Arthur Peronneau Hayne, Colonel

Arthur Peronneau Hayne, Colonel

Male 1788 - 1867  (78 years)


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Frank Slide, Alberta PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Einstein publishes Special Theory of Relativity
Alberta and Saskatchewan join Canada
Germany lays down the first Dreadnought battleship
Aliens Act in Britain: Home Office controls immigration
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
Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2
Mary Anderson receives a patent for windshield wipers
America takes over construction of the Panama Canal from the French (completed 1914)
France and UK sign the Entente Cordiale
Leeds University established
Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan
Benjamin Holt invents a tractor
John A Fleming invents a vacuum diode or Fleming valve
First flight of Wilbur & Orville Wright
Census of Canada PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Women's Social and Political Union formed in Britain by Emmeline Pankhurst
Henry Ford sets up his motor company
Workers' Education Association (WEA) formed in Britain
Canada loses the Alaska Boundary Dispute to the USA
Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons
Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens
The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane
Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers
William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs
Edward VII
Coronation of Edward VII
Treaty of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War
Empire Day (later Commonwealth Day) first celebrated
Theodore Roosevelt
Marie Curie discovers radioactivity
Cremation Act - cremation can only take place at officially recognised establishments, and with two death certificates issued
Balfour's Education Act provides for secondary education
Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner
French physicist George Claude invents neon light
The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie
The birth of the Teddy Bear
First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi - Morse code from Cornwall to Newfoundland
Britain's first submarine launched
Theodore Roosevelt
Boer War PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Denunciation of use of concentration camps by British in Boer War
Queen Victoria's funeral - interred beside Prince Albert in the Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park
Queen Victoria dies - Edward VII king
Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner
Commonwealth of Australia founded
King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor
The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission
Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner
Labour Party formed
Davis Cup tennis competition established
School leaving age in Britain raised to 14 years
Central Line opens in London: underground is electrified
Escalator shown at Paris exhibition
The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator
Boxer Rebellion
Start of Second Boer War
Spanish-American War PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Philippine-American War
Aspirin first marketed by Bayer
The Yukon joins Canada PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner
I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
Territory of Hawaii was Oraganized
The first solo circumnavigation of the globe completed at Rhode island by Joshua Slocum in Spray (started from Boston, Mass on Apr 24, 1895)
Spanish-American War
USS Holland launched, the first practical submarine
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company founded
Zeppelin builds airship
First photograph using artificial light
Klondike gold rush
Yukon gold rush
Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine
Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster
William McKinley
William McKinley
Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector
Guglielmo Marconi receives a British patent (later disputed) for the radio
First modern Olympic Games held in Athens
Utah PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Gold discovered in Yukon
American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel
X-rays discovered
First people in Britain to be charged with motor offences - John Henry Knight and James Pullinger of Farnham, Surrey
First recorded motor journey of any length (56 miles) in Britain
Oscar Wilde sent to prison
Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted
The National Trust founded in England
Sir Henry Wood starts Promenade Concerts in London
Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one
Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe
Death duties first introduced in Britain
Tower Bridge first opens
Blackpool Tower opens
Picture postcard introduced in Britain
Manchester Ship Canal opens
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Zip fastener invented
Henry Ford's first car
American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper
Edward Goodrich Acheson invents carborundum
Alfred Lord Tennyson dies, aged 83, at his house Aldworth, near Haslemere
Electric oven invented
Shop Hours Act - limit 74 hours per week for under-18's
Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask
Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine
Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera
Census of Canada PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Fictional date when Sherlock Holmes throws Moriarty over Reichenbach Falls, then disappears for 3 years! (published in 1893)
First telephone link between London & Paris
Primary education made free and compulsory
First Children's Aid Society is established in Toronto
Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator
City & South London Railway opens - London's first deep-level tube railway and first major railway in the world to use electric traction
Wyoming PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Idaho
Forth railway bridge opens - took six years to build
Indian Territory Organized
Oklahoma Territory Organized
Washington
Length of a metre defined
Montana
Canadian Pacific Railway completed from coast to coast
Children's charity NSPCC launched in London
Benjamin Harrison
Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
Benjamin Harrison
South Dakota
North Dakota
Dock Strike - docker's won their 'Docker's Tanner' 6 old pennies
Celluloid film produced
Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act
Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder
Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook
Football League formed
First box camera - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film
Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre
County Councils set up in Britain
Jack the Ripper active in east London during the latter half of the year
Convention of Constantinople guarantees free maritime passage through Suez Canal in war and peace
Voting rights extended
John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire
Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer
Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws
Coal mine explosion in Nanaimo, BC
Daimler produces a four-wheeled motor car
German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar
Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
Emile Berliner invents the gramophone
F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses
Putney Bridge opens in London
Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage later named 'Coca-Cola'
Louis Riel hanged PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Mersey railway (under Mersey) opened by Prince of Wales
Gottlieb Daimler builds the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle
John Pemberton invents Coca Cola
Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher
First electric tramcar used at Blackpool
The first train runs through the Severn Tunnel
Canadian Pacific Railway Completed
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
First UK cremation in modern times took place at Woking
Canadian Pacific Railway completed
Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
Eastman makes first coated photographic paper
Carl Benz builds the 'Motorwagen', a single-cylinder motor car
Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine
Harim Maxim invents the machine gun
Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle
Greenwich made prime meridian of the world
John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
Second Acadian Convention at Miscouche
Voting rights extended
James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register
Charles Parson patents the steam turbine
Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen
George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
Frenchmen, H. de Chardonnet invents rayon
Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave
Parcel post starts in Britain
Brooklyn Bridge, New York opens (crosses East River)
Statue of Liberty presented to USA by France
Chester A. Arthur
Fourth Eddystone Lighthouse completed
Home children arrive
Northwest Territories divided
Gunfight at OK Corral
Chester A. Arthur
Godalming in Surrey became the first town in England to have a public electricity supply installed (but in 1884 it reverted to gas lighting until 1904)
Census of Canada
James Garfield
James A. Garfield
Postal Orders introduced
Flogging abolished in Army and Royal Navy
First Acadian Convention at Memramcook
David Houston patents the roll film for cameras
Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector
Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano
Greenwich Mean Time adopted throughout UK
Mosquito found to be the carrier of malaria
Education Act: schooling compulsory for 5-10 year olds
Chinese build railroad
Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph
The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper
Blackpool illuminations switched on for first time
CID established at New Scotland Yard
Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
Red Flag Act in Britain limits mechanical road vehicles to 4mph
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb
Rutherford Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes
Edison invents microphone and phonograph
Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph
Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures
Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray each file a patent for the telephone - Bell awarded the rights
Colorado
Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper
The Great Nova Scotia Cyclone PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
London's main sewage system completed
Supreme Court of Canada established
Western Indian treaties signed
Midland Railway abolishes Second Class passenger facilities, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies followed during the rest of the year. (Third Class was renamed Second Class in 1956)
Birkenhead Park opened, said to be the first civic public park in the world - features of it later copied in Central Park, New York
Nova Scotia coal mine explosion PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Factory Act introduces 56-hour week
Voting rights extended
American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher
Prince Edward Island joins Canada
North-West Mounted Police created
Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire
American ship 'Mary Celeste' is found abandoned by the British brig 'Dei Gratia' in the Atlantic Ocean
British Columbia joins Canada PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Penalties introduced for failing to register births, marriages & deaths (Eng & Wales)
Licensing hours introduced
Chinese and First Nations banned from voting in BC
Dominion Land Act
A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog
J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill
Trades Unions legalised in Britain, but picketing made illegal
Opening of Royal Albert Hall, London
First Rugby Football international, England v Scotland, played in Edinburgh
Manitoba created PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Northwest Territories created PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Dominion of Canada Census
15th Amendment passed by Congress PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
First British postcard - halfpenny post
Rupert's Land joins Canada
15th Amendment ratified PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Wyoming Territory Organized
Diamonds discovered in Kimberley, South Africa
Water closets come into wide use
Dr Thomas Barnardo opens his first home for destitute children
GPO takes over the privately-owned Telegraph Companies (nationalised)
First census of British Columbia
Cutty Sark launched in Dumbarton
14th Amendment ratified PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Ulysses Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
Ontario begins BMD registration
Ball bearings, celluloid, margarine, and washing machines, all invented
Last convicts landed in Australia (Western Australia)
Vote given to male British subjects
J P Knight invents traffic lights
George Westinghouse invents air brakes
Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel
13th Amendment passed by Congress PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
The British North America Act takes effect, creating the Canadian Confederation
10-year census taking becomes a legal requirement
Confederation
14th Amendment passed by Congress PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Nebraska
Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and modern typewriter
Nevada PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Andrew Johnson
Montana Territory Organized
Fenian Raids
Ontario Gold Rush
Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo
J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
William Booth (1829-1912) founds Salvation Army, in London
13th Amendment ratified
Andrew Johnson
Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
End of American Civil War - slavery abolished in USA
First concrete roads built in Britain
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) becomes first woman doctor in England [she later became the first woman mayor in England, in Aldeburgh 1908]
Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon officially opened
Arizona Territory Organized
Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
West Virginia PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
The Great Sheffield Flood - over 250 died when a new dam broke while it was being filled for the first time
A man-powered submarine, 'Hunley' sank a Federal steam ship USS Housatonic at the entrance to Charleston harbour in 1864 - the first recorded successful attack by a submarine on a surface ship
Kansas PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Colorado Territory Organized
Idaho Territory Organized
First section of the London Underground Railway opens
Opening of state institution for criminally insane at Broadmoor, England
Football Association founded (UK)
Denmark goes to war against Prussia and Austria. In the Treaty of Prague (1866), Denmark cedes Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia (Ge
First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
Civil War
Canadian census PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Lincoln issues first legal US paper money (Greenbacks)
Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic
Dr. Richard Gatling patents the machine gun
American Civil War begins
American Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
South Dakota Territory Organized
Nevada Territory Organized
North Dakota Territory Organized
Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator
Pierre Michaux invents a bicycle
Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock
First tram service in Europe starts in Birkenhead
Oregon PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
The Maple Leaf
Charles Darwin publishes 'The Origin of Species'
Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge opened at Saltash giving rail link between Devon and Cornwall
Work started on building the Suez canal (opened 17 Nov 1869)
Peaceful picketing legalised in Britain
Minnesota PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Royal Opera House opens in Covent Garden, London
'The great stink' - smell of the River Thames forced Parliament to stop work
Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine
Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine
James Buchanan
James Buchanan
Work starts on the laying of the Transatlantic cable
Ottawa is declared the capital of Canada by Queen Victoria
George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel
Nebraska Territory Organized
Victoria Cross created by Royal Warrant, backdated to 1854 to recognise acts during the Crimean War (first award ceremony 26 June 1857)
End of Crimean War
Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation
Civil registration begins.
Ice Hockey
Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor
Georges Audemars invents rayon
Ottawa named
Battle of Balaklava in Crimea (charge of the Light Brigade)
Britain declares war on Russia (Crimean War)
Cigarettes introduced into Britain
John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce
Washington Territory Organized
Vaccination against smallpox made compulsory in Britain
George Cayley invents a manned glider
First "thorough" Canadian census PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Tasmania ceases to be a convict settlement
Wells Fargo established in USA
Jean Bernard Lรฉon Foucault invents a gyroscope
Henri Giffard builds an airship powered by the first aircraft engine - unsuccessful design
Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations ('Crystal Palace' exhibition) opened in Hyde Park
Gold discovered in Australia
First Canadian postage stamp
Toronto-Buffalo rail line constructed
Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine
Millard Fillmore
New Mexico Territory Organized
California
Utah Territory Organized
Millard Fillmore
Wisconsin PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Joel Houghton was granted the first dishwasher patent
County government
Annexation Manifesto PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor
Minnesota Territory Organized
Oregon Territory Organized
Florin (2 shilling coin) introduced as the first step to decimalisation - which finally occurred in 1971!
Canada's 49th parallel border is extended to the Pacific Ocean
Official bilingualism
Walter Hunt invents the safety pin
Waterloo railway station in London opens
Iowa PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Mexican-American War PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Gold found at Sutter's Mill, California - starts the California gold rush
First commercial production of chewing gum
1842's followup census completed
Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair
Kansas Territory Organized
Texas PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
US Mormons make Salt Lake City their centre
Longfellow writes the poem Evangeline
Typhus epidemic
Influenza epidemic
Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics
An anesthetic used for the first time in England (James Simpson used ether to numb the pain of labour)
The sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe
Canada-U.S. Boundary Completed
Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction
James Polk
The rubber band patented by Stephen Perry
James K. Polk
Florida
Tarmac laid for first time (in Nottingham)
USA doubles cost of passage to American ports
American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine
Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire
YMCA founded in London by Sir George Williams
Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton
Brunel's 'Great Britain' launched
The Great Hall of Euston station opened in London
First Christmas card in England
Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile
Treaty of Nanking - End of First Opium War - Britain gains Hong Kong
Ether used as an anesthetic for the first time (by Dr Crawford Long in America)
First major census taken
Income Tax reintroduced in Britain
Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator
Act of Union PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
June 6: First full census in Britain in which all names were recorded (Population 18.5M)
John Tyler
John Tyler
William H. Harrison
William Henry Harrison
Penny Red replaces Penny Black postage stamp
Thomas Cook starts package tours
The first census of genealogical value is taken.
