Timeline
1700 1800
1900
Saturday 10 June 1719 : Battle of Glen Shiel
Sunday 3 March 1720 : Christening date of [P215] George
MILNE
September 1720 : Collapse of the "South Sea Bubble"
Thursday 3 April 1721 : Robert Walpole appointed first Prime Minister
Sunday 11 October 1722 : Christening date of [P216] Jean
SMITH
1724 : First use of Portland cement
1725 : Invention of mine pump steam engine by Newcomen
Monday 25 June 1725 : Troops fire on tax rioters in Glasgow
1726 : Rob Roy MacGregor sent to Newgate prison
Monday 28 October 1726 : Jonathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels"
Sunday 22 June 1727 : End of reign of George I
Monday 23 June 1727 : Start of reign of George II
Tuesday 4 October 1729 : Christening date of [P224] Elizabeth
TOUGH
1733 : Flying shuttle loom invented by John Kay
Friday 7 September 1736 : Capt. Porteous lynched at the Tollbooth in Edinburgh
1738 : General Wade completes military road building in the Highlands
Friday 10 April 1739 : Dick Turpin hanged for murder
Wednesday 23 November 1740 : Marriage date of [F73] - [P221]
William DAVIDSON = [P222] Isobel MELDRUM
1741 : 13% of Ireland's population die in famine
Friday 18 January 1743 : Christening date of [P220] James
DAVIDSON
1745 : Jacquard draw-loom invented
Thursday 19 August 1745 : Start of Jacobite rebellion (the '45)
Thursday 19 August 1745 : Stuart standard raised at Glenfinnan
Tuesday 21 September 1745 : Battle of Prestonpans
Saturday 18 December 1745 : Battle of Clifton Moor
Monday 17 January 1746 : Battle of Falkirk
Saturday 16 April 1746 : End of Jacobite rebellion (the '45)
Saturday 16 April 1746 : Battle of Culloden - last true battle on British
soil
Monday 17 April 1747 : Parliament prohibits wearing of tartan
1749 : Bow Street Runners formed
Friday 21 August 1750 : Marriage date of [F69] - [P215]
George MILNE = [P216] Jean SMITH
Saturday 2 September 1752 : UK adopts Gregorian calendar - next day is 14
September
1754 : Royal and Ancient golf club founded
Wednesday 17 July 1754 : Christening date of [P213] William
MILNE
Tuesday 15 April 1755 : Dr Johnson publishes dictionary
1756 : Start of Seven Years' War
Sunday 20 June 1756 : 123 Britons die in the Black Hole of Calcutta
1757 : Clive defeats Bengalis - start of Empire in India
Wednesday 29 June 1757 : William Pitt becomes Prime Minister
Tuesday 22 May 1759 : Marriage date of [F74] - [P223]
William SHERIFFS = [P224] Elizabeth TOUGH
1760 : Turnpikes improve travelling by road
Saturday 25 October 1760 : End of reign of George II
Sunday 26 October 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 J Hargreaves
1767 : Construction of Edinburgh's New Town begins
Monday 5 June 1769 : Christening date of [P217] Alex
BENZIE
Sunday 6 May 1770 : Capt. Cook discovers Botany Bay
1774 : Isolation of oxygen by J Priestley
Saturday 26 February 1774 : Christening date of [P218]
Isobel DAVIDSON
Friday 24 April 1778 : John Paul Jones captures the Drake at Carrickfergus
1779 : Invention of spinning mule by Samuel Crompton
Sunday 2 July 1780 : "Gordon" riots in London
Monday 1 January 1781 : World's first iron bridge completed over the River
Severn
1782 : Invention of modern steam engine by James Watt
Monday 9 December 1782 : Death date of [P216] Jean SMITH
1783 : First flight of hot-air balloon by Montgolfier brothers
1783 : First steam powered ship built by d'Abbans
Tuesday 4 February 1783 : Parliament proclaims an end to hostilities in America
Wednesday 3 September 1783 : UK, France, Spain, the Netherlands and the US
sign the Treaty of Paris
Monday 2 August 1784 : First mail coach runs from Bristol to London
1785 : First power-driven loom invented by E Cartwright
1786 : Robert Burns publishes "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect"
1787 : Transportation of criminals to Botany Bay begins
Tuesday 28 April 1789 : Mutiny aboard HMS Bounty
1791 : The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain is founded
1793 : Invention of cotton gin by Eli Whitney
Friday 1 February 1793 : France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands
Thursday 2 January 1794 : Christening date of [P211]
John MILNE
1795 : Poor Law devised
1796 : Discovery of Smallpox vaccine by E Jenner
