Timeline
1700 1800 1900
Monday 25 May 1750 : Marriage date of [F102] - [P295] Patrick LORNEY = [P296] Helen SHARP
Thursday 20 May 1751 : Christening date of [P297] John LORNEY
Saturday 2 September 1752 : UK adopts Gregorian calendar - next day is 14 September
ABT 1754 : Death date of [P297] John LORNEY
1754 : Royal and Ancient golf club founded
Tuesday 15 April 1755 : Dr Johnson publishes dictionary
Sunday 9 November 1755 : Christening date of [P298] John LORNEY
1756 : Start of Seven Years' War
Saturday 27 March 1756 : Christening date of [P299] Margaret LORNEY
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
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
Sunday 2 November 1760 : Christening date of [P300] Andrew LORNEY
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
EST 1770 : Birth date of [P364] Janet GUTHERIE
Sunday 6 May 1770 : Capt. Cook discovers Botany Bay
1774 : Isolation of oxygen by J Priestley
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
Wednesday 10 July 1782 : Marriage date of [F103] - [P300] Andrew LORNEY = [P301] Elspeth LYALL
1783 : First steam powered ship built by d'Abbans
1783 : First flight of hot-air balloon by Montgolfier brothers
EST 1783 : Birth date of [P303] Elizabeth PRATT
Tuesday 4 February 1783 : Parliament proclaims an end to hostilities in America
Sunday 1 June 1783 : Christening date of [P302] John LORNIE
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
Sunday 6 February 1785 : Christening date of [P304] Helen LORNIE
1786 : Robert Burns publishes "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect"
1787 : Transportation of criminals to Botany Bay begins
Wednesday 17 December 1788 : Birth date of [P375] Andrew LORNIE
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
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
Wednesday 9 January 1799 : Parliament passes the first income tax
1801 : Electric arc lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy
Monday 21 October 1805 : Nelson dies victorious at Trafalgar
Saturday 21 February 1807 : Birth date of [P306] Andrew LORNIE
Sunday 21 August 1808 : Sir Arthur Wellesley leads campaign in Peninsular War
ABT 1809 : Christening date of [P309] Alison LORNIE
Thursday 29 June 1809 : Marriage date of [F129] - [P375] Andrew LORNIE = [P376] Helen PATTON
Friday 28 July 1809 : French driven from Portugal
Sunday 1 July 1810 : Christening date of [P381] William LORNIE
1811 : Luddites attack textile machinery
ABT 1811 : Birth date of [P311] Elisabeth LORNIE
February 1811 : Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent due to King's insanity
1812 : French retreat from Moscow
Monday 23 March 1812 : Birth date of [P368] James LORNIE
Wednesday 12 August 1812 : Wellington takes Madrid
EST 1813 : Birth date of [P307] Agnes GUTHRIE
Monday 25 October 1813 : Birth date of [P313] Margaret LORNIE
Monday 21 February 1814 : Birth date of [P379] John LORNIE
1815 : Humphry Davy invents mining safety lamp
Sunday 18 June 1815 : Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
Saturday 18 November 1815 : Birth date of [P315] John LORNIE
1816 : Invention of phosphorous match by F Derosne
1816 : Invention of bicycle by K D von Sauerbronn
Saturday 3 February 1816 : Birth date of [P378] Helen Brown LORNIE
1817 : Potato famine kills thousands in Ireland
ABT 1818 : Birth date of [P318] Agnes ARNOT
1818 : Mary Shelley publishes "Frankenstein"
AFT Thursday 1 January 1818 : Birth date of [P389] Helen PRATT
Saturday 10 October 1818 : Birth date of [P317] David LORNIE
Tuesday 10 November 1818 : Christening date of [P317] David LORNIE
1819 : Invention of stethoscope by R Laennec
1819 : MacAdam revolutionises road building
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
Friday 21 March 1823 : Birth date of [P382] Alexander LORNIE
Tuesday 27 September 1825 : First passenger train service from Stockton to Darlington
EST 1826 : Birth date of [P308] Margaret GRINTON
Monday 30 January 1826 : Telford's Menai suspension bridge completed
Monday 20 November 1826 : Birth date of [P380] Thomas LORNIE
