Aug 1720 : Collapse of the "South Sea Bubble"
23 Mar 1721 : Robert Walpole appointed first Prime Minister
11 Jul 1721 : Birth date of [P1200] Joseph SHARP
ABT 1724 : Birth date of [P1201] Magdalene SMITH
1724 : First use of Portland cement
1725 : Rob Roy MacGregor sent to Newgate prison
1725 : Invention of mine pump steam engine by Thomas Newcomen
14 Jun 1725 : Troops fire on tax rioters in Glasgow
17 Oct 1726 : Jonathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels"
22 Jun 1727 : End of reign of George I
23 Jun 1727 : Start of reign of George II
1733 : Flying shuttle loom invented by John Kay
27 Aug 1736 : Capt. Porteous lynched at the Tollbooth in Edinburgh
1737 : General Wade completes military road building in the Highlands
30 Mar 1739 : Dick Turpin hanged for murder
1740 : 13% of Ireland's population die in famine
6 Jan 1740 : Marriage date of [F197] - [P672] William DONALDSON = [P673] Grizal CHAMBERS
8 Feb 1740 : Birth date of [P493] Jean RUSSEL
18 Dec 1743 : Birth date of [P492] Joseph SHARP
1744 : Christening date of [P670] Elizabeth DONALDSON
1745 : Jacquard draw-loom invented
19 Aug 1745 : Stuart standard raised at Glenfinnan - Start of Jacobite rebellion (the '45)
21 Sep 1745 : Battle of Prestonpans - "Hey Johnnie Cope"
18 Dec 1745 : Battle of Clifton Moor
17 Jan 1746 : Battle of Falkirk - Bonnie Prince Charlie defeats Hanovarian army
16 Apr 1746 : Battle of Culloden - last true battle on British soil - ends the rebellion
6 Apr 1747 : Parliament prohibits wearing of tartan
1748 : Bow Street Runners formed
ABT 1748 : Birth date of [P491] Katharine STEIN
10 Jul 1748 : Christening date of [P657] Margaret DONALDSON
9 Nov 1748 : Birth date of [P490] Nathaniel SHARP
20 Jan 1751 : Christening date of [P671] Janet DONALDSON
22 Aug 1752 : UK adopts Gregorian calendar - next day is 14 September
1754 : Royal and Ancient golf club founded
24 Jan 1755 : Birth date of [P508] William HUNTER
15 Apr 1755 : Dr Johnson publishes dictionary
1756 : Start of Seven Years War
20 Jun 1756 : 123 Britons die in the Black Hole of Calcutta
1757 : Clive defeats Bengalis - start of Empire in India
29 Jun 1757 : William Pitt becomes Prime Minister
17 Dec 1757 : Birth date of [P509] Peter HUNTER
1760 : Turnpikes improve travelling by road
1 Jun 1760 : Birth date of [P510] James HUNTER
25 Oct 1760 : End of reign of George II
26 Oct 1760 : Start of reign of George III
1761 : Link between tobacco and cancer established
1763 : End of Seven Years War
1764 : Invention of the spinning jenny by James Hargreaves
23 Mar 1764 : Marriage date of [F171] - [P492] Joseph SHARP = [P493] Jean RUSSEL
3 Mar 1765 : Marriage date of [F198] - [P674] Robert GORDON = [P686] Catherine MATHIE
7 Mar 1765 : Birth date of [P902] Peter SHARP
6 Jul 1766 : Birth date of [P901] Mary SHARP
28 Sep 1766 : Birth date of [P483] Mary FORRESTER
6 Oct 1766 : Birth date of [P482] Peter HUNTER
1767 : Construction of Edinburgh's New Town begins
21 May 1769 : Birth date of [P904] Helen SHARP
1 Sep 1769 : Marriage date of [F170] - [P490] Nathaniel SHARP = [P491] Katharine STEIN
6 May 1770 : Capt. Cook discovers Botany Bay
11 Dec 1770 : Birth date of [P513] Janet SHARP
10 Mar 1771 : Christening date of [P1227] Margaret GORDON
21 Apr 1771 : Birth date of [P903] William SHARP
19 Jul 1772 : Marriage date of [F195] - [P656] William DRUMMOND = [P657] Margaret DONALDSON
11 Oct 1772 : Birth date of [P514] Joseph SHARP
BEF 1773 : Death date of [P904] Helen SHARP
5 May 1773 : Birth date of [P1226] John GORDON
9 May 1773 : Christening date of [P1226] John GORDON
17 Oct 1773 : Birth date of [P900] Helen SHARP
1774 : Isolation of oxygen by Joseph Priestley
23 Apr 1774 : Birth date of [P488] Nathaniel SHARP
19 Apr 1775 : Battle of Lexington - Start of American War of Independence
30 Sep 1775 : Birth date of [P663] Grizal DRUMMOND
11 Feb 1776 : Birth date of [P489] Cecilia SHARP
11 Feb 1776 : Birth date of [P515] Henry SHARP
9 Dec 1776 : Marriage date of [F183] - [P570] Andrew CAIRNS = [P571] Elizabeth MAXWELL