Tuesday 21 February 1797 : French landing in Wales repulsed at Fishguard
Saturday 15 April 1797 : First naval mutiny at Spithead
Friday 30 June 1797 : Second naval mutiny at the Nore
1798 : Typhus epidemic kills thousands
Sunday 29 April 1798 : Death date of [P215] George MILNE
Wednesday 9 January 1799 : Parliament passes the first income tax
Thursday 10 January 1799 : Marriage date of [F70] - [P217]
Alex BENZIE = [P218] Isobel DAVIDSON
1801 : Electric arc lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy
Monday 21 October 1805 : Nelson dies victorious at Trafalgar
Wednesday 17 December 1806 : Christening date of [P212]
Helen BENZIE
Sunday 21 August 1808 : Sir Arthur Wellesley leads campaign in Peninsular
War
Friday 28 July 1809 : French driven from Portugal
1811 : Luddites attack textile machinery
February 1811 : Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent due to King's insanity
1812 : French retreat from Moscow
Wednesday 12 August 1812 : Wellington takes Madrid
1815 : Humphry Davy invents mining safety lamp
Sunday 18 June 1815 : Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
1816 : Invention of bicycle by K D von Sauerbronn
1816 : Invention of phosphorous match by F Derosne
1817 : Christening date of [P225] John KEMP
1817 : Christening date of [P225] John KEMP
1817 : Potato famine kills thousands in Ireland
1818 : Mary Shelley publishes "Frankenstein"
1819 : Invention of stethoscope by R Laennec
1819 : MacAdam revolutionises road building
Tuesday 27 July 1819 : Marriage date of [F77] - [P228]
Alex ROBB = [P229] Elizabeth PATERSON
Sunday 15 August 1819 : Birth date of [P226] Janet ROBB
Saturday 29 January 1820 : End of reign of George III
Sunday 30 January 1820 : Start of reign of George IV
1822 : Invention of electric motor by Michael Faraday
Tuesday 27 September 1825 : First passenger train service from Stockton to
Darlington
Monday 30 January 1826 : Telford's Menai suspension bridge completed
1827 : G S Ohm postulates Ohm's Law
Tuesday 22 January 1828 : Wellington becomes Prime Minister
Saturday 2 February 1828 : Marriage date of [F67] - [P211]
John MILNE = [P212] Helen BENZIE
1829 : George Stephenson builds first steam locomotive
Wednesday 28 January 1829 : William Burke hanged for murder in Edinburgh
Saturday 26 September 1829 : First proper police force established in London
Saturday 26 June 1830 : End of reign of George IV
Sunday 27 June 1830 : Start of reign of William IV
Wednesday 15 September 1830 : Liverpool to Manchester railway opens
1831 : Invention of the friction match by C Sauria
1832 : M Faraday invents electric dynamo
June 1832 : Cholera epidemic strikes Britain
Thursday 7 June 1832 : Parliament passes Reform Act
Monday 29 July 1833 : Slavery abolished throughout British Empire
March 1834 : Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation
1835 : Samuel Colt invents the revolver
1836 : Charles Darwin returns from South America
1836 : Invention of screw propeller by F P Smith
1837 : Invention of telegraph by S F B Morse
Tuesday 20 June 1837 : End of reign of William IV
Wednesday 21 June 1837 : Start of reign of Queen Victoria
Monday 26 June 1837 : Christening date of [P195] George
MILNE
Thursday 21 December 1837 : Marriage date of [F75] - [P225]
John KEMP = [P226] Janet ROBB
April 1838 : First steam crossing of the Atlantic
September 1838 : Grace Darling rescues survivors of the "Forfarshire"
1839 : Rubber vulcanisation developed by C Goodyear
ABT 1840 : Development of photography
Wednesday 6 May 1840 : Penny Post introduced
Tuesday 2 June 1840 : Britain annexes New Zealand
Tuesday 6 July 1841 : First national census taken
September 1841 : Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
1842 : First use of ether as anesthetic by CW Long
Wednesday 8 February 1843 : Marriage date of [F76] - [P225]
John KEMP = [P227] Barbara SINGER
Sunday 31 December 1843 : Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol"
June 1844 : Mines Act prohibits use of women and boys in mines
1845 : Invention of pneumatic tyre by R W Thompson
July 1846 : Potato famine hits Ireland and Scotland
April 1847 : Thousands emigrate from Ireland on "Coffin" ships
November 1849 : Cholera epidemic takes 2000 lives a week
