Timeline
1700 1800 1900
1765 : Birth date of Joseph ABRAHAM
1767 : Construction of Edinburgh's New Town begins
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
1783 : First steam powered ship built by d'Abbans
1783 : First flight of hot-air balloon by Montgolfier brothers
Tuesday 4 February 1783 : Parliament proclaims an end to hostilities in America
Wednesday 3 September 1783 : UK, France, Spain, the Netherlands and the US sign the Treaty of Paris
Monday 2 August 1784 : First mail coach runs from Bristol to London
1785 : First power-driven loom invented by E Cartwright
1786 : Robert Burns publishes "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect"
1787 : Transportation of criminals to Botany Bay begins
Monday 27 October 1788 : Marriage date of Joseph ABRAHAM = Elizabeth NORWOOD
1789 : Birth date of Daniel ABRAHAM
Tuesday 28 April 1789 : Mutiny aboard HMS Bounty
1791 : The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain is founded
1791 : Birth date of Kitty ABRAHAM
1793 : Invention of cotton gin by Eli Whitney
Friday 1 February 1793 : France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands
1795 : Poor Law devised
1795 : Birth date of Sarah VARNEY
1795 : Birth date of Robert ABRAHAM
1796 : Birth date of Mary Ann ABRAHAM
1796 : Birth date of James ABRAHAM
1796 : Discovery of Smallpox vaccine by E Jenner
1797 : Birth date of Martha VARNEY
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
1799 : Birth date of Joseph ABRAHAM
1799 : Birth date of William VARNEY
Wednesday 9 January 1799 : Parliament passes the first income tax
1800 : Birth date of George VARNEY
1800 : Birth date of Sarah ABRAHAM
Saturday 11 January 1800 : Birth date of George SHARP
1801 : Electric arc lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy
Sunday 7 February 1802 : Birth date of Samuel ABRAHAM
Friday 1 July 1803 : Birth date of Phobe VARNEY
1804 : Birth date of Marian VARNEY
Tuesday 14 August 1804 : Birth date of John SHARP
Monday 21 October 1805 : Nelson dies victorious at Trafalgar
1807 : Birth date of Joseph VARNEY
Sunday 21 August 1808 : Sir Arthur Wellesley leads campaign in Peninsular War
1809 : Birth date of Issacc/Isabel ?? SHARP
1809 : Birth date of Eliza VARNEY
Friday 28 July 1809 : French driven from Portugal
1811 : Luddites attack textile machinery
February 1811 : Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent due to King's insanity
1812 : French retreat from Moscow
Friday 10 January 1812 : Birth date of Margaret SHARP
Wednesday 12 August 1812 : Wellington takes Madrid
1813 : Birth date of Robert VARNEY
1815 : Humphry Davy invents mining safety lamp
Tuesday 17 January 1815 : Birth date of William SHARP
Sunday 18 June 1815 : Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
1816 : Invention of bicycle by K D von Sauerbronn
1816 : Invention of phosphorous match by F Derosne
1817 : Potato famine kills thousands in Ireland
1818 : Mary Shelley publishes "Frankenstein"
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
Thursday 26 February 1824 : Marriage date of Samuel ABRAHAM = Phobe VARNEY
1825 : Death date of Joseph ABRAHAM
1825 : Birth date of George ABRAHAM
Tuesday 27 September 1825 : First passenger train service from Stockton to Darlington
Monday 30 January 1826 : Telford's Menai suspension bridge completed
1827 : G S Ohm postulates Ohm's Law
Tuesday 22 January 1828 : Wellington becomes Prime Minister
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
1830 : Birth date of Alfred ABRAHAM
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
1833 : Birth date of Matilda ABRAHAM
Monday 29 July 1833 : Slavery abolished throughout British Empire
March 1834 : Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation
1835 : Samuel Colt invents the revolver
Wednesday 14 October 1835 : Birth date of Margaret STENHOUSE
Saturday 17 October 1835 : Birth date of George William SHARP
1836 : Birth date of Robert ABRAHAM
1836 : Charles Darwin returns from South America
1836 : Invention of screw propeller by F P Smith
1837 : Invention of telegraph by S F B Morse
Tuesday 20 June 1837 : End of reign of William IV
Wednesday 21 June 1837 : Start of reign of Queen Victoria
April 1838 : First steam crossing of the Atlantic
September 1838 : Grace Darling rescues survivors of the "Forfarshire"
1839 : Rubber vulcanisation developed by C Goodyear
ABT 1840 : Development of photography
Wednesday 6 May 1840 : Penny Post introduced
Tuesday 2 June 1840 : Britain annexes New Zealand
Saturday 14 November 1840 : Birth date of Alexander WALKER
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
1843 : Birth date of Esther ABRAHAM
Sunday 31 December 1843 : Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol"
June 1844 : Mines Act prohibits use of women and boys in mines
1845 : Marriage date of Alfred HODGKIN = Elizabeth ABRAHAM
1845 : Invention of pneumatic tyre by R W Thompson
1846 : Birth date of Charlotte Rebecca KELLY
1846 : Birth date of Thomas George HODGKIN
July 1846 : Potato famine hits Ireland and Scotland
Thursday 8 October 1846 : Birth date of Mary Ann SHEDDAN
1847 : Birth date of Christopher MILEY
April 1847 : Thousands emigrate from Ireland on "Coffin" ships
Sunday 2 July 1848 : Birth date of Samuel HODGKIN
November 1849 : Cholera epidemic takes 2000 lives a week
1850 : Invention of refrigerator by Twining / Harrison
April 1850 : Birth date of Katherine Anne KEMP
Sunday 10 November 1850 : Birth date of Walter HODGKIN
1851 : Birth date of Mary Anne O'RIELLY
Monday 31 March 1851 : 1851 national census taken
Thursday 1 May 1851 : Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park
1852 : Birth date of Emma Ellen ALLEN
1853 : Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory
ABT 1853 : Transportation of criminals to Australia ends
1853 : Birth date of Elizabeth Jane SNOW
Sunday 20 March 1853 : Birth date of Esther HODGKIN
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Britain and France declare war on Russia
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Start of Crimean War
1855 : Invention of the safety match by J E Lundstrom
Sunday 4 March 1855 : Birth date of Clara HODGKIN
Sunday 30 March 1856 : End of Crimean War
1857 : Death date of Abraham SNOW
1857 : Birth date of Harriett SNOW
Sunday 10 May 1857 : Sepoy mutiny in India
1858 : Birth date of Agnes ALLEN
Sunday 14 March 1858 : Birth date of Alfred HODGKIN
Saturday 1 May 1858 : Death date of Ann BEER
1859 : First oil well sunk by E L Drake in Pennsylvania
Thursday 24 November 1859 : Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species"
Monday 26 December 1859 : Marriage date of George William SHARP = Margaret STENHOUSE
1860 : Marriage date of Patrick DELANY = Ellen O'SHEA
Sunday 16 September 1860 : Birth date of Robert HODGKIN
Sunday 14 October 1860 : Birth date of John Richard SHARP
1861 : Gatling gun invented by R J Gatling
Monday 8 April 1861 : 1861 national census taken
1862 : Death date of Arthur William ALLEN
1862 : Birth date of Arthur William ALLEN
1863 : Birth date of Gerald Edward ROWE
Thursday 8 January 1863 : Birth date of George William SHARP
Saturday 10 January 1863 : London Underground opens
1865 : Birth date of William Howard ROWE
Sunday 29 January 1865 : Birth date of Hugh Stenhouse SHARP
ABT 1866 : Invention of the breech-loading rifle
Thursday 24 May 1866 : Death date of William Babington (Dr) M.R.C.S.I ROWE
September 1866 : Cholera sweeps London
1867 : Joseph Lister pioneers antiseptic techniques
1867 : Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1867 : Invention of the typewriter by Sholes and Glidden
Thursday 28 March 1867 : Birth date of Ralph Bruce SHARP
February 1868 : Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
Wednesday 23 December 1868 : Marriage date of Thomas George HODGKIN = Emma Ellen ALLEN
1869 : D Mendeleev constructs Periodic Table of elements
Saturday 22 May 1869 : Marriage date of Robert ABRAHAM = Charlotte Rebecca KELLY
Thursday 23 September 1869 : Birth date of Peter Reed SHARP
1870 : Electric incandescent lamp invented by T A Edison
1870 : Birth date of Clara Sophia HODGKIN
Sunday 15 May 1870 : Birth date of Matilda Phoebe ABRAHAM
1871 : Birth date of Emma Ellen HODGKIN
Monday 3 April 1871 : 1871 national census taken
Sunday 2 July 1871 : Birth date of Ann SHARP
Monday 10 July 1871 : Death date of Richard KEMP
Wednesday 12 July 1871 : Burial date of Richard KEMP
1872 : Birth date of Alfred ABRAHAM
May 1872 : Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
Saturday 8 June 1872 : Marriage date of Alexander WALKER = Mary Ann SHEDDAN
December 1872 : "Marie Celeste" discovered abandoned
1873 : Birth date of Mary Jane WALKER
1873 : Marriage date of Christopher MILEY = Mary Anne O'RIELLY
1873 : Invention of pianoforte by J Broadwood
1874 : Birth date of George Robert ABRAHAM
1874 : Birth date of Robert Arundel Ward WALKER
Saturday 6 June 1874 : Birth date of David Arnott SHARP
Tuesday 8 December 1874 : Birth date of Charles Ernest HODGKIN
1875 : Birth date of Edward John DELANY
1875 : Marriage date of Kyle ALEXANDER = Elizabeth Jane SNOW
Saturday 6 February 1875 : Death date of Robert Arundel Ward WALKER
1876 : Invention of the telephone by A G Bell
1876 : Birth date of Eliza Anne HODGKIN
1876 : Birth date of Samuel Babbington ABRAHAM
Sunday 23 April 1876 : Birth date of William Dunlop WALKER
Sunday 18 June 1876 : Birth date of Margaret Ellen SHARP
1877 : Phonograph invented by Thomas Edison
1877 : Invention of reinforced concrete by J Monier
1877 : Birth date of John Thomas WALKER
1879 : Death date of Gerald Edward ROWE
1879 : Birth date of Martha Anne WALKER
1879 : Birth date of Christopher Johnson Miley
1879 : Birth date of Gerald Edward Rowe ABRAHAM
1879 : Birth date of Walter HODGKIN
Monday 17 February 1879 : Death date of Samuel ABRAHAM
Wednesday 23 April 1879 : Death date of Mary Ann SHEDDAN
Thursday 24 April 1879 : Burial date of Mary Ann SHEDDAN
Saturday 9 August 1879 : Birth date of Isabel Cowan LAWRENCE
Sunday 28 December 1879 : Tay Bridge disaster
1881 : Birth date of Sydney Ernest ABRAHAM
Sunday 3 April 1881 : 1881 national census taken
1882 : Death date of Sydney Ernest ABRAHAM
1882 : Isolation of tuberculosis bacteria by R Koch
1883 : Birth date of Joseph HODGKIN
1883 : Cholera bacteria isolated by Robert Koch
Saturday 24 March 1883 : Marriage date of Alexander WALKER = Katherine Anne KEMP
Sunday 26 August 1883 : Krakatoa erupts
Monday 27 August 1883 : Birth date of Elizabeth MILEY
Monday 27 August 1883 : Birth date of Rosa Anne MILEY
1884 : Fountain pen invented by L E Waterman
1884 : Birth date of William George CLARKE
1884 : Birth date of Isabel Jean BARTON
Wednesday 6 February 1884 : Birth date of Alexander Richard WALKER
1885 : Vaccine against rabies discovered by Louis Pasteur
1885 : First internal combustion carriage built by K. Benz
1885 : Birth date of Margaret HODGKIN
Monday 26 January 1885 : General Gordon killed at Khartoum
Tuesday 8 September 1885 : Birth date of Katherine (Kate) Francis WALKER
1886 : Birth date of William George HODGKIN
Thursday 4 February 1886 : Birth date of Lillian Victoria ABRAHAM
1887 : Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle
Thursday 29 September 1887 : Birth date of Edith Florence WALKER
1888 : Invention of hand-held camera by George Eastman
October 1888 : Jack the Ripper terrorises London's East End
1889 : Invention of the bolt-action rifle by P von Mauser