Monday 20 November 1826 : Birth date of [P377] David LORNIE
1827 : G S Ohm postulates Ohm's Law
AFT Monday 1 January 1827 : Birth date of [P437] Catherine CAMPSIE
Tuesday 22 January 1828 : Wellington becomes Prime Minister
Saturday 20 December 1828 : Marriage date of [F107] - [P310] George PHILIP = [P309] Alison LORNIE
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
Saturday 6 July 1833 : Marriage date of [F109] - [P314] William SIEVEWRIGHT = [P313] Margaret LORNIE
Monday 29 July 1833 : Slavery abolished throughout British Empire
Friday 13 September 1833 : Death date of [P368] James LORNIE
ABT 1834 : Death date of [P375] Andrew LORNIE
March 1834 : Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation
1835 : Samuel Colt invents the revolver
1836 : Invention of screw propeller by F P Smith
1836 : Charles Darwin returns from South America
Friday 10 June 1836 : Marriage date of [F96] - [P273] Robert IMRIE = [P274] Jean SOUTAR
Monday 19 December 1836 : Marriage date of [F108] - [P312] John GREIG = [P311] Elisabeth LORNIE
1837 : Invention of telegraph by S F B Morse
Monday 27 February 1837 : Birth date of [P146] James LORNIE
Tuesday 20 June 1837 : End of reign of William IV
Wednesday 21 June 1837 : Start of reign of Queen Victoria
Thursday 22 June 1837 : Marriage date of [F111] - [P317] David LORNIE = [P318] Agnes ARNOT
ABT 1838 : Birth date of [P330] Ebenezer James Erskine Wemyss BOON
Sunday 21 January 1838 : Birth date of [P147] Elizabeth Blackburn IMRIE
April 1838 : First steam crossing of the Atlantic
Wednesday 20 June 1838 : Birth date of [P329] Margaret LORNIE
September 1838 : Grace Darling rescues survivors of the "Forfarshire"
1839 : Rubber vulcanisation developed by C Goodyear
Friday 8 March 1839 : Birth date of [P294] William LORNIE
ABT 1840 : Development of photography
EST January 1840 : Birth date of [P331] John LORNIE
Wednesday 6 May 1840 : Penny Post introduced
Tuesday 2 June 1840 : Britain annexes New Zealand
Monday 31 August 1840 : Birth date of [P293] Helen LORNIE
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
Thursday 13 January 1842 : Birth date of [P332] David LORNIE
Sunday 6 November 1842 : Death date of [P331] John LORNIE
AFT Sunday 1 January 1843 : Birth date of [P401] Margaret SMALL
Wednesday 8 March 1843 : Birth date of [P291] Andrew LORNIE
Sunday 31 December 1843 : Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol"
Monday 1 January 1844 : Birth date of [P344] Andrew LORNIE
ABT 1844 : Birth date of [P345] Thomas LORNIE
June 1844 : Mines Act prohibits use of women and boys in mines
Tuesday 18 June 1844 : Marriage date of [F105] - [P306] Andrew LORNIE = [P307] Agnes GUTHRIE
1845 : Invention of pneumatic tyre by R W Thompson
ABT 1845 : Birth date of [P383] John LORNIE
Tuesday 29 April 1845 : Birth date of [P319] John Guthrie LORNIE
Sunday 8 June 1845 : Christening date of [P319] John Guthrie LORNIE
ABT June 1846 : Birth date of [P346] Henry LORNIE
Monday 22 June 1846 : Birth date of [P320] Janet LORNIE
July 1846 : Potato famine hits Ireland and Scotland
Sunday 30 August 1846 : Christening date of [P320] Janet LORNIE
Monday 4 January 1847 : Marriage date of [F110] - [P315] John LORNIE = [P316] Elizabeth MORTON
April 1847 : Thousands emigrate from Ireland on "Coffin" ships
Friday 15 October 1847 : Birth date of [P347] Eliza Pratt LORNIE
ABT 1848 : Death date of [P383] John LORNIE
Saturday 8 January 1848 : Death date of [P346] Henry LORNIE
Wednesday 2 February 1848 : Birth date of [P325] Betsy Morton LORNIE
Saturday 1 July 1848 : Birth date of [P292] Ann LORNIE
Thursday 3 May 1849 : Birth date of [P322] Elizabeth LORNIE
Monday 18 June 1849 : Christening date of [P322] Elizabeth LORNIE
ABT July 1849 : Birth date of [P349] Agnes LORNIE
November 1849 : Cholera epidemic takes 2000 lives a week
1850 : Invention of refrigerator by Twining / Harrison
Monday 5 August 1850 : Birth date of [P327] John LORNIE
Tuesday 8 October 1850 : Death date of [P349] Agnes LORNIE
Thursday 16 January 1851 : Birth date of [P350] George LORNIE