1850 : Invention of refrigerator by Twining / Harrison
Monday 31 March 1851 : 1851 national census taken
Thursday 1 May 1851 : Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park
ABT 1853 : Transportation of criminals to Australia ends
1853 : Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Britain and France declare war on Russia
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Start of Crimean War
1855 : Invention of the safety match by J E Lundstrom
Sunday 30 March 1856 : End of Crimean War
Sunday 10 May 1857 : Sepoy mutiny in India
1859 : First oil well sunk by E L Drake in Pennsylvania
Thursday 24 November 1859 : Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species"
Thursday 14 June 1860 : Birth date of [P197] Helen MILNE
1861 : Gatling gun invented by R J Gatling
Monday 8 April 1861 : 1861 national census taken
Friday 10 May 1861 : Death date of [P212] Helen BENZIE
Thursday 28 November 1861 : Marriage date of [F64] - [P195]
George MILNE = [P196] Eliza KEMP
Sunday 31 August 1862 : Birth date of [P32] James BAIN
Sunday 19 October 1862 : Birth date of [P198] John MILNE
Saturday 10 January 1863 : London Underground opens
Tuesday 13 January 1863 : Birth date of [P33] Jane GORDON
Thursday 21 December 1865 : Birth date of [P199] George
MILNE
ABT 1866 : Invention of the breech-loading rifle
1866 : Birth date of [P168] Irvine MCKAY
September 1866 : Cholera sweeps London
1867 : Invention of the typewriter by Sholes and Glidden
1867 : Joseph Lister pioneers antiseptic techniques
1867 : Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
Saturday 20 April 1867 : Birth date of [P200] William
MILNE
February 1868 : Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
1869 : D Mendeleev constructs Periodic Table of elements
Thursday 24 June 1869 : Birth date of [P169] Mary MILNE
1870 : Electric incandescent lamp invented by T A Edison
Monday 3 April 1871 : 1871 national census taken
Tuesday 24 October 1871 : Birth date of [P201] Alexander
MILNE
May 1872 : Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
December 1872 : "Marie Celeste" discovered abandoned
1873 : Invention of pianoforte by J Broadwood
Wednesday 4 March 1874 : Birth date of [P202] Eliza MILNE
1876 : Invention of the telephone by A G Bell
Friday 25 February 1876 : Birth date of [P203] James
MILNE
1877 : Phonograph invented by Thomas Edison
1877 : Invention of reinforced concrete by J Monier
Sunday 17 March 1878 : Death date of [P211] John MILNE
Wednesday 24 April 1878 : Birth date of [P204] Robert
MILNE
Sunday 28 December 1879 : Tay Bridge disaster
Tuesday 27 April 1880 : Birth date of [P205] Alice Jane
MILNE
Sunday 3 April 1881 : 1881 national census taken
1882 : Isolation of tuberculosis bacteria by R Koch
1883 : Cholera bacteria isolated by Robert Koch
Sunday 26 August 1883 : Krakatoa erupts
Monday 19 November 1883 : Birth date of [P206] Andrew
MILNE
1884 : Fountain pen invented by L E Waterman
1885 : First internal combustion carriage built by K. Benz
1885 : Vaccine against rabies discovered by Louis Pasteur
Monday 26 January 1885 : General Gordon killed at Khartoum
Tuesday 3 March 1885 : Marriage date of [F9] - [P32] James
BAIN = [P33] Jane GORDON
1887 : Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle
1888 : Invention of hand-held camera by George Eastman
October 1888 : Jack the Ripper terrorises London's East End
1889 : Birth date of [P170] Mary MCKAY
1889 : Invention of the bolt-action rifle by P von Mauser
Thursday 14 November 1889 : Completion of the Forth Bridge - first large
steel structure
Saturday 23 November 1889 : Marriage date of [F55] - [P168]
Irvine MCKAY = [P169] Mary MILNE
1890 : Birth date of [P193] Irvine MCKAY
1890 : Discovery of diphtheria vaccine by E von Behring
Thursday 30 January 1890 : Birth date of [P51] William
BAIN
EST 1891 : Birth date of [P53] Donald BAIN
1891 : Invention of the zip fastener by W L Judson
Wednesday 1 April 1891 : 1891 national census taken
EST 1893 : Birth date of [P34] James BAIN
1893 : Birth date of [P172] Helen MCKAY
1893 : Thomas Edison invents motion pictures
1894 : Tower Bridge opens in London
1895 : Wireless telegraphy invented by G Marconi
1895 : Birth date of [P173] George MCKAY
