feb 1924—5 Feb 1924: Hourly Greenwich Time Signals from the Royal Greenwich Observatory were first broadcast by the BBC
  • 31 Mar 1924—31 Mar 1924: British Imperial Airways begins operations (formed by merger of four British airline companies - became BOAC in 1940)
35 1925 
  • 1925—1925: Britain returns to gold standard
  • 1925—1925: The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird
  • 18 Jul 1925—18 Jul 1925: Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
36 1926 
  • 1926—1926: Walt Disney arrives in Hollywood
  • 1926—1926: Kodak produces 16mm movie film
  • 1926—1926: Adoption of children is legalised in Britain
  • 1926—1926: First public demonstration of television (TV) by John Logie Baird
  • 1926—1926: Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets
  • 21 Apr 1926—21 Apr 1926: Princess Elizabeth born
  • 3 May 1926—3 May 1926: General Strike begins. Lasts until May 12 (mine workers for 6 months more)
  • 31 Oct 1926—31 Oct 1926: Death of Harry Houdini
37 1927 
  • 1927—1927: Release of the first 'talkie' film (The Jazz Singer)
  • 1927—1927: Eduard Haas III invents PEZ candy
  • 1927—1927: JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch
  • 1927—1927: Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system
  • 1927—1927: Technicolor invented
  • 1927—1927: Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can
  • 1927—1927: Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock
  • 1927—1927: Philip Drinker invents the iron lung
  • 7 Jan 1927—7 Jan 1927: First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London
  • 22 Jan 1927—22 Jan 1927: First football broadcast by BBC (Arsenal v Sheffield United at Highbury)
  • 1 May 1927—1 May 1927: First cooked meals on a scheduled flight introduced by Imperial Airways from London to Paris
  • 20 May 1927—20 May 1927: Lindbergh makes solo flight across the Atlantic, in 33? hours
  • 31 May 1927—31 May 1927: Last Ford Model T rolls off assembly line
  • 24 Jul 1927—24 Jul 1927: The Menin Gate war memorial unveiled at Ypres
38 1928 
  • 1928—1928: Women over 21 get vote in Britain - same qualification for both sexes
  • 1928—1928: Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
  • 1928—1928: Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer
  • 1928—1928: Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver
  • 26 Apr 1928—26 Apr 1928: Madame Tussauds opens in London
  • 15 Sep 1928—15 Sep 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers penicillin (results published 1929)
39 1929 
  • 1929—1929: BBC begins experimental TV transmissions
  • 1929—1929: Minimum age for a marriage in Britain (which had been 14 for a boy and 12 for a girl) now 16 for both sexes, with parental consent (or a licence) needed for anyone under 21
  • 1929—1929: Abolition of Poor Law system in Britain
  • 1929—1939: The Great Depression
    Canada hit hardest by the depression
  • 1929—1929: American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio
  • 1929—1929: Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad
  • 4 Mar 1929—4 Mar 1933: Herbert Hoover
    Herbert Hoover U.S. Presidency Herbert Hoover U.S. Presidency
  • 3 Apr 1929—4 Mar 1933: Herbert Hoover
  • 10 1929—18 Oct 1929: The 'Persons' Case Decision
    Women are declared 'persons' by the British Privy Council
40 1930 
  • 1930—1930: Youth Hostel Association (YHA) founded in Britain
  • 1930—1930: First Nazis elected to the German Reichstag
  • 1930—1930: Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer, Richard G. Drew
  • 1930—1930: The frozen food process patented by Clarence Birdseye
  • 1930—1930: Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents neoprene
  • 1930—1930: The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston
  • 1930—1930: Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine
  • 30 Jan 1930—30 Jan 1930: Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
  • 31 Jan 1930—31 Jan 1930: 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape
  • 6 Mar 1930—6 Mar 1930: Clarence Birdseye first marketed frozen peas
  • 5 Oct 1930—5 Oct 1930: R101 airship disaster - British abandons airship construction
41 1931 
  • 1931—1931: Collapse of the German banking system; 3,000 banks there close
  • 1931—1931: Statute of Westminster: British Dominions become independent sovereign states