Saturday 15 February 1851 : Death date of [P322] Elizabeth LORNIE
Friday 28 March 1851 : Birth date of [P323] Agnes Guthrie LORNIE
Monday 31 March 1851 : 1851 national census taken
Thursday 3 April 1851 : Death date of [P307] Agnes GUTHRIE
Tuesday 15 April 1851 : Christening date of [P323] Agnes Guthrie LORNIE
Thursday 1 May 1851 : Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park
Monday 8 November 1852 : Birth date of [P353] Jane LORNIE
1853 : Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory
ABT 1853 : Transportation of criminals to Australia ends
Thursday 21 April 1853 : Birth date of [P328] Henry Morton LORNIE
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Britain and France declare war on Russia
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Start of Crimean War
Saturday 15 April 1854 : Birth date of [P355] Alice LORNIE
1855 : Invention of the safety match by J E Lundstrom
Friday 22 June 1855 : Marriage date of [F131] - [P380] Thomas LORNIE = [P389] Helen PRATT
Friday 3 August 1855 : Death date of [P311] Elisabeth LORNIE
Sunday 2 March 1856 : Birth date of [P357] Joanna LORNIE
Sunday 30 March 1856 : End of Crimean War
Sunday 20 July 1856 : Birth date of [P391] Andrew LORNIE
EST 1857 : Birth date of [P360] Geddes LORNIE
Sunday 10 May 1857 : Sepoy mutiny in India
Wednesday 7 July 1858 : Marriage date of [F106] - [P306] Andrew LORNIE = [P308] Margaret GRINTON
Thursday 30 September 1858 : Birth date of [P392] Eliza Robertson LORNIE
1859 : First oil well sunk by E L Drake in Pennsylvania
Saturday 22 January 1859 : Death date of [P303] Elizabeth PRATT
Friday 8 July 1859 : Marriage date of [F52] - [P146] James LORNIE = [P147] Elizabeth Blackburn IMRIE
Thursday 24 November 1859 : Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species"
Thursday 29 December 1859 : Birth date of [P148] Elizabeth LORNIE
Friday 20 April 1860 : Birth date of [P362] Agnes Geddes LORNIE
Saturday 15 December 1860 : Birth date of [P390] Alexander LORNIE
1861 : Gatling gun invented by R J Gatling
Sunday 3 March 1861 : Death date of [P302] John LORNIE
Monday 8 April 1861 : 1861 national census taken
Thursday 13 June 1861 : Birth date of [P149] William LORNIE
Wednesday 31 December 1862 : Marriage date of [F115] - [P330] Ebenezer James Erskine Wemyss BOON = [P329] Margaret LORNIE
Saturday 10 January 1863 : London Underground opens
Monday 23 February 1863 : Birth date of [P150] Andrew LORNIE
Monday 11 January 1864 : Marriage date of [F116] - [P332] David LORNIE = [P333] Margaret ANDREW
Tuesday 19 January 1864 : Birth date of [P126] Helen LOUDFOOT
Monday 21 March 1864 : Birth date of [P275] Elizabeth CRAIGMILE
Sunday 27 March 1864 : Birth date of [P334] Margaret Lindsey LORNIE
Friday 22 July 1864 : Marriage date of [F146] - [P377] David LORNIE = [P437] Catherine CAMPSIE
Thursday 3 November 1864 : Birth date of [P151] Robert Imrie LORNIE
Thursday 3 November 1864 : Birth date of [P125] James Christie LORNIE
Tuesday 21 March 1865 : Birth date of [P335] Agnes Geddes LORNIE
ABT 1866 : Invention of the breech-loading rifle
Thursday 29 March 1866 : Birth date of [P438] David LORNIE
Tuesday 12 June 1866 : Birth date of [P336] Elizabeth Clark LORNIE
Tuesday 12 June 1866 : Birth date of [P337] Divina LORNIE
Wednesday 13 June 1866 : Birth date of [P152] David Christie LORNIE
September 1866 : Cholera sweeps London
Tuesday 30 October 1866 : Death date of [P389] Helen PRATT
1867 : Joseph Lister pioneers antiseptic techniques
1867 : Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1867 : Invention of the typewriter by Sholes and Glidden
Tuesday 21 May 1867 : Birth date of [P338] David LORNIE
AFT Wednesday 1 January 1868 : Birth date of [P410] Georgina LIVINGSTON
February 1868 : Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
Tuesday 16 June 1868 : Birth date of [P439] James LORNIE
Sunday 2 August 1868 : Birth date of [P339] Andrew LORNIE
Sunday 20 September 1868 : Birth date of [P153] John LORNIE
1869 : D Mendeleev constructs Periodic Table of elements
1870 : Electric incandescent lamp invented by T A Edison