Samuel Slocum patents the stapler
Uniform Penny Postage introduced nationally
Last convicts landed in NSW (some say 1842 or 1849, but these probably landed elsewhere)
Population Act relating to taking of censuses in Britain
Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint
Michigan PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan refines the primitive bicycle adding a mechanical crank drive to the rear wheel,thus creating the first true 'bicycle' in the modern Sense
First Opium War between Britain and China (to 1842) - Britain captures Hong Kong
Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography
Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle
American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization
Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell
American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales
Durham Report
Iowa Territory Organized
Rebellion of Hastings County, Ontario
Victoria
Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey
Samual Morse invents Morse Code
Wisconsin Territory Organized
Euston Railway station opens - first in London
Queen Victoria moves into the first Buckingham Palace
Compulsory registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths in England & Wales - Registration Districts were formed covering several parishes; initially they had the same boundaries as the Poor Law boundaries set up in 1834
William IV dies - accession of Queen Victoria (to 1901)
Mackenzie Rebellion
Martin van Buren
Arkansas PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Martin Van Buren
Upper Canada Rebellion
Lower Canada Rebellion
P&O Founded
Pitman introduces his shorthand system
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp
Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
Mexican-American War
The Alamo falls to Mexican troops - death of Davy Crockett
Samuel Colt patented the 'revolver'
Telford's Menai Straits Bridge opened ? considered the world's first modern suspension bridge
First Potato famine in Ireland
Samuel Colt invented the first revolver
First formal police force PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Texas War of Independence
First railway boom period starts in Britain construction of Great Western Railway
Christmas becomes a national holiday
Second Seminole War
Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller
Englishmen, Henry F. Talbot invents Calotype photography
Solymon Merrick patents the wrench
Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator
Slavery abolished in British possessions
'Tolpuddle Martyrs' transported (to Australia) for Trades Union activities
Cholera epidemic - Canada West
Babbage invents forerunner of the computer
Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine)
Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent
Factory Act forbids employment of children below age of 9
Cholera epidemic - Canada West PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Abolition of slavery
Britain invades the Falkland Islands
Reform Bill passed ? Representation of the People Act
Black Hawk War
William IV
Immigrants quarantined at Grosse Isle
Electric telegraph invented by Morse
Electoral Registers introduced
Texas Revolutionary War
Englishmen, Louis Braille invents the stereoscope
'New' London Bridge opens (replaced 1973) ? old bridge (which had existed for over 600 years) then demolished
James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole
Lower Canada (Quebec) census
A list of all parish registers dating prior to 1813 compiled
Marriage Act amended
American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper
Michael Faraday invents an electric dynamo
George Stephenson's Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened by the Duke of Wellington ? first mail carried by rail, and first death on the railway as William Huskisson, a leading politician, is run over!
Revolution in France, fall of Charles X and the Bourbons ? Louis Philippe (the Citizen King) on the throne
Uprisings and agitation across Europe: the Netherlands are split into Holland and Belgium
Frenchmen, B. Thimonnier invents a sewing machine
George Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill trials (it was the only one to complete the trial!)
First Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Guelph, Ontario, tornado
Louis Braille invents his system of finger-reading for the blind
London Metropolitan Police Force formed, nicknamed 'Bobbies' after Sir Robert Peel
Roman Catholics are permitted by law to buy and inherit property and keep records.
Welland Canal opens
William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter
Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing
American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter
St Katharine Docks in London opened (designed by Thomas Telford)
Military rolls taken in Canada West (Ontario)
Naturalization commences
Ohm's Law published
Charles Wheatstone invents the microphone
John Walker invents the modern matches
Lower Canada (Quebec} census PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Red River flooding
Stockton to Darlington Railway opens ? world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains
The Miramichi Fire
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet
Florida Territory Organized
National Gallery in London opens to the public
Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) founded (called the 'National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck' until 1854)
Portland cement patented
RSPCA established
Canada (Land) Company formed
First annual numerical census of Upper Canada
Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon
Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material
US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts (the 'Monroe Doctrine')
Rubberised waterproof material produced by MacIntosh
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School
Peel begins penal reforms ? death penalty abolished for over 100 crimes
New laws concerning marriage by license ? 'very troublesome' according to some the Act was repealed all in a hurry at the beginning of the next session
Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland
Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society
George IV
Missouri PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St Helena
Maine PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Constable paints 'The Hay Wain'
Faraday publishes 'Principles of electro-magnetic rotation'
Trial of Queen Caroline to prove her infidelities so George IV can divorce her ? George tries to secure a Bill of Pains and Penalties against her ? Caroline is virtually acquitted because bill passed by such a small majority of Lords
Regent's Canal in London opens
Alabama PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Accession of George IV, previously Prince Regent
Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition
Cato Street Conspiracy ? plot to assissinate British cabinet
Cape Breton Island re-annexed to Nova Scotia
Militia land grants
Peterloo Massacre at Manchester ? a large, orderly group of 60,000 meets at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester ? demand Parliamentary Reform ? mounted troops charge on the meeting, killing 11 people and and maiming many others
SS 'Savannah' first steamship to cross Atlantic reaching Liverpool 20 June 1819 (26 Days reaching Liverpool 20 June 1819 (26 Days mostly under sail)
Arkansas Territory Organized
Singapore founded by Sir Stamford Raffles
Britain returns to gold standard
Primitive bicycle, the Dandy Horse, becomes popular
Renรฉ Laรซnnec invents the stethoscope
Samuel Fahnestock patents a "soda fountain"
'Convention of 1818' signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its length
Illinois
Manchester cotton spinners' strike
First Seminole War
The 49th parallel becomes border
Mississippi
James Monroe
James Monroe
Alabama Territory Organized
Constable painted 'Flatford Mill'
March of the Manchester Blanketeers; Habeas Corpus suspended
Indian Wars
Census of Nova Scotia
Indiana
Battle of Lacolle Mills PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battle of Lundy's Lane PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Trans-Atlantic packet service begins
Large scale emigration to North America
Climate: the 'year without a summer' ? followed a volcanic explosion of the mountain 'Tambora in Indonesia the previous year the biggest volcanic explosion in 10000 years
Income tax abolished
For the first time British silver coins were produced with an intrinsic value substantially below their face value ? the first official 'token' coinage
Treaty of Ghent PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battle of Cook's Mills (Lyons Creek) PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena
Burning of St. Davids PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battle for Prarie du Chien PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Siege at Fort Erie PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battles of Niagara frontier PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battle of Fort York (Toronto) PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Second Barbary War
Battle of Chateauguay PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Capture of Fort George PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
British incentive to emigrate to Upper Canada
Trial by Jury established in Scotland
Davy develops the safety lamp for miners
Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp
Treaty of Ghent signed ending the 1812 war between Britain and the US
Battle of Beaver Dam PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
'The Times' first printed by a 'mechanical apparatus' (at 1100 sheets per hour)
Battle of Ogdensburg, NY PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
The British burn the White House
Convention of London signed, a treaty between the UK and the Dutch
Louisiana PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Earl of Selkirk establishes Red River Colony (Winnipeg) PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battle at Chippawa
Battle of Frenchman's Creek PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba
U.S. raids into Western Upper Canada
Capture of Fort Erie
At the Treaty of Kiel, Denmark is compelled to cede Norway to Sweden
George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive
Joseph Nicรฉphore Niรฉpce was the first person to take a photograph
German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects
The first plastic surgery is performed in England
Invasion of France by Allies
Battle of Crysler's Farm
Burning of Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake)
Battle of Lake Erie (Put-in-Bay) PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Raid on Gananoque PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battle for Lake Erie
Battle of Lacolle Mills PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battle of Forty Mile Creek PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Skirmish of Butler's Farm (Two Mile Creek) PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
War of 1812
Battle of Stoney Creek
Battle of the Thames
Surrender of Fort Detroit PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battle of Fort Stephenson
U.S forces reoccupy Queenston and Chippawa (Niagara)
Battle of Queenston Heights PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Jane Austen wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'
Ireland: First recorded '12th of July' sectarian riots in Belfast
Creek War
Napoleon retreats from Moscow with catastrophic losses
Start of American 'War of 1812' (to 1814) against England and Canada
War of 1812
Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, assassinated ? shot as he entered the House of Commons by a bankrupt Liverpool broker, John Bellingham, who was subsequently hanged
Battle of Brownstown
Missouri Territory Organized
War of 1812
A printed format for parish registers begins
Battle of Tippecanoe
Prince of Wales (future George IV) made Regent after George III deemed insane
David Thomson charts Columbia River
John McAdam begins road construction in England, giving his name to the process of road metalling
German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press
Peter Durand invents the tin can
Royal Opera House opens in London
James Madison
James Madison
Illinois Territory Organized
Birth of Charles Darwin
British abolish slave trade PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp
Beethoven premieres his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy together in Vienna
'Hot Wednesday' ? temperature of 101?F in the shade recorded in London
Gas lighting in London streets
Simon Fraser to Vancouver
Parliament passes Act prohibiting slavery and the importation of slaves from 1808 ? but does not prohibit colonial slavery
Nelson buried in St Paul's cathedral, London
Dartmoor Prison opened (built by French prisoners)
Le Canadien newspaper founded
Battle of Austerlitz; Napoleon defeats Austrians and Russians
Michigan Territory Organized
Admiral Nelson's victory at Trafalgar
12th Amendment ratified PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Louisiana Territory Organized
London docks opened
Spain declares war on Britain
Napoleon declares himself Emperor of the French
Ohio PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
John Wedgwood (eldest son of the potter Josiah Wedgwood) founds The Royal Horticultural Society
Richard Trevithick runs his railway engine on the Penydarren Railway (9.5 miles from Pen-y-Darren to Abercynon in South Wales) this hauled a train with 10 tons of iron and 70 passengers. It was commemorated by the Royal Mint in 2004 in the form of A ?2 c
Matthew Flinders recommends that the newly discovered country, New Holland, be renamed 'Australia'
Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive
Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting
First public railway opens (Surrey Iron Railway, 9 miles from Wandsworth to Croydon, horse-drawn)
Peace of Amiens ends ? resumption of war with France ? The Napoleonic Wars (1803-18l5)
Louisiana Purchase: Napoleon sells French possessions in America to United States
12th Amendment passed by Congress
Semaphore signaling perfected by Admiral Popham
Poaching made a Capital offense in England if capture resisted
Richard Trevithick built another steam carriage and ran it in London as the first self-propelled vehicle in the capital and the first London bus
Treaty of Amiens signed by Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands ? the 'Peace of Amiens' as it was known brought a temporary peace of 14 months during the Napoleonic Wars ? one of its most important cultural effects was that travel and correspondenc
First passenger Train
Thomas Jefferson
First Barbary War
First Census
Thomas Jefferson
Elgin Marbles brought from Athens to London
Grand Union Canal opens in England
Tripolitan War
Barbary Wars
Union Jack becomes the official British flag
Indiana Territory Organized
Parliamentary Union
Volta makes first electrical battery
Herschel discovers infra-red light
High pressure steam
Royal College of Surgeons founded
First Electric Light
Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery
Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom
?Rosetta Stone' discovered in Egypt made possible the deciphering (in 1822) of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics
'Combination Laws' in Britain against political associations and combinations
Pitt brings in 10% income tax, as a wartime financial measure
Foundation of Royal Military College Sandhurst by the Duke of York
Foundation of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
9th January - Pitt brings in 10% income tax
Alessandro Volta invents the battery
Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making
Battle of the Nile (won by Nelson)
Mississippi Territory Organized
The Irish Rebellion; 100,000 peasants revolt; approximately 25,000 die - Irish Parliament abolished (Feb-Oct)
Franco-American War
First planned human experiment with vaccination, to test theories of Edward Jenner
Franco-American Naval War
Feb-Oct The Irish Rebellion, -
Marriage Act
Prince Edward Island created
Aloys Senefelder invents lithography
The first soft drink invented
John Adams
John Adams
First ?1 (and ?2) notes issued by Bank of England
French invade Fishguard, Wales; last time UK invaded; all captured 2 days later
England in Crisis, Bank of England suspends cash payments
Mutinies in the British Navy at Spithead and Nore
Tax on newspapers (including cheap, topical journals) increased to repress radical publications
The first copper pennies were produced ('cartwheels') by application of steam power to the coining press
England in Crisis
A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe
Wittemore patents a carding machine
Dr Edward Jenner gave first vaccination for smallpox in England
Tennessee
Pitt's Reign of Terror': More treason trials - leading radicals emigrate
Legacy Tax on sums over ?20 excluding those to wives, children, parents and grandparents
Holden's Triennial Directory published
Town of York (Toronto) becomes capital of Upper Canada
Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination
11th Amendment ratified PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
The Famine Year
Foundation of the Orange Order
Speenhamland Act proclaims that the Parish is responsible for bringing up the labourer's wage to subsistence level - towards the end of the eighteenth century, the number of poor and unemployed increased dramatically - price increases during the Napoleo
Pitt and Grenville introduce The Gagging Acts' or 'Two Bills' (the Seditious Meetings and Treasonable Practices Bills) - outlawed the mass meeting and the political lecture.
Consumption of lime juice made compulsory in Royal Navy
The Famine Year
Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food
The prosecutor for Britain, Lord Justice Eyre, charges reformers with High Treason - he argued that, since reform of parliament would lead to revolution and revolution to executing the King, the desire for reform endangered the King's life and was theref
11th Amendment passed by Congress PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Abolition of Parish Register duties
Abolition of Parish Register duties
Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin
Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings
Upper Canada's Abolition Act PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
?5 notes first issued by the Bank of England
Britain declares war on France (1793-1802)
11th February - England declares war on France (1793-1802)
Alexander MacKenzie crosses Canada by land
District of Columbia PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
King's Proclamation drawing out the British militia
Introduction of Money Orders in Britain
Rhode Island PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Rhode Island ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Tennessee Territory Organized
Kentucky
Coal-gas lighting invented by William Murdock, an Ayrshire Scot
Boyle's Street Directory published
Repression in Britain (restrictions on freedom of the press) - Fox gets Libel Act through Parliament, requiring a jury and not a judge to determine libel
Repression in Britian (restrictions on freedom of the press)
George Vancouver exploration
William Murdoch invents gas lighting
The first ambulance
First publication of The Observer - world's oldest Sunday newspaper
Constitutional Act PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
George Washington
Vermont PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Bill of Rights adopted PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
27th Amendment originally proposed PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Establishment of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain
John Bell, printer, abandons the long s' (the 's' that looks like an 'f')
Sugar prices rise steeply
John Barber invents the gas turbine
Early bicycles invented in Scotland
North Carolina PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
North Carolina ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Maryland PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Maryland ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
New York PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Virginia ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Virginia PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Forth and Clyde Canal opened in Scotland
Forth and Clyde Canal opened in Scotland
The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton
New York ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
South Carolina PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
South Carolina ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
MacKenzie River exploration
New Hampshire PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
New Hampshire ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
United States Constitution in effect PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
George Washington
Mutiny on HMS Bounty - Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew ends up on Pitcairn Island
New Constitution sent to for ratification PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
14th June - The French Revolution begins - storming of the Bastille
UE (Unity of Empire) designation created for Loyalists
The guillotine is invented
Connecticut PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Connecticut ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
New Jersey PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
New Jersey ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Massachusetts PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Massachusetts ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Georgia PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Georgia ratified U.S. Constitution PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
First convicts (and free settlers) arrive in New South Wales (left Portsmouth 13 May 1787) ? the 'First Fleet'; eleven ships commanded by Captain Arthur Phillip
Ohio Territory Organized
Gibbon completes Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
King George III's mental illness occasions the Regency Crisis - Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox attack ministry of William Pitt - trying to obtain full regal powers for the Prince of Wales
Law passed requiring that chimney sweepers be a minimum of 8 years old (not enforced)
First slave carrying act, the Dolben Act of 1788, regulates the slave trade - stipulates more humane conditions on slave ships
First steamboat demonstrated in Scotland
26th January, First convicts (and free settlers) arrive in New Soputh Wales
The Scarce Year
The abolition of the "stavnsbaand" (compulsory residence by the peasant and farming classes.)