Saturday 2 February 1889 : Death date of Thomas George HODGKIN
Thursday 14 November 1889 : Completion of the Forth Bridge - first large steel structure
Sunday 22 December 1889 : Death date of George William SHARP
Wednesday 25 December 1889 : Death date of Phobe VARNEY
1890 : Discovery of diphtheria vaccine by E von Behring
1890 : Birth date of Ernest Alfred WALKER
1891 : Invention of the zip fastener by W L Judson
Wednesday 1 April 1891 : 1891 national census taken
Thursday 14 July 1892 : Marriage date of Hugh Stenhouse SHARP = Adeline FORBES
1893 : Birth date of Annie DUMPHEY
1893 : Thomas Edison invents motion pictures
1894 : Death date of Emma Ellen ALLEN
1894 : Tower Bridge opens in London
1895 : Discovery of x-rays by W K Roentgen
1895 : Wireless telegraphy invented by G Marconi
Wednesday 20 February 1895 : Birth date of Margaret Mary May SHARP
1896 : Discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel
Tuesday 22 June 1897 : Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
1899 : Marriage date of George William SHARP = Matilda Phoebe ABRAHAM
1899 : Introduction of aspirin by Felix Hoffman
1899 : Invention of first tape recorder by V Poulsen
October 1899 : Start of Boer War
Monday 13 November 1899 : Death date of Alfred ABRAHAM
1900 : Invention of agricultural tractor by B Holt
1900 : Invention of rigid airship by von Zeppelin
August 1900 : Boxer rebellion in Peking
1901 : First successful safety razor sold by K Gillette
1901 : Death date of Robert ABRAHAM
Tuesday 22 January 1901 : End of reign of Queen Victoria
Wednesday 23 January 1901 : Start of reign of Edward VII
Friday 6 December 1901 : Birth date of Harold MADDISON
Friday 17 January 1902 : Birth date of Margaret Lillian SHARP
Saturday 5 April 1902 : 20 killed as terracing collapses at Ibrox Park
Sunday 1 June 1902 : End of Boer War
Sunday 10 April 1904 : Birth date of Charlotte Mavis SHARP
Wednesday 4 October 1905 : Convicted Suffragettes choose to go to prison
1906 : Birth date of Harry HARGREAVES
1906 : Wassermann test for syphilis developed
Tuesday 8 May 1906 : Birth date of Annie Matilda (Nancy) SHARP
Tuesday 5 June 1906 : Marriage date of William Dunlop WALKER = Isabel Cowan LAWRENCE
1907 : Birth date of Norman Stanley SHARP
1907 : Albert Einstein postulates "E=mc²" theory
Thursday 27 June 1907 : Birth date of Clair Isabel WALKER
Saturday 11 January 1908 : Birth date of Joyce Elizabeth SHARP
1909 : Birth date of Edna Isabel Miley
Friday 7 May 1909 : Marriage date of Alexander Richard WALKER = Elizabeth MILEY
Monday 14 June 1909 : Marriage date of Christopher Johnson Miley = Maria Robertson
Thursday 9 December 1909 : Birth date of Lillias Stenhouse SHARP
1910 : Invention of first synthetic plastic, Bakelite
1910 : Death date of Bernard O'REILLY
1910 : Birth date of Clarice Mary WALKER
1910 : Birth date of Christopher Seymour Miley
Thursday 10 March 1910 : Birth date of Alexander Francis (Frank) WALKER
Friday 6 May 1910 : End of reign of Edward VII
Saturday 7 May 1910 : Start of reign of George V
Wednesday 20 July 1910 : Birth date of Gerald Edward QUINN
Sunday 31 July 1910 : Radio used to arrest Dr Crippen fleeing to Quebec
1911 : Birth date of George Stenhouse SHARP
1911 : Marriage date of Edward John DELANY = Lillian Victoria ABRAHAM
1911 : E. Rutherford puts forward nuclear model of the atom
Tuesday 3 January 1911 : Three policemen die in the Seige of Sidney Street
Saturday 1 July 1911 : Death date of Christopher MILEY
Thursday 31 August 1911 : Troops clash with strikers in north of England
1912 : Birth date of Sidney Clarence Miley
1912 : Birth date of Alfred James ABRAHAM
1912 : Marriage date of George Robert ABRAHAM = Isabel Jean BARTON
Friday 26 January 1912 : Birth date of Gerald Edward DELANY
Saturday 16 March 1912 : Birth date of Patricia CANNY
Monday 15 April 1912 : SS Titanic sinks with loss of 1513 lives
Saturday 11 May 1912 : Birth date of Christopher Thomas WALKER
Thursday 23 May 1912 : Death date of Hugh Stenhouse SHARP
Thursday 6 June 1912 : Birth date of Jessica Amelia SHARP
Monday 1 July 1912 : Birth date of Juli COX
Monday 10 February 1913 : Capt. Scott found dead in Antartica
Saturday 22 March 1913 : Birth date of Isabelle WALKER
June 1913 : Suffragette dies under King's horse at Epsom
Tuesday 17 June 1913 : Birth date of John Richard SHARP
1914 : Birth date of Hilda Dorothy ABRAHAM
1914 : Birth date of Mary Eleanor Rose Miley
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
August 1914 : Battle of Tannenberg
Saturday 1 August 1914 : Germany declares war on Russia
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
Wednesday 25 November 1914 : Birth date of Linton William WALKER
1915 : Death date of Mary CARLEEN
1915 : Birth date of Gwendoline Matilda ABRAHAM
February 1915 : Start of German submarine blockade of Britain
Thursday 22 April 1915 : Germans first use of mustard gas at Ypres
Monday 26 April 1915 : British land in Turkey
Friday 7 May 1915 : SS Lusitania sunk by German submarine
Saturday 22 May 1915 : 200 soldiers killed in train crash at Quintinshill
Monday 6 September 1915 : Poland and Lithuania overrun by Germany
Thursday 14 October 1915 : Britain and France declare war on Bulgaria
Monday 15 November 1915 : Death date of Peter Reed SHARP
Monday 20 December 1915 : British withdraw from Gallipoli
1916 : Birth date of Violet Melburnea Miley
1916 : Birth date of Queenie Olga Miley
1916 : Birth date of Patrick MORGAN
1916 : Birth date of Robert George ABRAHAM
Monday 3 January 1916 : Birth date of Mary Eileen DELANY
February 1916 : Battle of Verdun
Monday 24 April 1916 : 450 die in Easter Rising in Dublin
Wednesday 31 May 1916 : Battle of Jutland