ABT 1777 : Birth date of [P981] David GORDON
10 Aug 1777 : Christening date of [P1225] William GORDON
24 Aug 1777 : Birth date of [P516] Robert SHARP
Dec 1777 : Birth date of [P666] Elizabeth DRUMMOND
30 Jan 1778 : Christening date of [P572] Mary CAIRNS
24 Feb 1778 : Birth date of [P511] Jean SHARP
24 Apr 1778 : John Paul Jones captures the Drake at Carrickfergus
ABT 1779 : Birth date of [P675] Janet GORDON
1779 : Invention of spinning mule by Samuel Crompton
16 Jul 1779 : Birth date of [P517] Janet SHARP
13 Feb 1780 : Christening date of [P573] John CAIRNS
1 Apr 1780 : Birth date of [P421] William DRUMMOND
2 Jul 1780 : "Gordon" riots in London
20 Aug 1780 : Birth date of [P512] Daniel SHARP
1 Jan 1781 : World's first iron bridge completed over the River Severn
20 May 1781 : Christening date of [P413] Thomas GORDON
21 Jul 1781 : Birth date of [P518] William SHARP
19 Aug 1781 : Christening date of [P574] Christian CAIRNS
1782 : Invention of modern steam engine by James Watt
25 Dec 1782 : Birth date of [P664] George DRUMMOND
1783 : First flight of hot-air balloon by Montgolfier brothers
1783 : First steam powered ship built by Jouffroy d'Abbans
12 Jan 1783 : Christening date of [P984] Murdoch GORDON
1 Mar 1783 : Birth date of [P1205] Janet SHARP
3 Sep 1783 : Treaty of Paris ends American War of Independence
BEF 21 Dec 1783 : Death date of [P573] John CAIRNS
21 Dec 1783 : Christening date of [P575] John CAIRNS
Mar 1784 : Birth date of [P667] Margaret DRUMMOND
17 Mar 1784 : Birth date of [P1202] Archibald SHARP
2 Aug 1784 : First mail coach runs from Bristol to London
1785 : First power-driven loom invented by Edmund Cartwright
1786 : Robert Burns publishes "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect"
9 Feb 1786 : Birth date of [P422] William Eugenia CAIRNS
19 Feb 1786 : Christening date of [P422] William Eugenia CAIRNS
13 Mar 1786 : Birth date of [P1203] Katherine SHARP
25 Dec 1786 : Birth date of [P669] Janet DRUMMOND
1787 : Transportation of criminals to Botany Bay begins
3 Jun 1787 : Marriage date of [F166] - [P482] Peter HUNTER = [P483] Mary FORRESTER
23 Oct 1788 : Birth date of [P494] Mary HUNTER
25 Dec 1788 : Birth date of [P668] Ann DRUMMOND
1 Feb 1789 : Christening date of [P576] Ann CAIRNS
28 Apr 1789 : Mutiny aboard HMS Bounty
24 Dec 1789 : Birth date of [P495] Robert HUNTER
30 Sep 1790 : Birth date of [P665] Jean DRUMMOND
BEF 19 Dec 1790 : Death date of [P572] Mary CAIRNS
19 Dec 1790 : Christening date of [P577] Mary CAIRNS
1791 : The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain is founded
13 Feb 1792 : Birth date of [P496] Thomas HUNTER
1793 : Invention of cotton gin by Eli Whitney
1 Feb 1793 : France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands
Mar 1793 : Birth date of [P905] Mary DRUMMOND
10 Aug 1793 : Birth date of [P578] Andrew CAIRNS
18 Aug 1793 : Christening date of [P578] Andrew CAIRNS
2 Feb 1794 : Birth date of [P497] Jean HUNTER
3 Oct 1794 : Birth date of [P579] Daniel CAIRNS
5 Oct 1794 : Christening date of [P579] Daniel CAIRNS
1795 : Poor Law devised
1796 : Discovery of Smallpox vaccine by Edward Jenner
5 Jun 1796 : Birth date of [P498] William HUNTER
21 Feb 1797 : French landing in Wales repulsed at Fishguard
15 Apr 1797 : First naval mutiny at Spithead
30 Jun 1797 : Second naval mutiny at the Nore
1798 : Irish Rebellion
1798 : Typhus epidemic kills thousands
7 Sep 1798 : Marriage date of [F169] - [P488] Nathaniel SHARP = [P489] Cecilia SHARP
9 Jan 1799 : Parliament passes the first income tax
12 Aug 1799 : Birth date of [P1204] Jean SHARP
26 Nov 1800 : Birth date of [P500] Mary HUNTER
1801 : Electric arc lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy
6 Aug 1802 : Birth date of [P503] Katherine SHARP
25 Apr 1803 : Birth date of [P501] John HUNTER
12 Sep 1804 : Birth date of [P504] Nathaniel SHARP
10 Jul 1805 : Birth date of [P416] Robert GORDON
21 Oct 1805 : Nelson dies victorious at the Battle of Trafalgar
10 Apr 1806 : Birth date of [P502] James HUNTER
