Timeline
1700 1800 1900
1719 : #Act forbidding the emigration of Artificers in the Woollen and other trades
Wednesday 29 March 1719 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 09 April 1719 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 10 June 1719 : Battle of Glen Shiel
1720 : #Another Act against cotton, prohibited use of printed, painted, stained or dyed calico; penalty £5 for clothing, £20 for furniture.
1720 : Birth of Ottawa Indian war chief Pontiac, near Detroit
1720 : Birth date of [P235] John NICHOLSON
Sunday 31 March 1720 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 17 April 1720 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
September 1720 : Collapse of the "South Sea Bubble"
1721 : Dr. Zabdiel Boylston introduces smallpox vaccinations, in Boston
Thursday 03 April 1721 : Robert Walpole appointed first Prime Minister
Wednesday 09 April 1721 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 13 April 1721 : Easter Sunday
BEF 1722 : Parishes had to get Act of Parliament to build a workhouse or poorhouse; out relief was only available.
1722 : Settlement, Employment & Relief Act, no person to gain settlement for estate purchased for less than £30.
AFT 1722 : ?? Act , overseers could start workhouses with consent of the vestry, farm out the poor, or join with other parishes for the purpose.
Wednesday 25 March 1722 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 05 April 1722 : Easter Sunday
1723 : Benjamin Franklin leaves Boston for Philadelphia
Sunday 28 March 1723 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 14 April 1723 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
1724 : First use of Portland cement
1724 : Defoe in his Tour considered West Riding was the only part specialised in manufacture.
Wednesday 05 April 1724 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 16 April 1724 : Easter Sunday
1725 : Invention of mine pump steam engine by Newcomen
Wednesday 28 March 1725 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 01 April 1725 : Easter Sunday
Monday 25 June 1725 : Troops fire on tax rioters in Glasgow
1726 : Rob Roy MacGregor sent to Newgate prison
1726 : *# First Truck Act applied to the woollen industry, forbade combination and arranged fixing of wages by magistrates, initiated by Norwich masters; and in 1727
Wednesday 10 April 1726 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 21 April 1726 : Easter Sunday
Monday 28 October 1726 : Jonathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels"
Wednesday 02 April 1727 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 13 April 1727 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 22 June 1727 : End of reign of George I
Monday 23 June 1727 : Start of reign of George II
1728 : Vitus Bering explores straits which now bear his name
1728 : First American steel made in Hartford, CT
Sunday 28 March 1728 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 21 April 1728 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Wednesday 06 April 1729 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 17 April 1729 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 29 March 1730 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 09 April 1730 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 25 March 1731 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 18 April 1731 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
1732 : Estimated to be 60 workhouses in the country and 50 in the metropolis following the 1722 Act.
1732 : Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanac
1732 : Hat Act forbade manufacture in colonies of hats made with local fur
1732 : First stagecoach route connects Burlington to Perth Amboy
Friday 22 February 1732 : George Washington born in Virginia; dies in 1799
Wednesday 09 April 1732 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 13 April 1732 : Easter Sunday
1733 : Georgia becomes 13th colony; founded by James Oglethorpe
1733 : Sugar Act, a revenue enhancement scheme for Britain
1733 : Flying shuttle loom invented by John Kay
1733 : Act for the Cultivation of Common Fields dealt with husbandry and regulation.
1733 : #John Kay of Bury invented the 'flying shuttle', or spring loom.
Wednesday 25 March 1733 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 05 April 1733 : Easter Sunday
1734 : Hamilton defends Zenger in freedom of the press landmark case
Wednesday 14 April 1734 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 25 April 1734 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 06 April 1735 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 10 April 1735 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 30 October 1735 : John Adams, 2nd President, born
1736 : #Act legalising use of fustian a cotton material.
Sunday 01 April 1736 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 25 April 1736 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Tuesday 29 May 1736 : Patrick Henry born
Friday 07 September 1736 : Capt. Porteous lynched at the Tollbooth in Edinburgh
Wednesday 23 January 1737 : John Hancock born
Wednesday 10 April 1737 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 21 April 1737 : Easter Sunday
1738 : British traders begin working shores of Lake Erie, compete with French
1738 : The Great Awakening begins, reshaping religious policies everywhere
1738 : General Wade completes military road building in the Highlands
1738 : Future King George III born. Declaration of Independence mentions him
Wednesday 02 April 1738 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 06 April 1738 : Easter Sunday
1739 : In North Carolina, there is large insurrection by blacks
Sunday 29 March 1739 : Easter Sunday
Friday 10 April 1739 : Dick Turpin hanged for murder
Wednesday 22 April 1739 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
1740 : English Parliament allows naturalization of colonists after 7 years
1740 : End of Frederick William I reign (Germany)
1740 : Philadelphia is largest city in America. Population 13,000
ABT 1740 : 10 furnaces in Sussex, more than any other county.
1740 : Start of Frederick II reign (Germany)
Wednesday 06 April 1740 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 17 April 1740 : Easter Sunday
1741 : Vitus Bering claims Alaska for his native Russia
1741 : 13% of Ireland's population die in famine
Wednesday 29 March 1741 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 02 April 1741 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 25 March 1742 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 18 April 1742 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
1743 : American Philosophical Society founded by Benjamin Franklin
1743 : Start of # Said to be Norwich's happiest period for the worsted trade, they sent wool to Yorksh and Westmoreland for spinning.
Wednesday 03 April 1743 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Saturday 13 April 1743 : Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President, born
Sunday 14 April 1743 : Easter Sunday
1744 : King George's War begins. France joins war effort against England
Wednesday 25 March 1744 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 05 April 1744 : Easter Sunday
1745 : Jacquard draw-loom invented
Wednesday 14 April 1745 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 18 April 1745 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 19 August 1745 : Start of Jacobite rebellion (the '45)
Thursday 19 August 1745 : Stuart standard raised at Glenfinnan
Tuesday 21 September 1745 : Battle of Prestonpans
Saturday 18 December 1745 : Battle of Clifton Moor
1746 : College of New Jersey, now called Princeton Univ., founded
1746 : Start of Kent (1796) writes that provisions up by 60% and wages by 25%.
1746 : Birth date of [P232] Henry NICHOLSON
Monday 17 January 1746 : Battle of Falkirk
Wednesday 30 March 1746 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 10 April 1746 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 16 April 1746 : Battle of Culloden - last true battle on British soil
Saturday 16 April 1746 : End of Jacobite rebellion (the '45)
1747 : Wages Act, provided that disputes men & masters could be referred to magistrates.
1747 : New York State Bar Association is first in this continent
Sunday 02 April 1747 : Easter Sunday
Monday 17 April 1747 : Parliament prohibits wearing of tartan
Wednesday 19 April 1747 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
1748 : "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" appears in New England Primer
1748 : Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends King George's War
Wednesday 10 April 1748 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 14 April 1748 : Easter Sunday
1749 : George Washington becomes land surveyor at age 17
1749 : England recognizes slavery and plantation system in the south
1749 : Britain founds Halifax to counter French presence at Louisburg
1749 : Bow Street Runners formed
Wednesday 26 March 1749 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 06 April 1749 : Easter Sunday
1750 : First American coal mine opens in Virginia
1750 : Cumberland Gap discovered, named by Thomas Walker. Westward ho begins
1750 : Start of *Some 12 bankers out of London at beginning, rising to nearly 400 in 1793, driven by the Industrial Revolution.
1750 : Iron Act.
Sunday 29 March 1750 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 15 April 1750 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
1751 : James Madison, father of our Constitution & 4th President, born. d.1836
1751 : Liberty Bell ordered from England. 50th anniversary Charter of Privs
Wednesday 07 April 1751 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 11 April 1751 : Easter Sunday
1752 : Benjamin Franklin goes out to "fly a kite". A shocking experience!
1752 : First general hospital opens in Philadelphia
Wednesday 29 March 1752 : (Old Style Easter Sunday)
Sunday 02 April 1752 : Easter Sunday
August 1752 : #Woolcombers in Norwich struck owing to the employment of one Trye until he was discharged.
Saturday 02 September 1752 : UK adopts Gregorian calendar - next day is 14 September
1753 : George Washington explores western Pa; delivers ultimatum to French
Sunday 22 April 1753 : Easter Sunday
1754 : French and Indian War begins
1754 : Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of Union remarks on Iroquoian League
1754 : Royal and Ancient golf club founded
1754 : Major Washington loses battle of Fort Necessity
Sunday 14 April 1754 : Easter Sunday
1755 : Braddock's defeat at Pittsburgh; Washington makes Lt Colonel
1755 : Irish immigrant, Jackson, born at sea, will become 7th President
1755 : Britain expels the Acadians from Nova Scotia
Sunday 30 March 1755 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 15 April 1755 : Dr Johnson publishes dictionary
1756 : Start of Seven Years' War
1756 : # Gloucester woollen weavers petition Parliament for better observation of regulation governing wage payments, act passed.
Sunday 18 April 1756 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 20 June 1756 : 123 Britons die in the Black Hole of Calcutta
1757 : Clive defeats Bengalis - start of Empire in India
1757 : Daniel P. Custis dies, leaves his White House plantation to wife Martha
1757 : #Kay's spring loom used and common by 1803 in some parts of Gloucestershire.
February 1757 : # Master woollen weavers in Wilts, Gloucs and Somersetsh petitioned Parliament to repeal various acts fixing wages from the 1562/3.
Sunday 10 April 1757 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 29 June 1757 : William Pitt becomes Prime Minister
1758 : James Monroe, 5th President, born in Virginia; dies in 1831
Sunday 26 March 1758 : Easter Sunday
1759 : George Washington weds Martha Custis, honeymoons at The White House
Sunday 15 April 1759 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 13 September 1759 : Wolfe takes Quebec, defeating Montcalm on Plains of Abraham (both Generals killed)
1760 : Final subjugation of Canada by England
1760 : End of 208 Enclosure acts passed.
1760 : Turnpikes improve travelling by road
1760 : George III becomes King of England. Colonial population 1.6 million
Sunday 06 April 1760 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 25 October 1760 : End of reign of George II
Sunday 26 October 1760 : Start of reign of George III
1761 : Start of #No cotton workers or manufacturers in Manchester, probably abt 30,000 persons involved by 1774.
1761 : Start of 2000 Enclosure acts passed.
1761 : Link between tobacco and cancer established
Sunday 22 March 1761 : Easter Sunday
1762 : Spain acquires Louisiana from France
1762 : Benjamin Franklin redesigns the harmonica, making it a musical instrument
Sunday 11 April 1762 : Easter Sunday
1763 : Treaty of Paris. England gains Canada and most French land east of MS
1763 : Pontiac begins siege of Detroit, now a British fort
1763 : French and Indian War ends
1763 : Vigilantes known as Paxton Boys massacre peaceful Conestoga village
1763 : End of Seven Years' War
1763 : End of # Said to be Norwich's happiest period for the worsted trade, they sent wool to Yorksh and Westmoreland for spinning.
1763 : #Spitalfields silkweavers rioted and destroyed silk and looms for increase in wages, they were well organised and determined.
AFT 1763 : # Worsted trade declined in Norwich and increased in Yorkshire, decline aggravated by war with American colonies.
Sunday 03 April 1763 : Easter Sunday
1764 : Currency Act.
1764 : Mozart writes his first symphony, at age eight
1764 : Revenue Act. Taxation without representation introduced in Boston
1764 : Start of #Cotton imports went from 3,870,392 to 303,726,199 lbs.
1764 : Invention of the spinning jenny by J Hargreaves
Sunday 22 April 1764 : Easter Sunday
1765 : Stamp Act Congress meets in Albany, NY; first inter-colony Congress
1765 : Britain tries to raise funds with The Stamp Act
1765 : Quartering Act requires housing British troops in private homes
ABT 1765 : #James Hargreaves invents spinning-jenny.
1765 : #Spitalfield & Moorfields silkweavers induced Parliament to pass Act prohibiting import of French silk.
Sunday 07 April 1765 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 25 August 1765 : *# Coal strike on the Tyne & Wear arising from the bonding system, the system lasted until 1844.
1766 : Stamp Act repealed by England in response to Colonial boycotts
1766 : Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon draw the line at MD & PA border
Sunday 30 March 1766 : Easter Sunday
1767 : *Newcastle Journal, 'many deplorable accidents have happened recently in the collieries'.
1767 : Start of Enclosure of Haute Huntre Fen , Lincs, hindered by the inhabitants.
ABT 1767 : Act which made wages of silk-weavers and tailors subject to magisterial regulation.
1767 : Townshend Duties pile it on higher and deeper, create Customs Office
1767 : Daniel Boone crosses Appalachians, keeps heading west
1767 : Construction of Edinburgh's New Town begins
1767 : *Hanway's Act, all London workhouse children were boarded out not less than 3mi away for not less than 2/6 per week. Before this act very parish infants survived.
Sunday 19 April 1767 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 11 July 1767 : John Quincy Adams, 6th President, born; dies 1848
1768 : Birth of Tecumseh, near Dayton, OH
1768 : Colonies circulate letter complaining of taxation; Assemblies dissolved
1768 : New York Chamber of Commerce established
Sunday 03 April 1768 : Easter Sunday
1769 : Pontiac murdered by another Indian, near St. Louis
1769 : #Arkwright's roller spinning water frame patented, based on Wyatt and Paul's spinning roller of 1738.
Sunday 26 March 1769 : Easter Sunday
August 1769 : Start of # Serious riots led by handkerchief weavers, reward notices describe in detail 14 miscreants.
October 1769 : End of # Serious riots led by handkerchief weavers, reward notices describe in detail 14 miscreants.
1770 : Townshend Acts repealed, except for that on tea
1770 : Boston Massacre. Five dead, six wounded on March 5
1770 : End of Enclosure of Haute Huntre Fen , Lincs, hindered by the inhabitants.
1770 : Game Law, killing of game at night punishable by 3 to 6 m in prison.
Sunday 15 April 1770 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 06 May 1770 : Capt. Cook discovers Botany Bay
1771 : # Arthur Young est 12,000 looms and some 72,000 persons involved in Norwich wool trade.
Sunday 31 March 1771 : Easter Sunday
1772 : Samuel Adams at Boston Town Hall Meeting publishes list of rights
Sunday 19 April 1772 : Easter Sunday
1773 : Boston Tea Party. 342 chests of tea go into the drink
1773 : To save nearly bankrupt East India Company, Parliament tries a Tea Act
1773 : Sir Rich Sutton's Act; majority of the common field occupiers could decide the course of husbandry and could let 1/12th of it.
1773 : *Corn Law Act, admitted wheat at 6d/qtr duty when home price had risen to 48s/qtr
Sunday 11 April 1773 : Easter Sunday
July 1773 : # Spitalfields Act gave the silkweavers regulation of their wages alone amongst textile workers by the Lord Mayor and aldermen.
Sunday 05 December 1773 : Wm. H. Harrison, 9th President, born in VA, moves to OH; d. 1841
1774 : Virginia Conventions begin. Lead to First Continental Congress
1774 : Isolation of oxygen by J Priestley
1774 : Intolerable Acts include the Coercive Acts
1774 : British close the port of Boston in retaliation for tea party
1774 : End of #No cotton workers or manufacturers in Manchester, probably abt 30,000 persons involved by 1774.
1774 : Putrid fever killed 124 out of 220 inmates of Heckingham workhouse.
1774 : The Quebec Act , borders of Quebec expanded, religious rights guarenteed
1774 : #Cotton Import Acts repealed through Arkwrights's exertions who was producing pure cotton goods, other manufacturers opposed this.
Sunday 03 April 1774 : Easter Sunday
Monday 05 September 1774 : First Continental Congress convenes, in Philadelphia
Friday 14 October 1774 : Declaration and Resolves of First Continental Congress
1775 : Postal system created. Benjamin Franklin is first Director
1775 : Second Continental Congress, again in Philadelphia
1775 : Battle of Breed's Hill mistakenly named after nearby Bunker Hill
1775 : Of the 3,500 physicians in the colonies, only 400 are MD by degree
1775 : Patrick Henry says "Give me liberty or give me death!"
1775 : Virginians defeat British at Great Bridge; British bombard Norfolk
1775 : Birth date of [P230] Henry NICHOLSON
1775 : Start of *American War, bought distress to the cotton spinners and woollen trade of Norwich.
1775 : Elizabeth's Act repealed in respect of cottages to have 4 acres round them.
1775 : #Arkwright patents machines for carding, roving, etc.
ABT 1775 : # Warp knitting frame , a mixture of stocking frame & weaving loom appeared, a boon to the fashion world in silk hose and heavy woollen articles
Sunday 16 April 1775 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 18 April 1775 : Fights at Lexington and Concord follow "the 18th of April, in '75"
Friday 16 June 1775 : Washington accepts promotion to General & Commander In Chief
Thursday 06 July 1775 : Declaration on Taking Up of Arms, issued
Tuesday 07 November 1775 : Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, declares Martial Law
1776 : Virginia Declaration of Rights on June 12; written by George Mason
1776 : Common Sense written by Thomas Paine
1776 : General Court of Massachusetts fires Governor, requests he leave
1776 : Declaration of Independence drafted by Tom Jefferson, with John Adams
1776 : # Arkwright builds his factory in Birkacre, Lancs., a mob destroyed it on 4/5 Oct.
