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Richard II of England dies by means unknown in Pontefract Castle. |
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| 1425 | Beijing, capital of China, becomes the largest city of the world |
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| 1450 | Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI. |
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| 1505 | Henry VIII of England repudiates his engagement to Catherine of Aragon |
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| 1527 | Spanish & German troops led by the Duke of Bourbon sack Rome, forcing Pope Clement VII to make peace with Charles V. |
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| 1529 | Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, fails to bring about the divorce and annulment for Henry VIII | Robert Leopard born |
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| 1540 | One of the most important political figures of the reign of Henry VIII of England, Thomas Cromwell, is executed |
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| 1541 | The Portuguese defeat the Muslims near Lake Tana. |
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| 1542 | Queen Mary I of Scotland (Mary, Queen of Scots) becomes queen at the age of only one week. |
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| 1563 | The English surrender Le Havre to the French after a siege |
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| 1564 | Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death. |
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| 1565 | The city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is founded. |
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| 1567 | The Rugby School, one of the oldest public schools in England, is founded. |
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| 1568 | Mary Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle. |
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| 1573 | The first Spanish galleon laden with silver for the porcelain and silk trade with the Ming Dynasty of China lands at Manila in the Philippines. |
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Charles I of England issues charter for the colony of Maryland | John Bashford born |
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Post Office established by Act of Parliament | Simon Bashford born |
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Restoration of British monarchy (Charles II) | Mary Bashford born in London |
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Great Plague of London kills over 60,000 | John Bashford born |
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Great Fire of London |
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Dodo becomes extinct in Mauritius | Joseph Bashford born |
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Release of all prisoners held for their religious beliefs | Thomas Bashford born |
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Mary II death leaves William III as sole ruler | Simon Bashford born |
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Treaty of Utrecht | Joseph Bashford born |
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Handel's Messiah first performed in Dublin | John Bashford born |
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Battle of Dettingen | Mary Bashford born |
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Bonnie Prince Charlie lands in the Highlands | Lydia Miles born |
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Private collection of Sir Hans Sloane forms the basis of the Brtish Museum | Joseph Bashford born |
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Seven Years War with France (Pitt's trade war) begins | William Bashford born |
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Horatio Nelson born (British Admiral) | |||
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Treaty of Paris | James Bashford born |
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Start of 'composite' national records on Rainfall in the UK | John Bashford born at Cuckfield |
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The first edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" published | William Atkin born | Sarah Bashford born |
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Louis XVI of France declares war on UK | Richard Allam born | ||
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First golf club founded at St Andrews | William Bashford born |
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Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children | Elizabeth Bashford born |
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Mozart Marriage of Figaro | James Bashford born | William Allam born | Andrew Allam born |
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MCC established at Thomas Lord's ground | Joseph Bashford born |
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Law passed requiring that chimney sweepers be a minimum of 8 years old | William Bashford born | William Atkin marries Hannah Greasley | James Boseley born |
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The French Revolution begins – storming of the Bastille | John Bashford born |
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Forth and Clyde Canal opened in Scotland | William Atkin born |
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Sugar prices rise steeply | Ann Bashford born |
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Coal-gas lighting invented | John Bashford born | Sarah Bashford born |
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Whitney patents the cotton gin | Elizabeth Bashford born | William Bashford born |
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Marriage of King George IV to Caroline of Brunswick | Lydia Bashford born |
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Dr Edward Jenner gave first vaccination for smallpox | George Bashford born | Samual Bashford born |
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First £1 note issued by Bank of England | Ann Atkin born Walham, Lincolnshire |
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Battle of the Nile | Henry Bashford born | Elizabeth Bashford born |