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania ratified U.S. Constitution
Delaware
Delaware ratified U.S. Constitution
MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) established at Thomas Lord's ground in London
Earliest known Swedenborgian (Church of the New Jerusalem or Jerusalemite) registers
The first population census of genealogical value was taken
John Fitch invents a steamboat
Cape Breton Island created PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
New Brunswick created PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Loyalist migration from New York PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children (by 1851, enrols more than 2 million)
Northwest Indian War
Acadians sail from France to Louisiana
Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children (by 1851, enrols more than 2 million)
Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance
Blanchard invents a working parachute
Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom
Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching
John Walter publishes first edition of The Times (called The Daily Universal Register for 3 years)
First mail coaches in England (4pm Bristol / 8am London)
Invention of threshing machine by Andrew Meikle
First golf club founded at St Andrews
Wesley breaks with the Church of England
Pitt's India Act - the Crown (as opposed to officers of the East India Company) has power to guide Indian politics
Pitt's India Act -
Grand River Reserve created
Mass migration of Loyalists
Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine
Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock
Last public execution at Tyburn in London (John Austin, a highwayman)
Treaty of Versailles (Britain/US)
Treaty of Versailles
Duty payable on Parish Register entries (3d per entry - repealed 1794) - led to a fall in entries!
Duty on Parish Register entries (3d per entry - repealed 1794)
Eastern Canada - U.S.A. border established
Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production
Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute
Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon
Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock
James Watt patents his steam engine
Gilbert's Act establishes outdoor poor relief - the way of life of the poor beginning to alter due to industrialisation - New factories in rapidly expanding towns required a workforce that would adjust to new work patterns
Gilbert's Act establishes outdoor poor relief -
Massive Loyalist migration from U.S. begins
First UEL settlers in Niagara
Treaty signed with Micmac to protect British settlers PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Jun 2- 8: The Gordon Riots - Parliament passes a Roman Catholic relief measure - for days, London is at the mercy of a mob and destruction is widespread
First Derby run at Epsom (some say 2nd June)
About this time the word 'Quiz' entered the language, said to have been invented as a wager by Mr Daly, a Dublin theatre manager
Fountain pen invented
The English Reform Movement - until now, only landowners and tenants (freeholders with 40 shillings per year or more) allowed to vote, and in open poll books
Male Servants Tax
4th May First Derby run at Epsom
Benjamin Franklin invents bi-focal eyeglasses
Gervinus invents the circular saw
Naval engagement between Britain and USA off Flamborough Head
Capt James Cook killed on Hawaii
First Spinning Mills operational in Scotland
First iron bridge built, over the Severn by John Wilkinson
Marc Isambard Brunel opens the first steamdriven sawmill at Chatham Dockyard in Kent
Crompton's mule invented (Textile production)
Industrial Revolution begins to affect Scotland.
Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
Captain James Cook explores West Coast
Samuel Miller of Southampton patents the circular saw.
First attack on a warship by a submarine - David Bushnell's ?Turtle' attacked HMS Eagle in New York harbour. The attack was perhaps spectacular (a charge did detonate beneath the ship) but was nevertheless unsuccessful. 'Turtle' was a one man Affair ma
American Revolution (War of Independence)
American Declaration of Independence
American forces invade PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
First United Empire Loyalists arrive
Somerset House in London becomes the repository of records of population
Watt and Boulton produce their first commercial steam engine
Acadians fight in the Eddy Rebellion
American Declaration of Independence (July 4th)
North West Company formed
David Bushnell invents a submarine
Quรฉbec Act PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Battle of Lexington: first action in American War of Independence (1775- 1783)
American Revolutionary War
Battle of Lexington
American Revolution
Alexander Cummings invents the flush toilet
Jacques Perrier invents a steamship
Cook arrives on Easter Island
Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraph
Census of Acadians in France
East India Company governs Hindustan
Boston Tea Party (16 December)
Judge Mansfield rules that there is no legal basis for slavery in England
Morning Post' first published (until 1937)
First Travellers' Cheques issued by the London Credit Exchange Company
Jundge Mansfield rules that there is no legal basis for slavery (14th May)
Right to report Parliamentary debates established in England
Samuel Hearne reaches the Arctic via land travel
Capt James Cook lands in Australia (Botany Bay) ? Aug 21: formally claims Australia for Britain
Clyde Trust created to convert the River Clyde, then an insignificant river, into a major thoroughfare for maritime communications
Hargreave's jenny invented (textile production)
David Garrick organises first Shakespeare festival at Stratford-upon-Avon
Capt James Cook maps the coast of New Zealand
Arkwright invents water frame (textile production)
Arkwright invents water frame (textile production)
Ile St. Jean (Prince Edward Island) separated
James Watt invents an improved steam engine
The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica' published in Edinburgh by William Smellie
Philip Astley starts his circus in London
Richard Arkwright patents the spinning frame
Newcomen's steam pumping engine perfected by James Watt
First Iron railroads built for mines by John Wilkinson
Census of Nova Scotia
Joseph Priestley invents carbonated water - soda water
Christie's auction house founded in London by James Christie
Start of 'composite' national records on rainfall in the UK
Stamp Act passed - imposed a tax on publications and legal documents in the American colonies (repealed the following year)
The potato becomes the most popular food in Europe
First Acadians settle in Louisiana
Stamp Act passed
Indian treaties transferring land to Britain
Mozart produces his first symphony at age eight
James Hargeaves invents the Spinning Jenny (but destroyed 1768)
Lloyd's Register of shipping first prepared
Practice of numbering houses introduced to London
Lloyd's Register of shipping first prepared
James Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny
Treaty of Paris - gives back to France everything Pitt fought to obtain - (Newfoundland [fishing], Guadaloupe and Martininque [sugar], Dakar [gum]) - but English displaces French as the international language
Treaty of Paris
POST-DEPORTATION PERIOD
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Paris
George III
Cigars introduced into Britain from Cuba
Earliest Unitarian registers
Treaty signed to end war PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
British capture Pondicherry, India from the French
Englishmen, John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude
George II dies - George III Hanover, his grandson, becomes king. The date conventionally marks the start of the so-called first Industrial Revolution'
Peace treaties between Micmac and British
British capture Quebec PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
First use of hangman's drop
Battle of the Plains of Abraham PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Carron Iron Works in operation in Scotland
King George III
George II dies (25th October)
Third Eddystone Lighthouse (John Smeaton's) completed
British Museum opens to the public in London
Wesley builds 356 Methodist chapels
British Museum opens to the public in London (15th Jan)
Cherokee War
India stops being merely a commercial venture - England begins dominating it politically - The East India Company retains its monopoly although it ceased to trade
Deportation of the Acadians at Ile Ste Jean (PEI)
Acadians on Ile Royale/Cape Breton are deported to France
India stops being merely a commercial venture
Acadian deportation
British capture Fort Louisburg
Dolland invents a chromatic lens
The Nawab of Bengal tries to expel the British, but is defeated at the battle of Plassey (Palashi, June 23) - the East India Company forces are led by Robert Clive
Admiral Byng shot at Portsmouth for failing to relieve Minorca
The foundation laid for the Empire of India
India - The Nawab of Bengal tries to expel the British -
John Campbell invents the sextant
Black Hole of Calcutta - 146 Britons imprisoned, most die according to British sources
The Seven Years War with France (Pitt's trade war) begins
The Seven Year War with France (Pitt's trade was) begins
French and Indian War
Europe's Seven Years' War - North America's French-Indian war
Second Eddystone Lighthouse destroyed by fire
Deportation of the Acadian population
Period of canal construction began in Britain (till 1827)
Publication of Dictionary of the English Language' by Dr Samuel Johnson
DEPORTATION PERIOD
Publication of Dictionary of the English Language by Dr, Johnson
Postal Service established
The Great Expulsion
Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary
First British troops not belonging to the East India Company despatched to India
In the General Election, the Cow Inn at Haslemere, Surrey caused a national scandal by subdividing the freehold to create eight votes instead of one
Hardwicke Act (1753): Banns to be called, and Printed Marriage Register forms to be used - Quakers & Jews exempt
The French and Indian War
Hardwicke Act (1753
French and Indian War
First newspaper printed in Canada PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Treaty signed to renew the 1725 Indian Treaties PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Publication of ?Species Plantarum' by Linnaeus and the formal start date of plant taxonomy
Private collection of Sir Hans Sloane forms the basis of the British Museum
Earliest Inghamite registers
French defeat George Washington's military campaign
Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted in England and Scotland, making this Sep 14
Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning conductor
Julian Calendar dropped and Gregorian Calendar adopted
Census of Ile St-Jean
Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod
Beginning of the year 1752 [Scotland had adopted January as the start of the year in 1600, and some other countries in Europe had adopted the Gregorian calendar as early as 1582]
Chesterfield's Calendar Act passed - royal assent to the bill was given on 22 May 1751 - decision to adopt Gregorian Calendar in 1752: In and throughout all his
Original Westminster Bridge opened (replaced in 1862 due to subsidence)
Treaty signed to renew the 1725 Indian Treaties PROBLEM: start is > earliestEnd, start is > end
Series of earthquakes in London and the Home Counties cause panic with predictions of an apocalypse (Feb/Mar)
Neo-Classical Period (Art and Antiques)
Gothic Revival Period (Art and Antiques)
First performance of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks (in Green Park, London)
Founding of Halifax
Britain founds Halifax
Couontess Huntington's (Calvanistic) Methodist Connexion founded
Treaty of Aix-de-Chapelle ends French-British war
King George's War
Rococo Period (Art and Antiques)
George II
King George II
Chinoiserie Period (Art and Antiques)
PRE-DEPORTATION PERIOD
Renaissance Period - Art and Antiques
Baroque Period (Art and Antiques)
Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
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   Date  Event(s)
1383 
  • 1383โ€”99 9999: Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
1832 
  • 4 Jan 1832โ€”1937: Immigrants quarantined at Grosse Isle
    Canada's immigrant quarantine station opens at Grosse Isle
1898 
  • 7 Jul 1898โ€”20 Aug 1959: Territory of Hawaii was Oraganized
1910 
  • 5 Jun 1910โ€”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.
1912 
  • 8 1912โ€”2 Jan 1959: Alaska Territory Organized
1923 
  • 8 Mar 1923โ€”4 Mar 1929: Calvin Coolidge
    Calvin Coolidge, vice president under Warren Harding, sworn in as president the day after Harding dies
  • 2 Aug 1923โ€”4 Mar 1929: Calvin Coolidge
    Calvin Coolidge U.S. Presidency Calvin Coolidge U.S. Presidency
1925 
  • 1925โ€”1925: Britain returns to gold standard
  • 1925โ€”1925: The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird
  • 18 Jul 1925โ€”18 Jul 1925: Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
1926 
  • 1926โ€”1926: Walt Disney arrives in Hollywood
  • 1926โ€”1926: Kodak produces 16mm movie film
  • 1926โ€”1926: Adoption of children is legalised in Britain
  • 1926โ€”1926: First public demonstration of television (TV) by John Logie Baird
  • 1926โ€”1926: Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets
  • 21 Apr 1926โ€”21 Apr 1926: Princess Elizabeth born
  • 3 May 1926โ€”3 May 1926: General Strike begins. Lasts until May 12 (mine workers for 6 months more)
  • 31 Oct 1926โ€”31 Oct 1926: Death of Harry Houdini
1927 
  • 1927โ€”1927: Release of the first 'talkie' film (The Jazz Singer)
  • 1927โ€”1927: Eduard Haas III invents PEZ candy
  • 1927โ€”1927: JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch
  • 1927โ€”1927: Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system
  • 1927โ€”1927: Technicolor invented
  • 1927โ€”1927: Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can
  • 1927โ€”1927: Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock
  • 1927โ€”1927: Philip Drinker invents the iron lung
  • 7 Jan 1927โ€”7 Jan 1927: First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London
  • 22 Jan 1927โ€”22 Jan 1927: First football broadcast by BBC (Arsenal v Sheffield United at Highbury)
  • 1 May 1927โ€”1 May 1927: First cooked meals on a scheduled flight introduced by Imperial Airways from London to Paris
  • 20 May 1927โ€”20 May 1927: Lindbergh makes solo flight across the Atlantic, in 33? hours
  • 31 May 1927โ€”31 May 1927: Last Ford Model T rolls off assembly line
  • 24 Jul 1927โ€”24 Jul 1927: The Menin Gate war memorial unveiled at Ypres
10 1928 
  • 1928โ€”1928: Women over 21 get vote in Britain - same qualification for both sexes
  • 1928โ€”1928: Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
  • 1928โ€”1928: Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer
  • 1928โ€”1928: Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver
  • 26 Apr 1928โ€”26 Apr 1928: Madame Tussauds opens in London
  • 15 Sep 1928โ€”15 Sep 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers penicillin (results published 1929)
11 1929 
  • 1929โ€”1929: BBC begins experimental TV transmissions
  • 1929โ€”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
  • 1929โ€”1929: Abolition of Poor Law system in Britain
  • 1929โ€”1939: The Great Depression
    Canada hit hardest by the depression
  • 1929โ€”1929: American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio
  • 1929โ€”1929: Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad
  • 4 Mar 1929โ€”4 Mar 1933: Herbert Hoover
    Herbert Hoover U.S. Presidency Herbert Hoover U.S. Presidency
  • 3 Apr 1929โ€”4 Mar 1933: Herbert Hoover
  • 10 1929โ€”18 Oct 1929: The 'Persons' Case Decision
    Women are declared 'persons' by the British Privy Council
12 1930 
  • 1930โ€”1930: Youth Hostel Association (YHA) founded in Britain
  • 1930โ€”1930: First Nazis elected to the German Reichstag
  • 1930โ€”1930: Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer, Richard G. Drew
  • 1930โ€”1930: The frozen food process patented by Clarence Birdseye
  • 1930โ€”1930: Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents neoprene
  • 1930โ€”1930: The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston
  • 1930โ€”1930: Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine
  • 30 Jan 1930โ€”30 Jan 1930: Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
  • 31 Jan 1930โ€”31 Jan 1930: 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape
  • 6 Mar 1930โ€”6 Mar 1930: Clarence Birdseye first marketed frozen peas
  • 5 Oct 1930โ€”5 Oct 1930: R101 airship disaster - British abandons airship construction
13 1931 
  • 1931โ€”1931: Collapse of the German banking system; 3,000 banks there close
  • 1931โ€”1931: Statute of Westminster: British Dominions become independent sovereign states
  • 1931โ€”1931: Statute of Westminster
    The British Dominions are formally recognized by British Parliament
  • 1931โ€”1931: Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography
  • 1931โ€”1931: Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope
  • 14 Apr 1931โ€”14 Apr 1931: Highway Code first issued
  • 26 Apr 1931โ€”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 1931โ€”21 Oct 1931: National Government formed to deal with economic crisis - Britain comes off gold standard
14 1932 
  • 1932โ€”1932: Sir Thomas Beecham established the London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • 1932โ€”1932: Cockroft and Walton accelerate particles to disintegrate an atomic nucleus
  • 1932โ€”1932: Moseley founds British Union of Fascists
  • 1932โ€”1932: Great Hunger March of unemployed to London
  • 1932โ€”1932: Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land
  • 1932โ€”1932: The zoom lens and the light meter invented
  • 1932โ€”1932: Carl C. Magee invents the first parking meter
  • 1932โ€”1932: Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope
  • 3 Feb 1932โ€”2 Mar 1932: 20th Amendment passed by Congress
  • 21 May 1932โ€”21 May 1932: Amelia Earhart first solo nonstop flight across Atlantic by a female pilot
  • 3 Oct 1932โ€”3 Oct 1932: Iraq gains independence from Britain
  • 3 Oct 1932โ€”3 Oct 1932: 'The Times' introduces 'Times New Roman' typeface
15 1933 
16 1934 
  • 1934โ€”1934: Hitler becomes Fuehrer of Germany
  • 1934โ€”1934: Englishmen, Percy Shaw invents cat eyes or roads reflectors
  • 1934โ€”1934: Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly
  • 1934โ€”1934: Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording
  • 18 Jul 1934โ€”18 Jul 1934: King George V opens Mersey Tunnel
  • 26 Sep 1934โ€”26 Sep 1934: RMS Queen Mary launched
  • 30 Nov 1934โ€”30 Nov 1934: First time a steam locomotive travels at 100 mph ('Flying Scotsman')
17 1935 
  • 1935โ€”1935: Land speed record of 301.13 mph by Malcolm Campbell
  • 1935โ€”1935: London adopts a 'Green Belt' scheme
  • 1935โ€”1935: Newfoundland census
    Census taken in Newfoundland
  • 1935โ€”1935: Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon ( polymer 6.6.)