1776 : # Spinning-jenny first introduced into South-West clothing district of Shepton Mallet, where it caused riots, petition to Parliament 1st Nov
1776 : Christmas present for Washington at Trenton: 918 German prisoners
Sunday 07 April 1776 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 29 June 1776 : Virginia State Constitution adopted, will be model for all states
Sunday 22 September 1776 : Nathan Hale regrets having "but one life to lose"
Friday 01 November 1776 : #Petition of wire-drawers,cardboard-makers,card-makers,scribblers,spinners,twisters,weavers, et al. in Somerset against the spinning-jenny.
1777 : General Gates defeats General Burgoyne at Saratoga, NY
1777 : Congress adopts the American flag with thirteen stars and stripes
1777 : Washington's Continental Army winters at Valley Forge
Sunday 30 March 1777 : Easter Sunday
1778 : France declares war on England, becomes ally of America
1778 : Englishman Capt. James Cook explores west coast of North America
1778 : # Point net machine finally patented made cushion lace with its 6 equal sides.
Sunday 19 April 1778 : Easter Sunday
Friday 24 April 1778 : John Paul Jones captures the Drake at Carrickfergus
1779 : John Paul Jones, in Bon Homme Richard, defeats Pearson, in Serapis
1779 : British surrender to Americans at Vincennes
1779 : Capt. Cook explores Hawaii until his murder by natives there
1779 : #Systematic attacks on new cotton machines, especially Arkwright machines, aggravated by loss of markets from the War with America.
1779 : #Samuel Crompton invents spinning mule, produced a finer and stronger thread than any before, but not patented.
1779 : Invention of spinning mule by Samuel Crompton
Sunday 04 April 1779 : Easter Sunday
1780 : Benedict Arnold attempts to betray West Point
1780 : Death of John Logan, Cayuga Indian Chief. Who will mourn for Logan?
1780 : Birth date of [P231] Marianne FREAKE
1780 : #Wool growers agitated for repeal of enactments against exportation; manufacturers too strong for them
ABT 1780 : *Employment of women and girls underground in Tyne and Wear district ceased.
ABT 1780 : #Introduction of spinning-jennies into Yorkshire for wool.
1780 : Start of # Power-loom weaving, Wm Radcliffe (1828) described as 'the golden age of this great trade'.
Sunday 26 March 1780 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 02 July 1780 : "Gordon" riots in London
ABT October 1780 : # In Wigan magistrates, principal inhabitants and manufacturers suspend use of carding,roving and spinning machines.
1781 : Articles of Confederation go into effect; were drafted in 1777
Monday 01 January 1781 : World's first iron bridge completed over the River Severn
1781 : Cornwallis surrenders to Washington and the allies at Yorktown, VA
Friday 30 March 1781 : Parl. Reg. - Parishes of any considerable extent consisted partly of old enclosures and partly of common fields.
Sunday 15 April 1781 : Easter Sunday
1782 : Ninety-six Moravian Christian Indians massacred at Gnaddenhutton, OH
1782 : Invention of modern steam engine by James Watt
1782 : Gilbert's Act, independent inspectors, paupers not sent more than 10 miles from their parish.
ABT 1782 : #Flying-shuttle or spring-loom first used in Yorkshire.
Sunday 31 March 1782 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 05 December 1782 : First U. S. President born in "The United States" is Van Buren
1783 : End of *American War, bought distress to the cotton spinners and woollen trade of Norwich.
1783 : First daily newspaper is Pennsylvania Evening Post
1783 : First flight of hot-air balloon by Montgolfier brothers
1783 : First steam powered ship built by d'Abbans
Tuesday 04 February 1783 : Parliament proclaims an end to hostilities in America
Sunday 20 April 1783 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 03 September 1783 : Treaty of Paris signed. Borders of The United States established
Wednesday 03 September 1783 : UK, France, Spain, the Netherlands and the US sign the Treaty of Paris
1784 : Treaty of Ft. Stanwix; Iroquois cede rights north and west of Ohio R.
1784 : Benjamin Franklin invents bifocals
1784 : Taylor, 12th President, born; dies 1850
1784 : #First worsted mill with water frames built at Dolphin Holme, Lancs on the river Wyre.
1784 : Settlement Act, soldiers, sailors and families were allowed to exercise trade where they liked, not removable until chargeable.
1784 : United Empire Loyalists arrive in Canada
1784 : Province of New Brunswick is created
Sunday 11 April 1784 : Easter Sunday
Monday 02 August 1784 : First mail coach runs from Bristol to London
1785 : # By this time women of all ranks from highest to lowest are clothed in British manufactures of cotton.
1785 : First power-driven loom invented by E Cartwright
1785 : Start of # Norfolk,Suffolk & Essex suffered severely from the loss of domestic spinning, scarcity and dearness of wool.
1785 : # James Watt's steam engine first used in cotton industry at Papplewick.
Sunday 27 March 1785 : Easter Sunday
1786 : Start of Frederick William II reign (Germany)
1786 : Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts forcibly closes court systems
1786 : Robert Burns publishes "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect"
1786 : End of Frederick II reign (Germany)
1786 : Birth date of [P106] John RAYMOND
Sunday 16 April 1786 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 14 September 1786 : Annapolis Convention concludes, suggests Phila convention
1787 : Federalist Papers begin publication in newspapers
1787 : United States Constitution framed, sent to Congress and states
1787 : Transportation of criminals to Botany Bay begins
1787 : # Rev Edmund Cartwright takes patent on improved power-loom he first patented in 1785.
Sunday 08 April 1787 : Easter Sunday
Friday 25 May 1787 : Start of Constitutional Convention
Friday 13 July 1787 : Northwest Ordinance adopted by Continental Congress
Monday 17 September 1787 : End of Constitutional Convention
1788 : #Woollen manufacturers induced Parliament to impose even more stringent penalties on wool exporters.
1788 : *143 water mills in the United Kingdom, 41 of which were in Lancashire.
1788 : First settlement in Ohio is Marietta, named for Marie Antoinette
1788 : Birth date of [P210] Thomas NEVE
1788 : New Hampshire is 9th state to ratify Constitution. It is now the law
1788 : Birth date of [P211] Sarah TANNER
Sunday 23 March 1788 : Easter Sunday
April 1788 : *Mr Porter a benevolent master chimney sweep induced a Committee to enquire into the use of boys, petitions presented
1789 : Mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty; survivors establish Pitcairn Is. colony
1789 : The Judiciary Act specifies numbers of federal courts and judges
1789 : George Washington & John Adams elected as first President & VP
1789 : First Lighthouse lit on North Ronaldsay (Orkney
1789 : # Watt's steam engine first used at Manchester.
Sunday 12 April 1789 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 28 April 1789 : Mutiny aboard HMS Bounty
Thursday 30 April 1789 : George Washington & John Adams elected as first President & VP (US)
Wednesday 26 August 1789 : French Revolution, Declaration of Rights
ABT 1790 : #Water began to be applied spinning mules and jennies as they passed into the factories.
1790 : # Cartwright takes out first two patents on machines for woolcombing.
1790 : Supreme Court meets for the first time; John Jay is Chief Justice
1790 : Tyler, 10th President, born; dies 1862
1790 : First national census finds 3,929,214 persons eligible to be counted
1790 : JPs given power to inspect workhouses.
1790 : #Somerset magistrate called in by 2 manufacturers of Keynsham to protect their property from 'lawless Banditti of Colliers and their wives'.
1790 : #A scribbling mill at Bradford,Wilts, burnt down whereupon owner moved machinery to Malmesbury; other threats reported.
Sunday 04 April 1790 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 17 April 1790 : Death of Benjamin Franklin
1791 : The Consitution Act, Quebec divided into Upper and Lower Canada
1791 : The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain is founded
1791 : Federal capital to be established in swamplands on the Potomac
1791 : John Carroll of Baltimore made first Roman Catholic Bishop in U.S.A.
1791 : First ten Amendments are Bill of Rights that go into effect this year
1791 : # Woolcombing machinery in Albion Mills, Southwark, burnt down.
1791 : *Corn Law Act, less liberal than 1773, prohibitive import duties until home price reached 50/-, 6d duty only when home price reached 54s.
Sunday 24 April 1791 : Easter Sunday
1792 : *Collier's strike in Somerset to raise wages from 10s to 12s, joined by 2000 from Gloucester.
1792 : # Cotton spinners formed a Friendly Society in Stockport and elsewhere.
1792 : Congress names the Dollar as our unit of currency; proposer: Jefferson
1792 : New York Stock Exchange organized
1792 : Political parties formed; Republicans (to be Democrats) & Federalists
1792 : # Cartwright takes out third patent on woolcombing machines; known as 'Big Ben' after a prize fighter; concern by workers was premature.
1792 : Start of *Napoleonic Wars, annual expenditure rose from <£20m to £106m, taxes on salt, soap, candles, leather, malt, sugar, tea all used by workmen.
1792 : # Spitalfields Act 1773 extended to include manufacturers of silk mixed with other materials.
Sunday 08 April 1792 : Easter Sunday
1793 : Invention of cotton gin by Eli Whitney
1793 : Act of 1784 extended to members of Friendly Societies.
1793 : General Anthony Wayne begins campaign against Indians in SW Ohio
1793 : Cotton gin invented by Eli Whitney
1793 : War between England and France. U.S.A. declares neutrality
1793 : End of *Some 12 bankers out of London at beginning, rising to nearly 400 in 1793, driven by the Industrial Revolution.
ABT 1793 : #Steam engines applied in Leeds woollen mills. In Leeds 'respectable residents threatened legal proceedings for nuisance' against a Bradford steam engine
ABT 1793 : # or 1795, Mr Nathaniel Watt, master clothier of sympathetic temper, tried to introduce flying-shuttle in Stroud; after a meeting of ca 20,000 people he sold them to the weavers.
Friday 01 February 1793 : France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands
Sunday 31 March 1793 : Easter Sunday
April 1793 : # Woolcombers meet at Bradninch to consider these machines threatening 70,000 woolcombers.
Saturday 08 June 1793 : # William Toplis, worsted manufacturer in Cuckney, Notts, takes a patent for waterpowered, woolcombing machine.
Tuesday 08 October 1793 : John Hancock dies
1794 : Whiskey Rebellion over excise tax in western Pennsylvania
1794 : Jay's Treaty requires withdrawal of British troops from U.S.A.
1794 : Battle of Fallen Timbers, near Toledo, OH. General Wayne v. Indians
1794 : #Petitions from woolcombers, in Barnstaple, New Sarum, Exeter, Somerset, Plymouth, Tiverton, London, Kidderminster, Cornwall, Warwick, N Riding, Durham, Leicester.
1794 : Bishton 'Report on Shropshire' enclosures.
Monday 31 March 1794 : # Wm Toplis claims in petition to Parliament many woolcombers are 'single men, and lead itinerant lives.... and seldom work half their time'
Tuesday 08 April 1794 : # Woolcombers present Bill to protect them from machinery, defeated on second reading. Get relief in Act passed in 1795.
Sunday 20 April 1794 : Easter Sunday
BEF 1795 : # Yorkshire and South-West shearmen had instituted actions against use of gig-mills under old Statute of Edward VI.
1795 : Poor Law devised
1795 : Polk, 11th President, born; dies 1849
1795 : Law of Settlement Act, nobody to be removable until they became chargeable to the parish, removal orders suspended if pauper dangerously ill, nor gain settlement for < £10 per year. FROM THIS TIME CERTIFICATES NOT REQU'D.
1795 : Billingsley 'Report on Somerset', describes enervating atmosphere of the commoner's life.
1795 : Pinckney's Treaty with Spain opens navigation on Mississippi River
1795 : 11th Amendment limits some Federal Judicial power somewhat
1795 : Washington poses for Stuart's portrait, which is now on our dollar bill
1795 : Treaty of Greenville, OH opens up much of Ohio to settlement by whites
ABT 1795 : Norwich newspaper advert by day labourers of Heacham, Snettisham and Sedgford on wages & prices related to the price of wheat.
ABT 1795 : Whitebread introduces Bill on minimum wage to amend Elizabeth's Act to regulate labourers' in husbandry wages.
ABT 1795 : Middleton, 'Report on Middlesex', enclosures.
ABT 1795 : # Round the Yorkshire clothing towns land was cut up into small holdings of 2-5a; this domestic system only extinguished by the development of the power-looms.
1795 : a series of food riots all over England, Aylesbury, Chudleigh, Carlisle, Ipswich, Fordingbridge, Bath, etc; (Hammonds' 'revolt of the housewives').
ABT 1795 : attempts to encourage oatmeal, barley and rye for bread rather than wheat, lack of milk following enclosures and other dietary changes to avoid raising wages.
Tuesday 13 January 1795 : Oxford Quart. Sessions, resolved, as at Speenhamland, the wages to be given to labourers.
Sunday 05 April 1795 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 14 April 1795 : General Quart. Sessions, Newbury, requested attendance at meeting at the Pelican Inn, Speenhamland, 6th May.
Wednesday 06 May 1795 : Newbury, Berks, 'respectable meeting' chaired by the Mayor advocated fixing labourers' wages according to wheat price.
Wednesday 06 May 1795 : Allowance scale was seven half gallon loaves for a family of 4.
Wednesday 06 May 1795 : Berkshire JPs, et al., met at Pelican Inn, Speenhamland and resolved on policy to 'tranquillise a hungry labouring population', it gave a fatal impulse to the reduction of wages; it had been convened to raise them!
August 1795 : *Crop harvest failure, wheat reached 122s in 1796.
1796 : # Act against Administering an Illegal Oath, passed because of the Mutiny of the Nore.
1796 : John Adams President, Tom Jefferson Vice President, 71-68 vote margin
1796 : Washington retires, gives Farewell Address to the nation
1796 : E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One; added to American coins
1796 : An Act, abolished restriction of relief, found 'inconvenient and oppressive', to those entering the workhouse willingly, relaxing the 1722 Act.
1796 : Discovery of Smallpox vaccine by E Jenner
1796 : End of Kent (1796) writes that provisions up by 60% and wages by 25%.
Friday 04 March 1796 : John Adams President, Tom Jefferson Vice President, 71-68 vote margin (US)
Sunday 27 March 1796 : Easter Sunday
Friday 22 July 1796 : Moses Cleaveland reaches mouth of Cuyahoga River
1797 : End of Frederick William II reign (Germany)
1797 : Eden's book 'State of the Poor' describes parishes such as Leeds, Skipton, Knibworth-Beauchamp, Hothfield,Loes & Wilford in Suffolk, Coventry,etc.
1797 : Commoners at Raunds, Northants, petitioned against their Enclosure Act
1797 : Start of #French war caused great scarcity of Spanish wool , employment bad, many men enlisted, later arrival of Spanish wool probably caused many women to become weavers.
1797 : Start of Frederick William III reign (Germany)
Tuesday 21 February 1797 : French landing in Wales repulsed at Fishguard
Tuesday 28 February 1797 : Pitt attempts to introduce badly put together Bill for the better Support & Maintenance of the Poor.
Saturday 15 April 1797 : First naval mutiny at Spithead
Sunday 16 April 1797 : Easter Sunday
Friday 30 June 1797 : Second naval mutiny at the Nore
1798 : Alien and Sedition Acts. Soon to be repealed
1798 : Department of the Navy established after 4 years of having a Navy
1798 : #Act for the Suppression of Seditious & Treasonable Societies, used.
1798 : 20,000 out of 23,000 acres in Middx cultivated on common field system.
1798 : XYZ Affair, so named after three anonymous French trouble makers
1798 : # Watt's steam engine first used at Oldham.
1798 : Typhus epidemic kills thousands
1798 : Washington comes out of retirement to be Commander In Chief of Army
Sunday 08 April 1798 : Easter Sunday
1799 : Wilbarston, Northants, two troops sent to coerce commoners on enclosures.
1799 : End of #French war caused great scarcity of Spanish wool , employment bad, many men enlisted, later arrival of Spanish wool probably caused many women to become weavers.
1799 : French Revolution ends. Napoleon becomes ruler of France
Wednesday 09 January 1799 : Parliament passes the first income tax
Sunday 24 March 1799 : Easter Sunday
Friday 05 April 1799 : *Master millwright petition concerning a combination of journeymen millwrights within and 25m round London for a wage increase
Thursday 06 June 1799 : Patrick Henry dies
Friday 12 July 1799 : *Combination Act passed, in spite of numerous petitions and opposition by Sir Francis Burdett, Mr Benjamin Hobhouse and Lord Holland, it removed trial by jury.
