Cicely Corbett

Family tree Fan chart Descendants

Born	20 DEC 1907
Died	21 JAN 1990
Parents	Frank Corbett (Father) Family Amy Elizabeth Knight (Mother) Family
Marriage	Eddie Packer Family Page

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In their lifetime

Born in the reign of Edward VII

Birth

20 Dec 1907

Born
6 months

13 Jul 1908

London hosts the Olympic Games
Age 1

1 Jan 1909

First old age pensions paid
Age 1

25 Jul 1909

Blériot makes the first flight across the Channel
Age 2

6 May 1910

Accession of George V

Reigned 1910–1936
Age 2

13 Aug 1910

Florence Nightingale dies
Age 3

18 Aug 1911

Parliament Act limits the power of the House of Lords
Age 3

16 Dec 1911

National Insurance Act
Age 4

Mar 1912

Captain Scott dies returning from the South Pole
Age 4

15 Apr 1912

Titanic sinks
Age 5

8 Jun 1913

Suffragette Emily Davison dies at the Derby
Age 6

1914–1918

Britain declares war on Germany: First World War begins
Age 7

25 Apr 1915

Gallipoli landings
Age 7

7 May 1915

Lusitania sunk
Age 8

24 Apr 1916

Easter Rising in Dublin
Age 8

5 Jun 1916

Lord Kitchener lost at sea
Age 8

1 Jul 1916

Battle of the Somme begins

About 57,000 British casualties on the first day.
Age 9

31 Jul 1917

Battle of Passchendaele begins
Age 10

6 Feb 1918

Some women get the vote

Representation of the People Act.
Age 10

1918–1919

Spanish flu pandemic
Age 10

11 Nov 1918

Armistice ends the First World War
Age 11

14 Jun 1919

Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop transatlantic flight
Age 15

28 Apr 1923

First FA Cup final at Wembley
Age 16

22 Jan 1924

First Labour government
Age 18

26 Jan 1926

John Logie Baird demonstrates television
Age 18

3 May 1926

General Strike begins
Age 20

2 Jul 1928

Women get the vote on equal terms with men
Age 20

Sep 1928

Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
Age 21

Oct 1929

Wall Street Crash begins the Great Depression
Age 22

5 Oct 1930

R101 airship disaster
Age 28

20 Jan 1936

Accession of Edward VIII
Age 28

2 Nov 1936

BBC begins the world's first regular television service
Age 28

11 Dec 1936

Accession of George VI

Reigned 1936–1952
Age 28

11 Dec 1936

Edward VIII abdicates
Age 29

12 Apr 1937

Frank Whittle runs the first jet engine
Age 31

1939–1945

Britain declares war on Germany: Second World War begins
Age 32

26 May 1940

Dunkirk evacuation begins
Age 32

10 Jul 1940

Battle of Britain begins
Age 32

1940–1941

The Blitz
Age 34

23 Oct 1942

Battle of El Alamein
Age 34

1 Dec 1942

Beveridge Report published
Age 36

6 Jun 1944

D-Day landings
Age 36

3 Aug 1944

Education Act creates free secondary schooling
Age 37

8 May 1945

VE Day
Age 37

15 Aug 1945

VJ Day
Age 39

15 Aug 1947

India and Pakistan become independent
Age 40

22 Jun 1948

HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury
Age 40

5 Jul 1948

National Health Service launched
Age 40

29 Jul 1948

London hosts the Olympic Games
Age 42

1950–1953

Korean War begins
Age 44

6 Feb 1952

Accession of Queen Elizabeth II

Reigned 1952–2022
Age 44

5 Dec 1952

Great Smog of London
Age 45

31 Jan 1953

North Sea flood
Age 45

28 Feb 1953

Crick and Watson announce the structure of DNA
Age 45

29 May 1953

Hillary and Tenzing reach the summit of Everest
Age 45

2 Jun 1953

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Age 46

6 May 1954

Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile
Age 46

4 Jul 1954

Food rationing ends
Age 47

22 Sep 1955

ITV launches
Age 48

5 Jul 1956

Clean Air Act
Age 48

29 Oct 1956

Suez Crisis
Age 49

4 Oct 1957

Sputnik 1 launched: the Space Age begins
Age 50

6 Feb 1958

Munich air disaster

Eight Manchester United players among the dead.
Age 50

9 Jun 1958

Gatwick Airport officially opened

In Sussex.
Age 51

25 Jul 1959

First hovercraft crosses the Channel
Age 54

5 Oct 1962

The Beatles release their first single
Age 55

1962–1963

The Big Freeze

One of the coldest winters on record.
Age 55

22 Nov 1963

President Kennedy assassinated
Age 57

24 Jan 1965

Sir Winston Churchill dies
Age 57

8 Nov 1965

Death penalty for murder suspended
Age 58

30 Jul 1966

England win the World Cup
Age 58

18 Oct 1966

Father Frank died
Age 58

21 Oct 1966

Aberfan disaster
Age 59

27 Oct 1967

Abortion Act
Age 59

30 Nov 1967

Mother Amy Elizabeth died
Age 61

2 Mar 1969

First flight of Concorde
Age 61

20 Jul 1969

First Moon landing
Age 63

15 Feb 1971

Decimal Day
Age 65

1 Jan 1973

Britain joins the European Economic Community
Age 68

21 Jan 1976

Concorde enters passenger service
Age 68

Jun 1976

The heatwave and drought of summer 1976
Age 69

7 Jun 1977

Queen's Silver Jubilee
Age 70

25 Jul 1978

Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, is born
Age 71

4 May 1979

Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
Age 72

8 Dec 1980

John Lennon shot dead
Age 73

29 Jul 1981

Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
Age 74

2 Apr 1982

Falklands War
Age 76

1984–1985

Miners' strike
Age 77

13 Jul 1985

Live Aid
Age 78

26 Apr 1986

Chernobyl disaster
Age 78

29 Oct 1986

M25 motorway completed

It circles London through Surrey.
Age 79

6 Mar 1987

Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster
Age 79

16 Oct 1987

The Great Storm

Hurricane-force winds hit Surrey and Sussex especially hard.
Age 79

18 Nov 1987

King's Cross fire
Age 80

6 Jul 1988

Piper Alpha oil platform disaster
Age 81

21 Dec 1988

Lockerbie bombing
Age 81

Mar 1989

Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web
Age 81

15 Apr 1989

Hillsborough disaster
Age 81

9 Nov 1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall
Age 82

21 Jan 1990

Died