31 Jul 1806 : Birth date of [P505] Cecilia SHARP
25 Oct 1807 : Birth date of [P415] John GORDON
20 Nov 1807 : Marriage date of [F148] - [P421] William DRUMMOND = [P422] William Eugenia CAIRNS
20 Jul 1808 : Birth date of [P506] Joseph SHARP
21 Aug 1808 : Sir Arthur Wellesley leads campaign in the Peninsular War
28 Jul 1809 : French driven from Portugal
15 Sep 1810 : Birth date of [P407] Thomas GORDON
23 Sep 1810 : Christening date of [P407] Thomas GORDON
10 Dec 1810 : Christening date of [P423] Robert HUNTER
1811 : Luddites attack textile machinery
Feb 1811 : Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent due to King's insanity
Feb 1811 : Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent due to King's insanity
21 Mar 1811 : Birth date of [P424] Helen SHARP
1812 : French retreat from Moscow
23 Mar 1812 : Birth date of [P1206] Cecilia SHARP
12 Aug 1812 : Wellington takes Madrid
14 Nov 1812 : Birth date of [P417] Catherine GORDON
1813 : Birth date of [P408] Margaret DRUMMOND
1815 : Humphry Davy invents mining safety lamp
24 Jan 1815 : Birth date of [P418] Mary GORDON
18 Jun 1815 : Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
5 Aug 1815 : Birth date of [P507] Archibald SHARP
1816 : Invention of bicycle by K D von Sauerbronn
1816 : Invention of stethoscope by Rene Laennec in Paris
1817 : Potato famine kills thousands in Ireland
15 Oct 1817 : Birth date of [P419] Isabel GORDON
1818 : Mary Shelley publishes "Frankenstein"
1819 : MacAdam revolutionises road building
29 Jan 1820 : End of reign of George III
30 Jan 1820 : Start of reign of George IV
1822 : Invention of electric motor by Michael Faraday
Jun 1822 : Birth date of [P420] James GORDON
ABT 1824 : Birth date of [P848] Jane DRUMMOND
27 Sep 1825 : First passenger train service from Stockton to Darlington
1826 : Invention of the friction match by English chemist John Walker
30 Jan 1826 : Telford's Menai suspension bridge completed
1827 : Georg S Ohm postulates Ohm's Law of electric current
22 Jan 1828 : The Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister
1829 : George Stephenson builds first steam locomotive
28 Jan 1829 : Graverobber William Burke hanged for murder in Edinburgh
26 Sep 1829 : First proper police force established in London
26 Jun 1830 : End of reign of George IV
27 Jun 1830 : Start of reign of William IV
15 Sep 1830 : Liverpool to Manchester railway opens
16 Jan 1831 : Marriage date of [F149] - [P423] Robert HUNTER = [P424] Helen SHARP
1832 : Michael Faraday invents electric dynamo
Jun 1832 : Cholera epidemic strikes Britain
7 Jun 1832 : Parliament passes Reform Act
4 Nov 1832 : Marriage date of [F146] - [P407] Thomas GORDON = [P408] Margaret DRUMMOND
27 Apr 1833 : Christening date of [P409] Jane Cairns GORDON
29 Jul 1833 : Slavery abolished throughout British Empire
Mar 1834 : Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation
22 Jun 1834 : Birth date of [P431] Mary HUNTER
3 Jul 1834 : Christening date of [P431] Mary HUNTER
1835 : Samuel Colt invents the revolver
1835 : Development of efficient screw propeller by Francis Pettit Smith
1836 : Charles Darwin returns from South America
28 May 1836 : Christening date of [P410] Thomas GORDON
15 Sep 1836 : Birth date of [P639] Helen HUNTER
18 Sep 1836 : Christening date of [P639] Helen HUNTER
1837 : Invention of telegraph by American Samuel F B Morse
1837 : John Deere invents the steel plough
20 Jan 1837 : Death date of [P488] Nathaniel SHARP
20 Jun 1837 : End of reign of William IV
21 Jun 1837 : Start of reign of Queen Victoria
24 Mar 1838 : Christening date of [P324] William Drummond GORDON
Apr 1838 : First steam crossing of the Atlantic
Sep 1838 : Grace Darling rescues survivors of the "Forfarshire"
22 Sep 1838 : Birth date of [P325] Jane HUNTER
7 Oct 1838 : Christening date of [P325] Jane HUNTER
1839 : Rubber vulcanisation developed by Charles Goodyear
23 Jul 1839 : Battle of Ghazni - British capture Ghazni, Afganistan
ABT 1840 : Birth date of [P920] Isabella PATERSON
ABT 1840 : Development of photography