  • 1935โ€”1935: The first canned beer made
  • 1935โ€”1935: Robert Watson-Watt patented radar
  • 28 Feb 1935โ€”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 1935โ€”12 Mar 1935: Hore-Belisha introduces pedestrian crossings and speed limits for built-up areas in Britain
  • 1 Jun 1935โ€”1 Jun 1935: Voluntary driving tests introduced in UK
  • 30 Jul 1935โ€”30 Jul 1935: Penguin paperbacks launched
18 1936 
  • 1936โ€”1936: Jet engine first tested
  • 1936โ€”1936: Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine
  • 1936โ€”1936: Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver
  • 20 Jan 1936โ€”20 Jan 1936: George V dies
  • 5 May 1936โ€”5 May 1936: First flight of a Spitfire
  • 24 Jul 1936โ€”24 Jul 1936: 'Speaking clock' service starts in UK
  • 2 Nov 1936โ€”2 Nov 1936: British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, world's first public TV transmission
  • 12 Nov 1936โ€”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 1936โ€”30 Nov 1936: Crystal Palace destroyed by fire
  • 5 Dec 1936โ€”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 1936โ€”11 Dec 1936: Edward VIII
    House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Eldest son of George V
19 1937 
  • 1937โ€”1937: Billy Butlin opens his first holiday camp
  • 1937โ€”1937: '999' emergency telephone call facility starts in London
  • 1937โ€”1937: Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier
  • 1937โ€”1937: The first jet engine is built
  • 12 Apr 1937โ€”12 Apr 1937: Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft
  • 12 May 1937โ€”12 May 1937: Coronation of King George VI
  • 28 May 1937โ€”28 May 1937: Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister - policy of appeasement towards Hitler
  • 3 Jun 1937โ€”3 Jun 1937: Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson
  • 4 Dec 1937โ€”4 Dec 1937: 'The Dandy' first published
20 1938 
  • 1938โ€”1938: First practical ball-point pen produced by Hungarian journalist, Lajos Biro
  • 1938โ€”1938: HMS Rodney first ship to be equipped with radar
  • 1938โ€”1938: Principle of paid holidays established in Britain
  • 1938โ€”1938: The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro
  • 1938โ€”1938: Strobe lighting invented
  • 1938โ€”1938: Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon
  • 1938โ€”1938: Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented
  • 1938โ€”1938: The first working turboprop engine
  • 12 Mar 1938โ€”12 Mar 1938: Germany invades and annexes Austria
  • 3 Jul 1938โ€”3 Jul 1938: 'Mallard' reaches 126 mph (203 km/h); still world record for a steam locomotive
  • 27 Sep 1938โ€”27 Sep 1938: Largest ocean liner ever built, Queen Elizabeth launched on Clydebank
  • 29 Sep 1938โ€”29 Sep 1938: Chamberlain visits Hitler in Munich - promises 'peace in our time'
  • 30 Oct 1938โ€”30 Oct 1938: Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of HG Wells 'The War of the Worlds', causing panic in the USA
21 1939 
  • 1939โ€”1939: Coldest winter in Britain since 1894, though this could not be publicised at the time
  • 1939โ€”1939: Start of evacuation of women and children from London
  • 1939โ€”1939: Germany annexes Czechoslovakia
  • 1939โ€”1945: World War II
    huge involvement of Canadian supplies and troops
  • 1939โ€”1939: Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter
  • 1939โ€”1939: The electron microscope invented
  • 9 Jan 1939โ€”2 Sep 1945: World War II
    Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia
  • 12 Jul 1939โ€”7 Dec 1939: Troops leave Canada
    First group of Canadian troops sail to Britain -- 7,400 on 5 ships
  • 1 Sep 1939โ€”1 Sep 1939: Germany invades Poland
  • 3 Sep 1939โ€”3 Sep 1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany
  • 6 Sep 1939โ€”6 Sep 1939: First air-raid on Britain
  • 11 Sep 1939โ€”11 Sep 1939: British Expeditionary Force (BEF) sent to France
  • 9 Oct 1939โ€”10 Sep 1939: Canada declares war on Germany
  • 14 Oct 1939โ€”14 Oct 1939: HMS Royal Oak sunk in Scapa Flow with loss of 810 lives
  • 7 Dec 1939โ€”7 Dec 1939: 'First flight' of Canadian troops sail for Britain - 7,400 men on 5 ships
  • 17 Dec 1939โ€”17 Dec 1939: 'Admiral Graf Spee' scuttled outside Montevideo
22 1940 
  • 1940โ€”1940: Quรฉbec permits women to vote
    The last province to give women the right to vote
  • 1940โ€”1946: National Registration
    Compulsory registration of all persons 16 years of age or older
  • 1940โ€”1945: German occupation of Denmark
  • 1940โ€”1940: Dr William Reich invents the orgone accumulator
  • 1940โ€”1940: Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system
  • 1940โ€”1940: Karl Pabst invents the jeep
  • 1 Apr 1940โ€”1 Apr 1940: BOAC starts operations, replacing Imperial and British Airways Ltd
  • 11 May 1940โ€”11 May 1940: National Government formed under Churchill
  • 13 May 1940โ€”13 May 1940: Germany invades France
  • 27 May 1940โ€”27 May 1940: Start of the evacuation of the British Army at Dunkirk (27 May - 4 Jun)
  • 25 Jun 1940โ€”25 Jun 1940: Fall of France to Germany
  • 7 Sep 1940โ€”7 Sep 1940: Germany launches bombing blitz on Britain, the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing
  • 15 Sep 1940โ€”15 Sep 1940: Battle of Britain: massive waves of German air attacks decisively repulsed by the RAF - Hitler postpones invasion of Britain
  • 14 Nov 1940โ€”14 Nov 1940: Coventry heavily bombed and the Cathedral almost completely destroyed
23 1941 
  • 1941โ€”1941: First use of antibiotics
  • 1941โ€”1941: Bailey invents his portable military bridge
  • 1941โ€”1941: First British jet aircraft flies, based on work of Whittle
  • 1941โ€”1941: Britain introduces severe rationing
  • 1941โ€”1941: Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software
  • 1941โ€”1941: Aerosol spray cans invented by American inventors, Lyle David Goodloe and W.N. Sullivan
  • 1941โ€”1941: Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor
  • 12 1941โ€”Dec 1941: Canadian forces defend south coast of England
  • 10 May 1941โ€”10 May 1941: Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland
  • 27 May 1941โ€”27 May 1941: 'Bismark' sunk
  • 22 Jun 1941โ€”22 Jun 1941: Germany invades Russia (Operation Barbarossa)
  • 1 Jul 1941โ€”1 Jul 1941: First Canadian armoured regiments arrive in Britain
  • 12 Jul 1941โ€”7 Dec 1941: Canada declares war on Japan
    Attack on Pearl Harbour causes Canada to declare war on Japan
  • Dec 1941โ€”Dec 1941: 'Manhattan Project' of nuclear research begins in America
  • Dec 1941โ€”Dec 1941: Canadian forces given operation role in defending south coast of England
  • 7 Dec 1941โ€”7 Dec 1941: Japan attackes US fleet at Pearl Harbour
  • 7 Dec 1941โ€”2 Sep 1945: World War II
    World War II World War II
  • 8 Dec 1941โ€”8 Dec 1941: USA enters WWII
  • 24 Dec 1941โ€”24 Dec 1941: Hong Kong falls to the Japanese
  • 6 1941โ€”14 Jun 1941: Census of Canada
    Census date changed to prevent clash with Victory Bond campaign. Sampling is initiated
24 1942 
  • 1942โ€”1942: Gilbert Murray founds Oxfam
  • 1942โ€”1942: Invention of world's first programmable computer by Alan Turing in co-operation with Max Neumann - used to crack German codes
  • 1942โ€”1942: John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer
  • 1942โ€”1942: Max Mueller designs a turboprop engine
  • 30 May 1942โ€”30 May 1942: Over 1,000 allied bombers raid Cologne
  • 4 Jun 1942โ€”4 Jun 1942: Battle of Midway
  • 19 Aug 1942โ€”19 Aug 1942: Abortive raid on Dieppe, largely by Canadian troops
  • 6 Sep 1942โ€”6 Sep 1942: Germans defeated at Stalingrad
  • 3 Oct 1942โ€”3 Oct 1942: First successful launch of V2 rocket in Germany - first man-made object to reach space
  • 23 Oct 1942โ€”23 Oct 1942: Battle of El Alamein - Montgomery defeats Rommel
  • 2 Dec 1942โ€”2 Dec 1942: 'Manhattan Project' - a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction
25 1943 
  • 1943โ€”1943: Round-the-clock bombing of Germany begins
  • 1943โ€”1943: Synthetic rubber invented
  • 1943โ€”1943: Richard James invents the slinky
  • 1943โ€”1943: James Wright invent silly putty
  • 1943โ€”1943: Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD
  • 1943โ€”1943: Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung
  • 16 May 1943โ€”16 May 1943: 'Dam Buster' raids on Ruhr dams by RAF
  • 24 Jul 1943โ€”24 Jul 1943: Allies invade Italy - Benito Mussolini resigns as Italian Dictator, 24 July
26 1944 
  • 1944โ€”1944: The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff
  • 1944โ€”1944: Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian
  • 6 Apr 1944โ€”6 Apr 1944: PAYE income tax begins
  • 4 Jun 1944โ€”4 Jun 1944: Allies enter Rome
  • 6 Jun 1944โ€”6 Jun 1944: D-Day invasion of Normandy
  • 12 Jun 1944โ€”12 Jun 1944: First V1 flying bombs hit London
  • 8 Sep 1944โ€”8 Sep 1944: First V2 rocket bombs hit London
  • 11 Sep 1944โ€”11 Sep 1944: Allies enter Germany
  • 16 Dec 1944โ€”16 Dec 1944: Battle of the Bulge: German counter-offensive
27 1945 
  • 1945โ€”1945: Newfoundland census
    Census taken in Newfoundland
  • 1945โ€”1945: Vannevar Bush proposes hypertext
  • 1945โ€”1945: The atomic bomb invented
  • 4 Feb 1945โ€”4 Feb 1945: Yalta Conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
  • 29 Mar 1945โ€”29 Mar 1945: Last V1 flying bomb attack
  • 12 Apr 1945โ€”20 Jan 1953: Harry S. Truman
    Harry S. Truman U.S. Presidency Harry S. Truman U.S. Presidency
  • 25 Apr 1945โ€”25 Apr 1945: Berlin surrounded by Russian troops
  • 30 Apr 1945โ€”30 Apr 1945: Hitler commits suicide
  • 8 May 1945โ€”8 May 1945: VE Day (Victory in Europe)
  • 9 May 1945โ€”9 May 1945: Channel Islands liberated
  • 26 Jun 1945โ€”26 Jun 1945: UN Charter signed in San Francisco
  • 16 Jul 1945โ€”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 1945โ€”26 Jul 1945: Labour win UK General Election - Churchill out of office
  • 29 Jul 1945โ€”29 Jul 1945: BBC Light Programme starts
  • 6 Aug 1945โ€”6 Aug 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
  • 9 Aug 1945โ€”9 Aug 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
  • 15 Aug 1945โ€”15 Aug 1945: VJ Day (Victory in Japan)
  • 2 Sep 1945โ€”2 Sep 1945: Japanese surrender signed aboard USS Missouri
  • 24 Oct 1945โ€”24 Oct 1945: United Nations Organisation comes into existence
  • 4 Nov 1945โ€”4 Nov 1945: UNESCO founded
  • 4 Dec 1945โ€”20 Jan 1953: Harry Truman
  • 6 1945โ€”26 Jun 1945: Canada joins the United Nations
28 1946 
  • 1946โ€”1946: Alistair Cooke starts his regular 'Letter from America' on BBC radio - until 2004
  • 1946โ€”1946: Transition to National Health Service starts in Britain (came into being 5th July 1948)
  • 1946โ€”1946: The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer
  • 1 Jan 1946โ€”1 Jan 1946: First civillian flight from Heathrow Airport
  • 7 Jan 1946โ€”1 Jul 1946: Canadian Citizenship Act
    Parliament proclaims an act providing for the creation of Canadian citizens to take effect 1 January 1947
  • 1 Mar 1946โ€”1 Mar 1946: Bank of England nationalised
29 1947 
  • 1947โ€”1947: First British nuclear reactor developed
  • 1947โ€”1947: Most severe winter in Britain for 53 years at start of the year - heavy snow and much flooding later
  • 1947โ€”1947: British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed the theory of holography
  • 1947โ€”1947: Mobile phones first invented
  • 1947โ€”1947: Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor
  • 1947โ€”1947: Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal
  • 1 Jan 1947โ€”1 Jan 1947: Coal Mines nationalised
  • 23 Feb 1947โ€”23 Feb 1947: International Organization for Standardization (ISO) founded
  • 1 Mar 1947โ€”1 Mar 1947: International Monetary Fund begins financial operations
  • 1 Apr 1947โ€”1 Apr 1947: School leaving age raised to 15 in Britain
  • 26 Oct 1947โ€”26 Oct 1947: British military occupation ends in Iraq
  • 20 Nov 1947โ€”20 Nov 1947: Marriage of Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II) and Philip Mountbatten in Westminster Abbey
  • 3 1947โ€”21 Mar 1947: 22nd Amendment passed by Congress
30 1948 
  • 1948โ€”1948: Transistor radio invented
  • 1948โ€”1948: Long-playing record (LP) invented by Goldmark
  • 1948โ€”1948: British Citizenship Act : all Commonwealth citizens qualify for British passports
  • 1948โ€”1948: The Frisbeeยฎ invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni
  • 1948โ€”1948: Velcro ยฎ invented by George de Mestral
  • 1948โ€”1948: Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox
  • 1 Jan 1948โ€”1 Jan 1948: British Railways nationalised
  • 5 Jul 1948โ€”5 Jul 1948: National Health Service (NHS) begins in Britain
  • 29 Jul 1948โ€”29 Jul 1948: London Olympics begin
31 1949 
