Timeline

ABT 1730 : Birth date of [P1] Thomas Sharrow

1733 : Flying shuttle loom invented by John Kay

27 Aug 1736 : Capt. Porteous lynched at the Tollbooth in Edinburgh

1737 : General Wade completes military road building in the Highlands

30 Mar 1739 : Dick Turpin hanged for murder

1740 : 13% of Ireland's population die in famine

1745 : Jacquard draw-loom invented

19 Aug 1745 : Stuart standard raised at Glenfinnan - Start of Jacobite rebellion (the '45)

21 Sep 1745 : Battle of Prestonpans - "Hey Johnnie Cope"

18 Dec 1745 : Battle of Clifton Moor

17 Jan 1746 : Battle of Falkirk - Bonnie Prince Charlie defeats Hanovarian army

16 Apr 1746 : Battle of Culloden - last true battle on British soil - ends the rebellion

6 Apr 1747 : Parliament prohibits wearing of tartan

1748 : Bow Street Runners formed

22 Aug 1752 : UK adopts Gregorian calendar - next day is 14 September

1754 : Royal and Ancient golf club founded

15 Apr 1755 : Dr Johnson publishes dictionary

1756 : Start of Seven Years War

20 Jun 1756 : 123 Britons die in the Black Hole of Calcutta

1757 : Clive defeats Bengalis - start of Empire in India

29 Jun 1757 : William Pitt becomes Prime Minister

1760 : Turnpikes improve travelling by road

25 Oct 1760 : End of reign of George II

26 Oct 1760 : Start of reign of George III

1761 : Link between tobacco and cancer established

1763 : End of Seven Years War

1764 : Invention of the spinning jenny by James Hargreaves

6 Aug 1764 : Marriage date of [F1] - [P1] Thomas Sharrow = [P2] Ester Gamble

BEF 3 Dec 1765 : Birth date of [P3] Elizabeth Sharrow

1767 : Construction of Edinburgh's New Town begins

BEF 17 Apr 1768 : Birth date of [P4] Sarah Sharrow

BEF 25 June 1769 : Birth date of [P5] Easter Sharrow

6 May 1770 : Capt. Cook discovers Botany Bay

BEF 3 Mar 1772 : Birth date of [P6] Sarah Sharrow

BEF 1774 : Birth date of [P7] Rachel Sharrow

1774 : Isolation of oxygen by Joseph Priestley

ABT 1775 : Birth date of [P12] Robert Swales

19 Apr 1775 : Battle of Lexington - Start of American War of Independence

BEF 10 Nov 1776 : Birth date of [P8] Mary Sharrow

24 Apr 1778 : John Paul Jones captures the Drake at Carrickfergus

1779 : Invention of spinning mule by Samuel Crompton

ABT 1779 : Birth date of [P9] Elizabeth Sharrow

2 Jul 1780 : "Gordon" riots in London

1 Jan 1781 : World's first iron bridge completed over the River Severn

BEF 18 Oct 1781 : Birth date of [P10] Maria Sharrow

1782 : Invention of modern steam engine by James Watt

1783 : First steam powered ship built by Jouffroy d'Abbans

1783 : First flight of hot-air balloon by Montgolfier brothers

3 Sep 1783 : Treaty of Paris ends American War of Independence

BEF 8 Feb 1784 : Birth date of [P11] John Sharrow

2 Aug 1784 : First mail coach runs from Bristol to London

1785 : First power-driven loom invented by Edmund Cartwright

1786 : Robert Burns publishes "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect"

1787 : Transportation of criminals to Botany Bay begins

28 Apr 1789 : Mutiny aboard HMS Bounty

1791 : The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain is founded

1793 : Invention of cotton gin by Eli Whitney

1 Feb 1793 : France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands

1795 : Poor Law devised

6 December 1795 : Birth date of [P13] John Swales

ABT 1796 : Birth date of [P21] Jane Myres

1796 : Discovery of Smallpox vaccine by Edward Jenner

21 Feb 1797 : French landing in Wales repulsed at Fishguard

15 Apr 1797 : First naval mutiny at Spithead

30 Jun 1797 : Second naval mutiny at the Nore

27 September 1797 : Birth date of [P14] Mary Swales

1798 : Typhus epidemic kills thousands

1798 : Irish Rebellion

29 May 1798 : Birth date of [P85] Mary Sharrow

9 Jan 1799 : Parliament passes the first income tax

13 October 1799 : Birth date of [P15] Thomas Swales

1801 : Electric arc lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy

ABT 1802 : Birth date of [P16] Robert Swales

ABT August 1802 : Birth date of [P17] William Swales

31 January 1804 : Birth date of [P18] Robert Swales

21 Oct 1805 : Nelson dies victorious at the Battle of Trafalgar

24 November 1805 : Birth date of [P19] Ann Swales

21 Aug 1808 : Sir Arthur Wellesley leads campaign in the Peninsular War

28 Jul 1809 : French driven from Portugal

ABT 1810 : Birth date of [P80] John Wood

ABT 1810 : Birth date of [P20] Jane Swales

1811 : Luddites attack textile machinery

Feb 1811 : Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent due to King's insanity