6 May 1840 : Penny Post introduced
2 Jun 1840 : Britain annexes New Zealand
17 Sep 1840 : Birth date of [P425] Catherine HUNTER
20 Sep 1840 : Christening date of [P425] Catherine HUNTER
6 Jul 1841 : First UK national census taken
Sep 1841 : Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
22 Sep 1841 : Death date of [P905] Mary DRUMMOND
BEF 1842 : Death date of [P414] Isabel SCOTLAND
Mar 1842 : Dr Crawford Long uses ether as anesthetic during surgery
29 Jul 1842 : Birth date of [P426] Robert HUNTER
14 Aug 1842 : Christening date of [P426] Robert HUNTER
ABT 1843 : Birth date of [P922] Robert HOGG
31 Dec 1843 : Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol"
1844 : Invention of the safety match by Gustaf E Pasch
Jun 1844 : Mines Act prohibits use of women and boys in mines
8 Aug 1844 : Birth date of [P427] Margaret HUNTER
1 Sep 1844 : Christening date of [P427] Margaret HUNTER
1845 : Invention of pneumatic tyre by Scotsman Robert W Thompson
5 Mar 1845 : Christening date of [P411] James GORDON
Jul 1846 : Potato famine hits Ireland and Scotland
30 Dec 1846 : Birth date of [P428] Peter HUNTER
17 Jan 1847 : Christening date of [P428] Peter HUNTER
Apr 1847 : Thousands emigrate from Ireland on "Coffin" ships
16 May 1848 : Death date of [P489] Cecilia SHARP
Nov 1849 : Cholera epidemic takes 2000 lives a week
1850 : Invention of refrigerator by Twining / Harrison
4 Apr 1850 : Birth date of [P429] Anne HUNTER
21 Apr 1850 : Christening date of [P429] Anne HUNTER
26 Feb 1851 : Christening date of [P412] Margaret Drummond GORDON
31 Mar 1851 : 1851 UK national census taken
1 May 1851 : Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park
21 Jul 1852 : Birth date of [P430] Cecilia HUNTER
8 Aug 1852 : Christening date of [P430] Cecilia HUNTER
1853 : Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory
ABT 1853 : Transportation of criminals to Australia ends
26 Mar 1854 : Britain and France declare war on Russia starting the Crimean War
25 Oct 1854 : Battle of Balaclava - Charge of the Light Brigade - Thin Red Line
13 Mar 1855 : Death date of [P575] John CAIRNS
2 Jun 1855 : Death date of [P984] Murdoch GORDON
30 Mar 1856 : Treaty of Paris ends Crimean War
12 Nov 1856 : Death date of [P421] William DRUMMOND
10 May 1857 : Sepoy mutiny in India
24 Oct 1857 : Birth date of [P346] James Wallace LOUDON
1858 : First US oil well sunk by Col. Edwin Drake in Pennsylvania
3 Dec 1858 : Marriage date of [F256] - [P410] Thomas GORDON = [P920] Isabella PATERSON
Jun 1859 : Pig War - Dispute over border between USA and Britain in San Juan Islands
24 Nov 1859 : Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species"
15 Jun 1860 : Marriage date of [F118] - [P324] William Drummond GORDON = [P325] Jane HUNTER
BEF 1861 : Death date of [P674] Robert GORDON
BEF 1861 : Death date of [P686] Catherine MATHIE
1861 : Gatling gun invented by R J Gatling
8 Apr 1861 : 1861 UK national census taken
2 May 1861 : Death date of [P411] James GORDON
7 May 1861 : Birth date of [P362] Thomas Drummond GORDON
23 Nov 1861 : Death date of [P675] Janet GORDON
10 Jan 1863 : London Underground opens
18 Jun 1863 : Death date of [P981] David GORDON
27 Jul 1863 : Birth date of [P338] Robert Hunter GORDON
8 Jun 1864 : Birth date of [P1223] Isabella GORDON
4 Aug 1864 : Death date of [P422] William Eugenia CAIRNS
16 Apr 1865 : Birth date of [P363] Elizabeth Charleston CALDERHEAD
19 Jul 1865 : Birth date of [P345] Helen Sharp GORDON
ABT 1866 : Invention of the breech-loading rifle
14 May 1866 : Death date of [P576] Ann CAIRNS
Sep 1866 : Cholera sweeps London
1867 : Invention of the typewriter by Sholes and Glidden
1867 : Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1867 : Invention of reinforced concrete by Joseph Monier
1867 : Joseph Lister pioneers antiseptic techniques
6 Nov 1867 : Birth date of [P340] Margaret Hunter Drummond GORDON
Feb 1868 : Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
1869 : Dmitri Mendeleev constructs Periodic Table of elements