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Foundation of Royal Military College Sandhurst | Sarah Bashford born |
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Electric light first produced by Sir Humphrey Davy | Celia Bashford born | Lucy Harding born | Edmund Bashford born |
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Regular mail service started between England and India | Catherine Bashford born |
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Spain declares war on Britain | Naomi Bashford born |
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Napoleon attempts European economic blockade of Britain | Ruth Bashford born |
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The slave trade is abolished in UK & Ireland | Patience Young born | ||
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Peninsular War (1808-1814) | William Allam born in Islip, Ox | Sarah Bashford born | William Allam born |
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John McAdam begins road construction in England | John Henry Bashford born | John Allam born |
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Rose's Act (1812) established for baptism & burial registers | Thomas Atkin born |
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Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba | Charles Davis born |
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The Battle of Waterloo | Edwin John Bashford born |
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Manchester cotton spinners' strike | William Capes born | William Frances Bashford born |
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Singapore founded by Sir Stamford Raffles | William Bashford born | Richard Brooker Bashford born |
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Accession of George IV | William Boseley born |
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Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St Helena | Hannah Elizabeth Bashford born | John Swan born | John Bashford born |
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Caledonian canal opened | Sarah Golding born | Mary Ann Miller born | William Bashford born |
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Peel begins penal reforms | Albert Bashford born | Emma Bashford born | George Bashford born |
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RSPCA established | Newman Boseley born |
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Royal Zoological Society established in London | Henry James Bashford born |
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Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer dies | Christopher Atkin born in Lincolnshire | George Bashford born | John Allam born |
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First Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race | Ruth Bashford born |
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George IV dies, William IV, accedes to the throne | Elth Fisher born | Caroline Bashford born |
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Darwin sails on HMS Beagle to survey coral formations | Celia Bashford murdered in Brighton | Charlotte Boseley born | Frederick Scrase born |
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Factory Act forbids employment of children below age of 9 | Elizabeth Thundercliffe born | Hannah Relf born |
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Slavery abolished in British possessions | Henry Thornhill born | Elizabeth Bashford born |
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Christmas becomes a national holiday | Alfred Fox born |
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First Potato famine in Ireland | Abrahams Bashford born | Benjamin Bucknall born |
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William IV dies – accession of Queen Victoria | Sarah Allam born | Ann Rebecca Bashford born |
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First ocean steamers to the U.S. – SS Great Western | Cordelia Bashford born | Emma Bashford born |
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Bicycle invented | George M Atkin born in Lincolnshire |
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Last convicts landed in NSW | William Edward Cutler born | William Bashford born |
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Penny Red replaces Penny Black postage stamp | Joseph Davis born |
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Brunel's 'Great Britain' launched | Phobes Allam born | Joseph Bashford born | Mary Ann Bashford born |
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Potato famine in Ireland | Hiram Davis born | Jane Swan born |
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Anaesthetic used for the first time in England | Amelia Bashford born | Angelina Boseley born |
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Ten Hours Act shortens factory work day to ten hours for women and children | William H Allam born | Thomas Capes born | Sarah Swan born |
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California gold rush | Henry C Davis born Sydling, Dorset | Henry C Davis born | William John Bashford born |
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Civil Registration of Births in Isle of Man started | George JE Bashford born | William Bashford born | Lewis Boseley born |
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Tennyson succeeds Wordsworth as Poet Laureate | Robert Capes born | William Lynn born | Charles Atkin born |
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Window Tax replaced by House Duty | Maria Davis born | Israel Stickley born |
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Tasmania ceases to be a convict settlement | Jane Capes born | John Swan born | Cordelia Bashford born |
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'The big stink' – smell of the River Thames forced Parliament to stop work | George Capes born | Elizabeth Eveleigh born | John Robinson born |
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Cigarettes introduced into Britain | Jane Reeves born | Robert Atkinson born | Elizabeth Louisa Bashford born |
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Livingstone finds the Victoria Falls | Ann Lister born | Stephan Swan born | Emma Jane Bashford born |