Friday 16 September 1870 : Birth date of [P340] Alice Jane LORNIE
Saturday 29 October 1870 : Birth date of [P154] Charles Stuart Parker LORNIE
Friday 27 January 1871 : Death date of [P344] Andrew LORNIE
Monday 3 April 1871 : 1871 national census taken
Thursday 1 June 1871 : Death date of [P151] Robert Imrie LORNIE
AFT Monday 1 January 1872 : Birth date of [P440] Annie BLAIR
Sunday 17 March 1872 : Birth date of [P342] George Oliphant Andrew LORNIE
May 1872 : Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
Monday 29 July 1872 : Birth date of [P155] Gabriel Soutar LORNIE
Friday 9 August 1872 : Marriage date of [F114] - [P326] William David CRAIKE = [P325] Betsy Morton LORNIE
December 1872 : "Marie Celeste" discovered abandoned
1873 : Invention of pianoforte by J Broadwood
AFT Wednesday 1 January 1873 : Birth date of [P404] James McDONALD
Thursday 18 September 1873 : Marriage date of [F121] - [P354] James W. AIKIN = [P353] Jane LORNIE
Tuesday 19 May 1874 : Birth date of [P343] Janet Andrews LORNIE
Saturday 24 October 1874 : Birth date of [P156] Jane Ann LORNIE
Tuesday 5 October 1875 : Death date of [P318] Agnes ARNOT
Saturday 16 October 1875 : Death date of [P146] James LORNIE
1876 : Invention of the telephone by A G Bell
Friday 21 April 1876 : Birth date of [P157] Jemina LORNIE
1877 : Phonograph invented by Thomas Edison
1877 : Invention of reinforced concrete by J Monier
Tuesday 28 August 1877 : Death date of [P347] Eliza Pratt LORNIE
Friday 8 November 1878 : Death date of [P438] David LORNIE
Saturday 12 April 1879 : Death date of [P157] Jemina LORNIE
Sunday 28 December 1879 : Tay Bridge disaster
AFT Thursday 1 January 1880 : Birth date of [P403] Ellen L. CAMERON
AFT Thursday 1 January 1880 : Marriage date of [F132] - [P391] Andrew LORNIE = [P393] Jane PARIS
Sunday 3 April 1881 : 1881 national census taken
1882 : Isolation of tuberculosis bacteria by R Koch
Saturday 2 December 1882 : Birth date of [P397] John Paris LORNIE
1883 : Cholera bacteria isolated by Robert Koch
Monday 23 April 1883 : Birth date of [P427] James LORNIE
Sunday 26 August 1883 : Krakatoa erupts
1884 : Fountain pen invented by L E Waterman
Saturday 8 March 1884 : Death date of [P306] Andrew LORNIE
1885 : Vaccine against rabies discovered by Louis Pasteur
1885 : First internal combustion carriage built by K. Benz
Monday 26 January 1885 : General Gordon killed at Khartoum
Friday 11 June 1886 : Marriage date of [F97] - [P150] Andrew LORNIE = [P275] Elizabeth CRAIGMILE
1887 : Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle
ABT Friday 11 February 1887 : Birth date of [P399] Mary Murray LORNIE
1888 : Invention of hand-held camera by George Eastman
Monday 4 June 1888 : Birth date of [P395] Andrew LORNIE
Wednesday 19 September 1888 : Birth date of [P414] James LORNIE
October 1888 : Jack the Ripper terrorises London's East End
1889 : Invention of the bolt-action rifle by P von Mauser
1889 : Marriage date of [F150] - [P152] David Christie LORNIE = [P446] Catherine ROBERTSON
ABT Monday 25 February 1889 : Birth date of [P394] Alexander Pratt LORNIE
Thursday 14 November 1889 : Completion of the Forth Bridge - first large steel structure
1890 : Discovery of diphtheria vaccine by E von Behring
Tuesday 16 September 1890 : Marriage date of [F44] - [P125] James Christie LORNIE = [P126] Helen LOUDFOOT
1891 : Invention of the zip fastener by W L Judson
ABT 1891 : Death date of [P327] John LORNIE
AFT 1891 : Death date of [P316] Elizabeth MORTON
Friday 20 February 1891 : Death date of [P315] John LORNIE
Wednesday 1 April 1891 : 1891 national census taken
Tuesday 16 February 1892 : Birth date of [P441] Mary Mitchell ROBERTSON
1893 : Thomas Edison invents motion pictures
Sunday 22 January 1893 : Death date of [P328] Henry Morton LORNIE
Thursday 23 February 1893 : Death date of [P291] Andrew LORNIE
Wednesday 29 March 1893 : Birth date of [P137] James SMALL
1894 : Tower Bridge opens in London
ABT 1894 : Birth date of [P384] Alexander LORNIE
Sunday 2 December 1894 : Death date of [P380] Thomas LORNIE