1895 : Discovery of x-rays by W K Roentgen
Sunday 14 July 1895 : Birth date of [P3] Robert Anderson
BAIN
1896 : Discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel
ABT 1896 : Birth date of [P35] Charles BAIN
Tuesday 3 November 1896 : Birth date of [P52] Magdalene
GEDDES
1897 : Birth date of [P174] Marion Meek HERSCHELL
Tuesday 22 June 1897 : Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
Thursday 2 June 1898 : Birth date of [P2] Alice Jane MCKAY
1899 : Invention of first tape recorder by V Poulsen
1899 : Introduction of aspirin by Felix Hoffman
October 1899 : Start of Boer War
1900 : Invention of rigid airship by von Zeppelin
1900 : Invention of agricultural tractor by B Holt
August 1900 : Boxer rebellion in Peking
1901 : Birth date of [P209] Ishbella E. MILNE
1901 : First successful safety razor sold by K Gillette
Tuesday 22 January 1901 : End of reign of Queen Victoria
Wednesday 23 January 1901 : Start of reign of Edward VII
ABT 1902 : Birth date of [P73] Alfred BAIN
Saturday 5 April 1902 : 20 killed as terracing collapses at Ibrox Park
Sunday 1 June 1902 : End of Boer War
1903 : Birth date of [P183] Douglas MCKAY
1904 : Birth date of [P187] Alice Alexrina McKay MILNE
1904 : Birth date of [P263] Sheila MILNE
1904 : Birth date of [P186] Richard MCKAY
EST 1905 : Birth date of [P76] Jean BAIN
Wednesday 4 October 1905 : Convicted Suffragettes choose to go to prison
EST 1906 : Birth date of [P63] Isabella BAIN
1906 : Wassermann test for syphilis developed
1906 : Birth date of [P264] Nora MILNE
1906 : Birth date of [P265] Alice MILNE
Monday 12 February 1906 : Birth date of [P208] (Son)
MILNE
Monday 12 February 1906 : Death date of [P207] Annie
GILMORE
Tuesday 13 February 1906 : Death date of [P208] (Son)
MILNE
1907 : Birth date of [P189] Violet Eliza MCKAY
1907 : Albert Einstein postulates "E=mc²" theory
Friday 24 January 1908 : Birth date of [P56] David BAIN
Wednesday 29 April 1908 : Birth date of [P57] Isabella
DUNCAN
1910 : Invention of first synthetic plastic, Bakelite
Friday 6 May 1910 : End of reign of Edward VII
Saturday 7 May 1910 : Start of reign of George V
Sunday 31 July 1910 : Radio used to arrest Dr Crippen fleeing to Quebec
1911 : E. Rutherford puts forward nuclear model of the atom
1911 : Birth date of [P74] Mary MORRISON
Tuesday 3 January 1911 : Three policemen die in the Seige of Sidney Street
Thursday 31 August 1911 : Troops clash with strikers in north of England
1912 : Birth date of [P190] Norman MCKAY
Monday 15 April 1912 : SS Titanic sinks with loss of 1513 lives
Monday 10 February 1913 : Capt. Scott found dead in Antartica
June 1913 : Suffragette dies under King's horse at Epsom
1914 : Invention of military tank by E Swinton
Sunday 28 June 1914 : Austrian Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
Tuesday 28 July 1914 : Start of World War I
Tuesday 28 July 1914 : Austria declares war on Serbia
Saturday 1 August 1914 : Germany declares war on Russia
August 1914 : Battle of Tannenberg
Monday 3 August 1914 : Germany declares war on France
Tuesday 4 August 1914 : Germany invades Belgium
Tuesday 4 August 1914 : Britain declares war on Germany
September 1914 : First Battle of the Marne
Sunday 4 October 1914 : First bombs fall on London
February 1915 : Start of German submarine blockade of Britain
Thursday 22 April 1915 : Germans first use of mustard gas at Ypres
Monday 26 April 1915 : British land in Turkey
Friday 7 May 1915 : SS Lusitania sunk by German submarine
Saturday 22 May 1915 : 200 soldiers killed in train crash at Quintinshill
Monday 6 September 1915 : Poland and Lithuania overrun by Germany
Thursday 14 October 1915 : Britain and France declare war on Bulgaria
Monday 20 December 1915 : British withdraw from Gallipoli
February 1916 : Battle of Verdun
Monday 24 April 1916 : 450 die in Easter Rising in Dublin
Wednesday 31 May 1916 : Battle of Jutland
Saturday 1 July 1916 : Start of Battle of the Somme
Sunday 27 August 1916 : Romaina declares war on Austria-Hungary
Friday 10 November 1916 : Death date of [P196] Eliza
KEMP
Wednesday 15 November 1916 : End of Battle of the Somme
Friday 6 April 1917 : USA declares war on Germany
October 1917 : Start of Battle of Caporetto
December 1917 : End of Battle of Caporetto
