Timeline
1600 1700 1800 1900
Monday 18 April 1672 : Marriage date of RICHARD HURN???? = MARY GREEN
Sunday 13 November 1672 : Marriage date of NATHANIAL GREEN = KATHERINE MINTON
Saturday 17 March 1674 : Death date of SAMUEL GREEN
Saturday 27 July 1675 : Christening date of SAMUEL GREEN
Tuesday 25 December 1685 : Death date of NATHANIAL GREEN
Thursday 5 April 1703 : Christening date of SAMUEL GREEN
Friday 16 May 1704 : Christening date of ANN GREEN
Friday 11 May 1708 : Death date of ELIZABETH GREEN
Saturday 3 November 1708 : Burial date of ANN GREEN
Tuesday 12 March 1709 : Christening date of JOHN GREEN
Saturday 10 May 1710 : Marriage date of SAMUEL GREEN = ANN GREEN
Sunday 17 March 1726 : Christening date of THOMAS GREEN
Saturday 16 August 1727 : Burial date of SAMUEL GREEN
Sunday 10 November 1748 : Burial date of SAMUEL GREEN
Sunday 30 September 1753 : Marriage date of THOMAS GREEN = SUSSANA SIMPSON
Thursday 29 March 1764 : Christening date of JOHN GREEN
Friday 13 November 1767 : Burial date of JOHN GREEN
Saturday 24 August 1771 : Marriage date of ROBERT ROBINSON = MARY SURMAN
1778 : Birth date of JAMES ROBINSON
1778 : Birth date of MARY ROBINSON
Saturday 26 February 1785 : Burial date of THOMAS GREEN
Wednesday 30 March 1785 : Burial date of DORCAS GREEN
Saturday 12 December 1789 : Marriage date of SAMUEL MARRIOTT = ELIZABETH BOWLER
Sunday 31 January 1790 : Christening date of JOHN GREEN
Sunday 1 May 1796 : Birth date of SAMUEL MARRIOTT
1802 : Birth date of MARIA MARRAT
Sunday 5 December 1802 : Birth date of MARY MARRIOTT
Sunday 1 September 1805 : Birth date of FRANCIS MARRIOTT
Sunday 17 November 1805 : Christening date of JOHN GREEN
Friday 12 February 1808 : Birth date of THOMAS JOHN MARRIOTT
1811 : Birth date of ANN ROBINSON
Thursday 28 November 1811 : Birth date of MARY ROBINSON
Saturday 21 March 1812 : Birth date of ROBERT ROBINSON
Sunday 12 May 1816 : Birth date of JOHN ROBINSON
Saturday 1 March 1817 : Birth date of ELIZABETH ROBINSON
Monday 29 March 1819 : Death date of ELIZABETH ROBINSON
Saturday 15 January 1820 : Birth date of JAMES ROBINSON
Thursday 25 May 1820 : Death date of JAMES ROBINSON
Monday 19 June 1820 : Marriage date of SAMUEL MARRIOTT = SARAH RILEY
Monday 3 July 1820 : Birth date of ELIZABETH ANDERSON
1821 : Birth date of FRANCIS ANDERSON
Sunday 22 July 1821 : Birth date of ELIZABETH ROBINSON
Monday 22 October 1821 : Death date of ROBERT ROBINSON
Thursday 27 December 1821 : Death date of ELIZABETH ROBINSON
Monday 5 May 1823 : Birth date of ANN ANDERSON
Sunday 20 March 1825 : Birth date of HANNAH ROBINSON
Monday 25 July 1825 : Birth date of CATHERINE MARRIOTT
Friday 2 March 1827 : Birth date of CICILY ROBINSON
Sunday 20 April 1828 : Birth date of ELIZABETH MARRIOTT
Wednesday 14 May 1828 : Marriage date of JOHN GREEN = MARIA MARRAT
Thursday 26 June 1828 : Death date of HANNAH ROBINSON
Saturday 13 September 1828 : Death date of CICILY ROBINSON
1829 : Birth date of SARAH MERRILL
Sunday 22 February 1829 : Birth date of JAMES ROBINSON
1830 : Birth date of JOHN GREEN
Thursday 20 May 1830 : Christening date of JOHN GREEN
Sunday 13 June 1830 : Birth date of BENJAMIN MARRIOTT
1831 : Birth date of THOMAS ANDERSON
Saturday 15 January 1831 : Birth date of ROBERT ROBINSON
1832 : Birth date of CATHERINE ANDERSON
Sunday 18 March 1832 : Birth date of JOSEPH MARRIOTT
Wednesday 26 December 1832 : Birth date of CHRISTIANE ROBINSON
Sunday 20 January 1833 : Christening date of THOMAS GREEN
Sunday 26 January 1834 : Death date of CHRISTIANE ROBINSON
Saturday 31 May 1834 : Birth date of HARRIETT MARRIOTT