1812 : French retreat from Moscow

12 Aug 1812 : Wellington takes Madrid

1815 : Humphry Davy invents mining safety lamp

18 Jun 1815 : Napoleon defeated at Waterloo

1816 : Invention of bicycle by K D von Sauerbronn

1816 : Invention of stethoscope by Rene Laennec in Paris

25 Nov 1816 : Marriage date of [F2] - [P12] Robert Swales = [P5] Easter Sharrow

25 November 1816 : Marriage date of [F3] - [P13] John Swales = [P21] Jane Myres

1817 : Potato famine kills thousands in Ireland

1818 : Mary Shelley publishes "Frankenstein"

7 October 1818 : Birth date of [P22] Elizabeth Swales

1819 : MacAdam revolutionises road building

29 Jan 1820 : End of reign of George III

30 Jan 1820 : Start of reign of George IV

10 September 1820 : Birth date of [P23] Jane Swales

1822 : Invention of electric motor by Michael Faraday

8 April 1823 : Birth date of [P24] John Swales

7 February 1825 : Birth date of [P25] Robert Swales

27 Sep 1825 : First passenger train service from Stockton to Darlington

1826 : Invention of the friction match by English chemist John Walker

30 Jan 1826 : Telford's Menai suspension bridge completed

25 December 1826 : Birth date of [P26] Christopher Swales

1827 : Georg S Ohm postulates Ohm's Law of electric current

22 Jan 1828 : The Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister

12 October 1828 : Birth date of [P27] George Swales

1829 : George Stephenson builds first steam locomotive

28 Jan 1829 : Graverobber William Burke hanged for murder in Edinburgh

26 Sep 1829 : First proper police force established in London

ABT 1830 : Birth date of [P45] Jane Wright

26 Jun 1830 : End of reign of George IV

27 Jun 1830 : Start of reign of William IV

15 Sep 1830 : Liverpool to Manchester railway opens

ABT 1831 : Birth date of [P34] Jane Altringham

2 January 1831 : Birth date of [P28] Esther Swales

1832 : Michael Faraday invents electric dynamo

Jun 1832 : Cholera epidemic strikes Britain

7 Jun 1832 : Parliament passes Reform Act

8 February 1833 : Birth date of [P29] Mary Swales

29 Jul 1833 : Slavery abolished throughout British Empire

Mar 1834 : Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation

1835 : Development of efficient screw propeller by Francis Pettit Smith

1835 : Samuel Colt invents the revolver

27 February 1835 : Birth date of [P30] John Swales

1836 : Charles Darwin returns from South America

1837 : John Deere invents the steel plough

1837 : Invention of telegraph by American Samuel F B Morse

11 January 1837 : Birth date of [P31] Ann Swales

20 Jun 1837 : End of reign of William IV

21 Jun 1837 : Start of reign of Queen Victoria

Apr 1838 : First steam crossing of the Atlantic

24 August 1838 : Birth date of [P81] Ann Wood

Sep 1838 : Grace Darling rescues survivors of the "Forfarshire"