Saturday 14 December 1799 : George Washington dies in Mount Vernon, from quinsy
1800 : House elects President Jefferson after electoral college tie with Burr
1800 : Game Act, poachers on conviction imprisoned with hard labour serve in the Army or Navy or be transported.
1800 : Combination Act amending 1799 Act, the State effectively abdicated in favour of the employers and prohibited common action by workmen, due mainly to Wilberforce and Pitt.
ABT 1800 : #Stockings, about 17 or 18 kinds of hose worn differing in shape, colour, texture and other fancy articles made on stocking-frames.
1800 : *Whitebread stated there were 40 conspiracy and special laws against combination at this time on the Statute Book.
1800 : Start of Mr Estcourt's allotment scheme in Long Newton, Wilts; 140 poor persons in 32 families; loan paid back no relief claimed.
1800 : *Food riots in Nottingham succeeded in reducing prices.
1800 : Spain returns Louisiana to France
1800 : Congress establishes Library of Congress
1800 : Fillmore, 13th President, born; dies 1874
Sunday 13 April 1800 : Easter Sunday
Friday 13 June 1800 : *Petitions received from Bath, Bristol, Derby, Leeds, Lancaster,London, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Newcastle, Plymouth protesting the 1799 Act.
September 1800 : *Crop harvest failure, wheat reached 155s in 1801.
1801 : First stone building in Northwest Territory is Ohio capitol, Chillicothe
1801 : Whitebread repeats attempt to bring in Bill as in 1795; lost at second reading.
1801 : *Lancashire had 820 registered Friendly Societies 200 more than any other county.
1801 : # Attempt to introduce spring-loom or flying-shuttle in Somerset caused a riotous mob to intervene.
1801 : End of 2000 Enclosure acts passed.
1801 : General Enclosure Act(?), this followed numerous Bills presented from 1795 to 1800.
1801 : Tripolitan War begins; ends in 1805
1801 : Electric arc lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy
March 1801 : # Food riots in Exeter and Tiverton.
Wednesday 04 March 1801 : Thomas Jefferson, President (US)
Sunday 05 April 1801 : Easter Sunday
BEF 1802 : #Many shearmen were discharged from Army & Navy following Peace of Amiens.
BEF 1802 : # In South-West labour movement from towns to villages where the water power existed for the clothing machines, weavers tried to enforce the Philip & Mary Act.
BEF 1802 : # Enforcement of 7 year apprenticeship had fallen into disuse for most weavers and cloth workers.
1802 : Start of 1,883 Enclosure Acts passed.
1802 : *Disturbances occurred over the use of gig-mills to raise the nap on cloth in the south-west.
1802 : *First Factory Act, brought in by Sir R Peel, although a chief offender.
Sunday 18 April 1802 : Easter Sunday
ABT May 1802 : # Wilts campaign against gig-mills in Warminster, Bradford & Trowbridge.
Wednesday 21 July 1802 : # Cottage fulling & spinning mill at Littleton burnt down, similarly at Steeple Ashton and other places.
August 1802 : # The Government sent a Mr Read from London to Wilts to urge magistrates to arrest workers, various shearmen arrested.
Monday 16 August 1802 : # Master clothiers held meeting in Bath, generally took a conciliatory and reasonable attitude, but it was poisoned by the Combination Acts.
1803 : # Report of Committee on South-West Woollen Clothier's Petition.
1803 : # A Frome woollen manufacturer declared 'he also sends wool into different parishes to be picked from the want of hands'.
1803 : Ohio enters the Union. Paperwork completed 1953
1803 : Atomic theory first published
1803 : # Select Committee on the Cotton Weavers' Petitions discusses the operation of the 1799 Arbitration Act.
1803 : End of # Power-loom weaving, Wm Radcliffe (1828) described as 'the golden age of this great trade'.
ABT 1803 : # Wm Radcliffe and Mr Horrocks, both of Stockport, patent improved power-looms and in 1804.
1803 : *Society for Superseding Climbing Boys formed, objective to find a machine to clean chimneys, similar Societies in Sheffield (1807) and leeds
1803 : Game Act armed resistance to arrest was a felony punishable by death.
1803 : Louisiana Purchased for $15 million. Lewis & Clark to begin exploration
March 1803 : # Master manufacturers in 3 south-western counties and from Yorks petition to repeal the parts of 13 Acts on gig-mill,looms, apprenticeships.
Sunday 10 April 1803 : Easter Sunday
1804 : Osceola born in Tallassee village in Alabama; will lead 2nd Seminole War
1804 : Vice President Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in duel
1804 : Ohio University at Athens is first institute of higher learning in NWT
1804 : 12th Amendment changes Presidential election rules
1804 : *Petition against large numbers of apprentices from j'men calico printers in Lancs, Derbys, Cheshire, Stafford and 5 Scottish counties.
1804 : Corn Law revised again as the price had fallen to 50s.
1804 : Pierce, 14th President, born; dies 1869
Sunday 01 April 1804 : Easter Sunday
1805 : *Another petition, in committee stated 900 apprentices to 1500 j'men in Lancs, Cheshire, Derbysh and Stafford.
1805 : End of Mr Estcourt's allotment scheme in Long Newton, Wilts; 140 poor persons in 32 families; loan paid back no relief claimed.
Sunday 14 April 1805 : Easter Sunday
Monday 21 October 1805 : Nelson dies victorious at Trafalgar
1806 : #Shearing frames introduced in Yorkshire.
1806 : Broad Somerford, Wilts, the Rector stipulated provisions of land for the poor.
1806 : *Napoleon's Berlin Decree tries to ring-fence Europe to stop UK trade & barricade Britain to shut out foreign goods.
Sunday 06 April 1806 : Easter Sunday
Friday 04 July 1806 : # Report on Woollen Manufacture followed two years of various petitions and Bills that were not passed.
1807 : Robert Fulton, in "Clermont", steams up Hudson River
1807 : Whitebread Poor Law Bill, large & comprehensive, but without minimum wage provision.
Wednesday 25 March 1807 : *Sheridan introduces Bill to forbid master calico printers from having more than a certain number of apprentices, must have legal indenture.
Sunday 29 March 1807 : Easter Sunday
BEF 1808 : Bedfordshire Rept, troops sent from Coventry to quell riots when Maulden enclosed.
1808 : # Heathcoat patents the first Bobbin-net lace machine and second in 1809.
1808 : Andrew Johnson, 17th President, born; dies 1875
1808 : Congress outlaws importing slaves from Africa
1808 : Start of *Corn price never fell below 95/8d.
1808 : Start of *Eastern coast of S America opened to British trade, subsequent speculation caused numerous bankruptcies.
Friday 19 February 1808 : # Journeymen cotton weavers petitioned Parliament again for a minimum wage, drawing attention to the many masters' bankruptcies.
Wednesday 09 March 1808 : # 101 master weavers also petition Parliament asking for a minimum wage.
Sunday 17 April 1808 : Easter Sunday
June 1808 : # 60,000 looms idle in Manchester.
ABT August 1808 : # Weavers trade and wages much reduced again.
Sunday 21 August 1808 : Sir Arthur Wellesley leads campaign in Peninsular War
1809 : *Whitebread in Parliament stated cotton wool imports had fallen by £26m and 32 Manchester mills were idle.
1809 : End of # Norfolk,Suffolk & Essex suffered severely from the loss of domestic spinning, scarcity and dearness of wool.
1809 : End of *Eastern coast of S America opened to British trade, subsequent speculation caused numerous bankruptcies.
1809 : # After the recent petitions and suspended Bills this Act at last repealed Acts on which workers had built so many hopes.
Sunday 12 February 1809 : Abraham Lincoln, 16th President, born in Kentucky; dies 1865
Saturday 04 March 1809 : James Madison, President (US)
Sunday 02 April 1809 : Easter Sunday
Friday 28 July 1809 : French driven from Portugal
1810 : Start of #Nottingham population rose from 47,300 to 79,000, building land sold for £4000 an acre following speculation after expiry of Heathcoat's patents in 1823.
1810 : *Bullion Committee appointed, £100 paper money only worth £86/10/0 in gold causing immense price inflation
1810 : Census counts 7,239,881 persons in United States
ABT 1810 : #By now point lace trade had 1500 lace frames in Nottingham, but cheaper methods found which produced inferior goods, 1000 frames broken-up.
ABT 1810 : # Introduction of wide knitting frames enable production of cheap & inferior 'cut-up' goods caused further market loss
ABT 1810 : # Changes in fashion to more sombre articles, the cheaper market,in fancy hose, silk tickler mitts, silk elastic mitts went out of fashion and loss of jobs.
AFT 1810 : Francis Place, journeyman breeches-maker, eventually a master, devoted his life to destroying the Combination Laws;ally in Parliament was Joseph Hume.
Sunday 22 April 1810 : Easter Sunday
1811 : * Tho Smith, Committee on Cotton Weavers Petition, said as farms thrown together, cottages were pulled down and people moved to towns.
1811 : # Spitalfields Act 1773 extended again to include journeywomen.
1811 : Start of # Outbreak of the Luddite disturbances in the Midlands, Notts,Leics & Derbys, mainly affected frame-work knitting machines.
1811 : Luddites attack textile machinery
1811 : Madison allows 20-year charter of Bank of the United States to lapse
1811 : Wm. H. Harrison fights Indians at Tippecanoe, near Indianapolis
February 1811 : Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent due to King's insanity
Sunday 14 April 1811 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 30 May 1811 : #Monster petition, 40,000 signatures to Parliament, plus 7000 Bolton weavers and 30,000 Scottish weavers.
Monday 16 December 1811 : New Madrid, MO earthquake, forecast months before by Tecumseh
1812 : French retreat from Moscow
1812 : Birth date of [P212] John Hamshar NEVE
1812 : Fort Ontario (Oswego) captured by Drummond and Yeo
1812 : End of # Outbreak of the Luddite disturbances in the Midlands, Notts,Leics & Derbys, mainly affected frame-work knitting machines.
ABT 1812 : # Riots in Cheshire, Lancs & Yorkshire; esp. Ashton-under-Line, Eccles & Middleton? Jan 1813 = #Gravener Henson, bobbin-net maker of Nottingham initiated a Society for obtaining Parliamentary Relief & The encouragement of Mechanics in the I
February 1812 : #Shearing frames in small establishments in Huddersfield destroyed.
Tuesday 11 February 1812 : # Stockport workers asked for meeting with masters on subject of wages; manufacturers agreed then withdrew offer at later Manchester meeting.
March 1812 : #Assizes in Nottingham, tried Wm Carnell, Jos Maples, Benj Poley, Benj Hancock, Geo Green, Jos Peck & Gerves Marshall.
ABT March 1812 : # Records show that much of the rioting and committees were instigated by Home Office 'spies', such as Mr Bent, John Stones, et al.
Sunday 15 March 1812 : # Mr Vickerman's establishment, Taylor Hill, Huddersfield destroyed.
Friday 20 March 1812 : #Frame-Breaking Act made a capital felony, criticised by Sheridan, Whitbread,Romilly & Lord Byron, et al, opposed by Lamb Lord Liverpool.
Tuesday 24 March 1812 : #Thompson's mill Rawdon, Leeds, attacked; similarly Joseph Foster's mill at Horbury on 9th April.
Sunday 29 March 1812 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 04 April 1812 : #Riots at Stockport; Mr Goodwin's steam-looms destroyed.
Saturday 11 April 1812 : Wm Cartwright's mill, Liversedge, attacked by mobs from Halifax, Huddersfield, Liversedge, Heckmondwyke, Gomersal, Birstall, Cleckheaton et al.
Tuesday 14 April 1812 : #Sheffield food riot, mainly women & boys seized potatoes and vegetables and attacked a militia arms store.
Monday 20 April 1812 : #Colliers from Hollinwood and local mob attacked Mr Burton's manufactory in Middleton & again 22nd Apr, 10 rioters killed.
Monday 20 April 1812 : #Food riots in Manchester, Bolton, Ashton & Oldham, and all through Cheshire north-east of Stockport.
Tuesday 21 April 1812 : #Food riot at Tintwistle and machinery destroyed at Rhodes' woollen cloth mill
Friday 24 April 1812 : #Manufactory at West Houghton destroyed, although protected by small force.
Sunday 26 April 1812 : # Thousands of strangers appeared at Manchester, local militia called out, most disappeared by 28 April.
May 1812 : #General Maitland sent by the Government to command disturbed areas, shrewd and independent observer, potatoes were now 1d per lb rather than 3lbs, wages 10s rather than 30s/week.
Thursday 18 June 1812 : US declares war on England, day after England repealed the cause
Thursday 18 June 1812 : War declared on England, day after England repealed the cause
July 1812 : # Illegal Oaths Act, now made a capital offence to give oath.
July 1812 : #Preservation of the Public Peace Act; until 25 March 1813 gave magistrates power to search for arms and to disperse assemblies without the Riot Act formalities.
Saturday 11 July 1812 : General William Hull and troops invade Canada through Detroit
August 1812 : Start of Red River Settlement in Northwest (start)
Wednesday 12 August 1812 : Wellington takes Madrid
Sunday 16 August 1812 : Hull surrenders larger American army to British
October 1812 : End of Red River Settlement in Northwest (start)
Tuesday 13 October 1812 : Battle of Queenston Heights - Brock dies in Canadian victory
Saturday 12 December 1812 : # Home Office notified of a Congress of Woolcombers to be held in Aug 1813 at Coventry.
1813 : British Colonel Murray captures Fort Niagara
1813 : Tecumseh defeated in battle near Detroit, in Ontario
1813 : End of *Corn price never fell below 95/8d.
1813 : Fort Erie abandoned by British after Americans capture Fort George
1813 : Fort Wellington buit by Britsh at Prescott, Ontario
April 1813 : York burned by Americans
Sunday 18 April 1813 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 27 April 1813 : American General Zebulon Pike and fleet of ships attacks York,
Saturday 05 June 1813 : Battle of Stoney Creek, Canadian victory
Wednesday 23 June 1813 : Battle of Beaver Dams, Canadian victory
Friday 10 September 1813 : Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry "meets" British in Lake Erie
Friday 10 September 1813 : Laura Secord walks 32 km to warn of American attack (Battle of Put-in-Bay)
Friday 10 September 1813 : Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry "meets" British in Lake Erie
Tuesday 05 October 1813 : Tecumseh defeated in Battle of Moraviantown, near Detroit, in Ontario
Tuesday 05 October 1813 : Tecumseh defeated (and killed) in Battle of Moravintown, near Detroit, in Ontario
Tuesday 26 October 1813 : British/Canadain troops win battle in Montreral
Thursday 11 November 1813 : Battle of Crysler's Farm, Canadians defeat Americans, Brigadiers Boyd and Brown
ABT December 1813 : # Price of wheat fell from 122/8d to 73/6d and the quartern loaf from 1/6 to < 1/-.
1814 : City of Washington captured and burned by British
1814 : Birth date of [P213] William Tanner NEVE
1814 : Fort Erie reoccupied by British garrison of 150 men
1814 : Finish of war against French collapsed prices, ruined farmers showed up labourer's state of penury, who could not be absorbed by the parish.
1814 : City of Washington captured and burned by British (reprisal for York)
Sunday 10 April 1814 : Easter Sunday
June 1814 : # Power-loom weavers struck for higher wages.
July 1814 : # Masters secretly combined to flood work place with disbanded militia in Leics, Notts and Derby, caused collapse of Henson's Society started in 1813.
Sunday 03 July 1814 : Fort Erie captured by Americans
Tuesday 05 July 1814 : Battle of Chippewa, American victory
Monday 25 July 1814 : Battle of Lundy's Lane. With boths sides claiming heavy
Wednesday 14 September 1814 : Francis Scott Key observes battle of Fort McHenry at Baltimore
Saturday 24 December 1814 : Treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812
Saturday 24 December 1814 : War of 1812 ends with the Treaty of Ghent
1815 : Start of *Expenditure went from £106m to £53m, a violent and permanent shrinking of the market, Cu went from £180 to £80/ton, Fe from £20 to £8/ton.
ABT 1815 : #James Dean, land surveyor, Exeter, stated in Dec 1816 over 20 Devon woollen manufacturers had asked him to sell their mills.
1815 : Start of *Expenditure went from £106m to £53m, in Shrops 24 out of 37 blast furnaces ceased, 7000 ironworkers unemployed, 8000 tons of coal lost and miners unemployed.
1815 : Village of Cleaveland officially incorporated in Ohio
1815 : End of *Napoleonic Wars, annual expenditure rose from <£20m to £106m, taxes on salt, soap, candles, leather, malt, sugar, tea all used by workmen.
1815 : Humphry Davy invents mining safety lamp
1815 : *Seamen's strike in the north-eastern ports, Tyne and Wear region, suppressed by troops; ship owners undermanned their ships.
1815 : *Robert Owen induced Peel to present new Bill; in all mills, manufactories and buildings no child was to work under 10y old, factory hours limited to 12.5 with only 10.5 spent in labour.