1895 : Wireless telegraphy invented by G Marconi
1895 : Discovery of x-rays by W K Roentgen
1895 : Birth date of [P447] George Paris LORNIE
1896 : Discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel
AFT 1896 : Death date of [P324] Ninian Lockhart HERRIOT
Friday 10 January 1896 : Birth date of [P136] Jessie LORNIE
Wednesday 15 January 1896 : Death date of [P317] David LORNIE
Thursday 24 September 1896 : Death date of [P437] Catherine CAMPSIE
Monday 14 December 1896 : Death date of [P323] Agnes Guthrie LORNIE
AFT Friday 1 January 1897 : Birth date of [P413] Eva
AFT Friday 1 January 1897 : Birth date of [P412] David LORNIE
Tuesday 22 June 1897 : Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
Friday 5 November 1897 : Birth date of [P398] William Murray LORNIE
Friday 4 March 1898 : Birth date of [P115] Charles Cargill LORNIE
1899 : Introduction of aspirin by Felix Hoffman
1899 : Invention of first tape recorder by V Poulsen
AFT Sunday 1 January 1899 : Birth date of [P425] Mary Livingston LORNIE
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
Monday 13 August 1900 : Birth date of [P145] Elizabeth Blackburn Imrie LORNIE
Saturday 1 December 1900 : Birth date of [P396] Arthur LORNIE
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
Monday 6 January 1902 : Birth date of [P400] Robertson LORNIE
Saturday 5 April 1902 : 20 killed as terracing collapses at Ibrox Park
Sunday 1 June 1902 : End of Boer War
ABT 1903 : Birth date of [P128] William LORNIE
Sunday 17 January 1904 : Death date of [P401] Margaret SMALL
Monday 7 November 1904 : Death date of [P308] Margaret GRINTON
AFT Sunday 1 January 1905 : Birth date of [P405] Chrissie MCDONALD
Wednesday 22 February 1905 : Birth date of [P132] David LORNIE
Wednesday 4 October 1905 : Convicted Suffragettes choose to go to prison
1906 : Wassermann test for syphilis developed
Tuesday 6 November 1906 : Birth date of [P276] Sidney Weaver LORNIE
1907 : Albert Einstein postulates "E=mc²" theory
Tuesday 5 January 1909 : Birth date of [P133] Violet Isobel Ramsay WALKER
Saturday 6 February 1909 : Birth date of [P277] Ann Dey GRAHAM
Friday 20 August 1909 : Marriage date of [F143] - [P427] James LORNIE = [P429] Isabella McLauchlan HAY
1910 : Invention of first synthetic plastic, Bakelite
AFT Saturday 1 January 1910 : Birth date of [P430] Harriet LORNIE
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 : Birth date of [P116] Margaret Forbes DUFF
1911 : E. Rutherford puts forward nuclear model of the atom
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
Thursday 26 October 1911 : Death date of [P405] Chrissie MCDONALD
1912 : Birth date of [P127] Martin Millar LORNIE
Monday 22 January 1912 : Death date of [P154] Charles Stuart Parker LORNIE
Wednesday 14 February 1912 : Death date of [P329] Margaret LORNIE
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 : Britain declares war on Germany
Tuesday 4 August 1914 : Germany invades Belgium
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
Saturday 5 June 1915 : Death date of [P394] Alexander Pratt LORNIE
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
Saturday 12 August 1916 : Marriage date of [F148] - [P414] James LORNIE = [P441] Mary Mitchell ROBERTSON
Sunday 27 August 1916 : Romaina declares war on Austria-Hungary
Sunday 17 September 1916 : Death date of [P439] James LORNIE
Wednesday 15 November 1916 : End of Battle of the Somme
Friday 6 April 1917 : USA declares war on Germany
Wednesday 6 June 1917 : Death date of [P319] John Guthrie LORNIE
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
Thursday 21 March 1918 : Start of German offensive
Thursday 21 March 1918 : Death date of [P384] Alexander LORNIE
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
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 6 December 1921 : Irish Free State created
1922 : Banting and MacLeod isolate human insulin
Tuesday 28 November 1922 : Death date of [P413] Eva
Monday 4 December 1922 : Death date of [P330] Ebenezer James Erskine Wemyss BOON
Wednesday 23 April 1924 : First royal transmission by wireless