Friday 7 December 1917 : USA declares war on Austria-Hungary
Saturday 15 December 1917 : Russian Bolsheviks now allies with Germany
Saturday 15 December 1917 : Death date of [P168] Irvine
MCKAY
Thursday 21 March 1918 : Start of German offensive
Monday 1 April 1918 : Royal Air Force created
Saturday 18 May 1918 : Sinn Féin banned and leaders arrested
July 1918 : Second Battle of the Marne
Thursday 8 August 1918 : End of German offensive
Friday 4 October 1918 : Germany offers surrender
Monday 11 November 1918 : Hostilities cease on Western Front
Monday 11 November 1918 : End of World War I
Saturday 28 December 1918 : Women allowed to vote for the first time
March 1919 : Spanish flu kills 150,000 throughout Britian
Sunday 28 December 1919 : Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
Wednesday 17 March 1920 : Marriage date of [F1] - [P3] Robert
Anderson BAIN = [P2] Alice Jane MCKAY
Monday 18 October 1920 : State of emergency declared as miners strike
Sunday 21 November 1920 : "Bloody Sunday" - 12 Irish killed by the Black
and Tans
Tuesday 5 April 1921 : Birth date of [P6] Jean BAIN
Tuesday 6 December 1921 : Irish Free State created
1922 : Banting and MacLeod isolate human insulin
Friday 2 February 1923 : Birth date of [P4] James Irvine
BAIN
Wednesday 23 April 1924 : First royal transmission by wireless
Friday 25 December 1925 : Birth date of [P5] Norman Mckay
BAIN
1926 : Invention of the liquid-fuelled rocket by R Goddard
1926 : First demonstration of television by J L Baird
Monday 10 May 1926 : TUC calls first General Strike
Saturday 7 January 1928 : River Thames floods killing 14
Sunday 30 September 1928 : Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming
Wednesday 14 November 1928 : Death date of [P195] George
MILNE
Tuesday 18 December 1928 : Birth date of [P159] James
Christie LORNIE
1930 : Birth date of [P184] Mary MCKAY
EST 1930 : Birth date of [P37] Euphenia BAIN
1930 : Birth date of [P188] Alexander Irvine MCKAY
Saturday 24 May 1930 : Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia
Sunday 5 October 1930 : Airship R101 crashes in France killing 48
1931 : Birth date of [P185] Sandra MCKAY
1931 : Birth date of [P176] Angus Hoile MCKAY
1931 : Birth date of [P175] Ian MCKAY
Thursday 26 March 1931 : Birth date of [P38] Stanley BAIN
Tuesday 25 August 1931 : Birth date of [P160] Mary Helen
McKay BAIN
EST 1932 : Birth date of [P43] Sheila BAIN
Friday 12 February 1932 : Whipping of children under 14 is banned
Friday 30 September 1932 : Unemployment reaches 25%
1933 : Birth date of [P182] George MCKAY
EST 1933 : Birth date of [P46] Doris BAIN
1934 : Invention of first practical radar by Watson-Watt
1934 : Birth date of [P178] Moyra MCKAY
EST 1934 : Birth date of [P49] George BAIN
Friday 21 September 1934 : 262 killed in blast at Gresford colliery
EST 1935 : Birth date of [P48] Naomi BAIN
Monday 18 March 1935 : Thousands protest in Wales at "means test"
Friday 19 April 1935 : Death date of [P172] Helen MCKAY
1936 : Sir Frank Whittle invents the jet engine
1936 : Invention of helicopter by H Focke
Monday 20 January 1936 : End of reign of George V
Tuesday 21 January 1936 : Start of reign of Edward VIII
Wednesday 11 November 1936 : Jarrow Crusade reaches London
Thursday 10 December 1936 : Edward VIII abdicates
Thursday 10 December 1936 : End of reign of Edward VIII
Friday 11 December 1936 : Start of reign of George VI
Saturday 27 February 1937 : Marriage date of [F18] - [P56]
David BAIN = [P57] Isabella DUNCAN
Friday 28 May 1937 : Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister
1938 : Discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassmann
Monday 11 July 1938 : Last British troops leave Eire
Friday 25 August 1939 : IRA bomb Coventry killing 5
Friday 1 September 1939 : Germany invades Poland
September 1939 : Children evacuated from London and major cities
Sunday 3 September 1939 : Start of World War II
Sunday 3 September 1939 : Britain and France declare war on Germany
Sunday 17 December 1939 : the Graf Spee scuttled off Montevideo
Friday 10 May 1940 : Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
Friday 10 May 1940 : Churchill takes over as Prime Minister
Sunday 12 May 1940 : Germany invades France