21 December 1838 : Birth date of [P32] George Swales

1839 : Rubber vulcanisation developed by Charles Goodyear

23 Jul 1839 : Battle of Ghazni - British capture Ghazni, Afganistan

ABT 1840 : Development of photography

6 May 1840 : Penny Post introduced

2 Jun 1840 : Britain annexes New Zealand

16 February 1841 : Birth date of [P33] Thomas Swales

6 Jul 1841 : First UK national census taken

Sep 1841 : Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister

7 September 1841 : Birth date of [P82] Robert Wood

Mar 1842 : Dr Crawford Long uses ether as anesthetic during surgery

31 Dec 1843 : Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol"

1844 : Invention of the safety match by Gustaf E Pasch

Jun 1844 : Mines Act prohibits use of women and boys in mines

1845 : Invention of pneumatic tyre by Scotsman Robert W Thompson

ABT 1845 : Birth date of [P59] William Henry Wormington

27 April 1845 : Birth date of [P83] John Wood

Jul 1846 : Potato famine hits Ireland and Scotland

Apr 1847 : Thousands emigrate from Ireland on "Coffin" ships

ABT 1848 : Birth date of [P46] Elizabeth Swales

Nov 1849 : Cholera epidemic takes 2000 lives a week

ABT 1850 : Birth date of [P47] John Swales

1850 : Invention of refrigerator by Twining / Harrison

31 Mar 1851 : 1851 UK national census taken

1 May 1851 : Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park

ABT 1852 : Birth date of [P78] William Swales

19 September 1852 : Birth date of [P48] Robert Swales

ABT 1853 : Birth date of [P79] Joseph Swales

ABT 1853 : Transportation of criminals to Australia ends

1853 : Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory

ABT 1854 : Birth date of [P52] Eva Jane Swales

5 February 1854 : Birth date of [P49] Christopher Swales

26 Mar 1854 : Britain and France declare war on Russia starting the Crimean War

25 Oct 1854 : Battle of Balaclava - Charge of the Light Brigade - Thin Red Line

ABT 1855 : Birth date of [P60] Sarah Martha Sparks

4 March 1855 : Birth date of [P66] Eliza Ratcliff

ABT 1856 : Birth date of [P53] Ann E Swales

30 Mar 1856 : Treaty of Paris ends Crimean War

10 May 1857 : Sepoy mutiny in India

4 October 1857 : Birth date of [P50] George Swales

ABT 1858 : Birth date of [P54] Benjamin Swales

1858 : First US oil well sunk by Col. Edwin Drake in Pennsylvania

Jun 1859 : Pig War - Dispute over border between USA and Britain in San Juan Islands

7 August 1859 : Birth date of [P51] Jane Ann Swales

24 Nov 1859 : Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species"

8 March 1860 : Birth date of [P55] Henrietta Millicent Swales

ABT 1861 : Death date of [P52] Eva Jane Swales

1861 : Gatling gun invented by R J Gatling

8 Apr 1861 : 1861 UK national census taken

15 August 1861 : Birth date of [P56] John Robert Swales

10 Jan 1863 : London Underground opens

ABT 1864 : Birth date of [P57] Hubert Edward Swales

ABT 1864 : Death date of [P5] Easter Sharrow

19 August 1864 : Marriage date of [F7] - [P59] William Henry Wormington = [P46] Elizabeth Swales

ABT 1866 : Invention of the breech-loading rifle

Sep 1866 : Cholera sweeps London

1867 : Invention of the typewriter by Sholes and Glidden

1867 : Invention of reinforced concrete by Joseph Monier

1867 : Joseph Lister pioneers antiseptic techniques

1867 : Alfred Nobel invents dynamite

Feb 1868 : Disraeli becomes Prime Minister

1869 : Invention of the bolt-action rifle by Paul Mauser

1869 : Dmitri Mendeleev constructs Periodic Table of elements

1870 : Electric incandescent lamp invented by Thomas Edison

3 Apr 1871 : 1871 UK national census taken

May 1872 : Gladstone becomes Prime Minister

Dec 1872 : "Marie Celeste" discovered abandoned

7 July 1873 : Birth date of [P63] Christopher Thomas William Swales

10 Mar 1876 : Invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell

1877 : Phonograph invented by Thomas Edison

9 March 1878 : Marriage date of [F9] - [P50] George Swales = [P66] Eliza Ratcliff

Sep 1878 : Second British invasion of Afghanistan

22 Jan 1879 : Battle of Rorke's Drift - Zulu War

28 Dec 1879 : Tay Bridge disaster

ABT 1880 : Birth date of [P108] Ruby Sparks

1 August 1880 : Birth date of [P67] Christopher George Swales

3 Apr 1881 : 1881 UK national census taken

ABT 1882 : Death date of [P34] Jane Altringham

1882 : Isolation of tuberculosis bacteria by Robert Koch

1 March 1882 : Birth date of [P61] Harry Evelyn Swales

2 July 1882 : Birth date of [P68] Ruben Aubrey Swales

1883 : Cholera bacteria isolated by Robert Koch

ABT 1883 : Birth date of [P35] Henrietta Swales

26 Aug 1883 : Krakatoa erupts causing global changes in weather

1884 : Birth date of [P69] Ethel Daisy Swales

1884 : Capillary feed fountain pen invented by Lewis E Waterman in the US

ABT 1885 : Birth date of [P62] Bertram Swales

1885 : First internal combustion carriage built by Karl F Benz

1885 : Vaccine against rabies discovered by Louis Pasteur

26 Jan 1885 : General Charles Gordon killed at Khartoum by the Mahdi's troops

ABT 1886 : Birth date of [P36] Ada Swales

15 April 1886 : Birth date of [P86] Emily Elizabeth Maeder

ABT 1887 : Birth date of [P64] Arthur Swales

ABT 1887 : Birth date of [P37] Lily Swales

1887 : Birth date of [P70] Lawrence Clifford Swales

1887 : Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1888 : Invention of hand-held camera by George Eastman