Saturday 1 July 1916 : Start of Battle of the Somme
Sunday 27 August 1916 : Romaina declares war on Austria-Hungary
October 1916 : Birth date of Richard James WALKER
Wednesday 15 November 1916 : End of Battle of the Somme
1917 : Birth date of Lorna VANDERBURG
1917 : Death date of John Alfred CLARKE
1917 : Birth date of John Alfred CLARKE
Friday 6 April 1917 : USA declares war on Germany
October 1917 : Start of Battle of Caporetto
December 1917 : End of Battle of Caporetto
Friday 7 December 1917 : USA declares war on Austria-Hungary
Saturday 15 December 1917 : Russian Bolsheviks now allies with Germany
1918 : Birth date of William Rowe ABRAHAM
Tuesday 8 January 1918 : Birth date of Rosalind Mary (Rosa) WALKER
Thursday 21 March 1918 : Start of German offensive
Monday 1 April 1918 : Royal Air Force created
Sunday 7 April 1918 : Birth date of Pat FEATHERSTONE
Sunday 28 April 1918 : Death date of William Howard ROWE
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 : End of World War I
Monday 11 November 1918 : Hostilities cease on Western Front
Thursday 14 November 1918 : Birth date of Norma Jean Miley
Saturday 28 December 1918 : Women allowed to vote for the first time
1919 : Birth date of Richard Colin ABRAHAM
March 1919 : Spanish flu kills 150,000 throughout Britian
Sunday 28 December 1919 : Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
1920 : Death date of Emma Ellen HODGKIN
1920 : Birth date of Bryan William DELANY
Sunday 18 January 1920 : Birth date of Jack Stanley WALKER
Monday 16 February 1920 : Birth date of Alfred Vincent (Vin) WALKER
Wednesday 15 September 1920 : Death date of Alexander WALKER
Thursday 16 September 1920 : Burial date of Alexander WALKER
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 : Death date of Ronald Phillip WALKER
1922 : Birth date of Lesley John Miley
1922 : Banting and MacLeod isolate human insulin
1922 : Birth date of Ronald Phillip WALKER
March 1922 : Birth date of Patrick Roy SHARP
Wednesday 5 April 1922 : Birth date of Betty Beauley STEARN
Tuesday 10 April 1923 : Death date of Alexander Richard WALKER
Saturday 21 April 1923 : Birth date of Veronica Joyce SHARP
Wednesday 23 April 1924 : First royal transmission by wireless
Tuesday 1 July 1924 : Death date of Ralph Bruce SHARP
Sunday 24 August 1924 : Death date of Charlotte Rebecca KELLY
Sunday 9 November 1924 : Birth date of Ronald Eric SHARP
Thursday 13 November 1924 : Death date of Margaret STENHOUSE
1925 : Birth date of Clare DELACY
Monday 6 July 1925 : Death date of Lillian Victoria ABRAHAM
Wednesday 9 December 1925 : Birth date of Shirley Adeline SHARP
1926 : Birth date of Patricia FASSO
1926 : Invention of the liquid-fuelled rocket by R Goddard
1926 : First demonstration of television by J L Baird
Monday 10 May 1926 : TUC calls first General Strike
Sunday 27 June 1926 : Death date of George William SHARP
Saturday 3 September 1927 : Birth date of Cyril Hugh SHARP
Saturday 7 January 1928 : River Thames floods killing 14
Sunday 30 September 1928 : Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming
Thursday 11 October 1928 : Birth date of Nancy Hondra SHARP
Saturday 22 December 1928 : Birth date of Marjory FERGUSON
Thursday 9 January 1930 : Birth date of Helen Forbes SHARP
Saturday 24 May 1930 : Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia
Sunday 5 October 1930 : Airship R101 crashes in France killing 48
Tuesday 18 August 1931 : Death date of Lesley John Miley
Friday 12 February 1932 : Whipping of children under 14 is banned
Friday 30 September 1932 : Unemployment reaches 25%
Thursday 10 August 1933 : Marriage date of Charles Robert BRUNTON = Joyce Elizabeth SHARP
Monday 2 October 1933 : Death date of Mary Anne O'RIELLY
1934 : Invention of first practical radar by Watson-Watt
Sunday 15 April 1934 : Marriage date of Norman Stanley SHARP = Laurie Margaret STRATON
Tuesday 24 July 1934 : Birth date of Adele Mary SHAW
Monday 20 August 1934 : Birth date of David John BRUNTON
Friday 21 September 1934 : 262 killed in blast at Gresford colliery
Sunday 3 March 1935 : Birth date of Kevin James FARRELLY
Monday 18 March 1935 : Thousands protest in Wales at "means test"
Friday 4 October 1935 : Birth date of Stuart HARGREAVES
1936 : Invention of helicopter by H Focke
1936 : Sir Frank Whittle invents the jet engine
Monday 20 January 1936 : End of reign of George V
Tuesday 21 January 1936 : Start of reign of Edward VIII
Monday 23 March 1936 : Birth date of Peter Francis SHARP
Wednesday 11 November 1936 : Jarrow Crusade reaches London
Saturday 14 November 1936 : Marriage date of Harold MADDISON = Lillias Stenhouse SHARP
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
Thursday 21 January 1937 : Marriage date of Jack Everard Tomkins = Norma Jean Miley
Friday 28 May 1937 : Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister
Monday 2 August 1937 : Birth date of Margaret Phoebe BRUNTON
Monday 11 October 1937 : Birth date of Les Tomkins
Sunday 14 November 1937 : Marriage date of Thomas Alexander ORR = Annie Matilda (Nancy) SHARP
Tuesday 14 December 1937 : Birth date of Geraldine Ruth SHARP
1938 : Discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassmann
Tuesday 24 May 1938 : Birth date of Frank William NOBEL
Monday 11 July 1938 : Last British troops leave Eire
Sunday 20 November 1938 : Birth date of Edward John DELANY
1939 : Death date of Isabella MILEY
Thursday 9 March 1939 : Death date of Katherine Anne KEMP
Saturday 11 March 1939 : Burial date of Katherine Anne KEMP
Wednesday 14 June 1939 : Birth date of Mavis Anne BRUNTON
Saturday 12 August 1939 : Marriage date of John Richard SHARP = Isabelle WALKER
Friday 25 August 1939 : IRA bomb Coventry killing 5