Sunday 26 May 1940 : Allied evacuation from Dunkirk begins
Monday 10 June 1940 : Italy declares war on France and Britain
Monday 10 June 1940 : Italy invades France
Friday 14 June 1940 : Germans enter Paris unopposed
Saturday 22 June 1940 : France surrenders to Germany
Thursday 14 November 1940 : Coventry bombed
Thursday 17 April 1941 : Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany
Sunday 27 April 1941 : British leave Greece
Sunday 22 June 1941 : Germany attacks Russia
Thursday 14 August 1941 : Britain and USA sign Atlantic Charter
Sunday 7 December 1941 : Japan attack USA at Pearl Harbour
Thursday 11 December 1941 : Britain and USA declare war on Japan
Thursday 11 December 1941 : Germany and Italy declare war on USA
1942 : Burial date of [P3] Robert Anderson BAIN
1942 : Birth date of [P65] Jean MCLEAN
Sunday 15 February 1942 : British surrender Singapore to Japanese
Thursday 26 March 1942 : Death date of [P3] Robert Anderson
BAIN
Thursday 9 April 1942 : USA surrenders Bataan peninsula to Japanese
Wednesday 6 May 1942 : USA surrenders Corregidor Island to Japanese
Wednesday 10 June 1942 : Lidice, Czechoslovakia razed by Germans
Sunday 8 November 1942 : British and US troops land in North Africa
Thursday 14 January 1943 : Casablanca conference
Monday 1 February 1943 : Germans surrender at Stalingrad
Wednesday 12 May 1943 : Birth date of [P58] Isobel BAIN
Wednesday 12 May 1943 : War in Africa ends
Sunday 25 July 1943 : Mussolini deposed
Friday 3 September 1943 : Allies land in Italy
Wednesday 8 September 1943 : Italy surrenders
Friday 10 September 1943 : Germans take Rome
Monday 22 November 1943 : Cairo conference
Sunday 28 November 1943 : Teheran Conference
Saturday 22 January 1944 : British and US troops land at Anzio
Sunday 4 June 1944 : British and US troops enter Rome
Friday 25 August 1944 : Paris liberated
Friday 13 October 1944 : Athens liberated
Friday 20 October 1944 : USA invades Philippines
Saturday 16 December 1944 : Battle of the Bulge
Sunday 11 February 1945 : Yalta agreement
Saturday 28 April 1945 : Mussolini killed at Lake Como
Tuesday 1 May 1945 : Hitler's suicide announced
Wednesday 2 May 1945 : Berlin falls
Monday 7 May 1945 : VE Day. Germany surrenders
Tuesday 17 July 1945 : Potsdam conference
Monday 6 August 1945 : USA drops atom bomb on Hiroshima
Wednesday 8 August 1945 : USSR declares war on Japan
Thursday 9 August 1945 : USA drops atom bomb on Nagasaki
Tuesday 14 August 1945 : Japan surrenders
Sunday 2 September 1945 : VJ Day. Japanese sign surrender aboard USS Missouri
Sunday 2 September 1945 : End of World War II
February 1946 : 50,000 "GI brides" shipped out to the USA
December 1946 : Fuel and food shortages continue
Thursday 20 November 1947 : Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh
Thursday 1 January 1948 : Railways nationalised
Monday 28 June 1948 : Troops break dockers' strike
Saturday 24 July 1948 : Death date of [P169] Mary MILNE
December 1948 : Labour government constructs "Welfare State"
Sunday 20 February 1949 : Death date of [P201] Alexander
MILNE
Tuesday 15 March 1949 : Clothes rationing ends
Monday 18 April 1949 : Eire becomes Republic of Ireland
ABT 1950 : Albert Einstein puts forward theories of relativity
1950 : Birth date of [P86] Irene LITTLE
Wednesday 28 June 1950 : Royal Navy enters Korean War
Wednesday 20 September 1950 : Death date of [P51] William
BAIN
Monday 25 December 1950 : Stone of Destiny taken from Westminster Abbey
1951 : Birth date of [P89] Joan LITTLE
1951 : Marriage date of [F33] - [P102] Peter COLLIE
= [P101] Helen LITTLE
Friday 19 January 1951 : Marriage date of [F3] - [P5] Norman
Mckay BAIN = [P8] Mary DONALD
Thursday 7 June 1951 : Birth date of [P11] Norma Jaffrey
BAIN
Thursday 7 June 1951 : Soviet spies Burgess and MacLean disappear
1952 : Birth date of [P90] Anne LITTLE
1952 : Birth date of [P105] Malcolm COLLIE
Wednesday 6 February 1952 : End of reign of George VI
Thursday 7 February 1952 : Start of reign of Elizabeth II
Monday 24 November 1952 : "Mousetrap" opens in London
Thursday 11 December 1952 : Derek Bentley sentenced to hang
1953 : Discovery of measles vaccine by Enders and Peebles
1953 : Birth date of [P93] Ian LITTLE