Oct 1888 : Jack the Ripper terrorises London's East End

ABT 1889 : Birth date of [P38] Annie Elizabeth Swales

14 Nov 1889 : Completion of the Forth Bridge - first large steel structure

1890 : Birth date of [P71] Cecil Horace Swales

ABT 1890 : Birth date of [P65] Courtney Allan Swales

1890 : Discovery of diphtheria vaccine by Pierre Paul Emile Roux

17 March 1890 : Birth date of [P72] Fred Courteney Swales

1891 : Invention of the zip fastener by Whitcomb L Judson

1 Apr 1891 : 1891 UK national census taken

BEF 20 October 1891 : Birth date of [P74] Walter Lindsay Swales

BEF 20 October 1891 : Birth date of [P73] Vivian Underwood Swales

28 February 1892 : Birth date of [P39] Mary Swales

ABT 1893 : Birth date of [P40] Edith Swales

1893 : Thomas Edison invents motion pictures

ABT 1893 : Birth date of [P75] Cora Eliza Swales

1894 : Tower Bridge opens in London

1 April 1894 : Birth date of [P41] Alice Swales

1895 : Wireless telegraphy invented by Guglielmo Marconi

8 Nov 1895 : Discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen

8 December 1895 : Birth date of [P42] Charles Edward Altingham Swales

1896 : Discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel

22 Jun 1897 : Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee

13 Jul 1898 : Pierre and Marie Curie detect a new element, later called Polonium

30 October 1898 : Birth date of [P43] Jane Swales

26 Dec 1898 : Pierre and Marie Curie detect a new element, later called Radium

1899 : Introduction of aspirin by Felix Hoffman

1899 : Invention of first magnetic recorder by Valdemar Poulsen

11 Oct 1899 : Start of Boer War

1900 : Invention of rigid airship by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin

ABT 1900 : Birth date of [P76] Vivian Underwood Swales

ABT 1900 : Death date of [P65] Courtney Allan Swales

28 Feb 1900 : Relief of Ladysmith

17 May 1900 : Relief of Mafeking

Aug 1900 : Boxer rebellion in Peking

1901 : First successful safety razor sold by K Gillette

22 Jan 1901 : End of reign of Queen Victoria

23 Jan 1901 : Start of reign of Edward VII

31 Mar 1901 : 1901 UK national census taken

ABT 1902 : Birth date of [P44] Robert Booth Swales

5 Apr 1902 : 20 killed as terracing collapses at Ibrox Park

31 May 1902 : End of Boer War

24 Nov 1904 : Invention of caterpillar track by Benjamin Holt

24 November 1904 : Death date of [P69] Ethel Daisy Swales

4 Oct 1905 : Convicted Suffragettes choose to go to prison

1906 : Wassermann test for syphilis developed

1907 : Albert Einstein postulates "E=mc²" theory

1910 : Domestic refrigerators begin to appear in the US

1910 : Invention of first synthetic plastic, Bakelite

6 May 1910 : End of reign of Edward VII

7 May 1910 : Start of reign of George V

31 Jul 1910 : Radio used to arrest Dr Crippen fleeing to Quebec

1911 : Marie Curie becomes the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes

1911 : Ernest Rutherford puts forward nuclear model of the atom

3 Jan 1911 : Three policemen die in the Seige of Sidney Street

2 Apr 1911 : 1911 UK national census taken

31 Aug 1911 : Troops clash with strikers in north of England

15 Apr 1912 : SS Titanic sinks with loss of 1513 lives

5 December 1912 : Marriage date of [F20] - [P61] Harry Evelyn Swales = [P103] Olive Miriam Essery

10 Feb 1913 : Explorer Capt. Scott found dead in Antartica

4 Jun 1913 : Emily Davison, a Suffragette, dies under King's horse at Epsom

3 September 1913 : Birth date of [P104] Joan Amelia Swales

7 June 1914 : Birth date of [P100] Eric George Schiefner

28 Jun 1914 : Austrian Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo

28 Jul 1914 : Austria declares war on Serbia - Start of World War I

1 Aug 1914 : Germany declares war on Russia

Aug 1914 : Battle of Tannenberg

3 Aug 1914 : Germany declares war on France

4 Aug 1914 : Germany invades Belgium

4 Aug 1914 : Britain declares war on Germany

Sep 1914 : First Battle of the Marne

4 Oct 1914 : First bombs fall on London

19 Oct 1914 : Maj.Gen. Ernest Swinton suggests development of the military tank

ABT 1915 : Birth date of [P109] Harry Archibald Carlile Swales

17 January 1915 : Death date of [P50] George Swales

Feb 1915 : Start of German submarine blockade of Britain

5 February 1915 : Birth date of [P102] Norman William Arundel

22 Apr 1915 : Germans first use of mustard gas at Ypres

26 Apr 1915 : British land in Turkey

7 May 1915 : SS "Lusitania" sunk by German submarine

22 May 1915 : 200 soldiers killed in train crash at Quintinshill

3 Jul 1915 : Birth date of [P106] Edwin Essery Swales

4 July 1915 : Birth date of [P105] John Evelyn Thomas Swales

6 Sep 1915 : Poland and Lithuania overrun by Germany

14 Oct 1915 : Britain and France declare war on Bulgaria

20 Dec 1915 : British withdraw from Gallipoli

Feb 1916 : Battle of Verdun

24 Apr 1916 : Easter Rising - insurrection in Ireland

21 May 1916 : Birth date of [P87] Courtney Swales

31 May 1916 : Battle of Jutland is largest naval battle of WWI

1 Jul 1916 : Start of Battle of the Somme

27 Aug 1916 : Romaina declares war on Austria-Hungary

15 Nov 1916 : End of Battle of the Somme

ABT 1917 : Birth date of [P110] Gwenneth Swales

6 Apr 1917 : USA declares war on Germany

Oct 1917 : Start of Battle of Caporetto

Dec 1917 : End of Battle of Caporetto

7 Dec 1917 : USA declares war on Austria-Hungary

15 Dec 1917 : Russian Bolsheviks now ally with Germany

21 Mar 1918 : Start of German offensive

1 Apr 1918 : Royal Air Force created

18 May 1918 : Sinn Féin banned and leaders arrested

Jul 1918 : Second Battle of the Marne

26 July 1918 : Birth date of [P107] Harry Swales

8 Aug 1918 : End of German offensive

4 Oct 1918 : Germany offers surrender

11 November 1918 : Death date of [P61] Harry Evelyn Swales

11 Nov 1918 : End of WWI - Hostilities cease on Western Front

4 December 1918 : Death date of [P67] Christopher George Swales

28 Dec 1918 : Women allowed to vote for the first time

21 Jan 1919 : Start of the Irish War of Independence

Mar 1919 : Spanish flu kills 150,000 throughout Britian, 50m-100m worldwide

2 September 1919 : Birth date of [P88] Magdelena Swales

24 November 1919 : Birth date of [P93] Phillipus Jeremia Coetzer

28 Dec 1919 : Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister

ABT 1920 : Birth date of [P111] Ada Swales

14 June 1920 : Birth date of [P89] Harry Swales

18 Oct 1920 : State of emergency declared as miners strike

21 Nov 1920 : "Bloody Sunday" - 12 Irish killed by the Black and Tans

19 Jun 1921 : 1921 UK national census taken

11 Jul 1921 : Truce ends Irish War of Independence

6 Dec 1921 : Irish Free State created

1922 : Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate human insulin

5 Oct 1922 : Last casualty of the Irish war

23 Dec 1922 : Birth date of [P90] Noelene Theodore Swales

23 Apr 1924 : First royal transmission by wireless

23 January 1925 : Birth date of [P91] Stella Zaida Swales

25 Apr 1925 : Birth date of [P99] Audrey May Mcdonald

1926 : Invention of the liquid-fuelled rocket by Robert Goddard

1926 : First demonstration of television by John Logie Baird

10 May 1926 : TUC calls first General Strike

7 Jan 1928 : River Thames floods killing 14

24 May 1930 : Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia

28 July 1930 : Birth date of [P92] Audrey Clarice Hartley Brent

5 Oct 1930 : Airship R101 crashes in France killing 48

26 Apr 1931 : 1931 UK national census taken

12 Feb 1932 : Whipping of children under 14 is banned

30 Sep 1932 : Unemployment reaches 25%

1934 : Invention of first practical radar by Watson-Watt

21 Sep 1934 : 262 killed in blast at Gresford colliery

18 Mar 1935 : Thousands protest in Wales at "means test"

1936 : Invention of helicopter by Henrich Focke

1936 : Sir Frank Whittle invents the jet engine

20 Jan 1936 : End of reign of George V

21 Jan 1936 : Start of reign of Edward VIII

11 Nov 1936 : Jarrow Crusade reaches London

10 Dec 1936 : End of reign of Edward VIII

10 Dec 1936 : Edward VIII abdicates

11 Dec 1936 : Start of reign of George VI