Friday 1 September 1939 : Germany invades Poland
September 1939 : Children evacuated from London and major cities
Sunday 3 September 1939 : Britain and France declare war on Germany
Sunday 3 September 1939 : Start of World War II
Sunday 17 December 1939 : the Graf Spee scuttled off Montevideo
Monday 15 January 1940 : Birth date of Janet Muriel ARMSTRONG
Saturday 16 March 1940 : Birth date of Ronald SULLIVAN
Friday 10 May 1940 : Churchill takes over as Prime Minister
Friday 10 May 1940 : Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
Sunday 12 May 1940 : Germany invades France
Sunday 19 May 1940 : Birth date of Robert Alexander MADDISON
Sunday 19 May 1940 : Birth date of George William MADDISON
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
Saturday 3 August 1940 : Marriage date of Hugh Davies PRICE = Tilly Abraham SHARP
Thursday 14 November 1940 : Coventry bombed
Wednesday 27 November 1940 : Birth date of Peter John SHARP
Friday 14 February 1941 : Birth date of Mary Joyce BRUNTON
Friday 28 March 1941 : Birth date of Allan Swynford BUTCHER
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
Friday 31 October 1941 : Birth date of Peter Gerald DELANY
Thursday 6 November 1941 : Marriage date of Jack Stanley WALKER = Pat FEATHERSTONE
Sunday 7 December 1941 : Japan attack USA at Pearl Harbour
Thursday 11 December 1941 : Germany and Italy declare war on USA
Thursday 11 December 1941 : Britain and USA declare war on Japan
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
Sunday 10 May 1942 : Birth date of Marjorie Fay SHARP
Wednesday 13 May 1942 : Marriage date of Linton William WALKER = Betty Beauley STEARN
Tuesday 19 May 1942 : Birth date of Coral Faye CLARKE
Wednesday 10 June 1942 : Lidice, Czechoslovakia razed by Germans
Wednesday 23 September 1942 : Birth date of Brigitta NILSON
Tuesday 13 October 1942 : Birth date of Margaret Louise SHARP
Monday 2 November 1942 : Birth date of Elizabeth Ann SHARP
Friday 6 November 1942 : Birth date of John Henry ARMSTRONG
Friday 6 November 1942 : Birth date of Allan David ARMSTRONG
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 31 March 1943 : Birth date of Suzanne DELANY
Wednesday 12 May 1943 : War in Africa ends
Tuesday 29 June 1943 : Birth date of Nancy Edna MADDISON
Thursday 8 July 1943 : Birth date of David Norman SHARP
Thursday 8 July 1943 : Birth date of Malcom Hedley SHARP
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
1944 : Birth date of Gerard MAHER
1944 : Birth date of Janice Ellen KRUSEMARK
Saturday 22 January 1944 : British and US troops land at Anzio
Sunday 30 April 1944 : Birth date of Cynthia JINNETTE
Sunday 4 June 1944 : British and US troops enter Rome
Monday 19 June 1944 : Birth date of Michael Robert BRUNTON
Friday 25 August 1944 : Paris liberated
Friday 13 October 1944 : Athens liberated
Friday 20 October 1944 : USA invades Philippines
Tuesday 5 December 1944 : Birth date of Betty Christina ARMSTRONG
Saturday 16 December 1944 : Battle of the Bulge
1945 : Birth date of Patrick Vincent MORGAN
Sunday 11 February 1945 : Yalta agreement
Friday 13 April 1945 : Birth date of Rhoda REECE
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
Wednesday 27 June 1945 : Birth date of Merribel Madeleine SHARP
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 26 August 1945 : Birth date of Graham Allan WHITE
Sunday 2 September 1945 : VJ Day. Japanese sign surrender aboard USS Missouri
Sunday 2 September 1945 : End of World War II
Thursday 4 October 1945 : Birth date of Chris Gerald John WYNNE
Thursday 6 December 1945 : Birth date of George William SHARP
February 1946 : 50,000 "GI brides" shipped out to the USA
Thursday 4 April 1946 : Birth date of Maureen Patricia MORRISON
Thursday 2 May 1946 : Birth date of Kay Lynette WALKER
Wednesday 7 August 1946 : Death date of Christopher Johnson Miley
December 1946 : Fuel and food shortages continue
1947 : Birth date of Thomas Richard MORGAN
Sunday 9 March 1947 : Birth date of Maureen Patricia HALL
Friday 11 July 1947 : Birth date of Mary GARTNER
Tuesday 2 September 1947 : Birth date of Clive John WALKER
Thursday 20 November 1947 : Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh
1948 : Death date of Thomas MILEY
Thursday 1 January 1948 : Railways nationalised
1948 : Birth date of Rosalind Mary MORGAN
Monday 28 June 1948 : Troops break dockers' strike
December 1948 : Labour government constructs "Welfare State"
1949 : Death date of Samuel Babbington ABRAHAM
Tuesday 15 March 1949 : Clothes rationing ends
Monday 18 April 1949 : Eire becomes Republic of Ireland
Saturday 10 September 1949 : Birth date of Tilly Kathleen BRUNTON
ABT 1950 : Albert Einstein puts forward theories of relativity
1950 : Birth date of Ronald Phillip MORGAN
Saturday 11 February 1950 : Marriage date of Ronald Eric SHARP = Marjory FERGUSON
Friday 31 March 1950 : Birth date of Robert William WALKER
Wednesday 12 April 1950 : Birth date of Patricia Hope MADDISON
Wednesday 28 June 1950 : Royal Navy enters Korean War
Sunday 6 August 1950 : Birth date of Rae Alicia HUGGINS
Friday 20 October 1950 : Marriage date of Gerald Edward QUINN = Mary Eileen DELANY
Wednesday 8 November 1950 : Birth date of Gerald Richard DELANY
Monday 25 December 1950 : Stone of Destiny taken from Westminster Abbey
1951 : Marriage date of Bryan William DELANY = Clare DELACY
Saturday 10 February 1951 : Birth date of Jeffery George SHARP
Saturday 17 March 1951 : Marriage date of John Charles WOOD = Charlotte Mavis SHARP
Thursday 7 June 1951 : Soviet spies Burgess and MacLean disappear
Saturday 1 December 1951 : Birth date of Greg MATHERS
Saturday 15 December 1951 : Death date of William Dunlop WALKER