1953 : Birth date of [P103] Graham COLLIE
1953 : Birth date of [P104] Douglas COLLIE
Saturday 31 January 1953 : Ferry Princess Victoria sinks in the Irish Sea
Tuesday 3 February 1953 : Hundreds die as East Coast is flooded
Saturday 30 May 1953 : Edmund Hillary reaches the top of Mount Everest
Monday 9 November 1953 : Death date of [P193] Irvine
MCKAY
1954 : Discovery of first polio vaccine by J E Salk
May 1954 : "Teddy Boys" appear
Saturday 3 July 1954 : Rationing ends
Sunday 9 January 1955 : Birth date of [P9] Neil James BAIN
Wednesday 13 July 1955 : Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged
Wednesday 8 August 1956 : Birth date of [P10] Robert BAIN
Wednesday 31 October 1956 : Britain invades Suez
Friday 18 January 1957 : Death date of [P52] Magdalene
GEDDES
Thursday 17 October 1957 : Air borne radiation leaks from Windscale nuclear
plant
November 1957 : First motorway in Britain, M1 opens
1958 : Marriage date of [F11] - [P38] Stanley BAIN
= [P39] Irene MORRISON
1958 : Birth date of [P245] Doreen BARR
1958 : Marriage date of [F21] - [P66] William BAIN
= [P65] Jean MCLEAN
Thursday 6 February 1958 : 7 members of Manchester United die in plane crash
Saturday 27 December 1958 : Marriage date of [F53] - [P159]
James Christie LORNIE = [P160] Mary Helen McKay BAIN
1959 : Birth date of [P180] Scott CORSAR
1959 : Birth date of [P246] Patricia BARR
Wednesday 20 May 1959 : Birth date of [P164] Kay Bruce
RITCHIE
Tuesday 10 November 1959 : Birth date of [P161] Maureen
Jane LORNIE
EST 1960 : Birth date of [P40] Simon BAIN
1960 : Birth date of [P181] Angus CORSAR
Saturday 31 December 1960 : National Service abolished
EST 1961 : Birth date of [P41] Alison BAIN
Thursday 6 July 1961 : Death date of [P188] Alexander
Irvine MCKAY
Saturday 14 October 1961 : Death date of [P173] George
MCKAY
1962 : Marriage date of [F4] - [P12] Geoffrey PEPPIETTE
= [P7] Alma BAIN
EST 1962 : Birth date of [P42] Catherine BAIN
1962 : Birth date of [P67] Heather BAIN
Tuesday 29 May 1962 : Birth date of [P239] Zelie Elizabeth
Neve APPLETON
Sunday 2 September 1962 : Christening date of [P239]
Zelie Elizabeth Neve APPLETON
Saturday 1 December 1962 : Birth date of [P13] Richard
Christopher Paul PEPPIETTE
1963 : Birth date of [P68] Douglas BAIN
Thursday 3 January 1963 : Birth date of [P162] Karen
Norma LORNIE
Sunday 20 January 1963 : Death date of [P162] Karen Norma
LORNIE
Friday 8 March 1963 : Death date of [P238] Andrew MCKAY
Wednesday 27 March 1963 : Dr Beeching proposes cutting 25% of rail lines
Wednesday 5 June 1963 : John Profumo resigns after sex scandal
Monday 4 November 1963 : The Beatles appear in the Royal Variety Show
Wednesday 15 January 1964 : Birth date of [P22] Hilary
Louise MOTTASHAW
Friday 21 February 1964 : Birth date of [P14] Roger Charles
PEPPIETTE
Tuesday 1 December 1964 : Birth date of [P236] Peter
LEDINGHAM
Monday 21 December 1964 : Death penalty abolished in Britain
Wednesday 6 January 1965 : Death date of [P189] Violet
Eliza MCKAY
Wednesday 16 June 1965 : Death date of [P176] Angus Hoile
MCKAY
Thursday 28 October 1965 : Brady and Hindley charged with Moors Murders
Friday 18 February 1966 : Birth date of [P163] Graeme
Charles Richard LORNIE
Friday 21 October 1966 : 144 die in Aberfan as coal bing buries school
1967 : Emergence of Flower Power
Wednesday 5 March 1969 : London gangsters the Kray twins sentenced to life
Monday 5 May 1969 : Death date of [P5] Norman Mckay BAIN
Thursday 27 November 1969 : Death date of [P187] Alice
Alexrina McKay MILNE
1970 : Birth date of [P71] Isabel SHANNON
Thursday 10 December 1970 : Birth date of [P15] Rebecca
PEPPIETTE
1971 : Birth date of [P72] Elaine SHANNON
Saturday 2 January 1971 : 66 die when barriers collapse at Ibrox Park
Monday 15 February 1971 : British currency goes decimal
Monday 20 September 1971 : Death date of [P186] Richard
MCKAY
Tuesday 30 November 1971 : Death date of [P73] Alfred BAIN
Saturday 22 January 1972 : Britain joins the EEC
Sunday 30 January 1972 : 13 shot in another Bloody Sunday in Derry
February 1972 : Miners strike leads to power cuts
Thursday 8 March 1973 : IRA begins mainland bombing
Monday 17 December 1973 : Three day week introduced
Saturday 21 September 1974 : Marriage date of [F5] - [P16]