Sunday 29 June 1834 : Birth date of HANNAH MARRIOTT
Sunday 24 January 1836 : Death date of JOHN ROBINSON
Thursday 7 July 1836 : Birth date of SAMUEL MARRIOTT
1837 : Birth date of WILLIAM ANDERSON
Wednesday 30 May 1838 : Birth date of JAMES ANDERSON
Tuesday 19 June 1838 : Death date of JAMES ANDERSON
1839 : Birth date of MARY GREEN
Sunday 2 February 1840 : Birth date of WILLIAM ROBINSON
Sunday 22 March 1840 : Birth date of GEORGE ANDERSON
Sunday 23 October 1842 : Birth date of ELLEN ANDERSON
Sunday 21 May 1843 : Death date of ELIZABETH ANDERSON
Saturday 14 December 1844 : Marriage date of FRANCIS ANDERSON = ANN ROBINSON
Sunday 21 June 1846 : Death date of JAMES ROBINSON
Sunday 18 October 1846 : Birth date of FRANCIS ANDERSON
1847 : Birth date of EDWIN GREEN
1848 : Birth date of ELIZABETH WHITE
1848 : Birth date of SAMUEL WALKER
Thursday 25 May 1848 : Birth date of ANN ANDERSON
Thursday 16 August 1849 : Death date of MARY ROBINSON
Tuesday 2 April 1850 : Birth date of JOHN ANDERSON
Thursday 17 November 1853 : Marriage date of THOMAS GREEN = SARAH MERRILL
1854 : Birth date of ANN MARRIOTT
1854 : Christening date of MARY JANE GREEN
Friday 10 February 1854 : Marriage date of BENJAMIN MARRIOTT = LUCY GREEN
Sunday 13 May 1855 : Birth date of GEORGE MARRIOTT
Tuesday 6 May 1856 : Birth date of SAMUEL ODLING GREEN
Sunday 22 June 1856 : Birth date of GEORGE ANDERSON
1857 : Birth date of JOHN MARRIOTT
Wednesday 5 May 1858 : Death date of JOHN ANDERSON
Tuesday 28 September 1858 : Death date of JOHN GREEN
Monday 11 October 1858 : Birth date of JOHN THOMAS GREEN
1859 : Birth date of SARAH MARRIOTT
Monday 3 January 1859 : Death date of ANN ANDERSON
Wednesday 7 November 1860 : Birth date of ELIZABETH MARRIOTT
1861 : Christening date of SARAH ANNE GREEN
Sunday 14 April 1861 : Burial date of MARY JANE GREEN
Thursday 16 May 1861 : Death date of SAMUEL MARRIOTT
1862 : Death date of LUKE WALKER
Tuesday 8 July 1862 : Birth date of WILLIAM MARRIOTT
1863 : Christening date of BETSY GREEN
1864 : Birth date of MARY MARRIOTT
Saturday 13 August 1864 : Birth date of ELIZABETH ELLEN ANDERSON
Monday 27 March 1865 : Death date of MARY MARRIOTT
Sunday 5 November 1865 : Birth date of LAURA GUARES
1866 : Birth date of WALTER MARRIOTT
1866 : Birth date of ALICE ROBINSON
1867 : Birth date of ANN(A) ROBINSON
1869 : Birth date of GEORGE ROBINSON
1869 : Birth date of ELIZA MARRIOTT
Tuesday 2 February 1869 : Birth date of THOMAS WILLIAM HART
1872 : Birth date of CHARLES ROBINSON
1872 : Birth date of ANNIE ROBINSON
Tuesday 8 October 1872 : Birth date of KATE WALKER
Thursday 10 October 1872 : Birth date of LUCY BEATRICE HAYES
Monday 23 December 1872 : Burial date of SARAH ANNE GREEN
1874 : Birth date of EDITH WALKER
1874 : Birth date of WILLIAM ROBINSON
Friday 20 March 1874 : Birth date of FRANK EDWARD FLETCHER
1876 : Birth date of SAMUEL MARRIOTT
1876 : Birth date of FREDERICK ROBINSON
1876 : Birth date of FREDERICK ROBINSON
Sunday 1 October 1876 : Birth date of SAMUEL ERNEST WALKER
1878 : Birth date of FRANK ROBINSON
Saturday 15 June 1878 : Birth date of GURTRUDE WALKER
1879 : Birth date of FLORENCE MARRIOTT
1880 : Birth date of FLORENCE FOWLER
1880 : Birth date of CLARA MARRIOTT
1880 : Birth date of AMY WALKER
1880 : Birth date of ELLEN ROBINSON
1881 : Birth date of ARTHUR ROBINSON
April 1881 : Birth date of HENRY MARRIOTT
Wednesday 6 June 1883 : Birth date of WILFRED WRAGG
1884 : Birth date of JOHN THOMAS GREEN
Thursday 23 October 1884 : Birth date of CLARA WATSON
1886 : Birth date of SAMUAL ODLING GREEN
Saturday 12 November 1887 : Birth date of EDWARD GREEN