1869 : Invention of the bolt-action rifle by Paul Mauser
11 Mar 1869 : Birth date of [P341] Joseph WHITE
1870 : Electric incandescent lamp invented by Thomas Edison
AFT 1870 : Death date of [P420] James GORDON
26 Jan 1870 : Birth date of [P360] William Drummond GORDON
16 Dec 1870 : Death date of [P413] Thomas GORDON
3 Apr 1871 : 1871 UK national census taken
May 1872 : Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
16 Jun 1872 : Birth date of [P337] James GORDON
Dec 1872 : "Marie Celeste" discovered abandoned
ABT 1876 : Birth date of [P327] James Watters GREIG
18 Jan 1876 : Death date of [P424] Helen SHARP
10 Mar 1876 : Invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
7 Jul 1876 : Birth date of [P282] Mary Jane Hunter GORDON
ABT 1877 : Birth date of [P923] Duncan GORDON
1877 : Phonograph invented by Thomas Edison
Sep 1878 : Second British invasion of Afghanistan
ABT 1879 : Birth date of [P921] James GORDON
22 Jan 1879 : Battle of Rorke's Drift - Zulu War
2 Jun 1879 : Birth date of [P326] Catherine Hunter GORDON
28 Dec 1879 : Tay Bridge disaster
14 Jan 1880 : Death date of [P423] Robert HUNTER
12 Aug 1880 : Marriage date of [F257] - [P922] Robert HOGG = [P412] Margaret Drummond GORDON
ABT 1881 : Birth date of [P924] Georgina GORDON
3 Apr 1881 : 1881 UK national census taken
1882 : Isolation of tuberculosis bacteria by Robert Koch
14 Jun 1882 : Birth date of [P335] Ann Hunter GORDON
1883 : Cholera bacteria isolated by Robert Koch
24 Jul 1883 : Death date of [P324] William Drummond GORDON
26 Aug 1883 : Krakatoa erupts causing global changes in weather
1884 : Capillary feed fountain pen invented by Lewis E Waterman in the US
1885 : Vaccine against rabies discovered by Louis Pasteur
1885 : First internal combustion carriage built by Karl F Benz
26 Jan 1885 : General Charles Gordon killed at Khartoum by the Mahdi's troops
BEF 1886 : Death date of [P664] George DRUMMOND
1887 : Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1888 : Invention of hand-held camera by George Eastman
Feb 1888 : Death date of [P416] Robert GORDON
14 Feb 1888 : Birth date of [P868] Mary Anne COLE
28 Apr 1888 : Death date of [P408] Margaret DRUMMOND
Oct 1888 : Jack the Ripper terrorises London's East End
14 Nov 1889 : Completion of the Forth Bridge - first large steel structure
1890 : Discovery of diphtheria vaccine by Pierre Paul Emile Roux
1891 : Invention of the zip fastener by Whitcomb L Judson
1 Apr 1891 : 1891 UK national census taken
9 Oct 1891 : Marriage date of [F132] - [P362] Thomas Drummond GORDON = [P363] Elizabeth Charleston CALDERHEAD
17 Jun 1892 : Death date of [P504] Nathaniel SHARP
7 Nov 1892 : Marriage date of [F126] - [P346] James Wallace LOUDON = [P345] Helen Sharp GORDON
1893 : Thomas Edison invents motion pictures
6 Aug 1893 : Death date of [P407] Thomas GORDON
1894 : Tower Bridge opens in London
12 Jul 1894 : Birth date of [P354] John LOUDON
1895 : Wireless telegraphy invented by Guglielmo Marconi
7 Oct 1895 : Birth date of [P347] Jeanne Hunter LOUDON
8 Nov 1895 : Discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen
1896 : Discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel
27 May 1896 : Birth date of [P364] Elizabeth Charleston Calderhead GORDON
22 Jun 1897 : Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
5 Nov 1897 : Birth date of [P353] William Drummond LOUDON
13 Jul 1898 : Pierre and Marie Curie detect a new element, later called Polonium
29 Aug 1898 : Marriage date of [F131] - [P360] William Drummond GORDON = [P361] Grace LOVE
22 Sep 1898 : Marriage date of [F124] - [P341] Joseph WHITE = [P340] Margaret Hunter Drummond GORDON
29 Sep 1898 : Birth date of [P365] Jane Hunter GORDON
26 Dec 1898 : Pierre and Marie Curie detect a new element, later called Radium
1899 : Invention of first magnetic recorder by Valdemar Poulsen
1899 : Introduction of aspirin by Felix Hoffman
15 Aug 1899 : Birth date of [P356] Agnes Frew LOUDON
15 Sep 1899 : Birth date of [P342] Joseph WHITE
11 Oct 1899 : Start of Boer War