William Logie GRAY = [P11] Norma Jaffrey BAIN
Tuesday 12 November 1974 : Lord Lucan escapes and disappears
Saturday 22 February 1975 : Birth date of [P17] Alan Norman
GRAY
Friday 11 July 1975 : Inflation reaches 25%
Saturday 31 July 1976 : Marriage date of [F7] - [P9] Neil
James BAIN = [P20] Evelyn FORSYTH
August 1976 : Drought causes water shortages
Saturday 2 April 1977 : Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time
May 1977 : Birth date of [P18] Christine GRAY
Wednesday 26 July 1978 : Marriage date of [F6] - [P10]
Robert BAIN = [P19] Lynne YULE
Wednesday 13 December 1978 : Jeremy Thorpe, MP charged with incitement to
murder
January 1979 : "Winter of Discontent" causes chaos
Saturday 27 January 1979 : Death date of [P174] Marion
Meek HERSCHELL
Thursday 12 April 1979 : Death date of [P177] Kathleen
GRAHAM
Friday 4 May 1979 : Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister
Monday 18 June 1979 : Birth date of [P21] Karen BAIN
Sunday 2 September 1979 : Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim
Monday 5 May 1980 : SAS storms Iranian embassy in London
ABT February 1981 : Birth date of [P30] Robert BAIN
Thursday 16 April 1981 : Death date of [P209] Ishbella
E. MILNE
July 1981 : Riots break out in 8 inner city areas
1982 : Burial date of [P2] Alice Jane MCKAY
Friday 2 April 1982 : Argentina invades Falkland Islands
Friday 28 May 1982 : Birth date of [P27] Neil James BAIN
Monday 14 June 1982 : British troops regain control of Falklands
Saturday 21 August 1982 : Death date of [P2] Alice Jane
MCKAY
Saturday 4 December 1982 : Birth date of [P29] Norma BAIN
Sunday 25 September 1983 : 134 IRA prisoners escape from the Maze prison
May 1984 : Coal strikes crushed by riot police
Friday 12 October 1984 : IRA bombs Tory conference in Brighton
Saturday 11 May 1985 : 40 killed as fire destroys Bradford City stand
1986 : Burial date of [P56] David BAIN
Saturday 29 March 1986 : Death date of [P56] David BAIN
Thursday 8 May 1986 : Birth date of [P28] Laura Jayne BAIN
Wednesday 22 April 1987 : Marriage date of [F54] - [P163]
Graeme Charles Richard LORNIE = [P164] Kay Bruce
RITCHIE
Saturday 16 May 1987 : Death date of [P36] Euphenia
Saturday 6 June 1987 : Marriage date of [F8] - [P14] Roger
Charles PEPPIETTE = [P22] Hilary Louise MOTTASHAW
Friday 16 October 1987 : Hurricane hits southern England
ABT November 1987 : Burial date of [P4] James Irvine BAIN
Sunday 8 November 1987 : Death date of [P4] James Irvine
BAIN
Wednesday 18 November 1987 : 30 die in King's Cross Underground fire
Monday 14 March 1988 : Death date of [P74] Mary MORRISON
Wednesday 6 July 1988 : North sea oil rig Piper Alpha explodes
Thursday 22 December 1988 : Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Lockerbie killing
270
Saturday 15 April 1989 : 94 football fans crushed to death at Hillsborough
September 1989 : Thousands of Scots elect not to pay new Poll Tax
Thursday 19 October 1989 : "Guildford Four" released from prison
Sunday 27 May 1990 : Birth date of [P23] Jack Michael PEPPIETTE
Thursday 23 August 1990 : British and US troop build-up in Persian Gulf
Thursday 17 January 1991 : Operation "Desert Storm" defeats Iraq
Thursday 7 February 1991 : Downing Street hit by IRA mortar bomb
Wednesday 20 February 1991 : Birth date of [P165] Megan
Louise LORNIE
Thursday 14 March 1991 : "Birmingham Six" released from prison
Saturday 28 March 1992 : Birth date of [P24] Andrew James
PEPPIETTE
Tuesday 29 November 1994 : Birth date of [P25] Samuel Keith
PEPPIETTE
September 1995 : Britain hit by worst drought for over 250 years
February 1996 : Major oil spill from "Sea Empress" at Milford Haven
ABT June 1996 : Burial date of [P38] Stanley BAIN
Monday 3 June 1996 : Death date of [P38] Stanley BAIN
Saturday 8 June 1996 : Birth date of [P26] Rosanna Kristen
PEPPIETTE
Saturday 10 May 1997 : Birth date of [P166] Richard John
LORNIE
Saturday 30 August 1997 : Marriage date of [F37] - [P13]
Richard Christopher Paul PEPPIETTE = [P239] Zelie
Elizabeth Neve APPLETON
Sunday 31 August 1997 : Princess Diana dies after car crash in Paris
Sunday 27 June 1999 : Birth date of [P385] Keziah Lindsay
Rachel PEPPIETTE
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