Isabella Youngman

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Born	10 AUG 1885 , Midhurst
Died	1988 , Scotland
Marriage	William Henry Greenway Family Page

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In their lifetime

Born in the reign of Queen Victoria

Birth

10 Aug 1885

Born at Midhurst
Age 2

17 Apr 1888

The Football League is founded
Age 3

7 Dec 1888

John Dunlop patents the pneumatic tyre
Age 10

2 Jun 1896

Marconi patents wireless telegraphy
Age 14

1899–1902

Second Boer War
Age 15

22 Jan 1901

Accession of Edward VII

Reigned 1901–1910
Age 15

22 Jan 1901

Queen Victoria dies
Age 18

17 Dec 1903

The Wright brothers make the first powered flight
Age 18

15 Jan 1904

Son Charlie born
Age c. 20

1905

Daughter Isabella Mary born
Age 21

17 Jun 1907

Brooklands motor circuit opens

At Weybridge, Surrey.
Age 22

13 Jul 1908

London hosts the Olympic Games
Age 23

1 Jan 1909

First old age pensions paid
Age 23

25 Jul 1909

Blériot makes the first flight across the Channel
Age 24

6 May 1910

Accession of George V

Reigned 1910–1936
Age 25

13 Aug 1910

Florence Nightingale dies
Age 26

18 Aug 1911

Parliament Act limits the power of the House of Lords
Age 26

16 Dec 1911

National Insurance Act
Age 26

Mar 1912

Captain Scott dies returning from the South Pole
Age 26

15 Apr 1912

Titanic sinks
Age 27

8 Jun 1913

Suffragette Emily Davison dies at the Derby
Age 28

1914–1918

Britain declares war on Germany: First World War begins
Age 29

25 Apr 1915

Gallipoli landings
Age 29

7 May 1915

Lusitania sunk
Age 30

24 Apr 1916

Easter Rising in Dublin
Age 30

5 Jun 1916

Lord Kitchener lost at sea
Age 30

1 Jul 1916

Battle of the Somme begins

About 57,000 British casualties on the first day.
Age 31

31 Jul 1917

Battle of Passchendaele begins
Age 32

6 Feb 1918

Some women get the vote

Representation of the People Act.
Age 32

1918–1919

Spanish flu pandemic
Age 33

11 Nov 1918

Armistice ends the First World War
Age 33

14 Jun 1919

Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop transatlantic flight
Age 37

28 Apr 1923

First FA Cup final at Wembley
Age 38

22 Jan 1924

First Labour government
Age 40

26 Jan 1926

John Logie Baird demonstrates television
Age 40

3 May 1926

General Strike begins
Age 42

2 Jul 1928

Women get the vote on equal terms with men
Age 43

Sep 1928

Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
Age 44

Oct 1929

Wall Street Crash begins the Great Depression
Age 45

5 Oct 1930

R101 airship disaster
Age 50

20 Jan 1936

Accession of Edward VIII
Age 51

2 Nov 1936

BBC begins the world's first regular television service
Age 51

11 Dec 1936

Accession of George VI

Reigned 1936–1952
Age 51

11 Dec 1936

Edward VIII abdicates
Age 51

12 Apr 1937

Frank Whittle runs the first jet engine
Age 54

1939–1945

Britain declares war on Germany: Second World War begins
Age 54

26 May 1940

Dunkirk evacuation begins
Age 54

10 Jul 1940

Battle of Britain begins
Age 55

1940–1941

The Blitz
Age 57

23 Oct 1942

Battle of El Alamein
Age 57

1 Dec 1942

Beveridge Report published
Age 58

6 Jun 1944

D-Day landings
Age 58

3 Aug 1944

Education Act creates free secondary schooling
Age 59

8 May 1945

VE Day
Age 60

15 Aug 1945

VJ Day
Age 62

15 Aug 1947

India and Pakistan become independent
Age 62

22 Jun 1948

HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury
Age 62

5 Jul 1948

National Health Service launched
Age 62

29 Jul 1948

London hosts the Olympic Games
Age 64

1950–1953

Korean War begins
Age 66

6 Feb 1952

Accession of Queen Elizabeth II

Reigned 1952–2022
Age 67

5 Dec 1952

Great Smog of London
Age 67

31 Jan 1953

North Sea flood
Age 67

28 Feb 1953

Crick and Watson announce the structure of DNA
Age 67

29 May 1953

Hillary and Tenzing reach the summit of Everest
Age 67

2 Jun 1953

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Age 68

6 May 1954

Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile
Age 68

4 Jul 1954

Food rationing ends
Age 70

22 Sep 1955

ITV launches
Age 70

5 Jul 1956

Clean Air Act
Age 71

29 Oct 1956

Suez Crisis
Age 72

4 Oct 1957

Sputnik 1 launched: the Space Age begins
Age 72

6 Feb 1958

Munich air disaster

Eight Manchester United players among the dead.
Age 72

9 Jun 1958

Gatwick Airport officially opened

In Sussex.
Age 73

25 Jul 1959

First hovercraft crosses the Channel
Age 77

5 Oct 1962

The Beatles release their first single
Age 77

1962–1963

The Big Freeze

One of the coldest winters on record.
Age 78

22 Nov 1963

President Kennedy assassinated
Age 79

24 Jan 1965

Sir Winston Churchill dies
Age 80

8 Nov 1965

Death penalty for murder suspended
Age 80

30 Jul 1966

England win the World Cup
Age 81

21 Oct 1966

Aberfan disaster
Age 82

27 Oct 1967

Abortion Act
Age 83

2 Mar 1969

First flight of Concorde
Age 83

20 Jul 1969

First Moon landing
Age 85

15 Feb 1971

Decimal Day
Age 87

1 Jan 1973

Britain joins the European Economic Community
Age 90

21 Jan 1976

Concorde enters passenger service
Age 90

Jun 1976

The heatwave and drought of summer 1976
Age 91

7 Jun 1977

Queen's Silver Jubilee
Age 92

25 Jul 1978

Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, is born
Age 93

4 May 1979

Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
Age 95

8 Dec 1980

John Lennon shot dead
Age 95

29 Jul 1981

Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
Age 96

2 Apr 1982

Falklands War
Age 98

1984–1985

Miners' strike
Age 99

13 Jul 1985

Live Aid
Age 100

26 Apr 1986

Chernobyl disaster
Age 101

29 Oct 1986

M25 motorway completed

It circles London through Surrey.
Age 101

6 Mar 1987

Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster
Age 102

16 Oct 1987

The Great Storm

Hurricane-force winds hit Surrey and Sussex especially hard.
Age 102

18 Nov 1987

King's Cross fire
Age c. 103

1988

Died at Scotland
Age 102

6 Jul 1988

Piper Alpha oil platform disaster
Age 103

21 Dec 1988

Lockerbie bombing