Born in the reign of Edward VII
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Birth
4 May 1904
Born at 257 Earlsfield Rd, Wandsworth
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Age 3
17 Jun 1907
Brooklands motor circuit opens
At Weybridge, Surrey.
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Age 4
13 Jul 1908
London hosts the Olympic Games
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Age 4
1 Jan 1909
First old age pensions paid
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Age 5
25 Jul 1909
Blériot makes the first flight across the Channel
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Age 6
6 May 1910
Accession of George V
Reigned 1910–1936
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Age 6
13 Aug 1910
Florence Nightingale dies
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Age 7
18 Aug 1911
Parliament Act limits the power of the House of Lords
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Age 7
16 Dec 1911
National Insurance Act
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Age 7
Mar 1912
Captain Scott dies returning from the South Pole
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Age 7
15 Apr 1912
Titanic sinks
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Age 9
8 Jun 1913
Suffragette Emily Davison dies at the Derby
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Age 10
1914–1918
Britain declares war on Germany: First World War begins
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Age 10
25 Apr 1915
Gallipoli landings
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Age 11
7 May 1915
Lusitania sunk
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Age 11
24 Apr 1916
Easter Rising in Dublin
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Age 12
5 Jun 1916
Lord Kitchener lost at sea
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Age 12
1 Jul 1916
Battle of the Somme begins
About 57,000 British casualties on the first day.
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Age 13
31 Jul 1917
Battle of Passchendaele begins
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Age 13
6 Feb 1918
Some women get the vote
Representation of the People Act.
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Age 13
1918–1919
Spanish flu pandemic
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Age 14
11 Nov 1918
Armistice ends the First World War
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Age 15
14 Jun 1919
Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop transatlantic flight
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Age 18
28 Apr 1923
First FA Cup final at Wembley
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Age 19
22 Jan 1924
First Labour government
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Age 21
26 Jan 1926
John Logie Baird demonstrates television
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Age 21
3 May 1926
General Strike begins
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Age 22
4 Sep 1926
Married Charles Edwin Knight at St Stephens Church, Wandsworth
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Age 23
1 Aug 1927
Daughter Pamela Elsie born
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Age 24
2 Jul 1928
Women get the vote on equal terms with men
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Age 24
Sep 1928
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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Age 25
Oct 1929
Wall Street Crash begins the Great Depression
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Age 26
5 Oct 1930
R101 airship disaster
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Age 31
20 Jan 1936
Accession of Edward VIII
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Age 32
2 Nov 1936
BBC begins the world's first regular television service
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Age 32
11 Dec 1936
Accession of George VI
Reigned 1936–1952
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Age 32
11 Dec 1936
Edward VIII abdicates
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Age 32
12 Apr 1937
Frank Whittle runs the first jet engine
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Age 35
1939–1945
Britain declares war on Germany: Second World War begins
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Age 36
26 May 1940
Dunkirk evacuation begins
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Age 36
10 Jul 1940
Battle of Britain begins
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Age 36
1940–1941
The Blitz
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Age 38
23 Oct 1942
Battle of El Alamein
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Age 38
1 Dec 1942
Beveridge Report published
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Age 40
6 Jun 1944
D-Day landings
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Age 40
3 Aug 1944
Education Act creates free secondary schooling
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Age 41
8 May 1945
VE Day
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Age 41
15 Aug 1945
VJ Day
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Age 43
15 Aug 1947
India and Pakistan become independent
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Age 44
22 Jun 1948
HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury
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Age 44
5 Jul 1948
National Health Service launched
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Age 44
29 Jul 1948
London hosts the Olympic Games
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Age 46
1950–1953
Korean War begins
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Age 47
6 Feb 1952
Accession of Queen Elizabeth II
Reigned 1952–2022
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Age 48
5 Dec 1952
Great Smog of London
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Age 48
31 Jan 1953
North Sea flood
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Age 48
28 Feb 1953
Crick and Watson announce the structure of DNA
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Age 49
29 May 1953
Hillary and Tenzing reach the summit of Everest
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Age 49
2 Jun 1953
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
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Age 50
6 May 1954
Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile
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Age 50
4 Jul 1954
Food rationing ends
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Age 51
22 Sep 1955
ITV launches
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Age 52
5 Jul 1956
Clean Air Act
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Age 52
29 Oct 1956
Suez Crisis
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Age 53
4 Oct 1957
Sputnik 1 launched: the Space Age begins
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Age 53
6 Feb 1958
Munich air disaster
Eight Manchester United players among the dead.
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Age 54
9 Jun 1958
Gatwick Airport officially opened
In Sussex.
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Age 55
25 Jul 1959
First hovercraft crosses the Channel
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Age 58
5 Oct 1962
The Beatles release their first single
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Age 58
1962–1963
The Big Freeze
One of the coldest winters on record.
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Age 59
22 Nov 1963
President Kennedy assassinated
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Age 60
24 Jan 1965
Sir Winston Churchill dies
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Age 61
8 Nov 1965
Death penalty for murder suspended
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Age 61
2 Dec 1965
Died at Croydon General Hospital