Wednesday 25 June 1924 : Death date of [P392] Eliza Robertson LORNIE
Thursday 21 August 1924 : Death date of [P155] Gabriel Soutar LORNIE
Wednesday 30 September 1925 : Birth date of [P280] Andrew Jessiman McLagan BOOTH
Tuesday 8 December 1925 : Death date of [P147] Elizabeth Blackburn IMRIE
Thursday 31 December 1925 : Marriage date of [F98] - [P276] Sidney Weaver LORNIE = [P277] Ann Dey GRAHAM
1926 : First demonstration of television by J L Baird
1926 : Invention of the liquid-fuelled rocket by R Goddard
Monday 10 May 1926 : TUC calls first General Strike
Saturday 7 January 1928 : River Thames floods killing 14
Wednesday 6 June 1928 : Marriage date of [F39] - [P115] Charles Cargill LORNIE = [P116] Margaret Forbes DUFF
Sunday 30 September 1928 : Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming
Tuesday 18 December 1928 : Birth date of [P159] James Christie LORNIE
Tuesday 25 June 1929 : Birth date of [P279] Ann LORNIE
Saturday 24 May 1930 : Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia
Sunday 5 October 1930 : Airship R101 crashes in France killing 48
Thursday 4 December 1930 : Birth date of [P117] Robert Duff LORNIE
Tuesday 25 August 1931 : Birth date of [P160] Mary Helen McKay BAIN
Friday 12 February 1932 : Whipping of children under 14 is banned
Friday 30 September 1932 : Unemployment reaches 25%
Wednesday 19 April 1933 : Marriage date of [F48] - [P137] James SMALL = [P136] Jessie LORNIE
Saturday 30 December 1933 : Birth date of [P138] James Maxwell SMALL
1934 : Invention of first practical radar by Watson-Watt
Tuesday 30 January 1934 : Death date of [P406] Elizabeth MCDONALD
Saturday 28 April 1934 : Marriage date of [F47] - [P132] David LORNIE = [P133] Violet Isobel Ramsay WALKER
Friday 21 September 1934 : 262 killed in blast at Gresford colliery
Friday 2 November 1934 : Death date of [P126] Helen LOUDFOOT
Saturday 16 February 1935 : Death date of [P410] Georgina LIVINGSTON
Monday 18 March 1935 : Thousands protest in Wales at "means test"
Sunday 24 March 1935 : Death date of [P390] Alexander LORNIE
Tuesday 20 August 1935 : Birth date of [P123] Frederick Dennis CALLAGHAN
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
Saturday 15 August 1936 : Death date of [P425] Mary Livingston LORNIE
Wednesday 11 November 1936 : Jarrow Crusade reaches London
Tuesday 24 November 1936 : Birth date of [P139] Alice EDWARDS
Thursday 10 December 1936 : End of reign of Edward VIII
Thursday 10 December 1936 : Edward VIII abdicates
Friday 11 December 1936 : Start of reign of George VI
Friday 18 December 1936 : Death date of [P149] William LORNIE
AFT Friday 1 January 1937 : Marriage date of [F144] - [P431] Alexander Thom FREW = [P430] Harriet LORNIE
Friday 28 May 1937 : Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister
Thursday 9 December 1937 : Birth date of [P134] Norman Christie LORNIE
1938 : Birth date of [P118] Margaret Ann LORNIE
1938 : Discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassmann
Tuesday 21 June 1938 : Death date of [P125] James Christie LORNIE
Monday 11 July 1938 : Last British troops leave Eire
Friday 11 November 1938 : Death date of [P440] Annie BLAIR
AFT Sunday 1 January 1939 : Birth date of [P432] John Howie FREW
Friday 25 August 1939 : IRA bomb Coventry killing 5
September 1939 : Children evacuated from London and major cities
Friday 1 September 1939 : Germany invades Poland
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
Thursday 15 February 1940 : Death date of [P411] William LORNIE
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
Sunday 15 February 1942 : British surrender Singapore to Japanese
Thursday 9 April 1942 : USA surrenders Bataan peninsula to Japanese
Wednesday 6 May 1942 : USA surrenders Corregidor Island to Japanese
Saturday 30 May 1942 : Death date of [P283] William LORNIE
Saturday 30 May 1942 : Birth date of [P283] William LORNIE
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 : 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
Saturday 14 October 1944 : Birth date of [P135] Jennifer Helen LORNIE