Monday 17 December 1951 : Burial date of William Dunlop WALKER
Wednesday 6 February 1952 : End of reign of George VI
Thursday 7 February 1952 : Start of reign of Elizabeth II
Friday 9 May 1952 : Death date of David Arnott SHARP
Monday 9 June 1952 : Death date of Matilda Phoebe ABRAHAM
Sunday 2 November 1952 : Birth date of Stuart James WALKER
Monday 24 November 1952 : "Mousetrap" opens in London
Thursday 11 December 1952 : Derek Bentley sentenced to hang
1953 : Discovery of measles vaccine by Enders and Peebles
1953 : Birth date of Christa DEWALL
Saturday 31 January 1953 : Ferry Princess Victoria sinks in the Irish Sea
Tuesday 3 February 1953 : Hundreds die as East Coast is flooded
Friday 29 May 1953 : Birth date of Christine GRAY
Saturday 30 May 1953 : Edmund Hillary reaches the top of Mount Everest
Tuesday 14 July 1953 : Birth date of Maureen Kathleen SHARP
Thursday 24 September 1953 : Birth date of Mary Ellen CEDERBURG
Friday 23 October 1953 : Death date of Charles Ernest HODGKIN
1954 : Discovery of first polio vaccine by J E Salk
1954 : Birth date of Christopher Henry MORGAN
1954 : Death date of Peter MILEY
May 1954 : "Teddy Boys" appear
Saturday 3 July 1954 : Rationing ends
Saturday 12 February 1955 : Birth date of Donald Cameron NIGHTINGALE
Wednesday 13 July 1955 : Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged
Friday 12 August 1955 : Birth date of Cheryl FEWSTER
1956 : Death date of Isabel Jean BARTON
Sunday 29 April 1956 : Death date of Edward John DELANY
Wednesday 31 October 1956 : Britain invades Suez
1957 : Death date of Clare DELACY
1957 : Death date of George Robert ABRAHAM
Tuesday 26 March 1957 : Birth date of Susan Maree SHARP
Thursday 11 July 1957 : Death date of Ann SHARP
Wednesday 9 October 1957 : Birth date of Petra Jane SNELLEMAN
Thursday 17 October 1957 : Air borne radiation leaks from Windscale nuclear plant
November 1957 : First motorway in Britain, M1 opens
1958 : Death date of Mary Jane MILEY
Thursday 6 February 1958 : 7 members of Manchester United die in plane crash
Saturday 29 August 1959 : Marriage date of David John BRUNTON = Adele Mary SHAW
Friday 1 April 1960 : Death date of Gerald Edward QUINN
Sunday 29 May 1960 : Birth date of Angela Mary Louise BRUNTON
Saturday 31 December 1960 : National Service abolished
Tuesday 9 May 1961 : Marriage date of Ronald SULLIVAN = Nancy Edna MADDISON
Saturday 12 August 1961 : Birth date of Robert Anthony BRUNTON
Wednesday 25 October 1961 : Birth date of Sue LOUEY
Wednesday 22 November 1961 : Birth date of Mark Ronald SULLIVAN
1962 : Death date of Gerald Edward Rowe ABRAHAM
Wednesday 3 January 1962 : Marriage date of William COOK = Margaret Phoebe BRUNTON
Monday 12 February 1962 : Birth date of Renita ADAMS
Sunday 23 September 1962 : Death date of Harry HARGREAVES
Tuesday 25 September 1962 : Burial date of Harry HARGREAVES
Thursday 15 November 1962 : Birth date of Vera Ellen SULLIVAN
Saturday 5 January 1963 : Christening date of Rae Alicia HUGGINS
Wednesday 27 March 1963 : Dr Beeching proposes cutting 25% of rail lines
Wednesday 5 June 1963 : John Profumo resigns after sex scandal
Monday 4 November 1963 : The Beatles appear in the Royal Variety Show
Wednesday 29 January 1964 : Birth date of Louise HARGREAVES
Saturday 4 July 1964 : Birth date of Karen Leanne SHARP
Thursday 27 August 1964 : Birth date of Mark Andrew SHARP
Saturday 28 November 1964 : Marriage date of Allan Swynford BUTCHER = Janet Muriel ARMSTRONG
Wednesday 9 December 1964 : Marriage date of Malcom Hedley SHARP = Coral Faye CLARKE
Monday 21 December 1964 : Death penalty abolished in Britain
1965 : Death date of Patricia FASSO
Thursday 11 February 1965 : Death date of Margaret Ellen SHARP
Thursday 25 March 1965 : Birth date of Timothy Duncan PAIN
Sunday 23 May 1965 : Birth date of Nicole Louise SHARP
Saturday 7 August 1965 : Birth date of Carolyn Elizabeth SHARP
Thursday 28 October 1965 : Brady and Hindley charged with Moors Murders
Wednesday 22 December 1965 : Death date of Maria Robertson
1966 : Death date of Charles MILEY
1966 : Death date of Ernest Alfred WALKER
1966 : Birth date of Marc DELANY
Thursday 6 January 1966 : Birth date of Julie HARGREAVES
Saturday 23 April 1966 : Marriage date of Kevin James FARRELLY = Elizabeth Ann SHARP
Thursday 25 August 1966 : Burial date of Ernest Alfred WALKER
Saturday 1 October 1966 : Marriage date of John Henry ARMSTRONG = Maureen Patricia MORRISON
Friday 21 October 1966 : 144 die in Aberfan as coal bing buries school
Saturday 29 October 1966 : Birth date of Gary CUNDY
Saturday 12 November 1966 : Marriage date of Frank William NOBEL = Betty Christina ARMSTRONG
1967 : Emergence of Flower Power
Saturday 4 February 1967 : Marriage date of Peter John SHARP = Rhoda REECE
Saturday 1 April 1967 : Birth date of Neil Henry SMITH
Saturday 8 April 1967 : Birth date of Nicholas David BRUNTON
Thursday 11 May 1967 : Death date of Elizabeth MILEY
Saturday 13 May 1967 : Burial date of Elizabeth MILEY
Tuesday 30 May 1967 : Birth date of Jane Alexandra SHARP
Tuesday 20 June 1967 : Birth date of Andrew Swynford BUTCHER
Thursday 29 June 1967 : Birth date of Christopher John SHARP
Sunday 27 August 1967 : Birth date of Jacqui Marie ARMSTRONG
Saturday 2 September 1967 : Birth date of Leonie Maree SHARP
Wednesday 11 October 1967 : Birth date of Matthew Alexander NOBEL
Saturday 28 October 1967 : Birth date of Richard William SHARP
Friday 17 November 1967 : Death date of Edith Florence WALKER
Friday 29 December 1967 : Marriage date of Graham Allan WHITE = Merribel Madeleine SHARP
1968 : Death date of William George CLARKE
Friday 12 January 1968 : Birth date of Linda HARGREAVES
Wednesday 14 February 1968 : Death date of Katherine (Kate) Francis WALKER