  • 1949โ€”1949: De Haviland produces the Comet - first jet airliner
  • 1949โ€”1949: Maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon (broken up in 1953 for scrap)
  • 1949โ€”1949: Cake mix invented
  • 15 Mar 1949โ€”15 Mar 1949: Clothes rationing ends in Britain
  • 4 Apr 1949โ€”4 Apr 1949: Twelve nations sign The North Atlantic Treaty creating NATO
  • 4 Apr 1949โ€”4 Apr 1949: Canada joins NATO
  • 3 1949โ€”31 Mar 1949: Newfoundland joins Canada
    Newfoundland becomes Canada's tenth province
32 1950 
  • 1950โ€”1950: The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider
  • 4 1950โ€”30 Jun 1950: Winnipeg flood
    More than 100,000 people forced from their homes in Winnipeg, Manitoba, by the Red River flooding
  • 19 May 1950โ€”19 May 1950: Points rationing ends in Britain
  • 26 May 1950โ€”26 May 1950: Petrol rationing ends in Britain
  • 25 Jun 1950โ€”27 Jul 1953: Korean War
    Korean War Korean War
  • 11 Jul 1950โ€”11 Jul 1950: 'Andy Pandy' first seen on BBC TV
  • 9 Sep 1950โ€”9 Sep 1950: Soap rationing ends in Britain
  • 28 Dec 1950โ€”28 Dec 1950: The Peak District becomes the Britain's first National Park
  • 6 1950โ€”27 Jul 1953: Korean War
    As part of the United Nations, Canadian troops participate in the Korean War
  • 6 1950โ€”27 Jul 1953: Korean War
    United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China
33 1951 
  • 1951โ€”1951: Super glue invented
  • 1951โ€”1951: Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis
  • 1951โ€”1951: Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR)
  • 3 May 1951โ€”3 May 1951: Festival of Britain and Royal Festival Hall open on South Bank, London
  • 28 May 1951โ€”28 May 1951: First Goon Show broadcast
  • 20 Dec 1951โ€”20 Dec 1951: Electricity first produced by nuclear power, from Experimental Breeder Reactor
  • 2 1951โ€”27 Feb 1951: 22nd Amendment ratified
34 1952 
  • 1952โ€”1952: Bonn Convention: Britain, France and USA end their occupation of West Germany
  • 1952โ€”1952: Radioactive carbon used for dating prehistoric objects
  • 1952โ€”1952: Contraceptive pill invented
  • 1952โ€”1952: Britain explodes her first atomic bomb, in Australia
  • 1952โ€”1952: Mr. Potato Head patented
  • 1952โ€”1952: The first patent for bar code (US Patent #2,612,994) issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver
  • 1952โ€”1952: The first diet soft drink sold
  • 1952โ€”1952: Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb
  • 6 Feb 1952โ€”6 Feb 1952: King George VI dies
  • 21 Feb 1952โ€”21 Feb 1952: Identity Cards abolished in Britain
  • 2 May 1952โ€”2 May 1952: First commercial jet airliner service launched, by BOACComet between London and Johannesburg
  • 2 Jun 1952โ€”2004: Elizabeth II
    House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917):Elder daughter of George VI, acceded Feb 6, 1952
  • 5 Jul 1952โ€”5 Jul 1952: Last tram runs in London (Woolwich to New Cross)
  • 16 Aug 1952โ€”16 Aug 1952: Lynmouth (North Devon) flood disaster
  • 6 Sep 1952โ€”6 Sep 1952: DH110 crashes at Farnborough Air Show, 26 killed
  • 3 Oct 1952โ€”3 Oct 1952: End of tea rationing in Britain
  • 1 Nov 1952โ€”1 Nov 1952: The first H-bomb ever ('Mike') was exploded by the USA - the mushroom cloud was 8 miles across and 27 miles high. The canopy was 100 miles wide. Radioactive mud fell out of the sky followed by heavy rain. 80 million tons of earth was vaporised.
  • 25 Nov 1952โ€”25 Nov 1952: Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap' opens in London
  • 4 Dec 1952โ€”4 Dec 1952: Great smog hits London
35 1953 
36 1954 
  • 1954โ€”1954: First transistor radios sold
  • 1954โ€”1954: Routemaster bus starts operating in London
  • 1954โ€”1954: First comprehensive school opens in London
  • 1954โ€”1954: Oral contraceptives invented
  • 1954โ€”1954: The first nonstick pan produced
  • 1954โ€”1954: The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson
  • 1954โ€”1954: Ray Kroc started McDonalds
  • 6 May 1954โ€”6 May 1954: First sub 4 minute mile (Roger Bannister, 3 mins 59.4 secs)
  • 3 Jul 1954โ€”3 Jul 1954: Food rationing officially ends in Britain
  • 5 Jul 1954โ€”5 Jul 1954: BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin
  • 30 Sep 1954โ€”30 Sep 1954: First atomic powered sumbmarine USS Nautilus commissioned
  • 10 1954โ€”15 Oct 1954: Hurricane Hazel
    Southwestern Ontario, Toronto and area, hit by Hurricane Hazel -- 81 died, 4,000 homeless
37 1955 
  • 1955โ€”1955: 'Mole' self-grip wrench patented by Thomas Coughtrie of Mole & Sons
  • 1955โ€”1955: Tetracycline invented
  • 1955โ€”1955: Optic fiber invented
  • 27 Jul 1955โ€”27 Jul 1955: Jul 27: Allied occupation of Austria (after WW2) ends
  • 22 Sep 1955โ€”22 Sep 1955: Commercial TV starts in Britain
38 1956 
  • 1956โ€”1956: Britain constructs world's first large-scale nuclear power station in Cumberland
  • 1956โ€”1956: The first computer hard disk used
  • 1956โ€”1956: The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell
  • 1956โ€”1956: Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter
  • 6 Jan 1956โ€”1 Jun 1956: First nation-wide 5-year census
    Population-count censuses initiated
  • 11 Jan 1956โ€”1 Nov 1956: Springhill Mine explosion
    39 miners killed from explosion in mine at Springhill, Nova Scotia
  • 1 Mar 1956โ€”1 Mar 1956: Radiotelephony spelling alphabet introduced (Alpha, Bravo, etc)
  • 17 Apr 1956โ€”17 Apr 1956: Premium Bonds first launched - first prizes drawn on 1 Jun 1957
  • 3 Jun 1956โ€”3 Jun 1956: 3rd class travel abolished on British Railways (renamed 'Third Class' as 'Second Class', which had been abolished in 1875 leaving just First and Third Class)
  • 31 Oct 1956โ€”31 Oct 1956: Britain and France invade Suez
39 1957 
  • 1957โ€”1957: Helvetica typeface developed (in Switzerland)
  • 1957โ€”1957: Britain introduces parking meters
  • 1957โ€”1957: Fortran (computer language) invented
  • 11 Jan 1957โ€”11 Jan 1957: Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister
  • 14 May 1957โ€”14 May 1957: Post-Suez petrol rationing ends
  • 15 May 1957โ€”15 May 1957: Britain explodes her first hydrogen bomb, at Christmas Island
  • 25 May 1957โ€”25 May 1957: Treaty of Rome to create European Economic Community (EEC) of six countries: France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg - became operational Jan 1958
  • 4 Dec 1957โ€”4 Dec 1957: Lewisham rail disaster - 90 killed as two trains collide in thick fog and a viaduct collapses on top of them
  • 25 Dec 1957โ€”25 Dec 1957: Queen's first Christmas TV broadcast
40 1958 
  • 1958โ€”1958: USA begins to produce Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs)
  • 1958โ€”1958: Computers begin to be used in research, industry and commerce
  • 1958โ€”1958: Easter: First anti-nuclear protest march to Aldermaston (emergence of CND)
  • 1958โ€”1958: The modem invented
  • 1958โ€”1958: Gordon Gould invents the laser
  • 1958โ€”1958: The Hula Hoop invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin
  • 1958โ€”1958: The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
  • 13 May 1958โ€”13 May 1958: Velcro trade mark registered
  • 26 Jul 1958โ€”26 Jul 1958: Prince Charles' Investiture as 'Prince of Wales'
  • 5 Dec 1958โ€”5 Dec 1958: Preston by-pass opens - UK's first stretch of motorway
  • 5 Dec 1958โ€”5 Dec 1958: Inauguration of Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) in Britain (completed in 1979)
  • 10 1958โ€”23 Oct 1958: Springhill Mine disaster
    74 miners killed from third major explosion in mine at Springhill, Nova Scotia
41 1959 
  • 1959โ€”1959: The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch
  • 1959โ€”1959: Barbie Doll invented
  • 1959โ€”1959: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip
  • 3 Feb 1959โ€”3 Feb 1959: 'The Day The Music Died' - plane crash kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper
  • 17 Feb 1959โ€”17 Feb 1959: Vanguard 2 satellite launched - first to measure cloud-cover distribution
  • 1 Mar 1959โ€”3 Jan 1959: Alaska
    49th State
  • 24 May 1959โ€”24 May 1959: Empire Day becomes Commonwealth Day
  • Aug 1959โ€”Aug 1959: BMC Mini car launched
  • 26 Sep 1959โ€”30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
    Vietnam War Vietnam War
  • 3 Oct 1959โ€”3 Oct 1959: Postcodes introduced in Britain
  • 1 Nov 1959โ€”1 Nov 1959: First section of M1 motorway opened
  • 8 1959โ€”21 Aug 1959: Hawaii
    50th State
  • 6 1959โ€”26 Jun 1959: St. Lawrence seaway opens
    Ocean vessels can now sail as far inland as Lakes Michigan and Superior
42 1960 
  • 1960โ€”1975: Vietnam War
    United States and South Vietnam vs North Vietnam
  • 1960โ€”1960: Canada's Bill of Rights
    Bans discrimination by federal agencies on grounds of race, national origin, colour, religion or sex -- permits Indians to vote
  • 1960โ€”1960: The halogen lamp invented
  • 17 Mar 1960โ€”17 Mar 1960: New ?1 notes issued by Bank of England
  • 18 Mar 1960โ€”18 Mar 1960: Last steam locomotive of British Railways named
  • 21 Jul 1960โ€”21 Jul 1960: Francis Chichester arrives in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II (took 40 days), winning the first single-handed transatlantic yacht race which he co-founded
  • 12 Aug 1960โ€”12 Aug 1960: Echo I, the first (passive) communications satellite, launched
  • 12 Sep 1960โ€”12 Sep 1960: MoT tests on motor vehicles introduced
  • 1 Oct 1960โ€”1 Oct 1960: HMS 'Dreadnought' nuclear submarine launched
  • 2 Nov 1960โ€”2 Nov 1960: Penguin Books found not guilty of obscenity in the 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' case
  • 6 1960โ€”16 Jun 1960: 23rd Amendment passed by Congress
43 1961 
  • 1961โ€”1961: Valium invented
  • 1961โ€”1961: The nondairy creamer invented
  • 1 Jan 1961โ€”1 Jan 1961: Farthing ceases to be legal tender in UK
  • 20 Jan 1961โ€”20 Nov 1963: John F. Kennedy
    John F. Kennedy U.S. Presidency John F. Kennedy U.S. Presidency
  • 13 Mar 1961โ€”13 Mar 1961: Black & White ?5 notes cease to be legal tender
  • 14 Mar 1961โ€”14 Mar 1961: New English Bible (New Testament) published
  • 1 May 1961โ€”1 May 1961: Betting shops legal in Britain
  • 4 1961โ€”19 Apr 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion
    United States vs Cuba
  • 1 1961โ€”22 Nov 1963: John F. Kennedy
    John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
  • 3 1961โ€”29 Mar 1961: 23rd Amendment ratified
44 1962 
  • 1962โ€”1962: Britain and France agree to construct 'Concorde'
  • 1962โ€”1962: Thalidomide withdrawn after it causes deformities in babies
  • 1962โ€”1962: Britain passes Commonwealth Immigrants Act to control immigration
  • 1962โ€”1962: The audio cassette invented
  • 1962โ€”1962: The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie
  • 1962โ€”1962: Spacewar, the first computer video game invented
  • 1962โ€”1962: Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants
  • 7 Jan 1962โ€”1 Jul 1962: Medicare introduced in Saskatchewan
    Saskatchewan sets medicare prototype for all provinces
  • 9 Mar 1962โ€”3 Sep 1962: Trans-Canada Highway officially opens
  • 25 May 1962โ€”25 May 1962: Consecration of new Coventry Cathedral (old destroyed in WW2 blitz)
  • 15 Jun 1962โ€”15 Jun 1962: First nuclear generated electricity to supplied National Grid (from Berkeley Glos)
  • Jul 1962โ€”Jul 1962: First passenger-carrying hovercraft enters service, along the North Wales Coast from Moreton to Rhyl
  • 10 Jul 1962โ€”10 Jul 1962: First TV transmission between US and Europe (Telstar) - first live broadcast on 23 Jul
  • 24 Oct 1962โ€”24 Oct 1962: Cuba missile crisis - brink of nuclear war
  • 8 1962โ€”27 Aug 1962: 24th Amendment passed by Congress
45 1963 
  • 1963โ€”1963: France vetoes Britain's entry into EEC
  • 1963โ€”1963: The first videodisc invented
  • Jan 1963โ€”Jan 1963: Cold weather forces cancellation of most football matches (only 4 English First Division matches in the month) - the first 'pools panel' created
  • 27 Mar 1963โ€”27 Mar 1963: Beeching Report on British Railways (the 'Beeching Axe')
  • 1 Aug 1963โ€”1 Aug 1963: Minimum prison age raised to 17
  • 8 Aug 1963โ€”8 Aug 1963: 'Great Train Robbery' on Glasgow to London mail train
  • 17 Sep 1963โ€”17 Sep 1963: Fylingdales (Yorks) early warning system operational
  • 18 Nov 1963โ€”18 Nov 1963: Dartford Tunnel opens
  • 20 Nov 1963โ€”20 Jan 1969: Lyndon B. Johnson
    Lyndon B. Johnson U.S. Presidency Lyndon B. Johnson U.S. Presidency
  • 23 Nov 1963โ€”23 Nov 1963: First episode of 'Dr Who' on BBC TV
  • 11 1963โ€”20 Jan 1969: Lyndon B. Johnson
    Lyndon B. Johnson, vice president under John F. Kennedy, sworn in as president aboard Air Force One upon death of Kennedy.