AFT 1815 : *Price of corn under the Corn Laws in the next 17 years formed an important element in the misery surrounding the labouring population.
Sunday 08 January 1815 : Andrew Jackson defeats British at New Orleans, after war ends
Sunday 26 March 1815 : Easter Sunday
Friday 19 May 1815 : *[Bootle's Committee?] Report on Parish Apprentices; only able to look at apprentices within the Bills of Mortality (London,Westminster and some Middx and Sry parishes).
Sunday 18 June 1815 : Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
Sunday 18 June 1815 : Napoleon meets his "Waterloo"
1816 : Invention of phosphorous match by F Derosne
1816 : Invention of bicycle by K D von Sauerbronn
1816 : *Bootle's Act to Limit Radius of Apprenticing to 40 miles from London workhouses, outside this zone children could be apprenticed to greater distances.
1816 : *Geo Rose,MP, stated that there were 700,000 members of Friendly Societies in England.
1816 : Birth date of [P228] John Frederick NICHOLSON
1816 : Birth date of [P224] Thomas NEVE
1816 : Second Bank of the United States chartered
1816 : Capitol of Ohio moves to Columbus
1816 : Game Act, poacher found at night with a net was liable to transportation for 7 years.
1816 : *Peel's Committee on Children in Manufactories;formed as 1815 bill not passed, most of 150 children at Backbarrow cotton mill, Lancs, came from London.
1816 : Start of Otmoor, Oxon, Enclosure Act caused disturbances and problems for years, troops and cavalry sent.
1816 : Start of # High-water mark of prosperity for 'Gentlemen Clothiers' of South-West; industry migrated north to Yorkshire
ABT 1816 : # The Reform movement began to spread following the distress in the industrial areas from this time.
1816 : Board of Agriculture, 237 replies out of 273 reported want of employment and distress
1816 : # Renewal of knitting frame breaking, mainly lace, confined to those, as in 1811 against stocking frames, which worked under price.
ABT 1816 : #Lace Point net trade was dying replaced by warp, or Mechlin, lace machine (1775) & bobbin-net (1808) trade.
Sunday 14 April 1816 : Easter Sunday
May 1816 : Bitterly cold summer caused a meagre harvest with rise in corn price initiating riots in Norfolk, Suffolk, Hunts and Cambs. Met by yeomanry, dragoons and W Norfolk Militia.
June 1816 : Isle of Ely serious riots with loss of life, 75 prisoners - 5 hung , 4 transported, 10 imprisoned.
Friday 28 June 1816 : # 17 men entered Heathcoat's factory, Loughborough, and broke up bobbin-net machines, one guard injured, one rioter James Towle eventually executed, some 3000 at funeral.
Monday 01 July 1816 : # Heathcoat asks Mayor of Tiverton for protection of his factory.
1817 : Potato famine kills thousands in Ireland
1817 : *Castlereagh stated 300,000 soldiers and sailors discharged since the Peace flooding the labour market.
1817 : End of # High-water mark of prosperity for 'Gentlemen Clothiers' of South-West; industry migrated north to Yorkshire
1817 : Work begins on Erie Canal
1817 : 1816 Game Act repealed and replaced by transportation only if also carrying offensive weapon.
1817 : Start of *The Hon H. Bennett son of Earl of Tankerville, attempted to pass Bills to stop abuses of chimney sweep boys, only lived to see the 1834 Act.
1817 : # Habeas Corpus Act suspended.
1817 : *Report on Chimney Sweeps; estimated 200 masters & 500 apprentices in London, 200 masters & 500 climbing boys outside
1817 : * Truck Acts forbidding payments in goods or truck, extended to mines and steel industries.
Tuesday 04 March 1817 : James Monroe, President (US)
Sunday 06 April 1817 : Easter Sunday
ABT 1818 : # Most Norwich worsted yarn was coming from northern mills such as Yorkshire.
1818 : Birth date of [P258] Fanny NEAME
1818 : Birth date of [P256] Sarah Jane NEVE
1818 : Mary Shelley publishes "Frankenstein"
1818 : Anglo-American Convention fixes 49th parallel as border with Canada
1818 : Anglo-American Convention fixes 49th parallel as border between Canada and USA
ABT 1818 : # A year of commercial prosperity, but the previously reduced wages were not raised.
1818 : *Committee on Petitions of Ribbon Weavers.
1818 : End of *Expenditure went from £106m to £53m, in Shrops 24 out of 37 blast furnaces ceased, 7000 ironworkers unemployed, 8000 tons of coal lost and miners unemployed.
1818 : End of *Expenditure went from £106m to £53m, a violent and permanent shrinking of the market, Cu went from £180 to £80/ton, Fe from £20 to £8/ton.
February 1818 : *Second Factory Bill presented, no child under 9y to work, working hours to 12.5h of which 1.5 h for meals,
Tuesday 10 March 1818 : #March of the 'Blanketeers' from Manchester, from HO papers appears to have been pushed along by the 'spies', did not get very far, one Abel Couldwell of Staylbridge is said to reached London.
Sunday 22 March 1818 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 28 March 1818 : Birth date of [P98] Charles RAYMOND
Monday 13 April 1818 : # Alderman Wood in House of Commons said many poor Germans, Swedes & Irishmen ignorant of the language were entrapped into passing bad coin.
July 1818 : #Strikes in Manchester involving, bricksetters & labourers, dyers, cotton spinners, some 20,000 idle by 18 July; generally collapsed by mid-September.
Thursday 09 July 1818 : Marriage date of [F50] - [P98] Charles RAYMOND = [P97] Mary Anne DACY
Wednesday 15 July 1818 : # Oldham Weavers present a manifesto to the manufacturers, another 20th July.
Monday 27 July 1818 : # Weaver delegates met at Bury from Bolton, Blackbun,Burnley,Padiham,Hgr & Lwr Darwen,Heywood,Haslingden,Todmorden,Walshawlane, et al. addressed a Bill to cotton manufacturers.
Monday 31 August 1818 : # Weavers strike in Bolton, Manchester,etc., orderly and peaceful.
1819 : *Cotton Factories Regulation Act; altered version of 1818 Bill with best features eliminated.
1819 : #Parliament agreed to an imposition of 6d per lb duty on imported wool; this led to a free trade in wool
1819 : MacAdam revolutionises road building
1819 : First Steamship goes up Ottawa river to Hull
1819 : #Flannel manufacturers in Rochdale alarmed by growing poverty agreed on table of wages and made a worthy declaration of principles, this upset the Committee on Combination Laws!
1819 : Invention of stethoscope by R Laennec
1819 : #Rev. Robt Hall starts Friendly Relief Soc for the three counties, lasts 5 years; 300 families emigrate to Cape of good hope.
1819 : SS Savannah makes transatlantic crossing under steam propulsion, a first
1819 : Florida ceded by Spain to the United States
1819 : Select Vestry Act, empowered parishes to have 20 acres for the poor to work or lease.
1819 : Birth date of [P257] Charles NEVE
1819 : End of *The Hon H. Bennett son of Earl of Tankerville, attempted to pass Bills to stop abuses of chimney sweep boys, only lived to see the 1834 Act.
1819 : Settlement Act, attempt to simplify tenement of annual value £10, but unsuccessful.
1819 : *Peel's Act, reduced the hours of children in mills to 72.
Sunday 11 April 1819 : Easter Sunday
June 1819 : #Master manufacturers of calicoes & cambrics in Burnley, Bury, Blackburn & Preston issued declaration deploring low pay.
July 1819 : # Est 14,000 knitters in Notts, Leics & Derby strike following rejection of Bill to abolish 'cut-ups', significant public sympathy.
1820 : #Mr Lewis of Brinscomb invents improvements to the machinery for cutting cloth, the trade of shearmen dwindles away.
1820 : *A.B.Haden, a parson and magistrate in Wolverhampton wrote to the HO and enforced payment in cash.
1820 : Federalist Party dissolves; without opposition, Jefferson Dems disband
1820 : Missouri Compromise forbids slavery above 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude
1820 : *Truck Act, law strengthened forbidding employers to stipulate as to the expenditure of wages, but it remained idle.
Saturday 29 January 1820 : End of reign of George III
Sunday 30 January 1820 : Start of reign of George IV
Sunday 02 April 1820 : Easter Sunday
1821 : Birth date of [P259] Maria NEVE
1821 : * Wages reduced in Wellington and Tipton and prices raised in"Tommy-shops", rioting, yeomanry called in, 2 workmen killed.
1821 : Birth date of [P214] Maria WEST
Sunday 22 April 1821 : Easter Sunday
1822 : Invention of electric motor by Michael Faraday
1822 : Hayes, 19th President, born in Ohio; dies 1893
1822 : Grant, 18th President, born in Ohio; dies 1885
January 1822 : # Even this late flying-shuttle introduced in Frome caused disturbances; request for cavalry although in use in Yorks, Gloucs & Wilts.
1822 : # In West-Riding first worsted power-loom sent secretly from Bradford to Shipley soon found out and destroyed.
Sunday 07 April 1822 : Easter Sunday
1823 : Birth date of [P261] Martha NEVE
Sunday 30 March 1823 : Easter Sunday
ABT July 1823 : # Frome weavers struck demanding old wages before flying-shuttle introduced & abolition of truck; 18 sent to gaol.
Tuesday 02 December 1823 : Monroe Doctrine given to Congress
1824 : Russell's Committee on Agricultural Wages, weekly wage 12/- to 15/- in north and 4/6 to 9/- in south.
1824 : #Act passed to allow import and export of wool for 1d per lb in each case.
1824 : House of Representatives elects John Q. Adams president
1824 : Birth date of [P263] William CURTIS
1824 : *Macclesfield, silk mills working hours were from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
1824 : *Methodists strongest in Yorksh,Lincolnsh, Cornwall, Derby, Durham, Stafford, Nottingham, Leicester, Cheshire and Lancs.
AFT Thursday 12 February 1824 : *Hume's Artisans & Machinery Committee, collected evidence on the workings of the Combination Acts.
Sunday 18 April 1824 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 05 June 1824 : Repeal of Combination Acts, no longer a penal offence to form a Trade Union.
1825 : Rescinded Repeal of 1824.
1825 : * Northumberland miners published pamphlet 'A Voice from the Coal Mines', gives breakdown of living costs.
1825 : Spate of strikes following Acts repeal, men in Uley & Stroud,Dursley, Wotton & Kingswood, Gloucs were met with sympathy from masons, millwrights, & carpenters.
1825 : Erie Canal completed
1825 : # Men of Cullompton had bound themselves for nearly a century not to allow women weavers, but now relaxed.
ABT 1825 : # Huddersfield had a flourishing weavers union with some 5,000 members.
1825 : Birth date of [P262] Susanah NEVE
ABT 1825 : Mills in Manchester and environs worked 12.5 to 14 hours, sometimes day and night.
1825 : *Hobhouse's Act with object of preventing abuses of 1819 Act, hours reduced to 11, forbade mill owners, their fathers or sons to act as magistrates.
1825 : # Woolcomber's Bishop Blaize Festival held at Bradford, Yorks, now recognised centre of the worsted industry.
Friday 04 March 1825 : House of Representatives elects John Q. Adams president (US)
Sunday 03 April 1825 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 07 June 1825 : # Woolcombers & weavers in Bradford struck, est 20,000 workers idle, money subscribed from all over the country, by November they had failed.
Tuesday 27 September 1825 : First passenger train service from Stockton to Darlington
ABT 1826 : # Spinning-mules introduced into Yorkshire and South-West woollen mills about the same time.
1826 : Settlement Act, 1819 Act unsuccessful.
Monday 30 January 1826 : Telford's Menai suspension bridge completed
Sunday 26 March 1826 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 18 April 1826 : # John Fielden of Todmorden organised a movement with signed agreement of 48 firms to pay a minimum wage, failed because of subsequent attacks on power-looms.
Monday 24 April 1826 : *Riots against power-looms, said to be 30 0r 40000 Irish weavers in Manchester alone; in 3 days starving weavers destroyed 1000 in Blackburn & Bury
Tuesday 04 July 1826 : Jefferson, then Adams, die on 50th anniversary of Declaration
August 1826 : #Lancaster Assizes, 66 persons charged from the riots, 10 transported for life, 33 imprisoned for 3 to 18 m.
1827 : Ohio Canal opened for business
1827 : Birth date of [P264] George NEVE
1827 : Select Committee on Emigration.
1827 : G S Ohm postulates Ohm's Law
Sunday 15 April 1827 : Easter Sunday
1828 : George Worthington Co. founded in village of Cleaveland
1828 : Noah Webster publishes "American Dictionary of English Language"
1828 : 1817 Game Act repealed, new Act reserved transportation for third offence.
ABT 1828 : # Introduction of the spinning mule in the South-west clothing trade.
1828 : Baltimore & Ohio railroad, first designed for passengers & freight
Tuesday 22 January 1828 : Wellington becomes Prime Minister
Sunday 06 April 1828 : Easter Sunday
1829 : Arthur, 21st President, born; dies 1886
1829 : Birth date of [P199] Richard NEVE
1829 : Birth date of [P229] Alice NEAME
January 1829 : Bedford Gaol, 96 prisoners for trial 76 able bodied driven to crime by want, 18 were poachers all bar one paupers.
1829 : *Lords Committee on Coal Trade, Mr Buddle said no provision for accident victims except parochial relief and employer generosity.
1829 : George Stephenson builds first steam locomotive
January 1829 : # Cotton spinners of Stockport, ca 10,000, struck until June against wage reductions.
1829 : Estate of James Smithson funds Smithsonian Institution
Tuesday 20 January 1829 : # Gentlemen Clothiers at Stroud passed a strong resolution against payment in truck, but workmen also wanted the abolition of home or shop looms belonging to the master clothiers.
Wednesday 28 January 1829 : William Burke hanged for murder in Edinburgh
Tuesday 24 February 1829 : # Report from a Francis Fagan sent by the Government found the Union Lodges comprised all sorts, tradesmen, pensioners attorneys and surgeons.
Wednesday 04 March 1829 : Andrew Jackson, President (US)
Sunday 19 April 1829 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 26 September 1829 : First proper police force established in London
Saturday 05 December 1829 : #15 delegates from Spinners Societies in England, Scotland & Ireland met in Ramsay,IoM, to form a Grand General Union.
1830 : Agricultural labourer' rising.
ABT 1830 : 123 furnaces in Lancashire, more than all other counties together.
1830 : End of #Nottingham population rose from 47,300 to 79,000, building land sold for £4000 an acre following speculation after expiry of Heathcoat's patents in 1823.
1830 : #Revolution in France caused alarm with the militia and others and authorities proceeded with caution.
Sunday 11 April 1830 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 26 June 1830 : End of reign of George IV
Sunday 27 June 1830 : Start of reign of William IV
Wednesday 15 September 1830 : Liverpool to Manchester railway opens
October 1830 : Sir Robert Peel wanted strong measures to suppress outrages in Kent, cavalry sent to Sittingbourne, mobs around Maidstone.
Sunday 24 October 1830 : Kent Quarter Sessions, seven tried for machine breaking, lenient sentence of three days
Saturday 30 October 1830 : Maidstone magistrates went with 34 soldiers to meet some 400 people nearby, arrested 3 leaders.
ABT November 1830 : Risings spread to Dorset, Gloucs, Bucks and Stotfold, Beds, Nlk, Sfk and ESX.
November 1830 : Similar arrangements to Brede made at Burwash, Ticehurst, Mayfield, Heathfield, Warbleton, Ninfield and Ringmer.
November 1830 : Disturbances developed in Sussex, meetings with farmers and clergy in area of Maidstone, Hythe and Brighton; wages raised but farmers said tithes and rents must come down.
Friday 05 November 1830 : Brede, labourers and farmers signed an agreement to give 2/3 per day from 1 Mar 1831, removed their overseer Mr Abell from the parish
Thursday 11 November 1830 : London police officer in Deal said wages were 1/8 to 2/3, but they would settle for 2/6.
Monday 15 November 1830 : Sir R Peel sent all disposable cavalry soldiers into Kent and E.Sussex; he disapproved of magistrate's conciliatory approach to labourers demands.
Thursday 18 November 1830 : Horsham labourers more violent but met with sympathy, a 700 to 1000 strong mob summoned a vestry meeting.
ABT Thursday 25 November 1830 : The rising spread to Berks, Hants, and Wilts; manufactories at Fordingbridge, Wilton & Quidhampton attacked, Selborne & Headley workhouses destroyed.
Wednesday 08 December 1830 : Lord Melbourne issues circular stopping mediation by magistrates on the wages, the Government would adopt 'all practicable and reasonable methods'.
Saturday 11 December 1830 : #52 firms Stalybridge,Ashton,Dukinfield reduced by agreement the wages from 3/11d to 3/9d. Est 23,000 workers on strike
AFT Saturday 18 December 1830 : Winchester trials, showed village mechanics, carpenters, joiners, smiths, bricklayers, shoemakers, shepherds & smallholders also joined in.