1900 : Invention of rigid airship by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
28 Feb 1900 : Relief of Ladysmith
8 Mar 1900 : Death date of [P848] Jane DRUMMOND
17 May 1900 : Relief of Mafeking
27 Jun 1900 : Birth date of [P366] Helen Mary GORDON
Aug 1900 : Boxer rebellion in Peking
23 Sep 1900 : Birth date of [P344] William WHITE
1901 : First successful safety razor sold by K Gillette
22 Jan 1901 : End of reign of Queen Victoria
23 Jan 1901 : Start of reign of Edward VII
31 Mar 1901 : 1901 UK national census taken
24 Sep 1901 : Birth date of [P357] James Wallace LOUDON
18 Feb 1902 : Birth date of [P367] William Drummond GORDON
5 Apr 1902 : 20 killed as terracing collapses at Ibrox Park
31 May 1902 : End of Boer War
12 Jan 1904 : Death date of [P409] Jane Cairns GORDON
27 Oct 1904 : Death date of [P341] Joseph WHITE
24 Nov 1904 : Invention of caterpillar track by Benjamin Holt
4 Oct 1905 : Convicted Suffragettes choose to go to prison
1906 : Wassermann test for syphilis developed
1907 : Albert Einstein postulates "E=mc²" theory
5 Jan 1907 : Birth date of [P369] Thomas Drummond GORDON
1908 : Marriage date of [F119] - [P327] James Watters GREIG = [P326] Catherine Hunter GORDON
1910 : Domestic refrigerators begin to appear in the US
1910 : Invention of first synthetic plastic, Bakelite
6 May 1910 : End of reign of Edward VII
7 May 1910 : Start of reign of George V
31 Jul 1910 : Radio used to arrest Dr Crippen fleeing to Quebec
9 Aug 1910 : Birth date of [P328] Thomas GREIG
1911 : Marie Curie becomes the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes
1911 : Ernest Rutherford puts forward nuclear model of the atom
3 Jan 1911 : Three policemen die in the Seige of Sidney Street
2 Apr 1911 : 1911 UK national census taken
31 Aug 1911 : Troops clash with strikers in north of England
15 Apr 1912 : SS Titanic sinks with loss of 1513 lives
10 Feb 1913 : Explorer Capt. Scott found dead in Antartica
4 Jun 1913 : Emily Davison, a Suffragette, dies under King's horse at Epsom
13 Jun 1913 : Marriage date of [F123] - [P338] Robert Hunter GORDON = [P339] Jean ALLEN
28 Jun 1914 : Austrian Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
28 Jul 1914 : Austria declares war on Serbia - Start of World War I
1 Aug 1914 : Germany declares war on Russia
Aug 1914 : Battle of Tannenberg
3 Aug 1914 : Germany declares war on France
4 Aug 1914 : Germany invades Belgium
4 Aug 1914 : Britain declares war on Germany
Sep 1914 : First Battle of the Marne
4 Oct 1914 : First bombs fall on London
19 Oct 1914 : Maj.Gen. Ernest Swinton suggests development of the military tank
Feb 1915 : Start of German submarine blockade of Britain
22 Apr 1915 : Germans first use of mustard gas at Ypres
26 Apr 1915 : British land in Turkey
7 May 1915 : SS "Lusitania" sunk by German submarine
22 May 1915 : 200 soldiers killed in train crash at Quintinshill
6 Sep 1915 : Poland and Lithuania overrun by Germany
14 Oct 1915 : Britain and France declare war on Bulgaria
20 Dec 1915 : British withdraw from Gallipoli
Feb 1916 : Battle of Verdun
24 Apr 1916 : Easter Rising - insurrection in Ireland
31 May 1916 : Battle of Jutland is largest naval battle of WWI
1 Jul 1916 : Start of Battle of the Somme
27 Aug 1916 : Romaina declares war on Austria-Hungary
16 Oct 1916 : Death date of [P325] Jane HUNTER
15 Nov 1916 : End of Battle of the Somme
6 Apr 1917 : USA declares war on Germany
Oct 1917 : Start of Battle of Caporetto
Dec 1917 : End of Battle of Caporetto
7 Dec 1917 : USA declares war on Austria-Hungary
15 Dec 1917 : Russian Bolsheviks now ally with Germany
21 Mar 1918 : Start of German offensive
1 Apr 1918 : Royal Air Force created
18 May 1918 : Sinn Féin banned and leaders arrested
Jul 1918 : Second Battle of the Marne
8 Aug 1918 : End of German offensive
4 Oct 1918 : Germany offers surrender
11 Nov 1918 : End of WWI - Hostilities cease on Western Front
28 Dec 1918 : Women allowed to vote for the first time
BEF 1919 : Death date of [P920] Isabella PATERSON