  • 1931—1931: Statute of Westminster
    The British Dominions are formally recognized by British Parliament
  • 1931—1931: Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography
  • 1931—1931: Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope
  • 14 Apr 1931—14 Apr 1931: Highway Code first issued
  • 26 Apr 1931—26 Apr 1931: Census: Population - England and Wales; 40 Million; Scotland: 4.8 Million; N Ireland: 1.24 Million (Unfortunately, the census was destroyed by fire in WW2)
  • 21 Oct 1931—21 Oct 1931: National Government formed to deal with economic crisis - Britain comes off gold standard
42 1932 
  • 1932—1932: Sir Thomas Beecham established the London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • 1932—1932: Cockroft and Walton accelerate particles to disintegrate an atomic nucleus
  • 1932—1932: Moseley founds British Union of Fascists
  • 1932—1932: Great Hunger March of unemployed to London
  • 1932—1932: Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land
  • 1932—1932: The zoom lens and the light meter invented
  • 1932—1932: Carl C. Magee invents the first parking meter
  • 1932—1932: Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope
  • 3 Feb 1932—2 Mar 1932: 20th Amendment passed by Congress
  • 21 May 1932—21 May 1932: Amelia Earhart first solo nonstop flight across Atlantic by a female pilot
  • 3 Oct 1932—3 Oct 1932: Iraq gains independence from Britain
  • 3 Oct 1932—3 Oct 1932: 'The Times' introduces 'Times New Roman' typeface
43 1933 
44 1934 
  • 1934—1934: Hitler becomes Fuehrer of Germany
  • 1934—1934: Englishmen, Percy Shaw invents cat eyes or roads reflectors
  • 1934—1934: Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly
  • 1934—1934: Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording
  • 18 Jul 1934—18 Jul 1934: King George V opens Mersey Tunnel
  • 26 Sep 1934—26 Sep 1934: RMS Queen Mary launched
  • 30 Nov 1934—30 Nov 1934: First time a steam locomotive travels at 100 mph ('Flying Scotsman')
45 1935 
  • 1935—1935: Land speed record of 301.13 mph by Malcolm Campbell
  • 1935—1935: London adopts a 'Green Belt' scheme
  • 1935—1935: Newfoundland census
    Census taken in Newfoundland
  • 1935—1935: Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon ( polymer 6.6.)
  • 1935—1935: The first canned beer made
  • 1935—1935: Robert Watson-Watt patented radar
  • 28 Feb 1935—28 Feb 1935: Nylon first produced by Gerard J. Berchet of Wallace Carothers' research group at DuPont (there is no evidence to the widely-supposed story that the name derives from New York-London)
  • 12 Mar 1935—12 Mar 1935: Hore-Belisha introduces pedestrian crossings and speed limits for built-up areas in Britain
  • 1 Jun 1935—1 Jun 1935: Voluntary driving tests introduced in UK
  • 30 Jul 1935—30 Jul 1935: Penguin paperbacks launched
46 1936 
  • 1936—1936: Jet engine first tested
  • 1936—1936: Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine
  • 1936—1936: Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver
  • 20 Jan 1936—20 Jan 1936: George V dies
  • 5 May 1936—5 May 1936: First flight of a Spitfire
  • 24 Jul 1936—24 Jul 1936: 'Speaking clock' service starts in UK
  • 2 Nov 1936—2 Nov 1936: British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, world's first public TV transmission
  • 12 Nov 1936—6 Feb 1952: George VI
    House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of George V, Duke of York; married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
  • 30 Nov 1936—30 Nov 1936: Crystal Palace destroyed by fire
  • 5 Dec 1936—5 Dec 1936: Edward VIII abdicates (announced Dec 10) - popular carol that Christmas: 'Hark the Herald Angels sing Mrs Simpson's got our King'
  • 1 1936—11 Dec 1936: Edward VIII
    House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Eldest son of George V
47 1937 
  • 1937—1937: Billy Butlin opens his first holiday camp
  • 1937—1937: '999' emergency telephone call facility starts in London
  • 1937—1937: Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier
  • 1937—1937: The first jet engine is built
  • 12 Apr 1937—12 Apr 1937: Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft
  • 12 May 1937—12 May 1937: Coronation of King George VI
  • 28 May 1937—28 May 1937: Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister - policy of appeasement towards Hitler