AFT Saturday 18 December 1830 : Joseph & Robert Mason, Bullington smallholders, Joseph carried a petition to the King at Brighton.
Monday 27 December 1830 : #Spinner's Union of the UK called a General Strike, failed only a few mills in Glossop & Manchester turned out.
Monday 27 December 1830 : Reading Special Commission opened, 138 prisoners.
1831 : Birth date of [P200] Emma NEAME
1831 : *Sadler's Committee on Factory Children's labour
1831 : #Number of cotton workers in Gt Britain risen to about 833,000.
1831 : Settlement Act,1819 & 1826 Acts unsuccessful.
1831 : Select Committee on Secondary Punishment, description of effect on labourers transported, children were sent to prison in large numbers.
1831 : Allowance scale was now 5 gallon loaves for a family of four - cf 1795.
1831 : *Hobhouse's Second Factory Act, again mutilated, applied only to cotton mills, there was still no means to enforce the Acts.
1831 : Nat Turner leads slave revolt at Southampton
1831 : Samuel F. Smith writes "My Country, 'tis of Thee"
1831 : Garfield, 20th President (and 3rd in a row from Ohio), born; dies 1881
1831 : Select Vestry Act, increased 1819 allowance to 50 acres, not much use made of Acts.
1831 : Invention of the friction match by C Sauria
Sunday 02 January 1831 : Wiltshire Special Commission opened, same Winchester judges, 300 prisoners.
Friday 07 January 1831 : Winchester,101 capitally convicted, 6 executed, nearly 95 transported for life, 36 transported for less, 65 with hard labour, 67 acquitted.
Tuesday 11 January 1831 : Dorchester, some 50 prisoners.
Saturday 26 February 1831 : #10,000 Tyne & Wear pitmen struck; some 20,000 from 47 collieries attended on 21 Mar meeting at Newcastle.
Sunday 03 April 1831 : Easter Sunday
July 1831 : Wm Cobbett's trial for sedition at the Guildhall.
August 1831 : #Thomas Hepburn pitman at Hetton Colliery appointed organiser to visit other collieries.
Monday 19 September 1831 : Lord Brougham stated 1 in 7 convictions between 1827 and 1830 were under the Game Code.
ABT October 1831 : #Cholera appears in Sunderland from Russia, devastated Newcastle, Gateshead, North Shields from Dec to Mar of 1832.
Thursday 13 October 1831 : Death date of [P105] Sarah
1832 : End of Otmoor, Oxon, Enclosure Act caused disturbances and problems for years, troops and cavalry sent.
1832 : Birth date of [P265] Eliza SELMES
1832 : M Faraday invents electric dynamo
1832 : #New Coal Act, London coals sold by the weight not volume, thus eliminating the fraud by boat masters
1832 : Jackson supporters counter with rebirth of Jefferson Democratic Party
1832 : Abe Lincoln enlists in Illinois militia to fight Sac and Fox Indians
1832 : Jackson vetoes rechartering of 2nd Bank, causes birth of Whig Party
ABT March 1832 : *#Northumberland coal strike, cholera epidemic and a clergyman evicted all his tenants.
Sunday 22 April 1832 : Easter Sunday
ABT June 1832 : #Lead miners (ca 2,000) brought in from Wales, Staffs and Yorkshire.
June 1832 : Cholera epidemic strikes Britain
Thursday 07 June 1832 : Parliament passes Reform Act
1833 : Welland Canal finished to Port Colburn
1833 : Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President, born; dies 1901
1833 : City of Cleveland buys its first fire engine for $285
1833 : Cholera epidemic in Toronto (1833-34) kills 600 people
1833 : Select Committee on Agriculture, failed to understand bad distribution of profits was itself a cause of agricultural problems, assumed only to steady prices by protection.
1833 : Death date of [P212] John Hamshar NEVE
1833 : End of #Cotton imports went from 3,870,392 to 303,726,199 lbs.
ABT 1833 : *Factory Commissioner's Report, spinners came from agricultural areas, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.
1833 : # Felkin estimates 73,000 workers in frame-work knitting industry.
Sunday 07 April 1833 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 11 May 1833 : "Lady of the Lake" sinks (England to Quebec liner) 215 lives lost
Monday 29 July 1833 : Slavery abolished throughout British Empire
1834 : *Suppl. Report of Poor Law Commission, in mills nearly 2/3 of boys and 1/3 of girls were employed directly by men workers
1834 : Select Committee Report on Allotments, not until 1830 that allotments were much resorted to,i.e. desperate hungry labourers rioted.
1834 : #Report of Select Comm. on Hand-Loom Weavers, describes last efforts to obtain a minimum wage.
1834 : Charles Babbage demonstrates "analytic engine", a computer
1834 : Death of Lafayette, Revolutionary War hero on two continents
1834 : First Longhope Lifeboat (Orkney)
1834 : Report of Poor Law Commission, still showed prejudice against allowing labourers to own allotments.
1834 : York, Ontario becomes city of Toronto
March 1834 : Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation
Sunday 30 March 1834 : Easter Sunday
1835 : Samuel Colt invents the revolver
1835 : U.S.A. becomes debt free (briefly) for only time in history
1835 : *Rept of Committee on Accidents in Mines.
1835 : William Lyon Mackenzie first mayor of Toronto
Sunday 19 April 1835 : Easter Sunday
1836 : Invention of screw propeller by F P Smith
1836 : Charles Darwin returns from South America
Sunday 06 March 1836 : The Alamo. 6000 Mexicans defeat 190 Americans in 12 days
Sunday 03 April 1836 : Easter Sunday
1837 : Invention of telegraph by S F B Morse
1837 : Rush-Bagot Treaty with Canada creates world's longest open border
1837 : Unsuccessful rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada lead by Mackenzie and Papineau
1837 : Rush-Bagot Treaty with Canada creates world's longest open border
1837 : Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President, born; dies 1908
1837 : Sitting Bull born, dies in 1890
1837 : Concord Hymn, by Emerson, commemorates battle of Concord NH in 1775
Saturday 04 March 1837 : Martin Van Buren, President (US)
Sunday 26 March 1837 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 20 June 1837 : End of reign of William IV
Wednesday 21 June 1837 : Start of reign of Queen Victoria
1838 : Osceola dies in prison after being tricked by false white flag
1838 : Trail of Tears. Thousands of Indians forced from their homes & die
1838 : Black Hawk, famous Sac warrior, dies of old age
April 1838 : First steam crossing of the Atlantic
Sunday 15 April 1838 : Easter Sunday
September 1838 : Grace Darling rescues survivors of the "Forfarshire"
December 1838 : Birth date of [P90] Charles RAYMOND
1839 : Railway Express Co. founded in Boston
1839 : Rubber vulcanisation developed by C Goodyear
1839 : Abner Doubleday invents baseball at Cooperstown, NY
Sunday 31 March 1839 : Easter Sunday
1840 : *Act passed no one under 21 to climb chimneys, no child under 16 to apprenticed to a chimney sweep.
1840 : # Report from Assistant Hand-Loom Weavers Commissioners.
1840 : Chief Joseph born near Wallowa, OR. Becomes great chief of Nez Perce'
ABT 1840 : Development of photography
1840 : Start of Frederick William IV reign (Germany)
1840 : End of Frederick William III reign (Germany)
1840 : # Freshford, Som., employer had as many women as men working for him, ca 3,000 looms in Devon making Exeter serges, nearly 600 in Wellington, Som., mainly women.
1840 : Birth date of [P215] Mary NEVE
1840 : Birth date of [P217] J. MACNAB
1840 : #Commission on Hand-Loom Weavers describes their miserable plight.
1840 : # In Norwich, 3398 out of 4054 looms were in the weavers' own homes, 2890 were in homes of either one or two looms.
Sunday 19 April 1840 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 06 May 1840 : Penny Post introduced
Tuesday 02 June 1840 : Britain annexes New Zealand
1841 : Death date of [P224] Thomas NEVE
1841 : Wm. H. Harrison catches cold at Inauguration, dies a month later
1841 : Act of Union unties Upper and Lower Canada
Thursday 04 March 1841 : William Henry Harrison, President (US)
Tuesday 06 April 1841 : John Taylor, President (US)
Sunday 11 April 1841 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 06 July 1841 : First national census taken
September 1841 : Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
1842 : First use of ether as anesthetic by CW Long
1842 : Webster-Ashburton Treaty defines Canadian-U.S. frontier
1842 : *First Report of Children's Commission ....in Mines and Manufactures, women still working in West Riding, in Cheshire, some parts of Lancs and in S Wales.
1842 : *First Report of Children's Commission ....in Mines and Manufactures, ages 5 to 8 years, strongly critical of owners and agents.
1842 : Plain Dealer Publishing Co. founded in Cleveland
ABT 1842 : *The truck system still prevailed in remote areas where there were powerful landlords.
1842 : Crazy Horse born in South Dakota
Sunday 27 March 1842 : Easter Sunday
1843 : Birth date of [P216] Laura Jane NEVE
1843 : McKinley, 25th President (5th from Ohio), born; dies 1901
Sunday 16 April 1843 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 31 December 1843 : Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol"
1844 : End of 1,883 Enclosure Acts passed.
1844 : Samuel F. B. Morse opens telegraphic link between Baltimore and D.C.
Sunday 07 April 1844 : Easter Sunday
June 1844 : Mines Act prohibits use of women and boys in mines
1845 : Invention of pneumatic tyre by R W Thompson
1845 : U. S. Naval Academy opens at Annapolis, MD
1845 : Texas is annexed; war with Mexico follows
1845 : Birth date of [P220] John MONTEITH
1845 : Birth date of [P219] Ellen Maria NEVE
Friday 10 January 1845 : Death date of [P106] John RAYMOND
Tuesday 04 March 1845 : James Polk, President (US)
Sunday 23 March 1845 : Easter Sunday
1846 : Death date of [P230] Henry NICHOLSON
1846 : Large crack in Liberty Bell gets too bad to permit ringing any more
1846 : Potato famine in Ireland. Many flee to America for survival
Sunday 12 April 1846 : Easter Sunday
July 1846 : Potato famine hits Ireland and Scotland
1847 : American troops fight their way into the Halls of Montezuma in Mexico
1847 : Brigham Young leads his followers into Salt Lake City, UT area
Thursday 11 February 1847 : Thomas Alva Edison born in Milan, OH; dies in 1931
April 1847 : Thousands emigrate from Ireland on "Coffin" ships
Sunday 04 April 1847 : Easter Sunday
1848 : Cornerstone laid for the Washington Monument
1848 : Treaty of 1848 gets CA, NM, AZ, NV UT, parts of CO and WY for the Union
Sunday 23 April 1848 : Easter Sunday
1849 : Eastern Michigan University founded
1849 : There's G O L D in them thar hills! Invasion of California begins
Sunday 04 March 1849 : Zachary Taylor, President (US)
Sunday 08 April 1849 : Easter Sunday
November 1849 : Cholera epidemic takes 2000 lives a week
1850 : Invention of refrigerator by Twining / Harrison
1850 : Birth date of [P221] Caroline NEVE
Sunday 31 March 1850 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 10 July 1850 : Millard Fillmore, President (US)
1851 : Birth date of [P236] Caroline NICHOLSON
Monday 31 March 1851 : 1851 national census taken
Sunday 20 April 1851 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 01 May 1851 : Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park
1852 : Birth date of [P240] Henry NICHOLSON
1852 : Birth date of [P223] William West NEVE
Sunday 11 April 1852 : Easter Sunday
1853 : Commodore Matthew Perry opens trade routes with Japan
1853 : Gadsden Purchase brings some Mexican territory into U.S.A.
1853 : Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory
ABT 1853 : Transportation of criminals to Australia ends
Friday 04 March 1853 : Franklin Pierce, President (US)
Sunday 27 March 1853 : Easter Sunday
1854 : Birth date of [P242] Frederick NICHOLSON
1854 : George Boole writes on theories of logic and probabilities
1854 : War between Cleveland and Ohio City settled by annexation of latter
1854 : Kansas - Nebraska Act. Provides springboard for Abe Lincoln
Tuesday 28 February 1854 : Republican Party formed in Ripon, WI, under John Fremont
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Britain and France declare war on Russia
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Start of Crimean War
Sunday 16 April 1854 : Easter Sunday
1855 : Soo Canal opens upper Great Lakes to commercial navigation
1855 : Longfellow uses name of real Six Nation's hero Hiawatha in mythical poem
1855 : Invention of the safety match by J E Lundstrom
1855 : Birth date of [P243] Charlottte SHORTHOUSE
1855 : Death date of [P211] Sarah TANNER
Sunday 08 April 1855 : Easter Sunday
1856 : Steamer service starts between Stromness and Scrabster (Orkney)
1856 : Cocaine extracted from cocoa beans, but has no legitimate use
1856 : Western Union Telegraph Co. established in Cleveland
1856 : Wilson, 28th President, born; dies 1924
Sunday 23 March 1856 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 30 March 1856 : End of Crimean War
1857 : Dred Scott decision handed down by Supreme Court
1857 : Transatlantic cable begins; completed in 1866
1857 : Taft, 27th President (7th from Ohio), born; dies 1930
1857 : Ottawa named Canada's capital by Queen Victoria
1857 : Birth date of [P201] Marion NEVE
1857 : Birth date of [P244] Arthur NICHOLSON
Wednesday 04 March 1857 : James Buchanan, President (US)
Sunday 12 April 1857 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 10 May 1857 : Sepoy mutiny in India
1858 : Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President, born; dies 1919
1858 : Birth date of [P202] Charles NEVE
1858 : Birth date of [P246] Florence NICHOLSON
Sunday 04 April 1858 : Easter Sunday
1859 : Colonel Robert E. Lee, U. S. Army, commands troops at Harpers Ferry
1859 : Abolitionist John Brown leads assault on armory at Harper's Ferry
1859 : First oil well sunk by E L Drake in Pennsylvania
1859 : Drake puts down first oil well in U.S.A., Titusville, PA
Sunday 24 April 1859 : Easter Sunday
Monday 13 June 1859 : Marriage date of [F47] - [P90] Charles RAYMOND = [P89] Mary Ann WHEELER
Thursday 24 November 1859 : Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species"
1860 : Annie Oakley born in Darke County, Ohio log cabin
1860 : Edwin C. Higbee opens store on Cleveland Public Square
1860 : Birth date of [P203] Herbert NEVE
1860 : Birth date of [P193] Alice NICHOLSON
Sunday 08 April 1860 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 20 December 1860 : South Carolina becomes first state to secede from Union
1861 : #Commission on Children in Lace Manufacture, exposed conditions of the previous period.
1861 : First Congressional Medals of Honor awarded, to Union Navymen
1861 : Ohioan Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheridan ride off to war
1861 : Start of William I reign (Germany)
1861 : Gatling gun invented by R J Gatling
1861 : End of Frederick William IV reign (Germany)
Friday 08 February 1861 : Confederate States adopt Provisional Constitution
Monday 04 March 1861 : Abraham Lincoln, President (US)
Saturday 23 March 1861 : Birth date of [P79] Frederick George RAYMOND
Sunday 31 March 1861 : Easter Sunday
Monday 08 April 1861 : 1861 national census taken
Friday 12 April 1861 : Civil War begins at Fort Sumter, Charleston, SC
Friday 02 August 1861 : Congress enacts first income tax, on incomes more than $800
Saturday 03 August 1861 : U. S. Navy's first aircraft carrier launches hot air balloon
1862 : The Homestead Act.
1862 : Ohioans LTC R. B. Hayes and Sgt Wm. McKinley saw action at Antietam
1862 : Death date of [P231] Marianne FREAKE
Saturday 08 March 1862 : Duel between Merrimac and the Virginia (formerly the Monitor); CSS Merrimac withdrew
Sunday 20 April 1862 : Easter Sunday
1863 : The Emancipation Proclamation.