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End of Crimean War | Abrahams Thomas Bashford born | Mary Ann Bashford born |
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Indian Mutiny | Mary Swan born |
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'Great Eastern' launched | Alfred Boseley born | Agnes Bashford born | Edward Bashford born |
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Garibaldi's 'Red Shirts' conquer Sicily and Naples | Christopher Atkin born | Evelina Fisher born | Cordelia Bashford born |
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American Civil War begins | Charles Alfred Boseley born | Ellen Swan born | Joseph John Bashford born |
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Gatling patents his machine gun | Percy Eyden born | Charles Atkin born | Edward Atkin born |
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London's first Underground Railway opens | Mary Ann Scrase born |
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Red Cross established | Thomas Boseley born | Sarah Atkin born | Tom Atkin born |
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End of American Civil War – slavery abolished in USA | George E Boseley born in Leeds, Kent |
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Marquis of Queensbury rules accepted for boxing | John Atkin born | Elizabeth Bucknall born |
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Dominion of Canada founded | Thomas Swan born | George Atkin born | Bertram Bashford born |
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Last convicts landed in Australia | James Scrase born | Esther Ellen Saxelby born | Mary J Atkin born |
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Cutty Sark launched | Sarah Cutler born | Alfred Fox born | Ann Ellen Bashford born |
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Telegraph link to India first open | Selena Allam born | Charles H Davis born | Eugene Atkin born |
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Stanley finds Livingstone in Africa | William H Allam born | John Capes born | Agnes Selina Bashford born |
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Penny-farthing bicycles in general use | Ellen Susan Lumkin born | Catherine Holden born | Catherine Bashford born |
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Glidden invents barbed wire | Elizabeth Capes born | Sarah H Woodall born | William Atkin born |
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Disraeli and the Tories come to power in Britain | Frederick William Allam born in Islip | Martha Woodall born | Albert Bashford born |
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Captain Webb swims channel | Maria Sophia Thornhill born Dorney | Margret Lynn Born | Ruth Holden born |
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Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone | Walter Davis born | William Lynn Born | George Atkin born |
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Edison invents microphone and phonograph | Alice Cutler born | Andrew Allam born | John Murrey Grindle born |
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Red Flag Act in Britain limits mechanical road vehicles to 4mph | Henry Thornhill born | Betsy Lilley born | Etty Holden born |
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Tay Bridge Disaster – bridge collapsed in storm | Agnes Allam born | Christopher Atkin born | Richard Cutler born |
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Greenwich Mean Time adopted throughout UK | Edith May Newton Atkinson born | William Thornhill born | Lilly Florence Bashford born |
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Flogging abolished in Army and Royal Navy | William Edward Cutler born | Albert Grindle born | Edward John Thornhill born |
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Institution of 'the Ashes' in cricket | Benjamin Atkin born Humberstone | Gertrude Annie Grindle born London | Leo Holzman born |
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Brooklyn Bridge, New York opens | Alice Capes born | Emily Davis born | John Swan born |
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Standard Meridian – Greenwich made prime meridian of the world | Frederick S Atkin born | John Henry Bashford born |
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Fall of Khartoum, General Gordon killed | William Swan born | Harold Atkin born | Leslie Atkin born |
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Mersey railway (under Mersey) opened by Prince of Wales | Alice Davis born | William Eveleigh born | Emily Bashford born |
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Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee | Frederick Grindle born | Marion Atkin born | Septimus Atkin born |
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Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre | Harriett Fox born | Charles Eveleigh born | Hubert Swan born |
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Eiffel Tower completed | Elise Cutler born | Emes Bashford born | Frances Bashford born |
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London's first electric Underground | Henry Davis born Burton Bradstock | Mary Eveleigh born |
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Primary education made free and compulsory | Henry Bashford born | Clara Fox born | Laura Swan born |
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Electric oven invented | Ernest George Boseley born | Edward Davis born | Bertram Charles Bashford born |
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Keir Hardy founds Independent Labour Party | Annie Fox born | Alice Bashford born |
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Tower Bridge first opens | Clement Maxwell born | Ellen Davis born | Edith Bashford born |
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Marconi invents wireless telegraphy | Lilian Boseley born | Percy Bashford born |
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Klondyke Gold Rush in the Yukon | Reginald Davis born in Devon | Winifred Cooper born | George Fox born |
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Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee | Alfred Davis born | May Allam born | Majorie Allam born |
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Zeppelin builds airship | Bertie Allam born | Gertrude Fox born | Susan Atkin born |