28 May 1937 : Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister

1938 : Discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassmann

11 Jul 1938 : Last British troops leave Eire

25 Aug 1939 : IRA bomb Coventry killing 5

1 Sep 1939 : Germany invades Poland

Sep 1939 : Children evacuated from London and major cities

3 Sep 1939 : Britain and France declare war on Germany - Start of WWII

29 Sep 1939 : UK National Register of civilians for the issue of ID cards

17 Dec 1939 : The German battleship "Graf Spee" scuttled off Montevideo

ABT 1940 : New element Plutonium (Z=94) is discovered

10 May 1940 : Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg

10 May 1940 : Churchill takes over as Prime Minister of Great Britain

12 May 1940 : Germany invades France

26 May 1940 : Allied evacuation from Dunkirk begins

10 Jun 1940 : Italy invades France

10 Jun 1940 : Italy declares war on France and Britain

14 Jun 1940 : Germans enter Paris unopposed

22 Jun 1940 : France surrenders to Germany

14 Nov 1940 : Coventry bombed by the Luftwaffe

17 Apr 1941 : Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany

27 Apr 1941 : British leave Greece

22 Jun 1941 : Germany attacks Russia

14 Aug 1941 : Britain and USA sign Atlantic Charter

7 Dec 1941 : Japan attack USA at Pearl Harbour

11 Dec 1941 : Germany and Italy declare war on USA

11 Dec 1941 : Britain and USA declare war on Japan

1942 : New element Promethium (Z=61) is discovered

15 Feb 1942 : British surrender Singapore to Japanese

9 Apr 1942 : USA surrenders Bataan peninsula to Japanese

6 May 1942 : USA surrenders Corregidor Island to Japanese

10 Jun 1942 : Lidice, Czechoslovakia razed by Germans

8 Nov 1942 : British and US troops land in North Africa

14 Jan 1943 : Casablanca conference

1 Feb 1943 : Germans surrender at Stalingrad

12 May 1943 : War in Africa ends

25 Jul 1943 : Mussolini deposed

3 Sep 1943 : Allies land in Italy

8 Sep 1943 : Italy surrenders

10 Sep 1943 : Germans take Rome

22 Nov 1943 : Cairo conference

28 Nov 1943 : Teheran Conference

1944 : New element Americium (Z=95) is discovered

1944 : New element Curium (Z=96) is discovered

22 Jan 1944 : British and US troops land at Anzio

4 Jun 1944 : British and US troops enter Rome

6 Jun 1944 : D-Day landings in Normandy

25 Aug 1944 : Paris liberated

13 Oct 1944 : Athens liberated

20 Oct 1944 : USA invades Philippines

16 Dec 1944 : Battle of the Bulge

11 Feb 1945 : Yalta agreement

23 Feb 1945 : Death date of [P106] Edwin Essery Swales

28 Apr 1945 : Mussolini executed at Lake Como

1 May 1945 : Hitler's suicide announced

2 May 1945 : Berlin falls

7 May 1945 : VE Day. Germany surrenders

16 Jul 1945 : The "Trinity" test is the first detonation of an atomic bomb

17 Jul 1945 : Potsdam conference

6 Aug 1945 : USA drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima

8 Aug 1945 : USSR declares war on Japan

9 Aug 1945 : USA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki

14 Aug 1945 : Japan surrenders

2 Sep 1945 : VJ Day. Japanese sign surrender aboard USS Missouri - End of WWII

November 1945 : Death date of [P35] Henrietta Swales

5 December 1945 : Death date of [P86] Emily Elizabeth Maeder

Feb 1946 : 50,000 "GI brides" shipped out to the USA

14 March 1946 : Birth date of [P94] Avril Elizabeth Coetzer

September 1946 : Death date of [P56] John Robert Swales

Dec 1946 : Fuel and food shortages continue

23 June 1947 : Death date of [P70] Lawrence Clifford Swales

20 Nov 1947 : Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh

1 Jan 1948 : Railways nationalised

28 January 1948 : Death date of [P66] Eliza Ratcliff

28 Jun 1948 : Troops break dockers' strike

Dec 1948 : Labour government constructs "Welfare State"

1949 : New element Berkelium (Z=97) is discovered

1949 : Radiocarbon dating technique discovered by Willard Libby

15 Mar 1949 : Clothes rationing ends

18 Apr 1949 : Eire becomes Republic of Ireland

1950 : New element Californium (Z=98) is discovered

ABT 1950 : Albert Einstein puts forward theories of relativity

27 May 1950 : Marriage date of [F14] - [P92] Audrey Clarice Hartley Brent = [P87] Courtney Swales

28 Jun 1950 : Royal Navy enters Korean War

25 Dec 1950 : Stone of Destiny taken from Westminster Abbey

8 Apr 1951 : 1951 UK national census taken

7 Jun 1951 : Soviet spies Burgess and MacLean disappear

29 June 1951 : Birth date of [P95] Pierre Christopher Coetzer

1952 : New element Einsteinium (Z=99) is discovered

1952 : New element Fermium (Z=100) is discovered

6 Feb 1952 : End of reign of George VI

7 Feb 1952 : Start of reign of Elizabeth II

20 Oct 1952 : Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya

1 Nov 1952 : US detonates the first hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll

24 Nov 1952 : "Mousetrap" opens in London

11 Dec 1952 : Derek Bentley sentenced to hang for the murder of PC Miles in Croydon

16 Dec 1952 : Birth date of [P101] Noel Eric Hubert Schiefner

1953 : Discovery of measles vaccine by Enders and Peebles

1953 : A canyon is discovered along the centre of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