1863 : The Gettysburg Address dedicated to more than two score thousand dead
1863 : Birth date of [P248] Herbert NICHOLSON
1863 : Birth date of [P204] Agnes NEVE
Saturday 10 January 1863 : London Underground opens
Sunday 05 April 1863 : Easter Sunday
1864 : Lincoln proclaims last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day
1864 : Massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians at Sand Creek, CO
1864 : Birth date of [P205] Arthur Curteis NEVE
Tuesday 09 February 1864 : Lincoln posed for photograph which appears on $5 bill
Sunday 27 March 1864 : Easter Sunday
Friday 22 April 1864 : "In God We Trust" put on American coins for the first time
Thursday 01 September 1864 : Charlottetown Conference - first steps towards Canadain Conferderation
1865 : 13th amendment abolishes slavery
1865 : Harding, 29th President (8th from Ohio), born; dies in 1923
1865 : Birth date of [P249] Stella KNIGHT
Saturday 04 March 1865 : Andrew Johnson, President (US)
Sunday 09 April 1865 : Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox on Palm Sunday
Friday 14 April 1865 : Lincoln shot by Boothe, dies next day
Sunday 16 April 1865 : Easter Sunday
Friday 26 May 1865 : Confederate Army surrenders at Shreveport, LA; Civil War ends
Thursday 22 June 1865 : Last shot of Civil War fired by CSS Shenandoah in Bering Sea
1866 : Congress recognizes the Metric system of measurements
1866 : Ohio briefly adopts state motto: "Imperium in Imperio"
ABT 1866 : Invention of the breech-loading rifle
1866 : Alfred Nobel invents something that is "dynamite"
Sunday 01 April 1866 : Easter Sunday
September 1866 : Cholera sweeps London
1867 : First Stromness Lifeboat (Orkney)
1867 : Joseph Lister pioneers antiseptic techniques
1867 : British North American Act creates the Dominion of Canada
1867 : US buys Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million
1867 : British North American Act creates the Dominion of Canada
ABT 1867 : # frame-work knitting as a factory system was not yet in full force, it had hardly begun by 1844
1867 : Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1867 : Invention of the typewriter by Sholes and Glidden
1867 : Death date of [P210] Thomas NEVE
Sunday 21 April 1867 : Easter Sunday
1868 : Thomas D'Arcy McGee assassinated by a Fenian (Canada's first assassination)
1868 : House impeaches President Johnson. Senate acquits him by one vote
1868 : 14th amendment prohibits voting discrimination, among other things
1868 : Birth date of [P36] Ernest NEVE
February 1868 : Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
Sunday 12 April 1868 : Easter Sunday
1869 : Transcontinental railroad completed; Ogden, UT wins the golden spike
1869 : D Mendeleev constructs Periodic Table of elements
1869 : Cleveland's first professional baseball team is The Forest City's
1869 : The Riel Rebellions take place in present day Manitoba
1869 : Death date of [P265] Eliza SELMES
Thursday 04 March 1869 : Ulysses S. Grant, President (US)
Sunday 28 March 1869 : Easter Sunday
1870 : John D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil Company, in Cleveland, OH
1870 : "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", in a nuclear submarine
1870 : 15th Amendment gives blacks the right to vote
1870 : Electric incandescent lamp invented by T A Edison
1870 : Birth date of [P206] Dora NEVE
1870 : The Manitoba Act is passed
Sunday 17 April 1870 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 12 October 1870 : Robert E. Lee dies
1871 : Mrs. O'Leary's cow blamed for Chicago fire
1871 : British Columbia joins Dominion of Canada
1871 : Birth date of [P209] Cara Mary BEALE
Monday 03 April 1871 : 1871 national census taken
Sunday 09 April 1871 : Easter Sunday
1872 : Coolidge, 30th President, born; dies 1933
1872 : Death date of [P214] Maria WEST
1872 : Birth date of [P208] Horace NEVE
Sunday 31 March 1872 : Easter Sunday
May 1872 : Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
December 1872 : "Marie Celeste" discovered abandoned
1873 : Prime Minister (Canada) MacDonald resigns over Pacific Scandal
1873 : Prince Edward Island joins Dominion of Canada
1873 : Invention of pianoforte by J Broadwood
Sunday 13 April 1873 : Easter Sunday
1874 : Hoover, 31st President, born; dies 1964
Sunday 05 April 1874 : Easter Sunday
1875 : Supreme Court of Canada created
Sunday 28 March 1875 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 14 August 1875 : Marriage date of [F26] - [P38] William John JONES = [P39] Amelia Hammond ROBILLIARD
1876 : Birth date of [P207] Geofrey Weston HONNYWILL
1876 : Invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell of Brantford, Ontario
1876 : Invention of the telephone by A G Bell
1876 : Custer makes history books at Little Big Horn in Montana
1876 : Liberty statue presented by France, construction requires ten years
1876 : Does the name "Alexander Graham" ring a bell? Telephone invented
Sunday 16 April 1876 : Easter Sunday
Friday 17 November 1876 : Birth date of [P41] Marshal Robilliard JONES
1877 : Invention of reinforced concrete by J Monier
1877 : Crazy Horse dies in a Nebraska prison from stab wounds
1877 : Phonograph invented by Thomas Edison
Sunday 04 March 1877 : Rutherford B. Hayes, President (US)
Sunday 01 April 1877 : Easter Sunday
1878 : Quebec Dock Riots
1878 : First electric street lighting anywhere is on Cleveland Public Square
1878 : Sir Sanford Fleming, Canadian Railway Surveyor devises Standard Time
Sunday 21 April 1878 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 22 August 1878 : Birth date of [P43] Charles Willis JONES
Sunday 13 April 1879 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 28 December 1879 : Tay Bridge disaster
1880 : Death date of [P261] Martha NEVE
1880 : Case School of Applied Science established in Cleveland
Sunday 28 March 1880 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 29 May 1880 : Birth date of [P44] Mabel Minnie JONES
Thursday 17 June 1880 : Christening date of [P44] Mabel Minnie JONES
1881 : Garfield assassinated. Arthur moves into the presidency
1881 : British Columbia joins Canadian Confederation
Friday 04 March 1881 : James Garfield, President (US)
Sunday 03 April 1881 : 1881 national census taken
Sunday 17 April 1881 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 20 September 1881 : Garfield assassinated. Chester Arthur moves into the presidency of US
1882 : F. D. Roosevelt, 32nd President, born; dies 1945
1882 : Isolation of tuberculosis bacteria by R Koch
Sunday 09 April 1882 : Easter Sunday
1883 : Indonesian volcano Krakatau blows it's top; 35,000 die
1883 : First American skyscraper soars into Chicago skies, 10 stories
1883 : Marriage date of [F79] - [P79] Frederick George RAYMOND = [P143] Alice PRESTON
1883 : Cholera bacteria isolated by Robert Koch
Sunday 25 March 1883 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 26 August 1883 : Krakatoa erupts
1884 : Louis Riel returns to Canada
1884 : First "World Series" played
1884 : Truman, 33rd President, born; dies 1972
1884 : Joseph Tyrrell finds first dinosaur skull (Albertasaurus)
1884 : Fountain pen invented by L E Waterman
Sunday 13 April 1884 : Easter Sunday
December 1884 : Birth date of [P81] Florence Alice RAYMOND
1885 : First internal combustion carriage built by K. Benz
1885 : Vaccine against rabies discovered by Louis Pasteur
Monday 26 January 1885 : General Gordon killed at Khartoum
Wednesday 04 March 1885 : Grover Cleveland, President (US)
Sunday 05 April 1885 : Easter Sunday
Monday 13 April 1885 : Birth date of [P47] Rita May JONES
Monday 16 November 1885 : Louis Riel is Executed in Regina
1886 : Death date of [P257] Charles NEVE
1886 : Death date of [P202] Charles NEVE
1886 : Death date of [P229] Alice NEAME
Sunday 25 April 1886 : Easter Sunday
Friday 13 August 1886 : Birth date of [P49] Elyia Emma JONES
1887 : Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sunday 10 April 1887 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 21 August 1887 : Birth date of [P83] Rosie Annie RAYMOND
Wednesday 14 December 1887 : Birth date of [P268] Alexander, John GRIFFITHS
1888 : End of William I reign (Germany)
1888 : Death date of [P262] Susanah NEVE
1888 : Start of William II reign (Germany)
1888 : Invention of hand-held camera by George Eastman
1888 : Frederick III reign (Germany)
Sunday 01 April 1888 : Easter Sunday
October 1888 : Jack the Ripper terrorises London's East End
1889 : Death date of [P258] Fanny NEAME
1889 : Invention of the bolt-action rifle by P von Mauser
Monday 04 March 1889 : Benjamin Harrison, President (US)
Sunday 21 April 1889 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 26 May 1889 : Birth date of [P57] Adrian Le Patourel JONES
Thursday 14 November 1889 : Completion of the Forth Bridge - first large steel structure
Friday 06 December 1889 : Jefferson Davis dies at age 81
1890 : Eisenhower, 34th President, born; dies 1969
1890 : Massacre at Wounded Knee
1890 : Discovery of diphtheria vaccine by E von Behring
Wednesday 29 January 1890 : Birth date of [P50] Harry JONES
Sunday 06 April 1890 : Easter Sunday
1891 : Canadian creator of Insulin Frederick Banting born
1891 : Invention of the zip fastener by W L Judson
1891 : Death date of [P260] Robert WELLS
Sunday 29 March 1891 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 01 April 1891 : 1891 national census taken
1892 : Pledge of Allegiance published. Changes made in 1954
1892 : Death date of [P259] Maria NEVE
Sunday 17 April 1892 : Easter Sunday
1893 : Thomas Edison invents motion pictures
Friday 20 January 1893 : Birth date of [P86] Maud Violet RAYMOND
Saturday 04 March 1893 : Grover Cleveland, President (US)
Monday 06 March 1893 : Birth date of [P51] Barry Cuthbert JONES
Sunday 02 April 1893 : Easter Sunday
1894 : Tower Bridge opens in London
1894 : Death date of [P228] John Frederick NICHOLSON
Sunday 25 March 1894 : Easter Sunday
1895 : Discovery of x-rays by W K Roentgen
1895 : "America the Beautiful" written by Katherine Lee Bates
1895 : Wireless telegraphy invented by G Marconi
1895 : Death date of [P205] Arthur Curteis NEVE
1895 : Death date of [P217] J. MACNAB
Sunday 14 April 1895 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 01 June 1895 : Death date of [P97] Mary Anne DACY
1896 : Death date of [P256] Sarah Jane NEVE
1896 : Death date of [P263] William CURTIS
1896 : Discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel
Sunday 05 April 1896 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 01 October 1896 : Marriage date of [F21] - [P36] Ernest NEVE = [P193] Alice NICHOLSON
Saturday 30 January 1897 : Death date of [P98] Charles RAYMOND
Sunday 18 April 1897 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 22 June 1897 : Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
Friday 30 July 1897 : Birth date of [P28] Charles Firmian NEVE
Thursday 12 August 1897 : Birth date of [P75] Edgar Edward RAYMOND
September 1897 : Birth date of [P21] Madeline, Violet CAVE
Saturday 13 November 1897 : Birth date of [P30] Sybil Alberta HUMPHREYS
1898 : Spanish - American War. Teddy Roosevelt rough-rides his way into Cuba
Sunday 10 April 1898 : Easter Sunday
1899 : Death date of [P213] William Tanner NEVE
1899 : Introduction of aspirin by Felix Hoffman
1899 : Invention of first tape recorder by V Poulsen
Sunday 02 April 1899 : Easter Sunday
October 1899 : Start of Boer War
Monday 30 October 1899 : Canadian troops sent to Boer war
Wednesday 15 November 1899 : Birth date of [P87] Anne Dorothy RAYMOND
1900 : Boxer Rebellion against foreigners in China begins
1900 : Invention of agricultural tractor by B Holt
1900 : Invention of rigid airship by von Zeppelin
Sunday 15 April 1900 : Easter Sunday
August 1900 : Boxer rebellion in Peking
1901 : First successful safety razor sold by K Gillette
1901 : McKinley assassinated, Theodore Roosevelt moves into presidency
1901 : Marconi recieves first transatlantic radio message at St. John's , Newfoundland
Tuesday 22 January 1901 : End of reign of Queen Victoria
Tuesday 22 January 1901 : Birth date of [P269] Dorothy Winifred Alice WARE
Wednesday 23 January 1901 : Start of reign of Edward VII
Sunday 07 April 1901 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 14 September 1901 : McKinley assassinated, Theodore Roosevelt moves into presidency (US)
1902 : First 4-H Club anywhere is in Springfield, OH
Sunday 30 March 1902 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 05 April 1902 : 20 killed as terracing collapses at Ibrox Park
Friday 09 May 1902 : State of Ohio authorizes a state flag
Sunday 01 June 1902 : End of Boer War
1903 : Birth date of [P194] Gordon Eric NEVE
1903 : Montreal Dock Riots
1903 : Wright brothers prove they are right for aviation at Kitty Hawk, NC
Tuesday 17 March 1903 : Birth date of [P88] Stanley Treleaven RAYMOND
Sunday 12 April 1903 : Easter Sunday
1904 : Death date of [P195] Mary NEVE
1904 : Birth date of [P195] Mary NEVE
1904 : Great Fire of Toronto Ontario Canada
1904 : Ohio adopts Scarlet Carnation as state flower to honor McKinley
1904 : Chief Joseph dies in exile in Washington state, fighting no more, forever
Sunday 03 April 1904 : Easter Sunday
1905 : Death date of [P244] Arthur NICHOLSON
1905 : Birth date of [P196] Muriel Dorothy NEVE
1905 : Alberta joins Dominion of Canada
1905 : Birth date of [P198] Mary Alice STEARNS
1905 : Death date of [P200] Emma NEAME
Sunday 23 April 1905 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 04 October 1905 : Convicted Suffragettes choose to go to prison
1906 : Wassermann test for syphilis developed
Sunday 15 April 1906 : Easter Sunday
1907 : Albert Einstein postulates "E=mc²" theory
1907 : Birth date of [P197] Gerald Wightwick Curteis NEVE
Sunday 31 March 1907 : Easter Sunday
1908 : L. B. Johnson, 36th President, born; dies 1973
Sunday 19 April 1908 : Easter Sunday
1909 : NAACP founded by W. E. B. DuBois
Thursday 04 March 1909 : William H. Taft, President (US)
Sunday 11 April 1909 : Easter Sunday
1910 : Invention of first synthetic plastic, Bakelite
1910 : Death date of [P199] Richard NEVE
Sunday 27 March 1910 : Easter Sunday
Friday 06 May 1910 : End of reign of Edward VII
Saturday 07 May 1910 : Start of reign of George V
Sunday 31 July 1910 : Radio used to arrest Dr Crippen fleeing to Quebec
Thursday 17 November 1910 : Birth date of [P171] Madeline CONSTANCE
1911 : Reagan, 40th President, born
1911 : E. Rutherford puts forward nuclear model of the atom
Tuesday 03 January 1911 : Three policemen die in the Seige of Sidney Street
Sunday 16 April 1911 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 31 August 1911 : Troops clash with strikers in north of England
1912 : Death date of [P219] Ellen Maria NEVE
1912 : Garrett Morgan of Cleveland invents the gas mask
1912 : SS Titanic hits iceberg, 1503 lives lost
Sunday 07 April 1912 : Easter Sunday
Monday 15 April 1912 : SS Titanic sinks with loss of 1513 lives
1913 : Nixon, 37th President, born
1913 : Harriet Tubman, heroine of underground railroad, dies; buried in Ohio
1913 : Death date of [P264] George NEVE
1913 : 17th Amendment changed election rules for Senators
1913 : 16th Amendment establishes income tax
1913 : Ford, 38th President (1st non-elected), born
Monday 10 February 1913 : Capt. Scott found dead in Antartica
Tuesday 04 March 1913 : Woodrow Wilson, President (US)
Sunday 23 March 1913 : Easter Sunday
June 1913 : Suffragette dies under King's horse at Epsom
Sunday 10 August 1913 : Birth date of [P190] Sir Stanley RAYMOND
Monday 29 December 1913 : Birth date of [P172] Ernest R CONSTANCE
1914 : World War I begins
1914 : Invention of military tank by E Swinton
Wednesday 08 April 1914 : Birth date of [P186] Hilda HUNT
Sunday 12 April 1914 : Easter Sunday
Friday 29 May 1914 : CP ship "Empress of Ireland" sinks in St. Lawrence, 1014 die
Sunday 28 June 1914 : Austrian Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
Tuesday 28 July 1914 : Start of World War I
Tuesday 28 July 1914 : Austria declares war on Serbia
Saturday 01 August 1914 : Germany declares war on Russia
August 1914 : Battle of Tannenberg
Monday 03 August 1914 : Germany declares war on France
Tuesday 04 August 1914 : Germany invades Belgium
Tuesday 04 August 1914 : Britain declares war on Germany
Tuesday 04 August 1914 : Canada automatically at war with Germany when England declares war