Wednesday 5 February 1890 : Birth date of SARAH ANNE GREEN
Tuesday 20 May 1890 : Christening date of SARAH ANNE GREEN
Sunday 1 February 1891 : Birth date of ARTHUR WATSON
Saturday 5 March 1892 : Birth date of HARRY GREEN
Wednesday 24 October 1894 : Death date of WILLIAM ROBINSON
Tuesday 11 December 1894 : Christening date of FOR(S?)TER GREEN
Friday 25 September 1896 : Birth date of REGINALD ROBINSON
Monday 21 December 1896 : Birth date of AUBREY GREEN
Monday 18 January 1897 : Death date of REGINALD ROBINSON
Wednesday 23 June 1897 : Christening date of AUBREY GREEN
Wednesday 28 September 1898 : Birth date of CHARLOTTE EVERLYNE GREEN
Saturday 28 January 1899 : Burial date of FOR(S?)TER GREEN
1900 : Invention of agricultural tractor by B Holt
1900 : Invention of rigid airship by von Zeppelin
Monday 2 July 1900 : Christening date of STANLEY GREEN
August 1900 : Boxer rebellion in Peking
Sunday 12 August 1900 : Christening date of CHARLOTTE EVERLYNE GREEN
1901 : First successful safety razor sold by K Gillette
23 January 1901 : Start of reign of Edward VII
5 April 1902 : 20 killed as terracing collapses at Ibrox Park
Thursday 25 December 1902 : Birth date of WILLIAM ROBINSON
Monday 23 February 1903 : Christening date of WILLIAM ROBINSON
Wednesday 6 January 1904 : Birth date of FREDA ROBINSON
Monday 13 June 1904 : Christening date of FREDA ROBINSON
Monday 25 September 1905 : Birth date of GRAHAM ROBINSON
4 October 1905 : Convicted Suffragettes choose to go to prison
Thursday 12 October 1905 : Birth date of REGINALD ROBINSON
Sunday 19 November 1905 : Christening date of REGINALD ROBINSON
1906 : Wassermann test for syphilis developed
Monday 2 July 1906 : Christening date of GRAHAM ROBINSON
Saturday 6 October 1906 : Marriage date of FRANK EDWARD FLETCHER = GURTRUDE WALKER
1907 : Albert Einstein postulates "E=mc²" theory
1907 : Death date of HARRIET HESSEY
Wednesday 29 May 1907 : Birth date of HARRY WHITEHEAD
Wednesday 29 May 1907 : Birth date of WINIFRED ROBINSON
July 1907 : Birth date of ROY ROBINSON
Sunday 18 August 1907 : Christening date of ROY ROBINSON
Wednesday 23 October 1907 : Marriage date of SAMUAL ODLING GREEN = LUCY ANN FARROW
Monday 30 March 1908 : Death date of ELLEN ANDERSON
Wednesday 1 April 1908 : Burial date of ELLEN ANDERSON
Monday 25 January 1909 : Marriage date of SAMUEL ERNEST WALKER = LUCY BEATRICE HAYES
Friday 19 February 1909 : Death date of FREDA ROBINSON
Thursday 4 March 1909 : Birth date of MICHAEL EDEN
Thursday 4 March 1909 : Birth date of CYRIL CONROY
Wednesday 21 July 1909 : Birth date of THOMAS ARNOLD HART
Tuesday 27 July 1909 : Birth date of FRED ROBINSON
Tuesday 27 July 1909 : Birth date of EMILY ROBINSON
Sunday 12 September 1909 : Christening date of ARTHUR LESLIE GREEN
1910 : Invention of first synthetic plastic, Bakelite
Tuesday 1 March 1910 : Christening date of FRED ROBINSON
Tuesday 1 March 1910 : Christening date of EMILY ROBINSON
Monday 14 March 1910 : Birth date of MARIE ROBINSON
6 May 1910 : End of reign of Edward VII
7 May 1910 : Start of reign of George V
31 July 1910 : Radio used to arrest Dr Crippen fleeing to Quebec
1911 : E. Rutherford puts forward nuclear model of the atom
3 January 1911 : Three policemen die in the Seige of Sidney Street
Tuesday 7 March 1911 : Birth date of JOHN CLIFFORD ROBINSON
Sunday 9 April 1911 : Christening date of JOHN CLIFFORD ROBINSON
Tuesday 22 August 1911 : Death date of SAMUEL WALKER
31 August 1911 : Troops clash with strikers in north of England
15 April 1912 : SS Titanic sinks with loss of 1513 lives
Friday 5 July 1912 : Death date of CHARLES ASHMORE