31 Jan 1953 : Ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in the Irish Sea

3 Feb 1953 : Hundreds die as East Coast is flooded

30 May 1953 : Edmund Hillary reaches the top of Mount Everest

1954 : Discovery of first polio vaccine by Jonas E Salk

4 Mar 1954 : First successful kidney transplant carried out in Boston

May 1954 : "Teddy Boys" appear

3 Jul 1954 : Rationing ends

1955 : New element Mendelevium (Z=101) is discovered

13 Jul 1955 : Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged

31 Oct 1956 : Britain invades Suez

Apr 1957 : IBM delivers the first compiler for the FORTRAN language

17 Oct 1957 : Air borne radiation leaks from Windscale nuclear plant

November 1957 : Death date of [P42] Charles Edward Altingham Swales

1958 : New element Nobelium (Z=102) is discovered

6 Feb 1958 : 7 members of Manchester United die in plane crash

5 Dec 1958 : First motorway in Britain, M6 Preston Bypass opens

1959 : Lewis Urry invents the alkaline battery

15 September 1959 : Death date of [P63] Christopher Thomas William Swales

31 Dec 1960 : National Service abolished

1961 : New element Lawrencium (Z=103) is discovered

23 Apr 1961 : 1961 UK national census taken

27 Mar 1963 : Dr Beeching proposes cutting 25% of rail lines

5 Jun 1963 : John Profumo resigns after sex scandal

4 Nov 1963 : The Beatles appear in the Royal Variety Show

10 Dec 1963 : Aden Emergency

1964 : New element Rutherfordium (Z=104) is discovered

11 Jan 1964 : US Surgeon General reports that smoking may be a health hazard

21 Dec 1964 : Death penalty abolished in Britain

August 1965 : Death date of [P40] Edith Swales

28 Oct 1965 : Brady and Hindley charged with Moors Murders

21 Oct 1966 : 144 die in Aberfan as coal bing buries school

1967 : Emergence of Flower Power

8 March 1967 : Death date of [P68] Ruben Aubrey Swales

1968 : New element Dubnium (Z=105) is discovered

1968 : Thomas Gold describes radio pulsars as fast rotating neutron stars

2 Jan 1968 : Dr Christian Barnard performs first successful heart transplant

5 Mar 1969 : London gangsters the Kray twins sentenced to life

4 Apr 1969 : Dr Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart

15 April 1969 : Birth date of [P97] Timothy Conrad Douglas

2 Jan 1971 : 66 die when barriers collapse at Ibrox Park

15 Feb 1971 : British currency goes decimal

25 Apr 1971 : 1971 UK national census taken

15 Nov 1971 : Intel release the first microprocessor, the 4004

22 Jan 1972 : Britain joins the EEC

30 Jan 1972 : 13 shot in another Bloody Sunday in Derry

1 Feb 1972 : First scientific hand-held calculator produced by Hewlett-Packard

Feb 1972 : Miners strike leads to power cuts

29 September 1972 : Death date of [P100] Eric George Schiefner

8 Mar 1973 : IRA begins mainland bombing

17 Dec 1973 : Three day week introduced

1974 : New element Seaborgium (Z=106) is discovered

12 Nov 1974 : Lord Lucan escapes and disappears

11 Jul 1975 : Inflation reaches 25%

Nov 1975 : Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Micro-Soft

1 Apr 1976 : Apple Computer Company formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

Aug 1976 : Drought causes water shortages

18 Jan 1977 : Legionella bacteria isolated as the cause of Legionnaire's Disease

2 Apr 1977 : Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time

11 Sep 1977 : Last wild infection of smallpox is reported in Somalia

1978 : Death date of [P44] Robert Booth Swales

16 Feb 1978 : CBBS, the first computer bulletin board is created in Chicago, Illinois

13 Dec 1978 : Jeremy Thorpe, MP charged with incitement to murder

1979 : VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software is released

Jan 1979 : "Winter of Discontent". Strikes cause food shortages and power cuts

4 May 1979 : Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister

2 Sep 1979 : Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim

5 May 1980 : SAS storms Iranian embassy in London

17 September 1980 : Death date of [P87] Courtney Swales

1981 : New element Bohrium (Z=107) is discovered

1981 : Dr Bruce Reitz performs the first heart-lung transplant at Stanford Hospital

5 Apr 1981 : 1981 UK national census taken

12 Apr 1981 : The IBM Personal Computer is released

Jul 1981 : Riots break out in 8 inner city areas

1982 : Rich Skrenta writes the Elk Cloner computer virus, the first to escape into the wild