  • 3 Jun 1937—3 Jun 1937: Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson
  • 4 Dec 1937—4 Dec 1937: 'The Dandy' first published
48 1938 
  • 1938—1938: First practical ball-point pen produced by Hungarian journalist, Lajos Biro
  • 1938—1938: HMS Rodney first ship to be equipped with radar
  • 1938—1938: Principle of paid holidays established in Britain
  • 1938—1938: The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro
  • 1938—1938: Strobe lighting invented
  • 1938—1938: Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon
  • 1938—1938: Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented
  • 1938—1938: The first working turboprop engine
  • 12 Mar 1938—12 Mar 1938: Germany invades and annexes Austria
  • 3 Jul 1938—3 Jul 1938: 'Mallard' reaches 126 mph (203 km/h); still world record for a steam locomotive
  • 27 Sep 1938—27 Sep 1938: Largest ocean liner ever built, Queen Elizabeth launched on Clydebank
  • 29 Sep 1938—29 Sep 1938: Chamberlain visits Hitler in Munich - promises 'peace in our time'
  • 30 Oct 1938—30 Oct 1938: Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of HG Wells 'The War of the Worlds', causing panic in the USA
49 1939 
  • 1939—1939: Coldest winter in Britain since 1894, though this could not be publicised at the time
  • 1939—1939: Start of evacuation of women and children from London
  • 1939—1939: Germany annexes Czechoslovakia
  • 1939—1945: World War II
    huge involvement of Canadian supplies and troops
  • 1939—1939: Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter
  • 1939—1939: The electron microscope invented
  • 9 Jan 1939—2 Sep 1945: World War II
    Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia
  • 12 Jul 1939—7 Dec 1939: Troops leave Canada
    First group of Canadian troops sail to Britain -- 7,400 on 5 ships
  • 1 Sep 1939—1 Sep 1939: Germany invades Poland
  • 3 Sep 1939—3 Sep 1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany
  • 6 Sep 1939—6 Sep 1939: First air-raid on Britain
  • 11 Sep 1939—11 Sep 1939: British Expeditionary Force (BEF) sent to France
  • 9 Oct 1939—10 Sep 1939: Canada declares war on Germany
  • 14 Oct 1939—14 Oct 1939: HMS Royal Oak sunk in Scapa Flow with loss of 810 lives
  • 7 Dec 1939—7 Dec 1939: 'First flight' of Canadian troops sail for Britain - 7,400 men on 5 ships
  • 17 Dec 1939—17 Dec 1939: 'Admiral Graf Spee' scuttled outside Montevideo
50 1940 
  • 1940—1940: Québec permits women to vote
    The last province to give women the right to vote
  • 1940—1946: National Registration
    Compulsory registration of all persons 16 years of age or older
  • 1940—1945: German occupation of Denmark
  • 1940—1940: Dr William Reich invents the orgone accumulator
  • 1940—1940: Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system
  • 1940—1940: Karl Pabst invents the jeep
  • 1 Apr 1940—1 Apr 1940: BOAC starts operations, replacing Imperial and British Airways Ltd
  • 11 May 1940—11 May 1940: National Government formed under Churchill
  • 13 May 1940—13 May 1940: Germany invades France
  • 27 May 1940—27 May 1940: Start of the evacuation of the British Army at Dunkirk (27 May - 4 Jun)
  • 25 Jun 1940—25 Jun 1940: Fall of France to Germany
  • 7 Sep 1940—7 Sep 1940: Germany launches bombing blitz on Britain, the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing
  • 15 Sep 1940—15 Sep 1940: Battle of Britain: massive waves of German air attacks decisively repulsed by the RAF - Hitler postpones invasion of Britain
  • 14 Nov 1940—14 Nov 1940: Coventry heavily bombed and the Cathedral almost completely destroyed
51 1941 
  • 1941—1941: First use of antibiotics
  • 1941—1941: Bailey invents his portable military bridge
  • 1941—1941: First British jet aircraft flies, based on work of Whittle
  • 1941—1941: Britain introduces severe rationing
  • 1941—1941: Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software
  • 1941—1941: Aerosol spray cans invented by American inventors, Lyle David Goodloe and W.N. Sullivan
  • 1941—1941: Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor
  • 12 1941—Dec 1941: Canadian forces defend south coast of England
  • 10 May 1941—10 May 1941: Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland
  • 27 May 1941—27 May 1941: 'Bismark' sunk