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Second Boer War | Blanche Davis born | Jessie Atkin born | James Scrase born |
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Relief of Mafeking | Thomas Atkin born | Walter Davis born | Edith Davis born |
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Queen Victoria dies – Edward VII king | William Boseley born | Ivy Thornhill born | Frederick Allam marries Gertrude Grindle |
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Marie Curie discovers radioactivity | George Boseley born |
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First flight of Wilbur & Orville Wright | Alfred Allam born at Deptford, London | Edward Boseley born |
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Puccini Madame Butterfly | Ester Doris Furber born |
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Einstein publishes theory of relativity | Winifred Lynn born at Lambeth, London |
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First airship flies over London | Norman Birch Davies born | Edith Rootes born |
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Bleriot flies across the Channel | Harold Swan born |
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Titanic sinks on maiden voyage | William Longmate born | Margaret Helena Swift born |
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Suffragette demonstrations in London – Mrs Pankhurst imprisoned | Gertrude Andrews born | Vincent Holzman born | George E Boseley dies |
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Start of WWI in Europe | Benjamin Atkin born Lincolnshire |
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Second Battle of Ypres – poison gas used for first time | Rose Atkin born | Maria Holzman born | Margaret Barnes born |
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Lloyd-George becomes British Prime Minister | Joseph Holzman born |
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USA declares war on Germany(WWI) | Robert Atkin born Lincolnshire |
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End of WWI | Edith Newton Atkinson dies | Bertram Charles Bashford dies |
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Treaty of Versailles | Kathina Holzman born |
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Prohibition starts in USA | Alec Douglas Davis born in Dorset | Lily Annie Bashford born |
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Irish Free State and Northern Ireland formed | Arlene Weldy born | Jeanie Mason born |
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Tomb of Tutankhamen discovered in Egypt | Haidee Fox born | Winifred Heath born |
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Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy | Frederick Frank Bashford born |
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Death of Lenin; succeeded by Stalin | Reginald Davis born |
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Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf. | Joyce Gladman born |
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General Strike | George JE Bashford born |
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Lindbergh makes solo flight across the Atlantic | Anthony Thomas Fox born | Alfred Allam marries Winifred Lynn |
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Women over 21 get vote in Britain | Margaret Allam born |
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Abolition of Poor Law system in Britain | Len Woodgate born | Peter William Boseley born |
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First Nazis elected to the German Reichstag | Raymond Allam born |
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Empire State Building completed in New York | Judith Maxwell born |
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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany | Colin Swan born |
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Chamberlain visits Hitler in Munich – promises 'peace in our time' | Patrica Allam born | Bryan Cutler born | Sonia Dart born |
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Evacuation of British Army at Dunkirk | Jean Davies born |
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German battleship Bismarck is sunk in North Atlantic | James Allam born |
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Germans defeated at Stalingrad | James LeRoy Holzman born |
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Dam Buster' raids on Ruhr dams by RAF | Robert Atkin marries Haidee Fox | Zofia Ogrodzka born |
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D-Day Normandy Landings WWII | Bruce Atkin born | Christopher Atkin born |
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End of WWII | Joseph Martin Holzman born | Pauline Bateman born | John Davies born |
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National Health Service starts in Britain | June Swan born | Clement Maxwell dies | Margaret Allam marries Reginald Davis |
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Most severe winter in Britain for 53 years at start of the year – heavy snow and much flooding | Brenda Allam born at Hastings | Richard Davis born |
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Gandhi assassinated | David Moore born | Jacqueline Anne Holzman born |
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Clothes rationing ends in Britain | Maxine Davis born |
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Korean War starts | Virginia Jane Atkin born Brighton | Alfred Allam die in Robertsbridge |
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George VI dies; Elizabeth II queen |
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Everest conquered by Hillary and Tensing | Julitta Alice Holzman born |
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Food rationing officially ends in Britain | Jolene Holzman born |
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Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister | Stephan Davis born | Dolores Gomez-Carrille born | Leo L Holzman born |
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Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister | Lilian Davies born | Lorriane Boseley born |