1982 : New element Meitnerium (Z=109) is discovered

2 Apr 1982 : Argentina invades Falkland Islands

14 Jun 1982 : British troops regain control of Falklands

1 Jan 1983 : The ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet

May 1983 : The first report of the virus which causes AIDS is published

25 Sep 1983 : 134 IRA prisoners escape from the Maze prison

8 November 1983 : Death date of [P88] Magdelena Swales

1984 : New element Hassium (Z=108) is discovered

22 Jan 1984 : The Apple Macintosh computer is introduced

May 1984 : Coal strikes crushed by riot police

12 Oct 1984 : IRA bombs Tory conference in Brighton

11 May 1985 : 40 killed as fire destroys Bradford City stand

1 Sep 1985 : The wreck of the RMS "Titanic" is located off the coast of Newfoundland

23 Jul 1986 : Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson at Wesminster Abbey

26 September 1987 : Death date of [P102] Norman William Arundel

16 Oct 1987 : Hurricane hits southern England

18 Nov 1987 : 30 die in King's Cross Underground fire

29 Dec 1987 : The antidepressant drug Prozac appears in the US

6 Jul 1988 : North sea oil rig Piper Alpha explodes

17 Nov 1988 : The Netherlands is the second country to be connected to the Internet

22 Dec 1988 : Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Lockerbie killing 270

23 Mar 1989 : Fleischmann and Pons erroneously claim to have produced cold fusion

15 Apr 1989 : 94 football fans crushed to death at Hillsborough

Sep 1989 : Thousands of Scots decide not to pay new Poll Tax

19 Oct 1989 : "Guildford Four" released from prison

23 Aug 1990 : British and US troop build up in Persian Gulf

13 Nov 1990 : The first known Web page is written

1991 : Sumio Iijima discovers carbon nanotubes

17 Jan 1991 : Operation "Desert Storm" defeats Iraq

7 Feb 1991 : Downing Street hit by IRA mortar bomb

14 Mar 1991 : "Birmingham Six" released from prison

21 Apr 1991 : 1991 UK national census taken

18 May 1991 : Death date of [P92] Audrey Clarice Hartley Brent

9 Dec 1992 : Prince Charles and Princess Diana separate

22 Mar 1993 : Intel ships the first Pentium CPU chips

24 Apr 1993 : Massive truck bomb devastates Bishopsgate in London

1994 : New element Darmstadtium (Z=110) is discovered

1994 : New element Roentgenium (Z=111) is discovered

Mar 1994 : Fred and Rosemary West arrested for murder in Gloucester

6 May 1994 : The Channel Tunnel opens linking England and France by rail

Sep 1995 : Britain hit by worst drought for over 250 years

1996 : New element Copernicium (Z=112) discovered

Feb 1996 : Major oil spill from "Sea Empress" at Milford Haven

5 Jul 1996 : In Scotland, "Dolly" the sheep is the first mammal to be cloned

31 Aug 1997 : Princess Diana dies after car crash in Paris

15 Aug 1998 : Car bomb explodes in Omagh killing 29

1999 : The first "Blackberry", a wireless two-way pager introduced

12 May 1999 : First meeting of the new Scottish Parliament

Jun 1999 : New element with atomic number 114 discovered

5 Oct 1999 : Rail crash at Ladbroke Grove, Paddington kills 31

2 August 2000 : Death date of [P89] Harry Swales

Sep 2000 : Fuel protests and panic buying lead to petrol shortages

2001 : Foot-and-mouth disease closes UK countryside

29 Apr 2001 : 2001 UK national census taken

2 Jul 2001 : The first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools

7 Oct 2001 : Operation "Enduring Freedom" begins the Afghanistan War

8 Mar 2002 : Bubble Fusion reported at Oak Ridge but it cannot be reproduced

30 Mar 2002 : The Queen Mother dies aged 101

4 Jun 2002 : Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her golden jubilee

Mar 2003 : First digital camera to use an organic LED display is released by Kodak

20 Mar 2003 : Operation "Iraqi Freedom" starts the Iraq War

26 July 2003 : Death date of [P91] Stella Zaida Swales

27 Oct 2004 : Remains of a new species of human, Homo floresiensis, is discovered

26 Dec 2004 : A tsunami in the Indian Ocean kills over 225,000 people

7 Jul 2005 : Four suicide bombers kill 52 in the London morning rush hour

30 Nov 2005 : Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant

24 Aug 2006 : The planet Pluto is redesignated as a dwarf planet

Dec 2006 : Ipswich prostitute murders - five bodies are found

27 Jun 2007 : Tony Blair steps down as Prime Minister

4 Sep 2007 : The complete human genome is published

Sep 2008 : Emerging global financial crisis plunges UK into recession

10 Sep 2008 : The LHC particle accelerator at CERN begins test runs

14 Jun 2009 : First death in UK from Swine Flu virus

Jul 2009 : The largest ever Anglo-Saxon treasure hoard is found in Staffordshire

22 Dec 2015 : Death date of [P90] Noelene Theodore Swales

3 Oct 2019 : Death date of [P101] Noel Eric Hubert Schiefner