Saturday 27 July 1912 : Death date of WILLIAM ROBINSON
Monday 29 July 1912 : Burial date of WILLIAM ROBINSON
10 February 1913 : Capt. Scott found dead in Antartica
June 1913 : Suffragette dies under King's horse at Epsom
Wednesday 17 December 1913 : Christening date of EDNA MAY GREEN
1914 : Invention of military tank by E Swinton
28 June 1914 : Austrian Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
Tuesday 21 July 1914 : Birth date of SAMUAL GLEN WALKER
28 July 1914 : Start of World War I
28 July 1914 : Austria declares war on Serbia
1 August 1914 : Germany declares war on Russia
August 1914 : Battle of Tannenberg
3 August 1914 : Germany declares war on France
4 August 1914 : Germany invades Belgium
4 August 1914 : Britain declares war on Germany
September 1914 : First Battle of the Marne
Sunday 4 October 1914 : Birth date of ALICE WRAGG
4 October 1914 : First bombs fall on London
Thursday 8 October 1914 : Birth date of HARRY ROBINSON
February 1915 : Start of German submarine blockade of Britain
22 April 1915 : Germans first use of mustard gas at Ypres
26 April 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 September 1915 : Poland and Lithuania overrun by Germany
14 October 1915 : Britain and France declare war on Bulgaria
20 December 1915 : British withdraw from Gallipoli
February 1916 : Battle of Verdun
24 April 1916 : 450 die in Easter Rising in Dublin
31 May 1916 : Battle of Jutland
1 July 1916 : Start of Battle of the Somme
27 August 1916 : Romaina declares war on Austria-Hungary
15 November 1916 : End of Battle of the Somme
6 April 1917 : USA declares war on Germany
October 1917 : Start of Battle of Caporetto
December 1917 : End of Battle of Caporetto
7 December 1917 : USA declares war on Austria-Hungary
15 December 1917 : Russian Bolsheviks now allies with Germany
21 March 1918 : Start of German offensive
1 April 1918 : Royal Air Force created
18 May 1918 : Sinn Féin banned and leaders arrested
July 1918 : Second Battle of the Marne
8 August 1918 : End of German offensive
4 October 1918 : Germany offers surrender
11 November 1918 : End of World War I
11 November 1918 : Hostilities cease on Western Front
28 December 1918 : Women allowed to vote for the first time
March 1919 : Spanish flu kills 150,000 throughout Britian
28 December 1919 : Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
Wednesday 29 September 1920 : Marriage date of ARTHUR WATSON = SARAH ANNE GREEN
18 October 1920 : State of emergency declared as miners strike
21 November 1920 : "Bloody Sunday" - 12 Irish killed by the Black and Tans
Wednesday 29 June 1921 : Birth date of DEREK DRONFIELD
Friday 19 August 1921 : Birth date of DOROTHY IRENE WATSON
6 December 1921 : Irish Free State created
1922 : Banting and MacLeod isolate human insulin
Tuesday 4 April 1922 : Death date of AMY WALKER
Sunday 1 October 1922 : Birth date of WINNIE MORRISON
23 April 1924 : First royal transmission by wireless
1926 : Invention of the liquid-fuelled rocket by R Goddard
1926 : First demonstration of television by J L Baird
10 May 1926 : TUC calls first General Strike
Monday 28 November 1927 : Death date of GRAHAM ROBINSON
7 January 1928 : River Thames floods killing 14
30 September 1928 : Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming
Friday 17 January 1930 : Death date of ANNIE ROBINSON
24 May 1930 : Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia
5 October 1930 : Airship R101 crashes in France killing 48
12 February 1932 : Whipping of children under 14 is banned
30 September 1932 : Unemployment reaches 25%
1934 : Invention of first practical radar by Watson-Watt
