Ann King

Female Abt 1853 -


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Adoption of children is legalised in Britain
Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun
Start of world-wide 'flu pandemic
Vote for women over 30, men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons)
'October' Revolution in Russia - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government; Lenin becomes Chief Commissar
Britain declares war on Germany, citing Belgian neutrality as reason
The 'unsinkable' Titanic sinks on maiden voyage - loss of 1,513 lives
Bleriot flies across the Channel (36 minutes, Calais to Dover)
SOS became effective as an international signal of distress
First airship flies over London
Introduction of free school meals for poor children
Marie Curie discovers radioactivity
First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi - Morse code from Cornwall to Newfoundland
Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner
School leaving age in Britain raised to 14 years
Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector
X-rays discovered
Zip fastener invented
Primary education made free and compulsory
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   Date  Event(s)
1853 
  • 1853—1853: Vaccination against smallpox made compulsory in Britain
1854 
  • 1854—1854: Cigarettes introduced into Britain
  • 25 Oct 1854—25 Oct 1854: Battle of Balaklava in Crimea (charge of the Light Brigade)
1859 
  • 24 Nov 1859—24 Nov 1859: Charles Darwin publishes 'The Origin of Species'
1862 
  • 20 Apr 1862—20 Apr 1862: First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
1863 
  • 10 Jan 1863—10 Jan 1863: First section of the London Underground Railway opens
1865 
  • 14 Apr 1865—14 Apr 1865: End of American Civil War - slavery abolished in USA
1868 
  • 1868—1868: Last convicts landed in Australia (Western Australia)
1869 
  • 1869—1869: Ball bearings, celluloid, margarine, and washing machines, all invented
1870 
  • 1870—1870: Water closets come into wide use
10 1872 
  • 1872—1872: Penalties introduced for failing to register births, marriages & deaths (Eng & Wales)
11 1874 
  • 5 Apr 1874—5 Apr 1874: Birkenhead Park opened, said to be the first civic public park in the world - features of it later copied in Central Park, New York
12 1876 
  • 14 Feb 1876—14 Feb 1876: Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray each file a patent for the telephone - Bell awarded the rights
13 1878 
  • 1878—1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
14 1880 
  • 1880—1880: Education Act: schooling compulsory for 5-10 year olds
15 1883 
  • 27 Aug 1883—27 Aug 1883: Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave
16 1884 
  • 13 Oct 1884—13 Oct 1884: Greenwich made prime meridian of the world
17 1885 
  • Mar 1885—Mar 1885: First UK cremation in modern times took place at Woking
18 1887 
  • 1887—1887: Daimler produces a four-wheeled motor car
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  • 20 Mar 1888—20 Mar 1888: Football League formed
20 1889 
  • 3 Jun 1889—3 Jun 1889: Canadian Pacific Railway completed from coast to coast
21 1891 
  • 1891—1891: Primary education made free and compulsory
22 1893 
  • 1893—1893: Zip fastener invented
23 1895 
  • Nov 1895—Nov 1895: X-rays discovered
24 1897 
  • 1897—1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector
25 1900 
  • 1900—1900: School leaving age in Britain raised to 14 years
26 1901 
  • 1901—1901: Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner
  • 12 Dec 1901—12 Dec 1901: First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi - Morse code from Cornwall to Newfoundland
27 1902 
  • 1902—1902: Marie Curie discovers radioactivity
28 1906 
  • 1906—1906: Introduction of free school meals for poor children
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  • 1907—1907: First airship flies over London
30 1908 
  • 1 Jul 1908—1 Jul 1908: SOS became effective as an international signal of distress
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  • 25 Jul 1909—25 Jul 1909: Bleriot flies across the Channel (36 minutes, Calais to Dover)
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  • 14 Apr 1912—14 Apr 1912: The 'unsinkable' Titanic sinks on maiden voyage - loss of 1,513 lives
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  • 4 Aug 1914—4 Aug 1914: Britain declares war on Germany, citing Belgian neutrality as reason
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  • 7 Nov 1917—7 Nov 1917: 'October' Revolution in Russia - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government; Lenin becomes Chief Commissar
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  • 1918—1918: Vote for women over 30, men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons)
  • 8 Mar 1918—8 Mar 1918: Start of world-wide 'flu pandemic
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  • 16 Feb 1923—16 Feb 1923: Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun
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  • 1926—1926: Adoption of children is legalised in Britain
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  • 1927—1927: Release of the first 'talkie' film (The Jazz Singer)
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  • 1928—1928: Women over 21 get vote in Britain - same qualification for both sexes
  • 15 Sep 1928—15 Sep 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers penicillin (results published 1929)
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  • 1929—1929: Minimum age for a marriage in Britain (which had been 14 for a boy and 12 for a girl) now 16 for both sexes, with parental consent (or a licence) needed for anyone under 21
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  • 1934—1934: Hitler becomes Fuehrer of Germany
  • 18 Jul 1934—18 Jul 1934: King George V opens Mersey Tunnel
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  • 5 May 1936—5 May 1936: First flight of a Spitfire
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  • 30 Oct 1938—30 Oct 1938: Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of HG Wells 'The War of the Worlds', causing panic in the USA
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  • 3 Sep 1939—3 Sep 1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany
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  • 15 Sep 1940—15 Sep 1940: Battle of Britain: massive waves of German air attacks decisively repulsed by the RAF - Hitler postpones invasion of Britain
46 1941 
  • 1941—1941: First use of antibiotics
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  • 6 Sep 1942—6 Sep 1942: Germans defeated at Stalingrad
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  • 6 Jun 1944—6 Jun 1944: D-Day invasion of Normandy
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  • 8 May 1945—8 May 1945: VE Day (Victory in Europe). Atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
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  • 1 Apr 1947—1 Apr 1947: School leaving age raised to 15 in Britain
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  • 5 Jul 1948—5 Jul 1948: National Health Service (NHS) begins in Britain
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  • 2 May 1952—2 May 1952: First commercial jet airliner service launched, by BOACComet between London and Johannesburg
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  • 25 Apr 1953—25 Apr 1953: Francis Crick and James D Watson publish the double helix structure of DNA
54 1954 
  • 3 Jul 1954—3 Jul 1954: Food rationing officially ends in Britain
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  • 22 Sep 1955—22 Sep 1955: Commercial TV starts in Britain
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  • 25 May 1957—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
57 1959 
  • 1 Nov 1959—1 Nov 1959: First section of M1 motorway opened
58 1962 
  • 24 Oct 1962—24 Oct 1962: Cuba missile crisis - brink of nuclear war