46 1964 
  • 1964โ€”1964: Acrylic paint invented
  • 1964โ€”1964: Permanent-press fabric invented
  • 1964โ€”1964: BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz
  • 4 1964โ€”Apr 1964: Social Insurance cards first issued
    Social Insurance cards issued to all Canadian adults -- privacy concerns limit their use for genealogy puposes
  • 1 Jan 1964โ€”1 Jan 1964: First 'Top of the Pops' on BBC TV
  • 9 Apr 1964โ€”9 Apr 1964: First Greater London Council (GLC) election
  • 21 Apr 1964โ€”21 Apr 1964: BBC2 TV launched
  • 22 Aug 1964โ€”22 Aug 1964: 'Match of the Day' starts on BBC2
  • 4 Sep 1964โ€”4 Sep 1964: Forth road bridge opens
  • 3 1964โ€”1993: Canadian troops in Cyprus
    Canadian troops serve in Cyprus as part of the UN peace-keeping force
  • 1 1964โ€”23 Jan 1964: 24th Amendment ratified
47 1965 
  • 1965โ€”1965: Britain enacts first Race Relations Act
  • 1965โ€”1965: Astroturf invented
  • 1965โ€”1965: Soft contact lenses invented
  • 1965โ€”1965: NutraSweet invented
  • 1965โ€”1965: The compact disk invented by James Russell
  • 1965โ€”1965: Kevlar invented by Stephanie Louise Kwolek
  • 7 Feb 1965โ€”7 Feb 1965: First US raids against North Vietnam
  • 7 Apr 1965โ€”7 Apr 1965: Winston Churchill dies
  • 7 Jun 1965โ€”6 Jul 1965: 25th Amendment passed by Congress
  • 1 Aug 1965โ€”1 Aug 1965: TV cigarette advertising banned in Britain
  • 8 Oct 1965โ€”8 Oct 1965: Post Office Tower operational in London
  • 28 Oct 1965โ€”28 Oct 1965: Death penalty for murder suspended in Britain for five-year trial period, then abolished 18 Dec 1969
  • 22 Dec 1965โ€”22 Dec 1965: 70mph speed limit introduced on British roads
  • 2 1965โ€”15 Feb 1965: Canadian Flag changed
    Maple Leaf flag is adopted by Parliament as the official flag of Canada. It replaces the "Canadian" (modified) Red Ensign
48 1966 
  • 1966โ€”1966: Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented
  • 14 Feb 1966โ€”14 Feb 1966: Australia converts from ? to $
  • 3 May 1966โ€”3 May 1966: 'The Times' begins to print news on its front page in place of classified Advertisements
  • 30 Jul 1966โ€”30 Jul 1966: World Cup won by England at Wembley (4-2 in extra time v West Germany)
  • 8 Sep 1966โ€”8 Sep 1966: First Severn road bridge opens
  • 21 Oct 1966โ€”21 Oct 1966: Aberfan disaster - slag heap slip kills 144, incl. 116 children
  • 1 Dec 1966โ€”1 Dec 1966: First Christmas stamps issued in Britain
49 1967 
  • 1967โ€”1967: The first handheld calculator invented
  • 4 Jan 1967โ€”4 Jan 1967: Donald Campbell dies attempting to break his world water speed record on Conniston Water - his body and Bluebird recovered in 2002
  • 18 Mar 1967โ€”18 Mar 1967: 'Torrey Canyon' oil tanker runs aground off Lands End first major oil spill
  • 28 May 1967โ€”28 May 1967: Francis Chichester arrives in Plymouth after solo circumnavigation in Gipsy Moth IV (he was knighted 7th July at Greenwich by the queen using the sword with which Elizabeth I had knighted Sir Francis Drake four centuries earlier
  • 27 Jun 1967โ€”27 Jun 1967: First withdrawal from a cash dispenser (ATM) in Britain - at Enfield branch of Barclays
  • 1 Jul 1967โ€”1 Jul 1967: First colour TV in Britain
  • 14 Aug 1967โ€”14 Aug 1967: Offshore pirate radio stations declared illegal by the UK
  • 20 Sep 1967โ€”20 Sep 1967: 'QE2' launched on Clydebank
  • 27 Sep 1967โ€”27 Sep 1967: 'Queen Mary' arrives Southampton at end of her last transatlantic voyage
  • 30 Sep 1967โ€”30 Sep 1967: BBC Radios 1 2 3 & 4 open first record played on Radio 1 was the controversial 'Flowers in the Rain' by 'The Move'
  • 2 Oct 1967โ€”10 Feb 1967: 25th Amendment ratified
  • 5 Oct 1967โ€”5 Oct 1967: Introduction of majority verdicts in English courts
  • 4 1967โ€”25 Apr 1967: Canadian Armed Forces established
    The Canadian Army, Navy and Air Force unite into one combined military force -- a world first
50 1968 
  • 1968โ€”1968: The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart
  • 1968โ€”1968: The first computer with integrated circuits made
  • 1968โ€”1968: Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory)
  • 18 Feb 1968โ€”18 Feb 1968: British Standard Time introduced - Summer Time became permanent but arguments prevailed and Britain reverted to GMT in October 1971
  • 18 Apr 1968โ€”18 Apr 1968: London Bridge sold (and eventually moved to Arizona) - modern London Bridge, built around it as it was demolished, was opened in Mar 1973
  • 20 Apr 1968โ€”20 Apr 1968: Enoch Powell 'Rivers of Blood' speech on immigration
  • 23 Apr 1968โ€”23 Apr 1968: Issue of 5p and 10p decimal coins in Britain
  • 29 May 1968โ€”29 May 1968: Manchester United first English club to win the European Cup
  • 11 Aug 1968โ€”11 Aug 1968: Last steam passenger train service ran in Britain (Carlisle- Liverpool)
  • 16 Sep 1968โ€”16 Sep 1968: Two-tier postal rate starts in Britain
  • 5 Oct 1968โ€”5 Oct 1968: Beginning of disturbances in N Ireland
51 1969 
  • 1969โ€”1969: The arpanet (first internet) invented
  • 1969โ€”1969: The artificial heart invented
  • 1969โ€”1969: The ATM invented
  • 1969โ€”1969: The bar-code scanner is invented
  • 20 Jan 1969โ€”9 Aug 1974: Richard Nixon
    Richard Nixon U.S. Presidency Richard Nixon U.S. Presidency
  • 2 Mar 1969โ€”2 Mar 1969: Maiden flight of 'Concorde', at Toulouse
  • 7 Mar 1969โ€”7 Mar 1969: Victoria Line tube opens in London
  • 17 Apr 1969โ€”17 Apr 1969: Voting age lowered from 21 to 18
  • 2 May 1969โ€”2 May 1969: Maiden voyage of liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2)
  • 31 Jul 1969โ€”31 Jul 1969: Halfpenny ceases to be legal tender in Britain
  • 14 Aug 1969โ€”14 Aug 1969: Civil disturbances in Ulster - Britain sends troops to support civil authorities
  • 7 Sep 1969โ€”7 Sep 1969: First episode of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' recorded
  • 14 Oct 1969โ€”14 Oct 1969: 50p coin introduced in Britain (reduced in size 1998)
  • 1 1969โ€”9 Aug 1974: Richard Nixon
    Richard M Nixon first president to resign from office. His decision was announced 8 Aug 1974
52 1970 
  • 1970โ€”1970: Boeing 747 (Jumbo jet) goes into service
  • 1970โ€”1970: The daisy-wheel printer invented
  • 1970โ€”1970: The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart
  • 17 Jun 1970โ€”17 Jun 1970: Decimal postage stamps first issued for sale in Britain
  • 19 Jun 1970โ€”19 Jun 1970: Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister
  • 30 Jul 1970โ€”30 Jul 1970: Damages awarded to Thalidomide victims
  • 19 Sep 1970โ€”19 Sep 1970: First Glastonbury Festival held
  • 20 Nov 1970โ€”20 Nov 1970: Ten shilling note (50p after decimalisation) goes out of circulation in Britain
  • 10 1970โ€”16 Oct 1970: War Measures Act Proclaimed in Quebec
    Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act to counteract FLQ terrorism
53 1971 
  • 1971โ€”1971: Rolls-Royce declared bankrupt
  • 1971โ€”1971: 'Greenpeace' founded
  • 1971โ€”1971: Sunday becomes the seventh day in the week as UK adopts decision of the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) to call Monday the first day
  • 1971โ€”1971: Banking and Financial Dealings Act - replaced the Bank Holidays Act of 1871
  • 1971โ€”1971: Census of Canada
    1971 census is the first completed by the householder
  • 1971โ€”1971: Multiculturalism/Bilingualism Policy adopted
    Canada gives equal status to both english and french languages
  • 1971โ€”1971: The dot-matrix printer invented
  • 1971โ€”1971: The food processor invented
  • 1971โ€”1971: The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason
  • 1971โ€”1971: The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor
  • 1971โ€”1971: VCR or videocassette recorder invented
  • 3 Jan 1971โ€”3 Jan 1971: Open University starts
  • 7 Jan 1971โ€”1 Jul 1971: 26th Amendment ratified
  • 15 Feb 1971โ€”15 Feb 1971: Decimalisation of coinage in UK and Republic of Ireland
  • 9 Aug 1971โ€”9 Aug 1971: Internment without trial introduced in N Ireland
  • 28 Oct 1971โ€”28 Oct 1971: UK launches its first (and only) satellite, Prospero
  • 28 Oct 1971โ€”28 Oct 1971: Parliament votes to join Common Market (joined 1973)
  • 3 1971โ€”23 Mar 1971: 26th Amendment passed by Congress
54 1972 
  • 1972โ€”1972: Dutch Elm disease devastates trees across UK
  • 1972โ€”1972: Domestic video cassette recorders introduced
  • 1972โ€”1972: Strict anti-hijack measures introduced internationally, especially at airports
  • 1972โ€”1972: Britain imposes direct rule in Northern Ireland
  • 1972โ€”1972: The word processor invented
  • 1972โ€”1972: Pong (first video game) invented by Nolan Bushnell
  • 1972โ€”1972: Hacky Sackยฎ invented by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall
  • 30 Jan 1972โ€”30 Jan 1972: 'Bloody Sunday' in Derry, Northern Ireland
  • 28 May 1972โ€”28 May 1972: Duke of Windsor (ex-King Edward VIII) dies in Paris
55 1973 
  • 1973โ€”1973: Gene splicing invented
  • 1973โ€”1973: The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox
  • 1973โ€”1973: Bic invents the disposable lighter
  • 1 Jan 1973โ€”1 Jan 1973: Britain enters EEC Common Market (with Ireland and Denmark)
  • 17 Mar 1973โ€”17 Mar 1973: Modern London Bridge opened by the Queen
  • 1 Apr 1973โ€”1 Apr 1973: VAT introduced in Britain
  • 26 Sep 1973โ€”26 Sep 1973: Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time
  • 14 Oct 1973โ€”14 Oct 1973: Marriage of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey
  • 31 Dec 1973โ€”31 Dec 1973: Miners strike and oil crisis precipitate 'three-day week' (till 9 Mar 1974) to conserve power
56 1974 
  • 1974โ€”1974: New counties formed in Britain after re-organisation of some county boundaries
  • 1974โ€”1974: Quebec makes french the official language
    French language priority causes hundreds of businesses and non-french-speaking families to move out of Quebec
  • 1974โ€”1974: The post-it note invented by Arthur Fry
  • 1974โ€”1974: Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invents liposuction
  • 1 Jun 1974โ€”1 Jun 1974: Flixborough disaster: explosion at chemical plant kills 28 people
  • 9 Aug 1974โ€”20 Jan 1977: Gerald Ford
    Gerald Ford U.S. Presidency Gerald Ford U.S. Presidency
  • 8 Sep 1974โ€”20 Jan 1977: Gerald Ford
  • 7 Nov 1974โ€”7 Nov 1974: Lord Lucan disappears
  • 21 Nov 1974โ€”21 Nov 1974: Birmingham pub bombings by the IRA
57 1975 
  • 1975โ€”1975: Unemployment in Britain rises above 1M for first time since before WW2
  • 1975โ€”1975: The laser printer invented
  • 1975โ€”1975: The push-through tab on a drink can invented
  • 11 Feb 1975โ€”11 Feb 1975: Margaret Thatcher becomes leader of Conservative party (in opposition)
  • 28 Feb 1975โ€”28 Feb 1975: Moorgate tube crash in London - over 43 deaths, greatest loss of life on the Underground in peacetime. The cause of the incident was never conclusively determined
  • 4 Mar 1975โ€”4 Mar 1975: Charlie Chaplin knighted
  • 5 Jun 1975โ€”5 Jun 1975: UK votes in a referendum to stay in the European Community
