Born in the reign of Queen Victoria
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Birth
17 Nov 1887
Born at Penzing Hall, near Vienna, AUS
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5 months
17 Apr 1888
The Football League is founded
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Age 1
7 Dec 1888
John Dunlop patents the pneumatic tyre
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Age 8
2 Jun 1896
Marconi patents wireless telegraphy
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Age 11
1899–1902
Second Boer War
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Age 13
22 Jan 1901
Accession of Edward VII
Reigned 1901–1910
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Age 13
22 Jan 1901
Queen Victoria dies
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Age 16
17 Dec 1903
The Wright brothers make the first powered flight
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Age 19
17 Jun 1907
Brooklands motor circuit opens
At Weybridge, Surrey.
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Age 20
13 Jul 1908
London hosts the Olympic Games
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Age 21
1 Jan 1909
First old age pensions paid
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Age 21
25 Jul 1909
Blériot makes the first flight across the Channel
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Age 22
6 May 1910
Accession of George V
Reigned 1910–1936
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Age 22
13 Aug 1910
Florence Nightingale dies
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Age 23
18 Aug 1911
Parliament Act limits the power of the House of Lords
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Age 24
16 Dec 1911
National Insurance Act
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Age 24
Mar 1912
Captain Scott dies returning from the South Pole
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Age 24
15 Apr 1912
Titanic sinks
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Age 25
8 Jun 1913
Suffragette Emily Davison dies at the Derby
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Age c. 27
1914
Son Ernest Augustus George William born
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Age 26
1914–1918
Britain declares war on Germany: First World War begins
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Age c. 28
1915
Son George William Ernest Augustus born
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Age 27
25 Apr 1915
Gallipoli landings
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Age 27
7 May 1915
Lusitania sunk
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Age 28
24 Apr 1916
Easter Rising in Dublin
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Age 28
5 Jun 1916
Lord Kitchener lost at sea
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Age 28
1 Jul 1916
Battle of the Somme begins
About 57,000 British casualties on the first day.
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Age c. 30
1917
Daughter Frederica Louis Thyra Vicotria born
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Age 29
31 Jul 1917
Battle of Passchendaele begins
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Age 30
6 Feb 1918
Some women get the vote
Representation of the People Act.
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Age 30
1918–1919
Spanish flu pandemic
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Age 30
11 Nov 1918
Armistice ends the First World War
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Age c. 32
1919
Son Christian Oscar Ernest Augustus born
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Age 31
14 Jun 1919
Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop transatlantic flight
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Age c. 36
1923
Son Welf Henry Ernest Augustus George born
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Age 35
28 Apr 1923
First FA Cup final at Wembley
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Age 35
14 Nov 1923
Father Ernest Augustus William Adolphus died
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Age 36
22 Jan 1924
First Labour government
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Age 38
26 Jan 1926
John Logie Baird demonstrates television
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Age 38
3 May 1926
General Strike begins
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Age 40
2 Jul 1928
Women get the vote on equal terms with men
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Age 40
Sep 1928
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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Age 41
Oct 1929
Wall Street Crash begins the Great Depression
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Age 42
5 Oct 1930
R101 airship disaster
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Age 48
20 Jan 1936
Accession of Edward VIII
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Age 48
2 Nov 1936
BBC begins the world's first regular television service
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Age 49
11 Dec 1936
Accession of George VI
Reigned 1936–1952
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Age 49
11 Dec 1936
Edward VIII abdicates
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Age 49
12 Apr 1937
Frank Whittle runs the first jet engine
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Age 51
1939–1945
Britain declares war on Germany: Second World War begins
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Age 52
26 May 1940
Dunkirk evacuation begins
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Age 52
10 Jul 1940
Battle of Britain begins
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Age 52
1940–1941
The Blitz
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Age 54
23 Oct 1942
Battle of El Alamein
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Age 55
1 Dec 1942
Beveridge Report published
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Age 56
6 Jun 1944
D-Day landings
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Age 56
3 Aug 1944
Education Act creates free secondary schooling
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Age 57
8 May 1945
VE Day
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Age 57
15 Aug 1945
VJ Day
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Age 59
15 Aug 1947
India and Pakistan become independent
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Age 60
22 Jun 1948
HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury
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Age 60
5 Jul 1948
National Health Service launched
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Age 60
29 Jul 1948
London hosts the Olympic Games
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Age 62
1950–1953
Korean War begins
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Age 64
6 Feb 1952
Accession of Queen Elizabeth II
Reigned 1952–2022
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Age 65
5 Dec 1952
Great Smog of London
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Age 65
30 Jan 1953
Died at Marienburg Castle, hanover, GER
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Age 65
31 Jan 1953
North Sea flood