ABT 1919 : Birth date of [P330] Jane GREIG
16 Jan 1919 : Death date of [P362] Thomas Drummond GORDON
17 Jan 1919 : Burial date of [P362] Thomas Drummond GORDON
21 Jan 1919 : Start of the Irish War of Independence
Mar 1919 : Spanish flu kills 150,000 throughout Britian, 50m-100m worldwide
14 Oct 1919 : Death date of [P410] Thomas GORDON
28 Dec 1919 : Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
18 Oct 1920 : State of emergency declared as miners strike
21 Nov 1920 : "Bloody Sunday" - 12 Irish killed by the Black and Tans
19 Jun 1921 : 1921 UK national census taken
11 Jul 1921 : Truce ends Irish War of Independence
6 Dec 1921 : Irish Free State created
1922 : Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate human insulin
8 Mar 1922 : Death date of [P327] James Watters GREIG
5 Oct 1922 : Last casualty of the Irish war
27 Apr 1923 : Death date of [P425] Catherine HUNTER
23 Apr 1924 : First royal transmission by wireless
1926 : Invention of the liquid-fuelled rocket by Robert Goddard
1926 : First demonstration of television by John Logie Baird
10 May 1926 : TUC calls first General Strike
13 Aug 1927 : Burial date of [P336] Alexander Maxwell MCLEAN
7 Jan 1928 : River Thames floods killing 14
BEF 1930 : Death date of [P922] Robert HOGG
26 Apr 1930 : Death date of [P412] Margaret Drummond GORDON
24 May 1930 : Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia
12 Jul 1930 : Death date of [P282] Mary Jane Hunter GORDON
5 Oct 1930 : Airship R101 crashes in France killing 48
26 Apr 1931 : 1931 UK national census taken
12 Feb 1932 : Whipping of children under 14 is banned
30 Sep 1932 : Unemployment reaches 25%
3 Dec 1932 : Death date of [P346] James Wallace LOUDON
7 Dec 1932 : Burial date of [P346] James Wallace LOUDON
1934 : Invention of first practical radar by Watson-Watt
21 Sep 1934 : 262 killed in blast at Gresford colliery
18 Mar 1935 : Thousands protest in Wales at "means test"
1936 : Sir Frank Whittle invents the jet engine
1936 : Invention of helicopter by Henrich Focke
20 Jan 1936 : End of reign of George V
21 Jan 1936 : Start of reign of Edward VIII
11 Nov 1936 : Jarrow Crusade reaches London
10 Dec 1936 : Edward VIII abdicates
10 Dec 1936 : End of reign of Edward VIII
11 Dec 1936 : Start of reign of George VI
28 May 1937 : Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister
6 Aug 1937 : Death date of [P361] Grace LOVE
1938 : Discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassmann
11 Jul 1938 : Last British troops leave Eire
11 Apr 1939 : Death date of [P337] James GORDON
25 Aug 1939 : IRA bomb Coventry killing 5
Sep 1939 : Children evacuated from London and major cities
1 Sep 1939 : Germany invades Poland
3 Sep 1939 : Britain and France declare war on Germany - Start of WWII
29 Sep 1939 : UK National Register of civilians for the issue of ID cards
17 Dec 1939 : The German battleship "Graf Spee" scuttled off Montevideo
ABT 1940 : New element Plutonium (Z=94) is discovered
10 May 1940 : Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
10 May 1940 : Churchill takes over as Prime Minister of Great Britain
12 May 1940 : Germany invades France
26 May 1940 : Allied evacuation from Dunkirk begins
10 Jun 1940 : Italy invades France
10 Jun 1940 : Italy declares war on France and Britain
14 Jun 1940 : Germans enter Paris unopposed
22 Jun 1940 : France surrenders to Germany
14 Nov 1940 : Coventry bombed by the Luftwaffe
17 Apr 1941 : Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany
27 Apr 1941 : British leave Greece
22 Jun 1941 : Germany attacks Russia
14 Aug 1941 : Britain and USA sign Atlantic Charter
7 Dec 1941 : Japan attack USA at Pearl Harbour
11 Dec 1941 : Germany and Italy declare war on USA
11 Dec 1941 : Britain and USA declare war on Japan
1942 : New element Promethium (Z=61) is discovered
15 Feb 1942 : British surrender Singapore to Japanese
9 Apr 1942 : USA surrenders Bataan peninsula to Japanese
6 May 1942 : USA surrenders Corregidor Island to Japanese
10 Jun 1942 : Lidice, Czechoslovakia razed by Germans