September 1914 : First Battle of the Marne
Sunday 04 October 1914 : First bombs fall on London
1915 : SS Lusitania sunk
February 1915 : Start of German submarine blockade of Britain
Sunday 04 April 1915 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 22 April 1915 : Germans first use of mustard gas at Ypres
Thursday 22 April 1915 : Canadians face German gas attack at Ypres, John McCrae writes "In Flanders Fields"
Monday 26 April 1915 : British land in Turkey
Friday 07 May 1915 : SS Lusitania sunk by German submarine
Saturday 22 May 1915 : 200 soldiers killed in train crash at Quintinshill
Monday 06 September 1915 : Poland and Lithuania overrun by Germany
Thursday 14 October 1915 : Britain and France declare war on Bulgaria
Monday 20 December 1915 : British withdraw from Gallipoli
1916 : HMS Hampshire sunk (Orkney)
1916 : Canadian Parliment Buildings (Ottawa) destroyed by fire
1916 : Death date of [P189] Lillan
February 1916 : Battle of Verdun
Sunday 23 April 1916 : Easter Sunday
Monday 24 April 1916 : 450 die in Easter Rising in Dublin
Wednesday 31 May 1916 : Battle of Jutland
Saturday 01 July 1916 : Start of Battle of the Somme
Saturday 29 July 1916 : Marriage date of [F66] - [P136] Henry MILLS = [P86] Maud Violet RAYMOND
Sunday 27 August 1916 : Romaina declares war on Austria-Hungary
Wednesday 15 November 1916 : End of Battle of the Somme
1917 : Kennedy, 35th President, born; dies 1963
1917 : Russian Revolution; they enjoy brief democracy for only time in history
1917 : Death date of [P85] Frederick George RAYMOND
1917 : Conscription in Canada
Friday 06 April 1917 : USA declares war on Germany
Sunday 08 April 1917 : Easter Sunday
Monday 09 April 1917 : Start of Canadian troops capture Vimy Ridge
Thursday 12 April 1917 : End of Canadian troops capture Vimy Ridge
Monday 09 July 1917 : HMS Vanguard blows up, 800 seamen killed (Orkney)
October 1917 : Start of Battle of Caporetto
December 1917 : End of Battle of Caporetto
Thursday 06 December 1917 : French Munition Ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax harbour, 1600 killed
Friday 07 December 1917 : USA declares war on Austria-Hungary
Saturday 15 December 1917 : Russian Bolsheviks now allies with Germany
1918 : End of William II reign (Germany)
1918 : Birth date of [P170] W E CONSTANCE
Thursday 21 March 1918 : Start of German offensive
Sunday 31 March 1918 : Easter Sunday
Monday 01 April 1918 : Royal Air Force created
Wednesday 03 April 1918 : The American's Creed adopted
Saturday 18 May 1918 : Sinn Féin banned and leaders arrested
July 1918 : Second Battle of the Marne
Thursday 08 August 1918 : Canadians break through German trenches at Amiens "Canada's Hundred Days"
Thursday 08 August 1918 : End of German offensive
Friday 04 October 1918 : Germany offers surrender
Monday 11 November 1918 : Hostilities cease on Western Front
Monday 11 November 1918 : Armistice ends WW I on 11th hour of 11th day of 11th month
Monday 11 November 1918 : End of World War I
Saturday 28 December 1918 : Women allowed to vote for the first time
1919 : 18th Amendment introduces prohibition of intoxicating liquors
1919 : German Fleet scuttles itself (Orkney)
1919 : Start of Frederick Ebert , President (Germany)
March 1919 : Spanish flu kills 150,000 throughout Britian
Sunday 20 April 1919 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 01 July 1919 : Germany proclaimed a republic at Weimar
Sunday 28 December 1919 : Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
1920 : 19th Amendment brings women the vote
Saturday 10 January 1920 : Canada joins League of Nations at its inception
Sunday 04 April 1920 : Easter Sunday
Monday 18 October 1920 : State of emergency declared as miners strike
Sunday 21 November 1920 : "Bloody Sunday" - 12 Irish killed by the Black and Tans
Monday 03 January 1921 : Birth date of [P140] Joan MILLS
Friday 04 March 1921 : Warren Harding, President (US)
Sunday 27 March 1921 : Easter Sunday
Friday 21 October 1921 : Marriage date of [F139] - [P268] Alexander, John GRIFFITHS = [P269] Dorothy Winifred Alice WARE
Tuesday 06 December 1921 : Irish Free State created
1922 : Canadian Northern Railway and Canadain Trancontinental Railway merge to form Canadian National Railway
1922 : Banting and MacLeod isolate human insulin
Sunday 16 April 1922 : Easter Sunday
1923 : Garrett Morgan of Cleveland invents traffic signals
1923 : Grand Trunk Railway taken over by Canadain Government
Sunday 01 April 1923 : Easter Sunday
Friday 03 August 1923 : Calvin Coolidge, President (US)
Wednesday 17 October 1923 : Birth date of [P13] Deryck John GRIFFITHS
1924 : Death date of [P215] Mary NEVE
1924 : Carter, 39th President, born
1924 : Bush, 41st President, born
Sunday 20 April 1924 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 23 April 1924 : First royal transmission by wireless
Tuesday 09 September 1924 : Marriage date of [F42] - [P75] Edgar Edward RAYMOND = [P74] Edith SMITH
1925 : Death date of [P221] Caroline NEVE
1925 : End of Frederick Ebert , President (Germany)
1925 : First municipal airport in the world is Hopkins, at Cleveland, OH
1925 : Paul Von Hindenburg-Beneckendoff , President (Germany)
1925 : Women get the right to vote in Newfoundland
Sunday 12 April 1925 : Easter Sunday
1926 : Invention of the liquid-fuelled rocket by R Goddard
1926 : First demonstration of television by J L Baird
Tuesday 09 February 1926 : Birth date of [P76] Valerie RAYMOND
Sunday 04 April 1926 : Easter Sunday
Monday 10 May 1926 : TUC calls first General Strike
Tuesday 12 October 1926 : Marriage date of [F15] - [P28] Charles Firmian NEVE = [P30] Sybil Alberta HUMPHREYS
1927 : Death date of [P216] Laura Jane NEVE
Sunday 17 April 1927 : Easter Sunday
1928 : Death date of [P236] Caroline NICHOLSON
Saturday 07 January 1928 : River Thames floods killing 14
Monday 19 March 1928 : Birth date of [P31] Arthur Firmian NEVE
Sunday 08 April 1928 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 10 July 1928 : Birth date of [P270] Cecil Thomas GRIFFITHS
Sunday 30 September 1928 : Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming
Monday 19 November 1928 : Birth date of [P14] Shirley RAYMOND
1929 : Death date of [P201] Marion NEVE
1929 : Great Depression begins after bank and stock failures
Monday 04 March 1929 : Herbert Hoover, President (US)
Sunday 31 March 1929 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 30 June 1929 : Birth date of [P1] Peter Charles Le Patourel JONES
Saturday 26 October 1929 : Birth date of [P122] Anne Maragret GLANVILLE
Saturday 15 February 1930 : Birth date of [P32] Peter Firmian NEVE
Sunday 20 April 1930 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 24 May 1930 : Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia
Saturday 12 July 1930 : Marriage date of [F70] - [P138] Bernard BULLVANT = [P87] Anne Dorothy RAYMOND
Sunday 05 October 1930 : Airship R101 crashes in France killing 48
1931 : Birth date of [P250] Richard William NEVE
1931 : Birth date of [P251] Christine Denise Ann PASCOE
Tuesday 03 March 1931 : The National Anthem finally adopted by Congress
Sunday 05 April 1931 : Easter Sunday
Friday 13 November 1931 : Birth date of [P11] Maureen Sybil NEVE
1932 : 20th Amendment established starting date for Presidency & Congress
1932 : Death date of [P79] Frederick George RAYMOND
Friday 12 February 1932 : Whipping of children under 14 is banned
Sunday 27 March 1932 : Easter Sunday
Friday 30 September 1932 : Unemployment reaches 25%
1933 : Ohio adopts the Cardinal as the "Official Bird"
1933 : Birth date of [P125] Joyce May BUSS
1933 : 21st Amendment repeals prohibition amendment
Saturday 04 March 1933 : Franklin D. Roosevelt, President (US)
Sunday 16 April 1933 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 15 July 1933 : Marriage date of [F71] - [P88] Stanley Treleaven RAYMOND = [P139] Florence WOLFE
1934 : Invention of first practical radar by Watson-Watt
1934 : Bank of Canada is created
1934 : Adolf Hitler chancellor chosen successor as Leader-Chancellor of third Reich (Germany)
1934 : Birth date of [P253] Arthur James Powys WOODHOUSE
1934 : Birth date of [P134] Linda MAY
1934 : Birth date of [P252] Avril Mary NEVE
Sunday 01 April 1934 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 26 May 1934 : Birth date of [P56] Barry Cave JONES
Monday 02 July 1934 : Birth date of [P156] Anne RAYMOND
Thursday 02 August 1934 : Paul Von Hindenburg-Beneckendoff , President dies (Germany)
Friday 21 September 1934 : 262 killed in blast at Gresford colliery
1935 : Death date of [P193] Alice NICHOLSON
1935 : Death date of [P203] Herbert NEVE
Monday 18 March 1935 : Thousands protest in Wales at "means test"
Sunday 21 April 1935 : Easter Sunday
1936 : Sir Frank Whittle invents the jet engine
1936 : Invention of helicopter by H Focke
Monday 20 January 1936 : End of reign of George V
Tuesday 21 January 1936 : Start of reign of Edward VIII
Sunday 12 April 1936 : Easter Sunday
Monday 01 June 1936 : Birth date of [P145] Carol BULLVANT
Wednesday 11 November 1936 : Jarrow Crusade reaches London
Thursday 10 December 1936 : Edward VIII abdicates
Thursday 10 December 1936 : End of reign of Edward VIII
Friday 11 December 1936 : Start of reign of George VI
Sunday 28 March 1937 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 06 May 1937 : German Airship "Hindenburg" crashes and burns in New Jersey, 36 lives lost
Friday 28 May 1937 : Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister
Monday 29 November 1937 : Birth date of [P154] David BULLVANT
1938 : Discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassmann
Sunday 17 April 1938 : Easter Sunday
Monday 11 July 1938 : Last British troops leave Eire
1939 : Bill of Rights finally ratified by Massachusetts, Georgia & Connecticut
1939 : Sinking of "Royal Oak" (Orkney)
1939 : Death date of [P36] Ernest NEVE
1939 : Death date of [P204] Agnes NEVE
Sunday 09 April 1939 : Easter Sunday
Friday 25 August 1939 : IRA bomb Coventry killing 5
Friday 01 September 1939 : Germany invades Poland
September 1939 : Children evacuated from London and major cities
Sunday 03 September 1939 : Start of World War II
Sunday 03 September 1939 : Britain and France declare war on Germany
Sunday 10 September 1939 : Canada declares war on Germany (waited 1 week to stress independence from Britian)
Sunday 17 December 1939 : the Graf Spee scuttled off Montevideo
1940 : Work started on Churchill Barrier (Orkney)
1940 : Death date of [P209] Cara Mary BEALE
Sunday 24 March 1940 : Easter Sunday
Friday 10 May 1940 : Churchill takes over as Prime Minister
Friday 10 May 1940 : Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
Sunday 12 May 1940 : Germany invades France
Sunday 26 May 1940 : Allied evacuation from Dunkirk begins
Monday 10 June 1940 : Italy invades France
Monday 10 June 1940 : Italy declares war on France and Britain
Friday 14 June 1940 : Germans enter Paris unopposed
Saturday 22 June 1940 : France surrenders to Germany
Thursday 14 November 1940 : Coventry bombed
Sunday 13 April 1941 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 17 April 1941 : Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany
Saturday 19 April 1941 : Marriage date of [F90] - [P172] Ernest R CONSTANCE = [P173] Margaret SHIELD
Sunday 27 April 1941 : British leave Greece
Sunday 22 June 1941 : Germany attacks Russia
Thursday 14 August 1941 : Britain and USA sign Atlantic Charter
Sunday 07 December 1941 : The Day of Infamy, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, HI
Sunday 07 December 1941 : Japan attack USA at Pearl Harbour
Thursday 11 December 1941 : Germany and Italy declare war on USA
Thursday 11 December 1941 : Britain and USA declare war on Japan
1942 : Death date of [P223] William West NEVE
1942 : Death date of [P194] Gordon Eric NEVE
Sunday 15 February 1942 : British surrender Singapore to Japanese
Sunday 05 April 1942 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 09 April 1942 : USA surrenders Bataan peninsula to Japanese
Wednesday 06 May 1942 : USA surrenders Corregidor Island to Japanese
Wednesday 10 June 1942 : Lidice, Czechoslovakia razed by Germans
Wednesday 12 August 1942 : Marriage date of [F75] - [P141] Sydney HORNIBLOW = [P140] Joan MILLS
Wednesday 19 August 1942 : Many Canadians captured or killed in Dieppe Raid
Sunday 08 November 1942 : British and US troops land in North Africa
1943 : Italian Chapel (Orkney) started
1943 : Death date of [P208] Horace NEVE
Thursday 14 January 1943 : Casablanca conference
Friday 15 January 1943 : Birth date of [P174] Susan CONSTANCE
Monday 01 February 1943 : Germans surrender at Stalingrad
Sunday 25 April 1943 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 12 May 1943 : War in Africa ends
Sunday 25 July 1943 : Mussolini deposed
Friday 03 September 1943 : Allies land in Italy
Wednesday 08 September 1943 : Italy surrenders
Friday 10 September 1943 : Germans take Rome
Monday 22 November 1943 : Cairo conference
Sunday 28 November 1943 : Teheran Conference
Saturday 22 January 1944 : British and US troops land at Anzio
Sunday 09 April 1944 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 04 June 1944 : British and US troops enter Rome
Friday 25 August 1944 : Paris liberated
Friday 13 October 1944 : Athens liberated
Friday 20 October 1944 : USA invades Philippines
Saturday 16 December 1944 : Battle of the Bulge
1945 : World War II ends; first in Europe, then in Japan
1945 : United Nations chartered in San Francisco; later moves to NYC
1945 : Canada's First Nuclear plant opens at Chalk River Ontario
Sunday 11 February 1945 : Yalta agreement
Sunday 01 April 1945 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 12 April 1945 : Harry S. Truman, President (US)
Saturday 28 April 1945 : Mussolini killed at Lake Como
Tuesday 01 May 1945 : Hitler's suicide announced
Wednesday 02 May 1945 : Berlin falls
Monday 07 May 1945 : VE Day. Germany surrenders
Tuesday 26 June 1945 : United Nations formed - Canada one of the original members
Tuesday 17 July 1945 : Potsdam conference
Monday 06 August 1945 : USA drops atom bomb on Hiroshima
Wednesday 08 August 1945 : USSR declares war on Japan
Thursday 09 August 1945 : USA drops atom bomb on Nagasaki
Tuesday 14 August 1945 : Japan surrenders
Sunday 02 September 1945 : End of World War II
Sunday 02 September 1945 : VJ Day. Japanese sign surrender aboard USS Missouri
February 1946 : 50,000 "GI brides" shipped out to the USA
Sunday 21 April 1946 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 01 May 1946 : Birth date of [P175] Andrew CONSTANCE
December 1946 : Fuel and food shortages continue
1947 : Canada joins GATT
1947 : Transistor invented at Bell Labs, in New Jersey
Sunday 06 April 1947 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 20 November 1947 : Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh
Thursday 01 January 1948 : Railways nationalised
Sunday 28 March 1948 : Easter Sunday
Monday 28 June 1948 : Troops break dockers' strike
December 1948 : Labour government constructs "Welfare State"
1949 : NATO is formed, Canada one of the founding members
Tuesday 15 March 1949 : Clothes rationing ends
Thursday 31 March 1949 : Newfoundland joins the Dominion of Canada
Sunday 17 April 1949 : Easter Sunday
Monday 18 April 1949 : Eire becomes Republic of Ireland
ABT 1950 : Albert Einstein puts forward theories of relativity
1950 : North Korea invades South Korea
Sunday 09 April 1950 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 28 June 1950 : Royal Navy enters Korean War
Monday 25 December 1950 : Stone of Destiny taken from Westminster Abbey
1951 : 22nd Amendment limits president to two terms. 1st proposer: Jefferson
Sunday 25 March 1951 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 07 June 1951 : Soviet spies Burgess and MacLean disappear
Wednesday 27 June 1951 : Death date of [P136] Henry MILLS
Saturday 30 June 1951 : Marriage date of [F44] - [P77] James GAY = [P76] Valerie RAYMOND
1952 : CBC broadcasts Canada's first (part time) telivesion
1952 : Death date of [P196] Muriel Dorothy NEVE
February 1952 : Death date of [P143] Alice PRESTON
Wednesday 06 February 1952 : End of reign of George VI
Thursday 07 February 1952 : Start of reign of Elizabeth II
Sunday 13 April 1952 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 28 June 1952 : Marriage date of [F8] - [P13] Deryck John GRIFFITHS = [P14] Shirley RAYMOND