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
Wednesday 4 September 1946 : Birth date of [P230] Alison Christine STEWART
December 1946 : Fuel and food shortages continue
AFT Wednesday 1 January 1947 : Death date of [P148] Elizabeth LORNIE
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
December 1948 : Labour government constructs "Welfare State"
Tuesday 15 March 1949 : Clothes rationing ends
Monday 18 April 1949 : Eire becomes Republic of Ireland
Saturday 26 November 1949 : Marriage date of [F99] - [P280] Andrew Jessiman McLagan BOOTH = [P279] Ann LORNIE
ABT 1950 : Albert Einstein puts forward theories of relativity
Wednesday 28 June 1950 : Birth date of [P284] John Lornie BOOTH
Wednesday 28 June 1950 : Royal Navy enters Korean War
Monday 25 December 1950 : Stone of Destiny taken from Westminster Abbey
ABT 1951 : Death date of [P285] Margaret BOOTH
Thursday 7 June 1951 : Soviet spies Burgess and MacLean disappear
Monday 5 November 1951 : Birth date of [P285] Margaret BOOTH
ABT 1952 : Marriage date of [F100] - [P281] Sidney LORNIE = [P282] Olive
Wednesday 6 February 1952 : End of reign of George VI
Thursday 7 February 1952 : Start of reign of Elizabeth II
Monday 10 November 1952 : Death date of [P404] James McDONALD
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
Friday 23 January 1953 : Birth date of [P286] Ann Lornie BOOTH
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
1954 : Discovery of first polio vaccine by J E Salk
May 1954 : "Teddy Boys" appear
Saturday 3 July 1954 : Rationing ends
Wednesday 13 July 1955 : Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged
Saturday 28 April 1956 : Birth date of [P287] Helen BOOTH
Saturday 25 August 1956 : Birth date of [P237] Stephen Duncan McKay KING
Wednesday 31 October 1956 : Britain invades Suez
Thursday 17 October 1957 : Air borne radiation leaks from Windscale nuclear plant
November 1957 : First motorway in Britain, M1 opens
Thursday 6 February 1958 : 7 members of Manchester United die in plane crash
Sunday 5 October 1958 : Death date of [P156] Jane Ann LORNIE
Monday 24 November 1958 : Birth date of [P288] Joyce McLagan BOOTH
Saturday 27 December 1958 : Marriage date of [F53] - [P159] James Christie LORNIE = [P160] Mary Helen McKay BAIN
Wednesday 20 May 1959 : Birth date of [P164] Kay Bruce RITCHIE
Wednesday 20 May 1959 : Birth date of [P164] Kay Bruce RITCHIE
September 1959 : Birth date of [P121] Pauline Ann TAINSH
Tuesday 10 November 1959 : Birth date of [P161] Maureen Jane LORNIE
Wednesday 12 October 1960 : Marriage date of [F49] - [P138] James Maxwell SMALL = [P139] Alice EDWARDS
Saturday 31 December 1960 : National Service abolished
Friday 15 September 1961 : Death date of [P132] David LORNIE
Sunday 10 December 1961 : Birth date of [P142] Alice Elizabeth SMALL
Tuesday 30 January 1962 : Death date of [P115] Charles Cargill LORNIE
Thursday 12 July 1962 : Death date of [P276] Sidney Weaver LORNIE
Thursday 3 January 1963 : Birth date of [P162] Karen Norma LORNIE
Sunday 20 January 1963 : Death date of [P162] Karen Norma LORNIE
Wednesday 27 March 1963 : Dr Beeching proposes cutting 25% of rail lines
Wednesday 5 June 1963 : John Profumo resigns after sex scandal
Monday 26 August 1963 : Death date of [P408] Allan James McDONALD
Saturday 28 September 1963 : Marriage date of [F40] - [P117] Robert Duff LORNIE = [P119] Anna ZUCCONI
Monday 4 November 1963 : The Beatles appear in the Royal Variety Show
1964 : Divorce date of [F41] - [P120] Robert TAINSH = [P118] Margaret Ann LORNIE
Tuesday 1 December 1964 : Birth date of [P236] Peter LEDINGHAM
Monday 21 December 1964 : Death penalty abolished in Britain
Thursday 28 October 1965 : Brady and Hindley charged with Moors Murders
Friday 18 February 1966 : Birth date of [P163] Graeme Charles Richard LORNIE
Saturday 3 September 1966 : Birth date of [P140] Susan Helen SMALL
Tuesday 4 October 1966 : Death date of [P414] James LORNIE
Saturday 8 October 1966 : Burial date of [P414] James LORNIE
Friday 21 October 1966 : 144 die in Aberfan as coal bing buries school
