Elsie Florence Spicer

Family tree Fan chart Descendants

Born	APR 1910 , Brighton, Sussex
Died	MAY 1994 , Hove, Sussex, England
Parents	Edith Ellen Frost (Mother) Family Charles Sydney Spicer (Father) Family

Photos

In their lifetime

Born in the reign of Edward VII

Birth

Apr 1910

Born at Brighton, Sussex
1 month

6 May 1910

Accession of George V

Reigned 1910–1936
4 months

13 Aug 1910

Florence Nightingale dies
Age 1

18 Aug 1911

Parliament Act limits the power of the House of Lords
Age 1

16 Dec 1911

National Insurance Act
Age 1

Mar 1912

Captain Scott dies returning from the South Pole
Age 2

15 Apr 1912

Titanic sinks
Age 3

8 Jun 1913

Suffragette Emily Davison dies at the Derby
Age 4

1914–1918

Britain declares war on Germany: First World War begins
Age 5

25 Apr 1915

Gallipoli landings
Age 5

7 May 1915

Lusitania sunk
Age 6

24 Apr 1916

Easter Rising in Dublin
Age 6

5 Jun 1916

Lord Kitchener lost at sea
Age 6

1 Jul 1916

Battle of the Somme begins

About 57,000 British casualties on the first day.
Age 7

31 Jul 1917

Battle of Passchendaele begins
Age 7

6 Feb 1918

Some women get the vote

Representation of the People Act.
Age 7

1918–1919

Spanish flu pandemic
Age 8

11 Nov 1918

Armistice ends the First World War
Age 9

14 Jun 1919

Alcock and Brown make the first non-stop transatlantic flight
Age 13

28 Apr 1923

First FA Cup final at Wembley
Age 13

22 Jan 1924

First Labour government
Age 15

26 Jan 1926

John Logie Baird demonstrates television
Age 16

3 May 1926

General Strike begins
Age 18

2 Jul 1928

Women get the vote on equal terms with men
Age 18

Sep 1928

Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
Age 19

Oct 1929

Wall Street Crash begins the Great Depression
Age 20

5 Oct 1930

R101 airship disaster
Age 25

20 Jan 1936

Accession of Edward VIII
Age 26

2 Nov 1936

BBC begins the world's first regular television service
Age 26

11 Dec 1936

Accession of George VI

Reigned 1936–1952
Age 26

11 Dec 1936

Edward VIII abdicates
Age 27

12 Apr 1937

Frank Whittle runs the first jet engine
Age 29

1939–1945

Britain declares war on Germany: Second World War begins
Age 30

26 May 1940

Dunkirk evacuation begins
Age 30

10 Jul 1940

Battle of Britain begins
Age 30

1940–1941

The Blitz
Age 32

23 Oct 1942

Battle of El Alamein
Age 32

1 Dec 1942

Beveridge Report published
Age 34

6 Jun 1944

D-Day landings
Age 34

3 Aug 1944

Education Act creates free secondary schooling
Age 35

8 May 1945

VE Day
Age 35

15 Aug 1945

VJ Day
Age 37

15 Aug 1947

India and Pakistan become independent
Age 38

22 Jun 1948

HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury
Age 38

5 Jul 1948

National Health Service launched
Age 38

29 Jul 1948

London hosts the Olympic Games
Age 40

1950–1953

Korean War begins
Age 41

6 Feb 1952

Accession of Queen Elizabeth II

Reigned 1952–2022
Age 42

5 Dec 1952

Great Smog of London
Age 42

31 Jan 1953

North Sea flood
Age 42

28 Feb 1953

Crick and Watson announce the structure of DNA
Age 43

29 May 1953

Hillary and Tenzing reach the summit of Everest
Age 43

2 Jun 1953

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Age 44

6 May 1954

Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile
Age 44

4 Jul 1954

Food rationing ends
Age 45

22 Sep 1955

ITV launches
Age 46

5 Jul 1956

Clean Air Act
Age 46

29 Oct 1956

Suez Crisis
Age 47

4 Oct 1957

Sputnik 1 launched: the Space Age begins
Age 47

6 Feb 1958

Munich air disaster

Eight Manchester United players among the dead.
Age 48

9 Jun 1958

Gatwick Airport officially opened

In Sussex.
Age 49

25 Jul 1959

First hovercraft crosses the Channel
Age 51

5 Dec 1961

Mother Edith Ellen died
Age 52

5 Oct 1962

The Beatles release their first single
Age 52

1962–1963

The Big Freeze

One of the coldest winters on record.
Age 53

22 Nov 1963

President Kennedy assassinated
Age 54

24 Jan 1965

Sir Winston Churchill dies
Age 55

8 Nov 1965

Death penalty for murder suspended
Age 56

30 Jul 1966

England win the World Cup
Age 56

21 Oct 1966

Aberfan disaster
Age 57

27 Oct 1967

Abortion Act
Age 58

2 Mar 1969

First flight of Concorde
Age 59

20 Jul 1969

First Moon landing
Age 60

15 Feb 1971

Decimal Day
Age 62

1 Jan 1973

Britain joins the European Economic Community
Age 65

21 Jan 1976

Concorde enters passenger service
Age 66

Jun 1976

The heatwave and drought of summer 1976
Age 67

7 Jun 1977

Queen's Silver Jubilee
Age 68

25 Jul 1978

Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, is born
Age 69

4 May 1979

Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
Age 70

8 Dec 1980

John Lennon shot dead
Age 71

29 Jul 1981

Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
Age 72

2 Apr 1982

Falklands War
Age 73

1984–1985

Miners' strike
Age 75

13 Jul 1985

Live Aid
Age 76

26 Apr 1986

Chernobyl disaster
Age 76

29 Oct 1986

M25 motorway completed

It circles London through Surrey.
Age 76

6 Mar 1987

Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster
Age 77

16 Oct 1987

The Great Storm

Hurricane-force winds hit Surrey and Sussex especially hard.
Age 77

18 Nov 1987

King's Cross fire
Age 78

6 Jul 1988

Piper Alpha oil platform disaster
Age 78

21 Dec 1988

Lockerbie bombing
Age 78

Mar 1989

Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web
Age 79

15 Apr 1989

Hillsborough disaster
Age 79

9 Nov 1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall
Age 80

22 Nov 1990

Margaret Thatcher resigns
Age 80

17 Jan 1991

Gulf War begins
Age 81

20 Feb 1992

The Premier League is formed
Age 82

24 Feb 1993

Bobby Moore dies
Age 84

May 1994

Died at Hove, Sussex, England
Age 84

6 May 1994

Channel Tunnel opens