  • 29 Oct 1975โ€”29 Oct 1975: 'Yorkshire Ripper' commits his first murder
  • 3 Nov 1975โ€”3 Nov 1975: First North Sea oil comes ashore
  • 29 Nov 1975โ€”29 Nov 1975: The name 'Micro-soft' coined by Bill Gates (Microsoft' became a Trademark the following year)
  • 27 Dec 1975โ€”27 Dec 1975: Equal Pay Act and Sex Discrimination Act come into force
58 1976 
  • 1976โ€”1976: National Theatre opens in London
  • 1976โ€”1976: James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister
  • 1976โ€”1976: Deaths exceeded live births in E&W for first time since records began in 1837
  • 1976โ€”1976: 'Cod War' between Britain and Iceland
  • 1976โ€”1976: The ink-jet printer invented
  • 21 Jan 1976โ€”21 Jan 1976: Concorde enters supersonic passenger service
  • 1 Apr 1976โ€”1 Apr 1976: Apple Computer formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
  • 6 Aug 1976โ€”6 Aug 1976: Drought Act 1976 comes into force ? the long, hot summer
  • 7 1976โ€”14 Jul 1976: Canada abolishes death penalty
59 1977 
  • 1977โ€”1977: Magnetic resonance imaging invented by Raymond V. Damadian
  • 20 Jan 1977โ€”20 Jan 1981: Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter U.S. Presidency Jimmy Carter U.S. Presidency
  • 2 Mar 1977โ€”2 Mar 1977: 'Red Rum' wins a third Grand National
  • 25 May 1977โ€”25 May 1977: George Lucas' film Star Wars' released
  • 5 Jun 1977โ€”5 Jun 1977: Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale
  • 7 Jun 1977โ€”7 Jun 1977: Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations in London
  • 22 Nov 1977โ€”22 Nov 1977: Regular supersonic Concorde service between London and NY inaugurated
  • 1 1977โ€”20 Jan 1981: Jimmy Carter
60 1978 
  • 1978โ€”1978: Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston invented the VisiCalc spreadsheet
  • 1978โ€”1978: The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik
  • 8 Apr 1978โ€”8 Apr 1978: Regular broadcast of proceedings in Parliament starts
  • 1 May 1978โ€”1 May 1978: First May Day holiday in Britain
  • 25 Jul 1978โ€”25 Jul 1978: World's first 'test tube' baby, Louise Browne born in Oldham
  • 30 Nov 1978โ€”30 Nov 1978: Publication of The Times suspended - industrial relations problems (until 13 Nov 1979)
61 1979 
  • 1979โ€”1979: Cellular phones invented
  • 1979โ€”1979: Cray supercomputer invented by Seymour Cray
  • 1979โ€”1979: Walkman invented
  • 1979โ€”1979: Scott Olson invents roller blades
  • 1 Mar 1979โ€”1 Mar 1979: 32.5% of Scots vote in favor of devolution (40% needed) - Welsh vote overwhelmingly against
  • 30 Mar 1979โ€”30 Mar 1979: Airey Neave killed by a car bomb at Westminster
  • 31 Mar 1979โ€”31 Mar 1979: Withdrawal of the Royal Navy from Malta
  • 4 May 1979โ€”4 May 1979: Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman UK Prime Minister
  • 1 Jul 1979โ€”1 Jul 1979: Sony introduces the Walkman
  • 27 Aug 1979โ€”27 Aug 1979: Lord Mountbatten and 3 others killed in bomb blast off coast of Sligo, Ireland
  • 18 Sep 1979โ€”18 Sep 1979: ILEA votes to abolish corporal punishment in its schools
62 1980 
  • 1980โ€”1980: The hepatitis-B vaccine invented
  • 5 May 1980โ€”5 May 1980: SAS storm Iranian Embassy in London to free hostages
  • 8 Dec 1980โ€”8 Dec 1980: John Lennon assassinated in New York
63 1981 
  • 1981โ€”1981: MS-DOS invented
  • 1981โ€”1981: The first IBM-PC invented
  • 1981โ€”1981: The scanning tunneling microscope invented by Gerd Karl Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer
  • 20 Jan 1981โ€”20 Jan 1989: Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan U.S. Presidency Ronald Reagan U.S. Presidency
  • 25 Jan 1981โ€”25 Jan 1981: Launch of SDP by 'Gang of Four' in Britain
  • 29 Mar 1981โ€”29 Mar 1981: First London marathon run
  • 11 Apr 1981โ€”11 Apr 1981: Brixton riots in South London - 30 other British cities also experience riots
  • 25 Apr 1981โ€”25 Apr 1981: Worst April blizzards this century in Britain
  • 27 Apr 1981โ€”27 Apr 1981: First use of computer mouse (by Xerox PARC system)
  • 29 Jul 1981โ€”29 Jul 1981: Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer (divorced 28 Aug 1996)
  • 12 Aug 1981โ€”12 Aug 1981: IBM launches its PC ? starts the general use of personal computers
  • 12 Aug 1981โ€”12 Aug 1981: First IBM PC
    IBM launches the first PC
  • 1 1981โ€”20 Jan 1989: Ronald Reagan
64 1982 
  • 1982โ€”1982: Human growth hormone genetically engineered
  • 26 Jan 1982โ€”26 Jan 1982: Unemployment reached 3 million in Britain (1 in 8 of working population)
  • 5 Feb 1982โ€”5 Feb 1982: Laker Airways collapses
  • 19 Feb 1982โ€”19 Feb 1982: DeLorean Car factory in Belfast goes into receivership
  • 18 Mar 1982โ€”18 Mar 1982: Argentinians raised flag in South Georgia
  • 2 Apr 1982โ€”2 Apr 1982: Argentina invades Falkland (Malvinas) Islands
  • 5 Apr 1982โ€”5 Apr 1982: Royal Navy fleet sails from Portsmouth for Falklands
  • 2 May 1982โ€”2 May 1982: British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks Argentine cruiser General Belgrano
  • 28 May 1982โ€”28 May 1982: First land battle in Falklands (Goose Green)
  • 14 Jun 1982โ€”14 Jun 1982: Ceasefire in Falklands
  • 21 Jun 1982โ€”21 Jun 1982: Prince William is born
  • 20 Jul 1982โ€”20 Jul 1982: IRA bombings in London (Hyde Park and Regents Park)
  • 19 Sep 1982โ€”19 Sep 1982: Smiley emoticon :-) said to have been used for the first time
  • 11 Oct 1982โ€”11 Oct 1982: Mary Rose' raised in the Solent (sank in 1545)
  • 31 Oct 1982โ€”31 Oct 1982: Thames Barrier raised for first time (some say first public demonstration Nov 7)
  • 2 Nov 1982โ€”2 Nov 1982: Channel 4 TV station launched - first programme 'Countdown'
  • 4 Nov 1982โ€”4 Nov 1982: Lorries up to 38 tonnes allowed on Britain's roads
  • 12 Dec 1982โ€”12 Dec 1982: Women's peace protest at Greenham Common (Cruise missiles arrived 14 Nov 1983)
  • 4 1982โ€”17 Apr 1982: Canadian Constitution Act replaces British North America Act of 1867
    Royal assent given to 'patriate the Constitution' and to create the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
65 1983 
  • 1983โ€”1983: First female Lord Mayor of London elected (Dame Mary Donaldson)
  • 1983โ€”1983: The Apple Lisa invented
  • 1983โ€”1983: Soft bifocal contact lens invented
  • 1983โ€”1983: First Cabbage Patch Kids sold
  • 1983โ€”1983: Programmer Jaron Lanier first coins the term "virtual reality"
  • 17 Jan 1983โ€”17 Jan 1983: Start of breakfast TV in Britain
  • 31 Jan 1983โ€”31 Jan 1983: Seat belt law comes into force
  • 21 Apr 1983โ€”21 Apr 1983: ?1 coin into circulation in Britain
  • 7 Oct 1983โ€”7 Oct 1983: Plans to abolish GLC announced
  • 26 Nov 1983โ€”26 Nov 1983: Brinks Mat robbery: 6,800 gold bars worth nearly ?26 million are stolen from a vault at Heathrow Airport
  • 10 1983โ€”31 Oct 1983: Grenada
    United States Intervention
66 1984 
  • 1984โ€”1984: The CD-ROM invented
  • 1984โ€”1984: The Apple Macintosh invented
  • 6 Mar 1984โ€”6 Mar 1984: Miners strike begins
  • 17 Apr 1984โ€”17 Apr 1984: Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher killed by gunfire from the Libyan Embassy in London
  • 22 Jun 1984โ€”22 Jun 1984: Inaugural flight of Virgin Atlantic
  • 9 Jul 1984โ€”9 Jul 1984: York Minster struck by lightning - the resulting fire damaged much of the building but the Rose Window' not affected
  • 12 Oct 1984โ€”12 Oct 1984: IRA bomb explodes at Tory conference hotel in Brighton - 4 killed
  • 24 Oct 1984โ€”24 Oct 1984: Miners' strike ? High Court orders sequestration of NUM assets
  • 3 Dec 1984โ€”3 Dec 1984: British Telecom privatised - shares make massive gains on first day's trading
67 1985 
  • 1985โ€”1985: Windows program invented by Microsoft
  • 3 Mar 1985โ€”3 Mar 1985: Miners agree to call off strike
  • 11 Mar 1985โ€”11 Mar 1985: Al Fayed buys Harrods
  • 13 Jul 1985โ€”13 Jul 1985: Live Aid' pop concert raises over ?50M for famine relief
  • 1 Sep 1985โ€”1 Sep 1985: Wreck of Titanic' found (sank 1912)
  • 12 Dec 1985โ€”12 Dec 1985: Plane crash in Gander, Newfoundland
    A DC-8 crashes just after take-off killing 256
68 1986 
  • 1986โ€”1986: Census of Canada
    1986 census asks about activity limitations
  • 1986โ€”1986: A high-temperature super-conductor invented by J. Georg Bednorz and Karl A. Muller
  • 1986โ€”1986: Synthetic skin invented by G. Gregory Gallico, III
  • 1986โ€”1986: Fuji introduced the disposable camera
  • 31 Mar 1986โ€”31 Mar 1986: GLC and 6 metropolitan councils abolished
  • 26 Apr 1986โ€”26 Apr 1986: Chernobyl nuclear accident - radiation reached Britain on 2 Ma
  • 26 May 1986โ€”26 May 1986: The European Community adopts the European flag
  • 23 Jul 1986โ€”23 Jul 1986: Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey
  • 27 Oct 1986โ€”27 Oct 1986: 'Big Bang' (deregulation) of the London Stock Market
  • 29 Oct 1986โ€”29 Oct 1986: M25 motorway ring around London completed
69 1987 
  • 1987โ€”1987: World population crossed the 5 billion mark
  • 1987โ€”1987: The first 3-D video game invented
  • 1987โ€”1987: Disposable contact lenses invented
  • 2 Feb 1987โ€”2 Feb 1987: Terry Waite kidnapped in Beirut (released 17 Nov 1991)
  • 6 Mar 1987โ€”6 Mar 1987: Car ferry Herald of Free Enterprise' capsizes off Zeebrugge - 188 die
  • 1 Jul 1987โ€”1 Jul 1987: Excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel
  • 19 Aug 1987โ€”19 Aug 1987: Hungerford Massacre - Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a rifle
  • 16 Oct 1987โ€”16 Oct 1987: The 'Hurricane' sweeps southern England
  • 19 Oct 1987โ€”19 Oct 1987: 'Black Monday' in the City of London - Stock Market crash
  • 8 Nov 1987โ€”8 Nov 1987: Enniskillen bombing at a Remembrance Day ceremony
  • 18 Nov 1987โ€”18 Nov 1987: King's Cross fire in London - 31 people die
70 1988 
  • 1988โ€”1988: Digital cellular phones invented
  • 1988โ€”1988: The RU-486 (abortion pill) invented
  • 1988โ€”1988: Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler
  • 1988โ€”1988: Prozacยฎ invented at the Eli Lilly Company by inventor Ray Fuller
  • 1988โ€”1988: The first patent for a genetically engineered animal is issued to Harvard University researchers Philip Leder and Timothy Stewar
  • 1988โ€”1988: Ralph Alessio and Fredrik Olsen received a patent for the Indiglo ยฎ nightlight
  • 5 Feb 1988โ€”5 Feb 1988: First 'Red Nose Day' in UK, raising money for charity
  • 6 Jul 1988โ€”6 Jul 1988: Piper Alpha disaster - North Sea oil platform destroyed by explosion and fire killing 167 men
  • 15 Nov 1988โ€”15 Nov 1988: Copyright, Designs and Patents Act - reformulated the statutory basis of copyright law (including performing rights) in the UK
  • 12 Dec 1988โ€”12 Dec 1988: Clapham Junction rail crash kills 35 and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains
  • 21 Dec 1988โ€”21 Dec 1988: Lockerbie disaster - Pan Am flight 103 explodes over Scotland
71 1989 
  • 1989โ€”1989: Poll Tax implemented in Scotland
  • 1989โ€”1989: High-definition television invented
  • 1 Jan 1989โ€”1 Jan 1989: Free Trade Agreement with U.S.
