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Maria Bristow Hughes

Maria Bristow Hughes

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Born 19 FEB 1881
Parents Bristow Herbert Hughes (Father) Family
Emily Upfold (Mother) Family
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In their lifetime
Born in the reign of Queen Victoria
  • Birth
    19 Feb 1881
    Born
  • Age 1
    19 Apr 1882
    Charles Darwin dies
  • Age 1
    29 Aug 1882
    England lose to Australia at The Oval; the Ashes begin
  • Age 3
    Dec 1884
    Third Reform Act
  • Age 7
    17 Apr 1888
    The Football League is founded
  • Age 7
    7 Dec 1888
    John Dunlop patents the pneumatic tyre
  • Age 12
    28 Nov 1893
    Father Bristow Herbert died
  • Age 15
    2 Jun 1896
    Marconi patents wireless telegraphy
  • Age 18
    1899–1902
    Second Boer War
  • Age 19
    22 Jan 1901
    Accession of Edward VII
    Reigned 1901–1910
  • Age 19
    22 Jan 1901
    Queen Victoria dies
  • Age 22
    17 Dec 1903
    The Wright brothers make the first powered flight
  • Age 26
    17 Jun 1907
    Brooklands motor circuit opens
    At Weybridge, Surrey.
  • Age 27
    13 Jul 1908
    London hosts the Olympic Games
  • Age 27
    1 Jan 1909
    First old age pensions paid
  • Age 28
    25 Jul 1909
    Blériot makes the first flight across the Channel
  • Age 29
    6 May 1910
    Accession of George V
    Reigned 1910–1936
  • Age 29
    13 Aug 1910
    Florence Nightingale dies
  • Age 30
    18 Aug 1911
    Parliament Act limits the power of the House of Lords
  • Age 30
    16 Dec 1911
    National Insurance Act
  • Age 31
    Mar 1912
    Captain Scott dies returning from the South Pole
  • Age 31
    15 Apr 1912
    Titanic sinks
  • Age 32
    8 Jun 1913
    Suffragette Emily Davison dies at the Derby
  • Age 33
    1914–1918
    Britain declares war on Germany: First World War begins
  • Age 34
    25 Apr 1915
    Gallipoli landings
  • Age 34
    7 May 1915
    Lusitania sunk
  • Age 35
    24 Apr 1916
    Easter Rising in Dublin
  • Age 35
    5 Jun 1916
    Lord Kitchener lost at sea
  • Age 35
    1 Jul 1916
    Battle of the Somme begins
    About 57,000 British casualties on the first day.
  • Age 36
    31 Jul 1917
    Battle of Passchendaele begins
  • Age 36
    6 Feb 1918
    Some women get the vote
    Representation of the People Act.
  • Age 37
    1918–1919
    Spanish flu pandemic
  • Age 37
    11 Nov 1918
    Armistice ends the First World War
  • Age 38
    14 Jun 1919
    Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop transatlantic flight
  • Age 42
    28 Apr 1923
    First FA Cup final at Wembley
  • Age 42
    22 Jan 1924
    First Labour government
  • Age 44
    26 Jan 1926
    John Logie Baird demonstrates television
  • Age 45
    3 May 1926
    General Strike begins
  • Age 47
    2 Jul 1928
    Women get the vote on equal terms with men
  • Age 47
    Sep 1928
    Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
  • Age 48
    Oct 1929
    Wall Street Crash begins the Great Depression
  • Age 49
    5 Oct 1930
    R101 airship disaster
  • Age 54
    20 Jan 1936
    Accession of Edward VIII
  • Age 55
    2 Nov 1936
    BBC begins the world's first regular television service
  • Age 55
    11 Dec 1936
    Accession of George VI
    Reigned 1936–1952
  • Age 55
    11 Dec 1936
    Edward VIII abdicates
  • Age 56
    12 Apr 1937
    Frank Whittle runs the first jet engine
  • Age 58
    1939–1945
    Britain declares war on Germany: Second World War begins
  • Age 59
    26 May 1940
    Dunkirk evacuation begins
  • Age 59
    10 Jul 1940
    Battle of Britain begins
  • Age 59
    1940–1941
    The Blitz
  • Age 61
    23 Oct 1942
    Battle of El Alamein
  • Age 61
    1 Dec 1942
    Beveridge Report published
  • Age 63
    6 Jun 1944
    D-Day landings
  • Age 63
    3 Aug 1944
    Education Act creates free secondary schooling
  • Age 64
    8 May 1945
    VE Day
  • Age 64
    15 Aug 1945
    VJ Day
  • Age 66
    15 Aug 1947
    India and Pakistan become independent
  • Age 67
    22 Jun 1948
    HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury
  • Age 67
    5 Jul 1948
    National Health Service launched
  • Age 67
    29 Jul 1948
    London hosts the Olympic Games
  • Age 69
    1950–1953
    Korean War begins
  • Age 70
    6 Feb 1952
    Accession of Queen Elizabeth II
    Reigned 1952–2022
  • Age 71
    5 Dec 1952
    Great Smog of London
  • Age 71
    31 Jan 1953
    North Sea flood
  • Age 72
    28 Feb 1953
    Crick and Watson announce the structure of DNA
  • Age 72
    29 May 1953
    Hillary and Tenzing reach the summit of Everest
  • Age 72
    2 Jun 1953
    Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
  • Age 73
    6 May 1954
    Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile
  • Age 73
    4 Jul 1954
    Food rationing ends
  • Age 74
    22 Sep 1955
    ITV launches
  • Age 75
    5 Jul 1956
    Clean Air Act
  • Age 75
    29 Oct 1956
    Suez Crisis
  • Age 76
    4 Oct 1957
    Sputnik 1 launched: the Space Age begins
  • Age 76
    6 Feb 1958
    Munich air disaster
    Eight Manchester United players among the dead.
  • Age 77
    9 Jun 1958
    Gatwick Airport officially opened
    In Sussex.
  • Age 78
    25 Jul 1959
    First hovercraft crosses the Channel
Death date unknown, so events are shown up to age 80.