1967 : Emergence of Flower Power
Sunday 14 January 1968 : Death date of [P441] Mary Mitchell ROBERTSON
Tuesday 16 January 1968 : Burial date of [P441] Mary Mitchell ROBERTSON
Wednesday 5 March 1969 : London gangsters the Kray twins sentenced to life
Sunday 29 June 1969 : Death date of [P136] Jessie LORNIE
Wednesday 6 May 1970 : Death date of [P137] James SMALL
Wednesday 18 November 1970 : Death date of [P412] David LORNIE
Saturday 2 January 1971 : 66 die when barriers collapse at Ibrox Park
Monday 15 February 1971 : British currency goes decimal
Saturday 2 October 1971 : Marriage date of [F80] - [P232] Edwin Graham SHARPE = [P135] Jennifer Helen LORNIE
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
Sunday 1 July 1973 : Death date of [P145] Elizabeth Blackburn Imrie LORNIE
Monday 17 December 1973 : Three day week introduced
ABT 1974 : Death date of [P128] William LORNIE
Tuesday 12 November 1974 : Lord Lucan escapes and disappears
Friday 11 July 1975 : Inflation reaches 25%
Saturday 12 July 1975 : Marriage date of [F79] - [P134] Norman Christie LORNIE = [P230] Alison Christine STEWART
Tuesday 26 August 1975 : Death date of [P127] Martin Millar LORNIE
August 1976 : Drought causes water shortages
Saturday 2 April 1977 : Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time
Saturday 7 January 1978 : Birth date of [P233] James SHARPE
Saturday 17 June 1978 : Marriage date of [F83] - [P237] Stephen Duncan McKay KING = [P164] Kay Bruce RITCHIE
Wednesday 13 December 1978 : Jeremy Thorpe, MP charged with incitement to murder
January 1979 : "Winter of Discontent" causes chaos
Friday 4 May 1979 : Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister
Sunday 2 September 1979 : Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim
Monday 5 May 1980 : SAS storms Iranian embassy in London
Saturday 16 May 1981 : Death date of [P277] Ann Dey GRAHAM
July 1981 : Riots break out in 8 inner city areas
Friday 2 April 1982 : Argentina invades Falkland Islands
Thursday 20 May 1982 : Birth date of [P234] Nicholas SHARPE
Monday 14 June 1982 : British troops regain control of Falklands
Tuesday 16 August 1983 : Birth date of [P231] Fiona Helen LORNIE
Sunday 25 September 1983 : 134 IRA prisoners escape from the Maze prison
November 1983 : Divorce date of [F83] - [P237] Stephen Duncan McKay KING = [P164] Kay Bruce RITCHIE
May 1984 : Coal strikes crushed by riot police
Friday 12 October 1984 : IRA bombs Tory conference in Brighton
Friday 10 May 1985 : Marriage date of [F51] - [P143] George WATERSTONE = [P142] Alice Elizabeth SMALL
Saturday 11 May 1985 : 40 killed as fire destroys Bradford City stand
Monday 26 May 1986 : Marriage date of [F43] - [P123] Frederick Dennis CALLAGHAN = [P118] Margaret Ann LORNIE
1987 : Birth date of [P124] Robin THOMSON
Wednesday 22 April 1987 : Marriage date of [F54] - [P163] Graeme Charles Richard LORNIE = [P164] Kay Bruce RITCHIE
Friday 16 October 1987 : Hurricane hits southern England
Wednesday 18 November 1987 : 30 die in King's Cross Underground fire
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
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
Wednesday 26 August 1992 : Marriage date of [F50] - [P141] Richard LENNON = [P140] Susan Helen SMALL
Friday 28 August 1992 : Birth date of [P144] Samuel WATERSTONE
1993 : Death date of [P117] Robert Duff LORNIE
1993 : Burial date of [P117] Robert Duff LORNIE
Wednesday 1 March 1995 : Death date of [P116] Margaret Forbes DUFF
Monday 6 March 1995 : Burial date of [P116] Margaret Forbes DUFF
September 1995 : Britain hit by worst drought for over 250 years
Friday 27 October 1995 : Death date of [P280] Andrew Jessiman McLagan BOOTH
February 1996 : Major oil spill from "Sea Empress" at Milford Haven
Saturday 10 May 1997 : Birth date of [P166] Richard John LORNIE
Sunday 31 August 1997 : Princess Diana dies after car crash in Paris
Friday 10 December 1999 : Death date of [P123] Frederick Dennis CALLAGHAN
Tuesday 14 December 1999 : Burial date of [P123] Frederick Dennis CALLAGHAN
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