Saturday 17 February 1968 : Burial date of Katherine (Kate) Francis WALKER
Thursday 4 April 1968 : Birth date of Michael Patrick DELANY
Friday 31 January 1969 : Birth date of Julie Anne SHARP
Saturday 8 February 1969 : Birth date of Catherine FARRELLY
Thursday 13 February 1969 : Birth date of Michael John SHARP
Wednesday 5 March 1969 : London gangsters the Kray twins sentenced to life
Sunday 16 March 1969 : Birth date of Felicity Ann ARMSTRONG
Thursday 20 March 1969 : Birth date of Paul HARGREAVES
Thursday 1 May 1969 : Birth date of Elizabeth Margaret FARRELLY
Monday 30 June 1969 : Birth date of Moya Louise DELANY
Saturday 2 August 1969 : Birth date of Geoffrey Alexander SULLIVAN
Wednesday 27 August 1969 : Birth date of Rachael Sophi ARMSTRONG
Sunday 14 September 1969 : Birth date of Megan Louise BUTCHER
Thursday 16 October 1969 : Birth date of Katrina Elizabeth NOBEL
Saturday 13 December 1969 : Marriage date of Chris Gerald John WYNNE = Kay Lynette WALKER
Saturday 4 April 1970 : Marriage date of Clive John WALKER = Rae Alicia HUGGINS
Friday 19 June 1970 : Birth date of Robert James SHARP
Sunday 9 August 1970 : Death date of George Archibald SHARP
Wednesday 2 September 1970 : Birth date of Geraldine Sue ARMSTRONG
Friday 4 September 1970 : Birth date of ARMSTRONG GERARDINE SUE
Monday 12 October 1970 : Death date of Annie DUMPHEY
Saturday 19 December 1970 : Birth date of Russell William MADDISON
Saturday 2 January 1971 : 66 die when barriers collapse at Ibrox Park
Monday 15 February 1971 : British currency goes decimal
Monday 8 March 1971 : Birth date of Virginnia Louise ARMSTRONG
Wednesday 17 March 1971 : Birth date of Kerry-Anne Margaret COOK
Saturday 24 April 1971 : Birth date of David Nigel SULLIVAN
Monday 26 April 1971 : Birth date of Paul Joseph SHARP
Thursday 23 September 1971 : Birth date of Matthew Dickson WHITE
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
Friday 18 February 1972 : Marriage date of Greg MATHERS = Maureen Kathleen SHARP
Tuesday 11 April 1972 : Birth date of Glenn Robert MADDISON
Monday 24 April 1972 : Birth date of Veronica Nancye FARRELLY
Wednesday 17 May 1972 : Birth date of Leon Clive WALKER
Tuesday 24 October 1972 : Birth date of Kristin Dagleish SHARP
Monday 30 October 1972 : Birth date of Christopher John ARMSTRONG
Friday 9 February 1973 : Birth date of James Ramsay William WALKER
Monday 26 February 1973 : Birth date of Geoffery Michael SHARP
Thursday 8 March 1973 : IRA begins mainland bombing
Sunday 20 May 1973 : Birth date of Andrea Louise WYNNE
Wednesday 27 June 1973 : Birth date of Pricilla Jane ARMSTRONG
Thursday 20 September 1973 : Marriage date of Michael Robert BRUNTON = Mary GARTNER
Sunday 23 September 1973 : Christening date of Leon Clive WALKER
Thursday 22 November 1973 : Birth date of Georgina Louise NOBEL
Wednesday 28 November 1973 : Birth date of Cindy Eleanor SHARP
Monday 17 December 1973 : Three day week introduced
1974 : Death date of Gerald Edward DELANY
Monday 8 April 1974 : Birth date of Justin William COOK
Tuesday 9 April 1974 : Death date of Richard James WALKER
Thursday 11 April 1974 : Birth date of Eric Harold Alexander MADDISON
Thursday 11 April 1974 : Burial date of Richard James WALKER
Sunday 19 May 1974 : Birth date of Natalie Victoria WHITE
Tuesday 25 June 1974 : Birth date of Ross Andrew WALKER
Friday 12 July 1974 : Death date of Isabel Cowan LAWRENCE
Sunday 14 July 1974 : Burial date of Isabel Cowan LAWRENCE
Tuesday 12 November 1974 : Lord Lucan escapes and disappears
Tuesday 1 July 1975 : Birth date of Daniel Richard SHARP
Friday 11 July 1975 : Inflation reaches 25%
Monday 21 July 1975 : Birth date of Matthew David WYNNE
Tuesday 29 July 1975 : Birth date of Jacinta Marie BRUNTON
Tuesday 11 November 1975 : Birth date of Sunita SHARP
Monday 24 November 1975 : Birth date of Leigh Alan William WALKER
1976 : Birth date of Thomas MORGAN
1976 : Birth date of Matthew Patrick MAHER
Saturday 20 March 1976 : Marriage date of Stuart James WALKER = Cheryl FEWSTER
Saturday 19 June 1976 : Birth date of Patricia Joy SHARP
August 1976 : Drought causes water shortages
Monday 27 December 1976 : Marriage date of Jeffery George SHARP = Mary Ellen CEDERBURG
Thursday 6 January 1977 : Birth date of Simon Alexander ARMSTRONG
Saturday 2 April 1977 : Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time
Sunday 26 June 1977 : Marriage date of Donald Cameron NIGHTINGALE = Susan Maree SHARP
Friday 8 July 1977 : Birth date of Damien Michael BRUNTON
Thursday 29 September 1977 : Birth date of Jennifer Kate MADDISON
Sunday 4 December 1977 : Birth date of Kylie NIGHTINGALE
1978 : Birth date of Robert MORGAN
1978 : Birth date of Katherine Anne MORGAN
Saturday 21 January 1978 : Marriage date of David Norman SHARP = Christine GRAY
Saturday 25 February 1978 : Birth date of Peter SHARP
Wednesday 5 July 1978 : Birth date of James Stuart WALKER
Friday 29 September 1978 : Birth date of Richard Charles COOK
Tuesday 31 October 1978 : Death date of Elizabeth Veronica O'DONNEL
Wednesday 13 December 1978 : Jeremy Thorpe, MP charged with incitement to murder
January 1979 : "Winter of Discontent" causes chaos
1979 : Death date of Margaret Lillian SHARP
1979 : Birth date of Gregory Alan MORGAN
1979 : Birth date of Damien MORGAN
1979 : Birth date of Timothy Gerard MAHER
Friday 4 May 1979 : Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister
Tuesday 7 August 1979 : Birth date of Bonnie Ellen NIGHTINGALE
Sunday 2 September 1979 : Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim
Monday 5 May 1980 : SAS storms Iranian embassy in London
Tuesday 17 June 1980 : Birth date of Bevan SHARP
Friday 20 June 1980 : Birth date of Dane Dalgleish SHARP