Monday 24 November 1952 : "Mousetrap" opens in London
Thursday 11 December 1952 : Derek Bentley sentenced to hang
1953 : Most hostilities end in Korea, 38th parallel becomes DMZ
1953 : Ohio adopts the Buckeye as the "Official Tree"
1953 : Discovery of measles vaccine by Enders and Peebles
Tuesday 20 January 1953 : Dwight D. Eisenhower, President (US)
Saturday 31 January 1953 : Ferry Princess Victoria sinks in the Irish Sea
Tuesday 03 February 1953 : Hundreds die as East Coast is flooded
Sunday 05 April 1953 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 30 May 1953 : Edmund Hillary reaches the top of Mount Everest
1954 : Discovery of first polio vaccine by J E Salk
1954 : First Canadian Subway opens in Toronto
Sunday 18 April 1954 : Easter Sunday
May 1954 : "Teddy Boys" appear
Saturday 03 July 1954 : Rationing ends
Sunday 10 April 1955 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 13 July 1955 : Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged
Thursday 01 September 1955 : Birth date of [P112] Edward GAY
Saturday 18 February 1956 : Marriage date of [F1] - [P1] Peter Charles Le Patourel JONES = [P11] Maureen Sybil NEVE
Sunday 01 April 1956 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 14 June 1956 : Birth date of [P15] Amanda Jane GRIFFITHS
Saturday 11 August 1956 : Marriage date of [F85] - [P157] Keith WILLIAMS = [P156] Anne RAYMOND
Wednesday 31 October 1956 : Britain invades Suez
1957 : Lyness Base (Orkney) closes down
1957 : Birth date of [P127] Christopher Firmian NEVE
Saturday 02 March 1957 : Birth date of [P4] Simon Charles Le Patourel JONES
Sunday 21 April 1957 : Easter Sunday
Friday 27 September 1957 : Birth date of [P158] Hugh WILLIAMS
Friday 04 October 1957 : Marriage date of [F81] - [P147] Brian READ = [P145] Carol BULLVANT
Thursday 17 October 1957 : Air borne radiation leaks from Windscale
November 1957 : First motorway in Britain, M1 opens
Thursday 06 February 1958 : 7 members of Manchester United die in plane crash
Sunday 06 April 1958 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 01 October 1958 : Birth date of [P114] Robert GAY
1959 : Death date of [P206] Dora NEVE
1959 : Death date of [P207] Geofrey Weston HONNYWILL
1959 : Ohio adopts new Official Motto: "With God, All Things Are Possible"
Friday 20 February 1959 : Avro Arrow progect is terminated
Sunday 29 March 1959 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 04 April 1959 : Birth date of [P159] Mark WILLIAMS
Friday 26 June 1959 : St. Lawrence seaway opens up
Wednesday 16 September 1959 : Marriage date of [F60] - [P32] Peter Firmian NEVE = [P122] Anne Maragret GLANVILLE
Monday 19 October 1959 : Birth date of [P149] Christina READ
1960 : 23rd Amendment granted Electoral College representation to DC
1960 : Birth date of [P128] Julia Elizabeth NEVE
Sunday 17 April 1960 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 21 July 1960 : Birth date of [P123] Nicholas John Firmian NEVE
Saturday 03 September 1960 : Marriage date of [F59] - [P56] Barry Cave JONES = [P129] Judy JEFFERSON
Saturday 31 December 1960 : National Service abolished
Friday 20 January 1961 : John F. Kennedy, President (US)
Sunday 02 April 1961 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 03 October 1961 : Birth date of [P16] Katherine Eve JONES
Tuesday 24 October 1961 : Birth date of [P10] Susan Claire GRIFFITHS
Saturday 11 November 1961 : Birth date of [P120] Christopher William Cave JONES
1962 : Military aid begins in South Vietnam
1962 : Ohioan John Glenn is first U. S. astronaut to orbit earth
Thursday 01 February 1962 : Birth date of [P164] Timothy WILLIAMS
Saturday 24 March 1962 : Marriage date of [F84] - [P154] David BULLVANT = [P155] Roma ATKIN
Sunday 22 April 1962 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 29 September 1962 : Canadian satellite "Alouette" launched
Tuesday 11 December 1962 : Canada's last execution, Turpin and Lucas at Don Jail in Toronto
1963 : John F. Kennedy assassinated, Johnson moves into presidency
1963 : FLQ is founded
Thursday 14 February 1963 : Birth date of [P124] Phillipa Jane NEVE
Wednesday 27 March 1963 : Dr Beeching proposes cutting 25% of rail lines
Sunday 14 April 1963 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 05 June 1963 : John Profumo resigns after sex scandal
Monday 10 June 1963 : Birth date of [P153] Martin READ
Wednesday 28 August 1963 : Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. announces "I Have A Dream"
Monday 04 November 1963 : The Beatles appear in the Royal Variety Show
Tuesday 19 November 1963 : Trans Canada airliner crashes in Montreal loss of 118 lives
Friday 22 November 1963 : John F. Kennedy assassinated, Johnson moves into presidency of US
Friday 13 December 1963 : Birth date of [P166] Megan WILLIAMS
1964 : 24th Amendment killed "poll taxes"
Sunday 29 March 1964 : Easter Sunday
Friday 08 May 1964 : Birth date of [P119] Hugh Cave JONES
Monday 21 December 1964 : Death penalty abolished in Britain
1965 : Canada replaces Union Jack with Maple Leaf as National Flag
1965 : Ohio Flint adopted as the Official Gem Stone of the state
Sunday 18 April 1965 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 28 October 1965 : Brady and Hindley charged with Moors Murders
1966 : CBC telivision goes colour
Sunday 10 April 1966 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 14 May 1966 : Birth date of [P169] Edward WILLIAMS
Friday 21 October 1966 : 144 die in Aberfan as coal bing buries school
1967 : Emergence of Flower Power
1967 : 25th Amendment allows President to step aside temporarily, then resume
1967 : Army, Navy and Air Forces of Canada are merged into Canadain Armed Forces
1967 : Expo 67 in Montreal for Canada's 100th Birthday
Sunday 26 March 1967 : Easter Sunday
1968 : Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. murdered in Memphis
Thursday 21 March 1968 : Birth date of [P121] Philip Edward Cave JONES
Sunday 14 April 1968 : Easter Sunday
June 1968 : Death date of [P81] Florence Alice RAYMOND
1969 : Ohioan Neil Armstrong took one small step for a man, onto the moon
Monday 20 January 1969 : Richard M. Nixon, President (US)
Wednesday 05 March 1969 : London gangsters the Kray twins sentenced to life
Sunday 06 April 1969 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 27 September 1969 : Marriage date of [F91] - [P175] Andrew CONSTANCE = [P176] Julie BELSON
Wednesday 25 March 1970 : Death date of [P74] Edith SMITH
Sunday 29 March 1970 : Easter Sunday
October 1970 : October Crisis (James Cross kidnapped) rocks Quebec
1971 : 26th amendment gives 18 year olds the vote
Saturday 02 January 1971 : 66 die when barriers collapse at Ibrox Park
Monday 15 February 1971 : British currency goes decimal
Sunday 11 April 1971 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 22 January 1972 : Britain joins the EEC
Sunday 30 January 1972 : 13 shot in another Bloody Sunday in Derry
February 1972 : Miners strike leads to power cuts
Sunday 02 April 1972 : Easter Sunday
1973 : Vice President Agnew forced to resign, Ford becomes 1st non-elected VP
Thursday 08 March 1973 : IRA begins mainland bombing
Sunday 22 April 1973 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 24 June 1973 : Death date of [P169] Edward WILLIAMS
Monday 17 December 1973 : Three day week introduced
1974 : Nixon resigns in disgrace, Ford moves into the presidency
Sunday 14 April 1974 : Easter Sunday
Friday 09 August 1974 : Nixon resigns in disgrace, Ford moves into the presidency (US)
Tuesday 12 November 1974 : Lord Lucan escapes and disappears
1975 : The fall of Saigon, South Vietnam
Saturday 08 February 1975 : Marriage date of [F92] - [P179] Anthony SELL = [P174] Susan CONSTANCE
Sunday 30 March 1975 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 02 April 1975 : CN Tower in Toronto opens (1821 feet tall)
Friday 11 July 1975 : Inflation reaches 25%
Friday 25 July 1975 : Marriage date of [F36] - [P64] Philip CHAMBERS = [P15] Amanda Jane GRIFFITHS
Monday 10 November 1975 : "Edmund Fitzgerald" breaks apart and sinks on Lake Superior, 20 die
1976 : Montreal hosts the 21 Olympic Games
Sunday 18 April 1976 : Easter Sunday
Friday 23 July 1976 : Birth date of [P180] Richard SELL
August 1976 : Drought causes water shortages
1977 : Flotta Oil Terminal (Orkney) starts up
Thursday 20 January 1977 : Jimmy Carter , President (US)
Saturday 02 April 1977 : Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time
Sunday 10 April 1977 : Easter Sunday
Thursday 30 June 1977 : Death date of [P28] Charles Firmian NEVE
Monday 07 November 1977 : Birth date of [P181] Margaret SELL
1978 : Death date of [P197] Gerald Wightwick Curteis NEVE
Tuesday 24 January 1978 : Soviet nuclear-powered satellite crashes in Canadian north
Sunday 26 March 1978 : Easter Sunday
November 1978 : Death date of [P268] Alexander, John GRIFFITHS
Wednesday 13 December 1978 : Jeremy Thorpe charged with incitement to murder
January 1979 : "Winter of Discontent" causes chaos
February 1979 : Death date of [P269] Dorothy Winifred Alice WARE
Sunday 15 April 1979 : Easter Sunday
Friday 04 May 1979 : Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister
Sunday 02 September 1979 : Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim
Wednesday 19 September 1979 : Death date of [P139] Florence WOLFE
1980 : Mount St. Helens volcano erupts
1980 : Quebec as a whole (60% - 40%) votes down proposal for soverinty assosiation
1980 : Patriation of the Canadian Constitution (Quebec does not sign)
Sunday 06 April 1980 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 12 April 1980 : Start of Terry Fox marathon of hope
Monday 05 May 1980 : SAS storms Iranian embassy in London
Monday 02 June 1980 : Death date of [P86] Maud Violet RAYMOND
Thursday 24 July 1980 : Birth date of [P178] Alice CONSTANCE
Monday 01 September 1980 : End of Terry Fox marathon of hope
1981 : First female Supreme Court Justice is Sandra Day O'Connor
Tuesday 20 January 1981 : Ronald Reagan , President (US)
Monday 13 April 1981 : Birth date of [P68] Andrew CHAMBERS
Sunday 19 April 1981 : Easter Sunday
Friday 01 May 1981 : Death date of [P51] Barry Cuthbert JONES
Sunday 28 June 1981 : Terry Fox dies
July 1981 : Riots break out in 8 inner city areas
Saturday 01 August 1981 : Marriage date of [F83] - [P150] Ian GREEN = [P149] Christina READ
Thursday 01 October 1981 : Death date of [P87] Anne Dorothy RAYMOND
Monday 15 February 1982 : "Ocean Ranger" oil platform sinks off coast of Newfoundland, 84 die
Friday 02 April 1982 : Argentina invades Falkland Islands
Sunday 11 April 1982 : Easter Sunday
Monday 14 June 1982 : British troops regain control of Falklands
1983 : Death date of [P138] Bernard BULLVANT
Sunday 03 April 1983 : Easter Sunday
Sunday 17 April 1983 : Birth date of [P69] Richard CHAMBERS
Wednesday 22 June 1983 : "Canadarm" first used
Tuesday 26 July 1983 : Birth date of [P177] Thomas CONSTANCE
Friday 29 July 1983 : Birth date of [P182] William SELL
Sunday 25 September 1983 : 134 IRA prisoners escape from the Maze prison
1984 : Geraldine Ferraro is first serious female Vice Presidential candidate
Sunday 22 April 1984 : Easter Sunday
May 1984 : Coal strikes crushed by riot police
Saturday 25 August 1984 : Marriage date of [F86] - [P159] Mark WILLIAMS = [P160] Fenella PAUL
Friday 05 October 1984 : Marc Garneau - first Canadian in space
Saturday 06 October 1984 : Death date of [P75] Edgar Edward RAYMOND
Friday 12 October 1984 : IRA bombs Tory conference in Brighton
Sunday 07 April 1985 : Easter Sunday
Friday 03 May 1985 : Death date of [P190] Sir Stanley RAYMOND
Saturday 11 May 1985 : 40 killed as fire destroys Bradford City stand
Sunday 23 June 1985 : Air India crash, off Ireland (bomb suspected) 280 Canadians killed
Thursday 25 July 1985 : Birth date of [P151] Katie GREEN
1986 : First true community computer system goes online in Cleveland, Ohio
1986 : Rutan and Yeager took a one-tank-trip around the world
1986 : Shuttle "Challenger" exploded on takeoff, 7 astronauts perished
Sunday 30 March 1986 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 20 December 1986 : Marriage date of [F10] - [P17] Richard MORGAN = [P16] Katherine Eve JONES
Sunday 21 December 1986 : Birth date of [P161] Elise WILLIAMS
Tuesday 31 March 1987 : Death date of [P88] Stanley Treleaven RAYMOND
Sunday 19 April 1987 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 09 May 1987 : Marriage date of [F4] - [P4] Simon Charles Le Patourel JONES = [P10] Susan Claire GRIFFITHS
Friday 16 October 1987 : Hurricane hits southern England
Wednesday 18 November 1987 : 30 die in King's Cross Underground fire
Saturday 13 February 1988 : Calgary hosts winter olympic games
Thursday 18 February 1988 : Birth date of [P18] Matthew MORGAN
Thursday 24 March 1988 : Marriage date of [F56] - [P112] Edward GAY = [P118] Zubidka GUEMICA
Sunday 03 April 1988 : Easter Sunday
Wednesday 06 July 1988 : North sea oil rig Piper Alpha explodes
Thursday 14 July 1988 : Birth date of [P162] Emily WILLIAMS
Monday 22 August 1988 : Birth date of [P70] Nicole CHAMBERS
Saturday 24 September 1988 : Ben Johnson wins 100 metre gold, then stripped of it for steroid use
Thursday 22 December 1988 : Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Lockerbie killing 270
1989 : Ohio adopts new words to official State Song
Friday 20 January 1989 : George Bush , President (US)
Sunday 26 March 1989 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 15 April 1989 : 94 football fans crushed to death at Hillsborough
Thursday 20 July 1989 : Birth date of [P152] David GREEN
September 1989 : Death date of [P30] Sybil Alberta HUMPHREYS
September 1989 : Thousands of Scots elect not to pay new Poll Tax
Thursday 19 October 1989 : "Guildford Four" released from prison
Wednesday 06 December 1989 : 14 female students killed by anti-feminist gunman in Montreal
1990 : Canada sends warships to the Gulf war
1990 : Oka standoff, Quebec (78 days)
Monday 12 February 1990 : Hagersville Tire Fire, Ont , burned for 16 days, 1.5 million to extinguish
Sunday 15 April 1990 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 30 June 1990 : Marriage date of [F55] - [P114] Robert GAY = [P117] Lindsay HARLAN
Saturday 07 July 1990 : Birth date of [P19] Emma MORGAN
Thursday 23 August 1990 : British and US troop build up in Persian Gulf
Saturday 01 September 1990 : Birth date of [P163] Eleanor WILLIAMS
Thursday 17 January 1991 : Operation "Desert Storm" defeats Iraq
Thursday 07 February 1991 : Downing Street hit by IRA mortar bomb
Thursday 14 March 1991 : "Birmingham Six" released from prison
Sunday 31 March 1991 : Easter Sunday
1992 : NAFTA Trade Pack (US, Canada, Mexico)
Wednesday 22 January 1992 : Roberta Bondar - first Canadian woman in space
Sunday 19 April 1992 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 13 June 1992 : Marriage date of [F62] - [P120] Christopher William Cave JONES = [P130] Shiao-ling WONG
Monday 29 June 1992 : Birth date of [P115] Devon GAY
Saturday 18 July 1992 : Marriage date of [F87] - [P164] Timothy WILLIAMS = [P165] Caroline PHILIPS
Saturday 18 July 1992 : Birth date of [P5] Charles Le Patourel JONES
Wednesday 09 September 1992 : Marriage date of [F65] - [P32] Peter Firmian NEVE = [P134] Linda MAY
Wednesday 20 January 1993 : Bill Clinton , President (US)
Friday 22 January 1993 : Birth date of [P116] Kirin GAY
Sunday 11 April 1993 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 24 April 1993 : Marriage date of [F88] - [P167] Kevin HUTCHINS = [P166] Megan WILLIAMS
Thursday 12 August 1993 : Death date of [P141] Sydney HORNIBLOW
Sunday 24 October 1993 : Death date of [P171] Madeline CONSTANCE
Sunday 19 December 1993 : Birth date of [P6] Gemma Amanda JONES
Sunday 03 April 1994 : Easter Sunday
Tuesday 19 April 1994 : Death date of [P188] CAWTE
July 1994 : Death date of [P165] Caroline PHILIPS
Sunday 16 April 1995 : Easter Sunday
September 1995 : Britain hit by worst drought for over 250 years
Monday 30 October 1995 : Province of Quebec Referendum on Soverinty, no side wins narrowly (50.6% - 49.4%)
February 1996 : Major oil spill from "Sea Empress" at Milford Haven
Sunday 07 April 1996 : Easter Sunday
October 1996 : Death date of [P134] Linda MAY
Sunday 30 March 1997 : Easter Sunday
Saturday 06 September 1997 : Funeral of Diana Princess of Wales held in London
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