21 September 1934 : 262 killed in blast at Gresford colliery
18 March 1935 : Thousands protest in Wales at "means test"
1936 : Invention of helicopter by H Focke
1936 : Sir Frank Whittle invents the jet engine
20 January 1936 : End of reign of George V
21 January 1936 : Start of reign of Edward VIII
Monday 13 July 1936 : Death date of ELIZABETH WHITE
11 November 1936 : Jarrow Crusade reaches London
Saturday 21 November 1936 : Death date of JOHN THOMAS GREEN
10 December 1936 : End of reign of Edward VIII
10 December 1936 : Edward VIII abdicates
11 December 1936 : Start of reign of George VI
28 May 1937 : Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister
1938 : Discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassmann
11 July 1938 : Last British troops leave Eire
25 August 1939 : IRA bomb Coventry killing 5
September 1939 : Children evacuated from London and major cities
1 September 1939 : Germany invades Poland
3 September 1939 : Britain and France declare war on Germany
3 September 1939 : Start of World War II
17 December 1939 : the Graf Spee scuttled off Montevideo
10 May 1940 : Churchill takes over as Prime Minister
10 May 1940 : Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
12 May 1940 : Germany invades France
26 May 1940 : Allied evacuation from Dunkirk begins
10 June 1940 : Italy invades France
10 June 1940 : Italy declares war on France and Britain
14 June 1940 : Germans enter Paris unopposed
22 June 1940 : France surrenders to Germany
14 November 1940 : Coventry bombed
Thursday 23 January 1941 : Birth date of GRAHAM CHEETHAM
17 April 1941 : Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany
27 April 1941 : British leave Greece
Saturday 31 May 1941 : Marriage date of SAMUAL GLEN WALKER = BESSIE HAGUE
22 June 1941 : Germany attacks Russia
14 August 1941 : Britain and USA sign Atlantic Charter
7 December 1941 : Japan attack USA at Pearl Harbour
11 December 1941 : Britain and USA declare war on Japan
11 December 1941 : Germany and Italy declare war on USA
15 February 1942 : British surrender Singapore to Japanese
9 April 1942 : USA surrenders Bataan peninsula to Japanese
6 May 1942 : USA surrenders Corregidor Island to Japanese
10 June 1942 : Lidice, Czechoslovakia razed by Germans
8 November 1942 : British and US troops land in North Africa
14 January 1943 : Casablanca conference
1 February 1943 : Germans surrender at Stalingrad
12 May 1943 : War in Africa ends
25 July 1943 : Mussolini deposed
3 September 1943 : Allies land in Italy
8 September 1943 : Italy surrenders
10 September 1943 : Germans take Rome
22 November 1943 : Cairo conference
Sunday 28 November 1943 : Birth date of KATHY LUCILLE MEYER
28 November 1943 : Teheran Conference
22 January 1944 : British and US troops land at Anzio
Thursday 17 February 1944 : Death date of FLORENCE FOWLER
4 June 1944 : British and US troops enter Rome
25 August 1944 : Paris liberated
13 October 1944 : Athens liberated
20 October 1944 : USA invades Philippines
16 December 1944 : Battle of the Bulge
11 February 1945 : Yalta agreement
28 April 1945 : Mussolini killed at Lake Como
1 May 1945 : Hitler's suicide announced
2 May 1945 : Berlin falls
7 May 1945 : VE Day. Germany surrenders
17 July 1945 : Potsdam conference
6 August 1945 : USA drops atom bomb on Hiroshima
8 August 1945 : USSR declares war on Japan
9 August 1945 : USA drops atom bomb on Nagasaki
14 August 1945 : Japan surrenders
2 September 1945 : End of World War II
2 September 1945 : VJ Day. Japanese sign surrender aboard USS Missouri