  • 22 Jun 1941—22 Jun 1941: Germany invades Russia (Operation Barbarossa)
  • 1 Jul 1941—1 Jul 1941: First Canadian armoured regiments arrive in Britain
  • 12 Jul 1941—7 Dec 1941: Canada declares war on Japan
    Attack on Pearl Harbour causes Canada to declare war on Japan
  • Dec 1941—Dec 1941: 'Manhattan Project' of nuclear research begins in America
  • Dec 1941—Dec 1941: Canadian forces given operation role in defending south coast of England
  • 7 Dec 1941—7 Dec 1941: Japan attackes US fleet at Pearl Harbour
  • 7 Dec 1941—2 Sep 1945: World War II
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  • 8 Dec 1941—8 Dec 1941: USA enters WWII
  • 24 Dec 1941—24 Dec 1941: Hong Kong falls to the Japanese
  • 6 1941—14 Jun 1941: Census of Canada
    Census date changed to prevent clash with Victory Bond campaign. Sampling is initiated
52 1942 
  • 1942—1942: Gilbert Murray founds Oxfam
  • 1942—1942: Invention of world's first programmable computer by Alan Turing in co-operation with Max Neumann - used to crack German codes
  • 1942—1942: John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer
  • 1942—1942: Max Mueller designs a turboprop engine
  • 30 May 1942—30 May 1942: Over 1,000 allied bombers raid Cologne
  • 4 Jun 1942—4 Jun 1942: Battle of Midway
  • 19 Aug 1942—19 Aug 1942: Abortive raid on Dieppe, largely by Canadian troops
  • 6 Sep 1942—6 Sep 1942: Germans defeated at Stalingrad
  • 3 Oct 1942—3 Oct 1942: First successful launch of V2 rocket in Germany - first man-made object to reach space
  • 23 Oct 1942—23 Oct 1942: Battle of El Alamein - Montgomery defeats Rommel
  • 2 Dec 1942—2 Dec 1942: 'Manhattan Project' - a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction
53 1943 
  • 1943—1943: Round-the-clock bombing of Germany begins
  • 1943—1943: Synthetic rubber invented
  • 1943—1943: Richard James invents the slinky
  • 1943—1943: James Wright invent silly putty
  • 1943—1943: Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD
  • 1943—1943: Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung
  • 16 May 1943—16 May 1943: 'Dam Buster' raids on Ruhr dams by RAF
  • 24 Jul 1943—24 Jul 1943: Allies invade Italy - Benito Mussolini resigns as Italian Dictator, 24 July
54 1944 
  • 1944—1944: The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff
  • 1944—1944: Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian
  • 6 Apr 1944—6 Apr 1944: PAYE income tax begins
  • 4 Jun 1944—4 Jun 1944: Allies enter Rome
  • 6 Jun 1944—6 Jun 1944: D-Day invasion of Normandy
  • 12 Jun 1944—12 Jun 1944: First V1 flying bombs hit London
  • 8 Sep 1944—8 Sep 1944: First V2 rocket bombs hit London
  • 11 Sep 1944—11 Sep 1944: Allies enter Germany
  • 16 Dec 1944—16 Dec 1944: Battle of the Bulge: German counter-offensive
55 1945 
  • 1945—1945: Newfoundland census
    Census taken in Newfoundland
  • 1945—1945: Vannevar Bush proposes hypertext
  • 1945—1945: The atomic bomb invented
  • 4 Feb 1945—4 Feb 1945: Yalta Conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
  • 29 Mar 1945—29 Mar 1945: Last V1 flying bomb attack
  • 12 Apr 1945—20 Jan 1953: Harry S. Truman
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  • 25 Apr 1945—25 Apr 1945: Berlin surrounded by Russian troops
  • 30 Apr 1945—30 Apr 1945: Hitler commits suicide
  • 8 May 1945—8 May 1945: VE Day (Victory in Europe)
  • 9 May 1945—9 May 1945: Channel Islands liberated
  • 26 Jun 1945—26 Jun 1945: UN Charter signed in San Francisco
  • 16 Jul 1945—16 Jul 1945: First ever atomic bomb exploded in a test in New Mexico (although there were other forms of atomic device before that, such as the Pile at Stagg Field, first critical on 2nd Dec 1942)
  • 26 Jul 1945—26 Jul 1945: Labour win UK General Election - Churchill out of office
  • 29 Jul 1945—29 Jul 1945: BBC Light Programme starts
  • 6 Aug 1945—6 Aug 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
  • 9 Aug 1945—9 Aug 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
  • 15 Aug 1945—15 Aug 1945: VJ Day (Victory in Japan)
  • 2 Sep 1945—2 Sep 1945: Japanese surrender signed aboard USS Missouri
  • 24 Oct 1945—24 Oct 1945: United Nations Organisation comes into existence
  • 4 Nov 1945—4 Nov 1945: UNESCO founded
  • 4 Dec 1945—20 Jan 1953: Harry Truman
  • 6 1945—26 Jun 1945: Canada joins the United Nations