8 Nov 1942 : British and US troops land in North Africa
14 Jan 1943 : Casablanca conference
1 Feb 1943 : Germans surrender at Stalingrad
12 May 1943 : War in Africa ends
25 Jul 1943 : Mussolini deposed
3 Sep 1943 : Allies land in Italy
8 Sep 1943 : Italy surrenders
10 Sep 1943 : Germans take Rome
22 Nov 1943 : Cairo conference
28 Nov 1943 : Teheran Conference
1944 : New element Curium (Z=96) is discovered
1944 : New element Americium (Z=95) is discovered
22 Jan 1944 : British and US troops land at Anzio
4 Jun 1944 : British and US troops enter Rome
6 Jun 1944 : D-Day landings in Normandy
25 Aug 1944 : Paris liberated
13 Oct 1944 : Athens liberated
20 Oct 1944 : USA invades Philippines
16 Dec 1944 : Battle of the Bulge
11 Feb 1945 : Yalta agreement
28 Apr 1945 : Mussolini executed at Lake Como
1 May 1945 : Hitler's suicide announced
2 May 1945 : Berlin falls
7 May 1945 : VE Day. Germany surrenders
16 Jul 1945 : The "Trinity" test is the first detonation of an atomic bomb
17 Jul 1945 : Potsdam conference
6 Aug 1945 : USA drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
8 Aug 1945 : USSR declares war on Japan
9 Aug 1945 : USA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
14 Aug 1945 : Japan surrenders
2 Sep 1945 : VJ Day. Japanese sign surrender aboard USS Missouri - End of WWII
Feb 1946 : 50,000 "GI brides" shipped out to the USA
Dec 1946 : Fuel and food shortages continue
20 Nov 1947 : Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh
1 Jan 1948 : Railways nationalised
28 Jun 1948 : Troops break dockers' strike
Dec 1948 : Labour government constructs "Welfare State"
1949 : Radiocarbon dating technique discovered by Willard Libby
1949 : New element Berkelium (Z=97) is discovered
15 Mar 1949 : Clothes rationing ends
18 Apr 1949 : Eire becomes Republic of Ireland
9 Jun 1949 : Death date of [P360] William Drummond GORDON
1950 : New element Californium (Z=98) is discovered
ABT 1950 : Albert Einstein puts forward theories of relativity
28 Jun 1950 : Royal Navy enters Korean War
25 Dec 1950 : Stone of Destiny taken from Westminster Abbey
BEF 1951 : Death date of [P339] Jean ALLEN
8 Apr 1951 : 1951 UK national census taken
17 Apr 1951 : Death date of [P338] Robert Hunter GORDON
7 Jun 1951 : Soviet spies Burgess and MacLean disappear
1952 : New element Einsteinium (Z=99) is discovered
1952 : New element Fermium (Z=100) is discovered
6 Feb 1952 : End of reign of George VI
7 Feb 1952 : Start of reign of Elizabeth II
20 Oct 1952 : Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya
1 Nov 1952 : US detonates the first hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
24 Nov 1952 : "Mousetrap" opens in London
11 Dec 1952 : Derek Bentley sentenced to hang for the murder of PC Miles in Croydon
1953 : A canyon is discovered along the centre of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
1953 : Discovery of measles vaccine by Enders and Peebles
31 Jan 1953 : Ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in the Irish Sea
3 Feb 1953 : Hundreds die as East Coast is flooded
30 May 1953 : Edmund Hillary reaches the top of Mount Everest
10 Jul 1953 : Death date of [P345] Helen Sharp GORDON
13 Jul 1953 : Burial date of [P345] Helen Sharp GORDON
1954 : Discovery of first polio vaccine by Jonas E Salk
4 Mar 1954 : First successful kidney transplant carried out in Boston
4 Apr 1954 : Death date of [P363] Elizabeth Charleston CALDERHEAD
6 Apr 1954 : Burial date of [P363] Elizabeth Charleston CALDERHEAD
May 1954 : "Teddy Boys" appear
3 Jul 1954 : Rationing ends
1955 : New element Mendelevium (Z=101) is discovered
13 Jul 1955 : Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged
23 Mar 1956 : Death date of [P326] Catherine Hunter GORDON
19 Sep 1956 : Death date of [P340] Margaret Hunter Drummond GORDON
21 Sep 1956 : Burial date of [P340] Margaret Hunter Drummond GORDON
31 Oct 1956 : Britain invades Suez
Apr 1957 : IBM delivers the first compiler for the FORTRAN language
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