Saturday 29 September 1945 : Marriage date of HARRY ROBINSON = DOROTHY IRENE WATSON
1946 : Birth date of MARTIN WALKER
February 1946 : 50,000 "GI brides" shipped out to the USA
Monday 25 February 1946 : Birth date of PETER HUGHES
Sunday 22 September 1946 : Birth date of JANE MARGERET ROBINSON
December 1946 : Fuel and food shortages continue
1947 : Birth date of PATRICIA JOAN MEYER
20 November 1947 : Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh
1 January 1948 : Railways nationalised
Friday 16 January 1948 : Death date of CHARLES ROBINSON
Thursday 12 February 1948 : Death date of GURTRUDE WALKER
Friday 27 February 1948 : Birth date of MALCOM NORMAN GROVES
Sunday 27 June 1948 : Death date of EDITH ROBINSON
28 June 1948 : Troops break dockers' strike
Thursday 12 August 1948 : Marriage date of THOMAS ARNOLD HART = WINNIE MORRISON
Monday 20 September 1948 : Birth date of IAN CHEETHAM
Friday 26 November 1948 : Death date of FRANK ROBINSON
December 1948 : Labour government constructs "Welfare State"
Wednesday 22 December 1948 : Birth date of MARY ANN DINGWALL
15 March 1949 : Clothes rationing ends
18 April 1949 : Eire becomes Republic of Ireland
Saturday 15 October 1949 : Birth date of TREVOR HART
ABT 1950 : Albert Einstein puts forward theories of relativity
28 June 1950 : Royal Navy enters Korean War
Sunday 5 November 1950 : Birth date of PAMULA SUSAN WALKER
Friday 22 December 1950 : Marriage date of DEREK DRONFIELD = MARGARET ELIZABETH WATSON
25 December 1950 : Stone of Destiny taken from Westminster Abbey
7 June 1951 : Soviet spies Burgess and MacLean disappear
6 February 1952 : End of reign of George VI
7 February 1952 : Start of reign of Elizabeth II
Sunday 16 March 1952 : Marriage date of THOMAS WILLIAM HART = KATE WALKER
Sunday 18 May 1952 : Birth date of BARBARA HART
Sunday 29 June 1952 : Birth date of ALLEN CHEETHAM
24 November 1952 : "Mousetrap" opens in London
11 December 1952 : Derek Bentley sentenced to hang
1953 : Discovery of measles vaccine by Enders and Peebles
Monday 19 January 1953 : Birth date of PETER DRONFIELD
31 January 1953 : Ferry Princess Victoria sinks in the Irish Sea
3 February 1953 : Hundreds die as East Coast is flooded
Monday 11 May 1953 : Death date of KATE WALKER
30 May 1953 : Edmund Hillary reaches the top of Mount Everest
Wednesday 22 July 1953 : Death date of FREDERICK ROBINSON
Friday 23 October 1953 : Death date of CLARA MARRIOTT
Thursday 29 October 1953 : Burial date of CLARA MARRIOTT
1954 : Discovery of first polio vaccine by J E Salk
May 1954 : "Teddy Boys" appear
3 July 1954 : Rationing ends
Sunday 8 May 1955 : Birth date of PHILIP HARRY ROBINSON
13 July 1955 : Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged
Monday 25 July 1955 : Birth date of CHRISTINE CHEETHAM
31 October 1956 : Britain invades Suez
Sunday 14 April 1957 : Death date of FRANK EDWARD FLETCHER
17 October 1957 : Air borne radiation leaks from Windscale nuclear plant
November 1957 : First motorway in Britain, M1 opens
6 February 1958 : 7 members of Manchester United die in plane crash
Tuesday 25 March 1958 : Birth date of CELIA KAY ROBINSON
Wednesday 26 March 1958 : Christening date of CELIA KAY ROBINSON
Saturday 6 December 1958 : Death date of PAMULA SUSAN WALKER
Saturday 7 February 1959 : Birth date of JANET MARGARET WALKER
Sunday 12 July 1959 : Birth date of KEVIN JOHN ANDERSON
December 1959 : Death date of ARTHUR WATSON
Sunday 6 March 1960 : Burial date of SAMUEL ERNEST WALKER
November 1960 : Death date of LUCY BEATRICE HAYES
Monday 19 December 1960 : Death date of FREDERICK ROBINSON
31 December 1960 : National Service abolished