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Munich air disaster – Manchester United team members killed | Wayne Danel Boseley born | Geraldine S Bashford born | Colin Swan marries Patricia Allam |
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BMC Mini car launched | Malcomb Joynson born | Kevin Clarke born |
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Russian Sputnik orbits carrying two live dogs | Colin Davis born | Maria Sophia Thornhill dies | Gregory Bashford born |
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Yuri Gagarin first man in space | Joan Holzman born | Valerie Davies born | Stacey Graham Bashford born |
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Cuba missile crisis | Clare Swan born |
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'Great Train Robbery' on Glasgow to London mail train | Stephanie Bashford born |
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First 'Top of the Pops' on BBC TV | Dean Raymond Atkin born | Tim Bartsch born |
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First astronauts 'walk' in space | Danielle Shirley Boseley born | Ruth Swan born |
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Donald Campbell killed on Coniston Water | Bruce Atkin marries Brenda Allam | Gregory William Boseley born |
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Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy both assassinated in USA | Virginia Atkin marries James Holzman |
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Maiden flight of Concorde | Winifred Allam dies | Percy John Bashford dies |
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Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister | Phillip Cutler born |
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Decimalisation of coinage in Britain | Peter Atkin born at Sidcup | Monique Holzman born | Joanne Elizabeth Longmate born |
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Duke of Windsor (ex-King Edward 8) dies in Paris | Heather Atkin born at Barnet | Mark Stewart born |
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Britain enters EEC Common Market | Judith Rosemary Maxwell dies | Betsy Lilley dies |
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President Nixon resigns over Watergate | Gary Raymond born | Emma Davis born | Benjamin Atkin dies |
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End of Vietnam war | Gary Douglas Little born | Reginald Davis dies |
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Concorde enters supersonic passenger service |
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Nathan Keeley born |
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Elvis Presley dies | Sarah Davis born | Lucy Davies born |
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Pope John Paul II elected – a Pole | Michael Moore born | Wendy Charlolle Longmate born | Lewis Keeley born |
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Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran | Sasha Holzman born | Craig Robert Little born |
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John Lennon assassinated in New York | Keith James Longmate born |
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First London marathon run | Tony LeSage born |
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Adrian Davis born |
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Argentina invades Falklands | Liam Cunniffe born | Graham Boseley born |
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Seat belt law comes into force | Thomas Cooper born | Jennifer Boseley born |
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IRA bomb explodes at Tory conference hotel in Brighton | Tyler Peck born | Krystal Atkin born |
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Chernobyl nuclear accident | Ester Doris Furber dies | Matthew Clarke born | Sarah Cooper born |
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'Hurricane' sweeps southern England | Billie Atkin born | Matasha Peck born | James Bashford born |
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Lockerbie disaster – Pan Am flight 103 | Lucy Joynson born |
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Berlin Wall torn down | Raymond Allam dies | Danel Clarke born | Alexander Bartsch born |
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Helen Sharman is first British Astronaut in Space | Emma Paddington born | Emma Joynson born | Scott Clack born |
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Coal industry privatised | Margaret Helena Swift dies | William Boseley dies |
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Ratification of Maastricht Treaty | Larissa Boseley born |
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Channel Tunnel open to traffic | Toni Clack born |
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Nick Leeson brings down Barings |
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Joseph Holzman dies | Glen Atkin born |
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BSE beef scare in UK | David Moore dies | Sean Atkin born | Brittany Boseley born |
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Diana, Princess of Wales killed in car crash in Paris | Brenna Boseley born | Mitchell Boseley born |
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Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland | Heather Atkin marries Phillip Cutler |
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World population reaches 6 billion | Norman Birch Davies dies |
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London Eye opens | Micheal Longmate dies |
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Queen Mother dies, aged 101 years | Conner Atkin-LeSage born | Madaline Raymond born | George Joseph Bashford born |
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Last commercial flight of Concorde | Jack Cutler born | Peter Atkin marries Jo Longmate |
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Winter Olympics open in Turin, Italy. | Robert Atkin dies |
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| 2007 | Bethany Grace Cutler born |
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| 2008 | Godfrey Swaby dies | Henry James Raymond born |
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