  • 20 Jan 1989โ€”20 Jan 1993: George H. W. Bush
    George H. W. Bush U.S. Presidency George H. W. Bush U.S. Presidency
  • 14 Feb 1989โ€”14 Feb 1989: The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System is placed into orbit
  • 2 Mar 1989โ€”2 Mar 1989: EU decision to ban production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century
  • 9 Nov 1989โ€”9 Nov 1989: Berlin Wall torn down
  • 21 Nov 1989โ€”21 Nov 1989: Proceedings of House of Commons first televised live
  • 1 1989โ€”20 Jan 1993: George H.W. Bush
  • 12 1989โ€”3 Jan 1990: US Invasion of Panama
    United States vs Panama
72 1990 
  • 1990โ€”1990: The World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee
  • 8 Feb 1990โ€”28 Feb 1991: Persian Gulf War
    United States and Coalition Forces vs Iraq
  • 11 Feb 1990โ€”11 Feb 1990: Nelson Mandela released in South Africa
  • 31 Mar 1990โ€”31 Mar 1990: Riots in London against Poll Tax which had been implemented in England & Wales
  • 25 Apr 1990โ€”25 Apr 1990: Hubble space telescope launched
  • 2 Aug 1990โ€”28 Feb 1991: Gulf War
    Gulf War Gulf War
  • 22 Nov 1990โ€”22 Nov 1990: Margaret Thatcher resigns as Conservative party leader (and Prime Minister)
  • 1 Dec 1990โ€”1 Dec 1990: Channel Tunnel excavation teams meet in the middle
73 1991 
  • 1991โ€”1991: The 'Internet' comes into existence
  • 1991โ€”1991: Poll Tax replaced (by Council Tax)
  • 1991โ€”1991: Census of Canada
    1991 census asks about common-law status for the first time
  • 1991โ€”1991: The digital answering machine invented
  • 18 May 1991โ€”18 May 1991: Helen Sharman is first British Astronaut in Space
  • Aug 1991โ€”Aug 1991: Collapse of the Soviet Union
  • 6 Sep 1991โ€”6 Sep 1991: Leningrad renamed St Petersburg
  • 5 Nov 1991โ€”5 Nov 1991: Robert Maxwell drowns at sea
74 1992 
  • 1992โ€”1992: The smart pill invented
  • 7 Feb 1992โ€”7 Feb 1992: European Union formed by The Maastricht Treaty
  • 22 Apr 1992โ€”22 Apr 1992: Betty Boothroyd elected as first female Speaker of the House of Commons
  • 5 Jul 1992โ€”7 May 1992: 27th Amendment ratified
  • 15 Aug 1992โ€”15 Aug 1992: Football Premier League kicks off in England
  • 16 Sep 1992โ€”16 Sep 1992: 'Black Wednesday' as Pound leaves the ERM
  • 20 Nov 1992โ€”20 Nov 1992: Fire breaks out in Windsor Castle causing over ?50 million worth of damage
  • 24 Nov 1992โ€”24 Nov 1992: The Queen describes this year as an 'Annus Horribilis'
75 1993 
  • 1993โ€”1993: Elizabeth II becomes first British Monarch to pay Income Tax
  • 1993โ€”1993: Betty Boothroyd first woman Speaker of the House of Commons (to 2000)
  • 1993โ€”1993: The pentium processor invented
  • 20 Jan 1993โ€”20 Jan 2001: Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton U.S. Presidency Bill Clinton U.S. Presidency
  • Jul 1993โ€”Jul 1993: Ratification of Maastricht Treaty, established the European Union (EU)
  • 1 1993โ€”20 Jan 2001: William Jefferson Clinton
76 1994 
  • 1994โ€”1994: 15 million people now connected to the Internet
  • 1994โ€”1994: HIV protease inhibitor invented
  • 12 Mar 1994โ€”12 Mar 1994: Church of England ordains its first female priests
  • 6 May 1994โ€”6 May 1994: Channel Tunnel open to traffic
  • 19 Nov 1994โ€”19 Nov 1994: National Lottery starts
77 1995 
  • 1995โ€”1996: Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina
    United States as part of NATO acted peacekeepers in former Yugoslavia
  • 1995โ€”1995: The Java computer language invented
  • 1995โ€”1995: DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented
  • 26 Feb 1995โ€”26 Feb 1995: Nick Leeson brings down Barings Bank
  • 15 Jul 1995โ€”15 Jul 1995: First item sold on Amazon.com
  • 16 Nov 1995โ€”16 Nov 1995: The Queen Mother has a hip replacement operation at 95 years old
  • 22 Nov 1995โ€”22 Nov 1995: Toy Story' released - first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery
78 1996 
  • 1996โ€”1996: Web TV invented
  • 9 Feb 1996โ€”9 Feb 1996: IRA bomb explodes in London Docklands - ends 17 month ceasefire
  • 13 Mar 1996โ€”13 Mar 1996: Dunblane massacre
  • 15 Jun 1996โ€”15 Jun 1996: IRA bomb explodes in Manchester
  • 5 Jul 1996โ€”5 Jul 1996: Scientists in Scotland clone a sheep (Dolly)
  • 28 Aug 1996โ€”28 Aug 1996: Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales are divorced
  • 5 1996โ€”15 May 1996: Census of Canada
    1996 census counts 28,846,761 individuals. Asks about unpaid housework and mode of transportation to work
79 1997 
  • 1997โ€”1997: The gas-powered fuel cell invented
  • 30 Mar 1997โ€”30 Mar 1997: Channel 5 TV begins in UK (launched by the Spice Girls)
  • 1 May 1997โ€”1 May 1997: 'New' Labour landslide victory in Britain (Tony Blair replaces John Major as Prime Minister)
  • 6 May 1997โ€”6 May 1997: Announcement that Bank of England to be made independent of Government control
  • 11 May 1997โ€”11 May 1997: First time a computer beats a master at chess (IBM's Deep Blue v Garry Kasparov)
  • 1 Jul 1997โ€”1 Jul 1997: Hong Kong returned to China
  • 19 Jul 1997โ€”19 Jul 1997: IRA declares a ceasefire
  • 31 Aug 1997โ€”31 Aug 1997: Diana, Princess of Wales killed in car crash in Paris
  • 25 Sep 1997โ€”25 Sep 1997: Land speed record breaks sound barrier for first time
80 1998 
  • 1998โ€”1998: Viagraยฎ invented
  • 10 Apr 1998โ€”10 Apr 1998: Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland - effectively implemented in May 2007
  • 14 Aug 1998โ€”14 Aug 1998: Car bomb explodes in Omagh killing 29 people
  • 27 Sep 1998โ€”27 Sep 1998: 'Google' search engine founded
81 1999 
  • 1999โ€”1999: World population reaches 6 billion
  • 1999โ€”1999: Scientists measure the fastest wind speed ever recorded on earth, 509 km/h(318 mph)
  • 1999โ€”1999: Tekno Bubbles patented
  • 1 Jan 1999โ€”1 Jan 1999: European Monetary Union begins - UK opts out - by the end of the year the Euro has approximately the same value as the US Dollar
  • 4 Jan 1999โ€”1 Apr 1999: Nunavut created in the Arctic
    Canada's third territory, Nunavut, formed from part of the Northwest Territories to give the Inuit people more autonomy
  • 1 Jul 1999โ€”1 Jul 1999: The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth - powers are officially transferred from the Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh
  • 11 Aug 1999โ€”11 Aug 1999: Total eclipse of the sun visible in Devon and Cornwall
  • 11 Nov 1999โ€”11 Nov 1999: Hereditary Peers no longer have right to sit in House of Lords
82 2000 
  • 1 Jan 2000โ€”1 Jan 2000: The year in Britain started with a 'flu bug rather than a millennium bug
  • Mar 2000โ€”Mar 2000: London Eye opens, late but popular
  • 22 Apr 2000โ€”22 Apr 2000: The Big Number Change takes place in the UK - affected telephone dialling codes assigned to Cardiff, Coventry, London, Northern Ireland, Portsmouth and Southampton
  • 4 May 2000โ€”4 May 2000: Ken Livingstone elected first Mayor of London (not to be confused with Lord Mayor of London!)
  • 10 Jun 2000โ€”10 Jun 2000: Millennium footbridge over the Thames opens, but wobbles and is quickly declared dangerous and closed - finally reopened Feb 2002
  • 25 Jul 2000โ€”25 Jul 2000: A chartered Air France Concorde crashes on take-off at Paris with the loss of all lives
  • Sep 2000โ€”Sep 2000: 'People Power' emerged suddenly as protestors against high Road Fuel Tax used mobile phones and the Internet to co-ordinate blockades on fuel depots - resulted in nationwide panic buying of fuel and service stations running out across the country
  • Oct 2000โ€”Oct 2000: Heavy rains cause worst flooding since records began (1850s) in many parts of Britain (Oct-Dec)
  • 17 Oct 2000โ€”17 Oct 2000: Derailment at speed on the main London-North eastern line at Hatfield caused by a broken rail
83 2001 
  • 20 Jan 2001โ€”20 Jan 2009: George W. Bush
    George W. Bush U.S. Presidency George W. Bush U.S. Presidency
  • Feb 2001โ€”Feb 2001: Outbreak of Foot & Mouth disease in UK - lasted until October - caused postponement of local and general elections from May to June
  • 12 May 2001โ€”12 May 2001: FA Cup Final played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff - first time away from Wembley since 1922
  • 7 Jun 2001โ€”7 Jun 2001: General Election - Labour returned again with a large majority, the first time they had succeeded in gaining a second term
  • 1 Sep 2001โ€”1 Sep 2001: New-style number plates on road vehicles in UK [eg. AB 51 ABC]
  • 7 Oct 2001โ€”28 Dec 2014: War in Afghanistan
    War in Afghanistan War in Afghanistan
  • 7 Nov 2001โ€”7 Nov 2001: Concorde flights resume after modifications to tyres and fuel tanks
  • Dec 2001โ€”Dec 2001: UK Christmas stamps self-adhesive for the first time (self-adhesive 1st & 2nd class definitives already on sale)
  • 5 2001โ€”15 May 2001: Census of Canada
    2001 census counts 30,007,094 individuals
  • 1 2001โ€”20 Jan 2009: George W. Bush
84 2002 
  • 1 Jan 2002โ€”1 Jan 2002: Twelve major countries in Europe (Austria, Belgium, Holland, Irish Republic, Italy, Luxembourg, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Portugal) and their dependents start using the Euro instead of their old national currencies; the UK stays out - the
  • 22 Feb 2002โ€”22 Feb 2002: Millennium Bridge over the Thames in London finally opens
  • 30 Mar 2002โ€”30 Mar 2002: The Queen Mother dies, aged 101 years
  • 2 Jul 2002โ€”2 Jul 2002: Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon
85 2003 
  • 2003โ€”1 May 2003: Invasion of Iraq
    United States and Coalition Forces vs. Iraq
  • 17 Feb 2003โ€”17 Feb 2003: Start of Congestion Charge for traffic entering central London
  • 20 Mar 2003โ€”18 Dec 2011: Iraq War
    Iraq War Iraq War
  • 10 Aug 2003โ€”10 Aug 2003: Temperatures reach record high of 101 F (38.3 C) in Kent
  • 24 Oct 2003โ€”24 Oct 2003: Last commercial flight of Concorde
  • 22 Nov 2003โ€”22 Nov 2003: England wins Rugby World Cup in nail-biting final in Australia - first northern hemisphere team to do this
  • 13 Dec 2003โ€”13 Dec 2003: Saddam Hussein captured near his home town of Tikrit (executed 30 Dec 2006)
  • 26 Dec 2003โ€”26 Dec 2003: Queen Mary 2 arrives in Southampton from the builder's yard in France 2004
86 2004 
  • 29 Mar 2004โ€”29 Mar 2004: Alistair Cooke dies at the age of 95 - until four weeks previously, and since 1946, he had broadcast his regular 'Letter from America' on BBC radio
  • 29 Mar 2004โ€”29 Mar 2004: Ireland becomes first country in the world to ban smoking in public places
  • 1 May 2004โ€”1 May 2004: Enlargement of the European Union to include 25 members by the entry of 10 new states: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Malta, Cyprus
87 2005 
  • 16 Feb 2005โ€”16 Feb 2005: Kyoto Protocol on climate change came into force
  • 18 Feb 2005โ€”18 Feb 2005: Ban on hunting with dogs came into force in England & Wales (had already been a similar law for about two years in Scotland)
  • 6 Jul 2005โ€”6 Jul 2005: London chosen as venue for the 2012 Olympic Games
  • 7 Jul 2005โ€”7 Jul 2005: Suicide bombers attack London for the first time
  • 28 Jul 2005โ€”28 Jul 2005: IRA declare an end to their 'armed struggle'
  • 12 Sep 2005โ€”12 Sep 2005: England regain the 'Ashes' after a gripping Test series (but are whitewashed 5-0 in the return series in Australia 2007)
  • 9 Dec 2005โ€”9 Dec 2005: Last Routemaster bus runs on regular service in London
  • 11 Dec 2005โ€”11 Dec 2005: Explosions at the Buncefield Oil Depot in Hemel Hempstead
  • 21 Dec 2005โ€”21 Dec 2005: Same-sex civil partnerships begin - famously, on this day, between Elton John and David Furnish
88 2006 
  • 1 Mar 2006โ€”1 Mar 2006: Welsh Assembly Building opened by the Queen
  • 26 Mar 2006โ€”26 Mar 2006: Prohibition of smoking in enclosed public places in Scotland
  • 21 Apr 2006โ€”21 Apr 2006: 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II
  • 21 Aug 2006โ€”21 Aug 2006: UK postage rates start to be measured by size as well as by weight
89 2007 
  • 1 Jan 2007โ€”1 Jan 2007: Further enlargement of the European Union to include Bulgaria and Romania
  • 19 Feb 2007โ€”19 Feb 2007: Extension of Congestion Charge zone for London, westwards
  • 8 May 2007โ€”8 May 2007: A Northern Ireland Executive formed under the leadership of Ian Paisley (DUP) and Martin McGuinness (Sinn Fein)
  • 1 Jul 2007โ€”1 Jul 2007: Prohibition of smoking in enclosed public places in England (thus completing cover of the entire UK)
  • 14 Nov 2007โ€”14 Nov 2007: First rail service direct from St Pancras to France (replacing that from Waterloo)