Monday 8 September 1980 : Death date of Ronald Eric SHARP
Monday 3 November 1980 : Birth date of Benjamin Heath WALKER
1981 : Birth date of Marcus MAHER
1981 : Birth date of Patrick Michael MORGAN
Thursday 25 June 1981 : Birth date of Matthew William BRUNTON
July 1981 : Riots break out in 8 inner city areas
Wednesday 2 December 1981 : Birth date of Abby NIGHTINGALE
Saturday 12 December 1981 : Marriage date of Robert William WALKER = Petra Jane SNELLEMAN
1982 : Death date of Robert George ABRAHAM
1982 : Birth date of Nicole Danielle MORGAN
Thursday 28 January 1982 : Birth date of Samuel Scott NOBEL
Friday 26 March 1982 : Birth date of Lyndon SHARP
Friday 2 April 1982 : Argentina invades Falkland Islands
Monday 14 June 1982 : British troops regain control of Falklands
Wednesday 2 February 1983 : Birth date of Mitchell Allan ARMSTRONG
Sunday 10 July 1983 : Birth date of Olivia Elise WALKER
Sunday 25 September 1983 : 134 IRA prisoners escape from the Maze prison
Monday 17 October 1983 : Birth date of Christopher James BRUNTON
1984 : Death date of Sidney Clarence Miley
1984 : Death date of Alfred James ABRAHAM
Wednesday 14 March 1984 : Death date of Veronica Joyce SHARP
May 1984 : Coal strikes crushed by riot police
Wednesday 10 October 1984 : Birth date of Robert John WALKER
Friday 12 October 1984 : IRA bombs Tory conference in Brighton
Friday 9 November 1984 : Birth date of Owen SHARP
Friday 9 November 1984 : Birth date of Adrian SHARP
Saturday 11 May 1985 : 40 killed as fire destroys Bradford City stand
Sunday 7 July 1985 : Birth date of Rebecca STEPHENS
Thursday 31 October 1985 : Birth date of William Stuart WALKER
Thursday 20 November 1986 : Death date of Margaret Mary May SHARP
Tuesday 17 March 1987 : Birth date of John Patrick WALKER
Saturday 4 April 1987 : Marriage date of Kevin DUNMALL = Karen LEEMAN
Tuesday 30 June 1987 : Death date of Jessica Amelia SHARP
Friday 16 October 1987 : Hurricane hits southern England
Wednesday 18 November 1987 : 30 die in King's Cross Underground fire
Friday 24 June 1988 : Birth date of Bradley STEPHENS
Wednesday 6 July 1988 : North sea oil rig Piper Alpha explodes
Saturday 13 August 1988 : Birth date of Nicholas Charles WALKER
Saturday 13 August 1988 : Birth date of Hayleigh NIGHTINGALE
Tuesday 16 August 1988 : Death date of Alexander Francis (Frank) WALKER
Friday 19 August 1988 : Burial date of Alexander Francis (Frank) WALKER
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
Saturday 3 June 1989 : Birth date of Tegean Leigh DUNMALL
September 1989 : Thousands of Scots elect not to pay new Poll Tax
Thursday 19 October 1989 : "Guildford Four" released from prison
Friday 15 June 1990 : Birth date of Alisha Simone NOBEL
Thursday 23 August 1990 : British and US troop build-up in Persian Gulf
Friday 14 December 1990 : Birth date of Ashleigh NIGHTINGALE
Thursday 17 January 1991 : Operation "Desert Storm" defeats Iraq
Thursday 7 February 1991 : Downing Street hit by IRA mortar bomb
Thursday 14 March 1991 : "Birmingham Six" released from prison
Saturday 23 March 1991 : Marriage date of Richard William SHARP = Sandra FERGUSON
Saturday 11 May 1991 : Marriage date of Andrew LEEMAN = Nerrida Carroll SMITH
Saturday 14 September 1991 : Marriage date of Gary CUNDY = Carolyn Elizabeth SHARP
Saturday 2 November 1991 : Marriage date of Harold Karl STADELMANN = Jacqui Marie ARMSTRONG
Monday 4 November 1991 : Marriage date of Paul MCCULLAGH = Vera Ellen SULLIVAN
Tuesday 12 November 1991 : Birth date of Tameeka Shae DUNMALL
Wednesday 11 December 1991 : Death date of George Stenhouse SHARP
1992 : Death date of Patrick Roy SHARP
Thursday 13 February 1992 : Birth date of Daniel STEPHENS
Thursday 2 April 1992 : Death date of Lorna VANDERBURG
Monday 6 April 1992 : Burial date of Lorna VANDERBURG
Monday 27 April 1992 : Death date of Linton William WALKER
Thursday 16 July 1992 : Birth date of Tesam SHARP
Sunday 26 July 1992 : Death date of Lillias Stenhouse SHARP
Thursday 13 August 1992 : Birth date of Bryce William CUNDY
Saturday 31 October 1992 : Marriage date of Mark Ronald SULLIVAN = Bernadette JONES
Wednesday 18 November 1992 : Birth date of Charlie Elizabeth NIGHTINGALE
Monday 23 November 1992 : Birth date of Zachary James Dalgleish SHARP
Wednesday 24 February 1993 : Marriage date of Gaige ORTON = Felicity Ann ARMSTRONG
Saturday 1 May 1993 : Marriage date of Robert Anthony BRUNTON = Renita ADAMS
Tuesday 5 October 1993 : Birth date of Callum GIOLLO
Wednesday 19 January 1994 : Death date of Nancy Edna MADDISON
Friday 8 April 1994 : Death date of John Richard SHARP
Sunday 15 May 1994 : Birth date of Briesha Page DUNMALL
Saturday 8 October 1994 : Marriage date of Neil Henry SMITH = Catherine FARRELLY
Saturday 10 December 1994 : Death date of Rosalind Mary (Rosa) WALKER
Wednesday 14 December 1994 : Burial date of Rosalind Mary (Rosa) WALKER
Monday 27 February 1995 : Death date of Ronald SULLIVAN
September 1995 : Britain hit by worst drought for over 250 years
Thursday 5 October 1995 : Birth date of Isabelle Margaret SMITH
February 1996 : Major oil spill from "Sea Empress" at Milford Haven
Wednesday 28 February 1996 : Christening date of Isabelle Margaret SMITH
Saturday 22 March 1997 : Birth date of Riley SHARP
Saturday 22 March 1997 : Birth date of Brady SHARP
Tuesday 29 April 1997 : Birth date of Henry Alexander SMITH
Thursday 12 June 1997 : Death date of Christopher Thomas WALKER
Monday 16 June 1997 : Burial date of Christopher Thomas WALKER
Sunday 31 August 1997 : Princess Diana dies after car crash in Paris
1998 : Death date of Patrick MORGAN
Saturday 20 March 1999 : Marriage date of Paul HARGREAVES = ARMSTRONG GERARDINE SUE
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