27 March 1963 : Dr Beeching proposes cutting 25% of rail lines
5 June 1963 : John Profumo resigns after sex scandal
4 November 1963 : The Beatles appear in the Royal Variety Show
21 December 1964 : Death penalty abolished in Britain
28 October 1965 : Brady and Hindley charged with Moors Murders
21 October 1966 : 144 die in Aberfan as coal bing buries school
1967 : Emergence of Flower Power
Saturday 5 October 1968 : Marriage date of PETER HUGHES = JANE MARGERET ROBINSON
Tuesday 12 November 1968 : Death date of THOMAS ARNOLD HART
1969 : Birth date of STEVE WHITEHEAD
5 March 1969 : London gangsters the Kray twins sentenced to life
Saturday 15 August 1970 : Marriage date of TREVOR HART = MARY ANN DINGWALL
2 January 1971 : 66 die when barriers collapse at Ibrox Park
15 February 1971 : British currency goes decimal
Sunday 4 July 1971 : Birth date of EMMA VICTORIA EDEN
22 January 1972 : Britain joins the EEC
30 January 1972 : 13 shot in another Bloody Sunday in Derry
February 1972 : Miners strike leads to power cuts
Saturday 1 April 1972 : Marriage date of MALCOM NORMAN GROVES = BARBARA HART
8 March 1973 : IRA begins mainland bombing
17 December 1973 : Three day week introduced
1974 : Birth date of NICOLA WHITEHEAD
12 November 1974 : Lord Lucan escapes and disappears
11 July 1975 : Inflation reaches 25%
August 1976 : Drought causes water shortages
2 April 1977 : Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time
Tuesday 29 August 1978 : Birth date of SIMON THOMAS HART
13 December 1978 : Jeremy Thorpe, MP charged with incitement to murder
January 1979 : "Winter of Discontent" causes chaos
4 May 1979 : Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister
2 September 1979 : Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim
Tuesday 1 April 1980 : Birth date of JOHNATHAN ROBERT HART
5 May 1980 : SAS storms Iranian embassy in London
Saturday 9 August 1980 : Marriage date of PHILIP HARRY ROBINSON = JANET MARGARET WALKER
July 1981 : Riots break out in 8 inner city areas
Monday 10 August 1981 : Death date of WINIFRED ROBINSON
2 April 1982 : Argentina invades Falkland Islands
14 June 1982 : British troops regain control of Falklands
Monday 5 July 1982 : Death date of DEREK DRONFIELD
25 September 1983 : 134 IRA prisoners escape from the Maze prison
Thursday 15 March 1984 : Birth date of CLAIRE LOUISE ROBINSON
May 1984 : Coal strikes crushed by riot police
12 October 1984 : IRA bombs Tory conference in Brighton
11 May 1985 : 40 killed as fire destroys Bradford City stand
Tuesday 18 February 1986 : Death date of DOROTHY IRENE WATSON
16 October 1987 : Hurricane hits southern England
18 November 1987 : 30 die in King's Cross Underground fire
6 July 1988 : North sea oil rig Piper Alpha explodes
Saturday 9 July 1988 : Marriage date of KEVIN JOHN ANDERSON = CELIA KAY ROBINSON
Sunday 23 October 1988 : Death date of MICHAEL EDEN
22 December 1988 : Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Lockerbie killing 270
Wednesday 1 March 1989 : Birth date of DAVID PHILIP ROBINSON
15 April 1989 : 94 football fans crushed to death at Hillsborough
September 1989 : Thousands of Scots elect not to pay new Poll Tax
19 October 1989 : "Guildford Four" released from prison
Saturday 23 June 1990 : Death date of HARRY ROBINSON
23 August 1990 : British and US troop build-up in Persian Gulf
17 January 1991 : Operation "Desert Storm" defeats Iraq
7 February 1991 : Downing Street hit by IRA mortar bomb
14 March 1991 : "Birmingham Six" released from prison
Tuesday 2 July 1991 : Birth date of JAMES KEVIN ANDERSON
Back to Genealogy Start Page