17 Aug 1648 : Battle of Preston
EST 1649 : Birth date of [P2090] Robert GRIEG
30 Jan 1649 : Charles I beheaded
30 Jan 1649 : End of reign of Charles I
31 Jan 1649 : Start of reign of Charles II
EST 1650 : Birth date of [P2091] Agnes MULINE
3 Sep 1650 : Battle of Dunbar
3 Sep 1651 : Battle of Worcester
3 Sep 1651 : Charles II flees to France
1652 : Start of the First Anglo-Dutch War
26 May 1652 : Surrender of Dunnottar Castle - End of the English Civil Wars
6 Dec 1653 : Cromwell declared Lord Protector
1654 : Start of war between England and Spain
25 Mar 1655 : Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn's moon Titan
1656 : Invention of pendulum clock by Christiaan Huygens
29 May 1660 : Charles II restored to the throne
1665 : Start of Second Anglo-Dutch War
Nov 1665 : Plague kills 20% of London's population
23 Aug 1666 : Great Fire of London
EST 1669 : Birth date of [P1303] John GREG
1669 : Formation of the Hudson's Bay Company
EST 1670 : Marriage date of [F559] - [P2090] Robert GRIEG = [P2091] Agnes MULINE
EST 1670 : Birth date of [P1304] Margaret CLERK
Apr 1671 : Birth date of [P2089] unnamed son to Robert Greig [F559] GRIEG
2 Apr 1671 : Christening date of [P2089] unnamed son to Robert Greig [F559] GRIEG
1672 : Start of Third Anglo-Dutch War
3 May 1679 : Archbishop Sharp murdered by Covenanters near St Andrews
6 Feb 1685 : End of reign of Charles II
7 Feb 1685 : Start of reign of James VII
21 Apr 1685 : Marriage date of [F410] - [P1303] John GREG = [P1304] Margaret CLERK
6 Jul 1685 : Battle of Sedgemoor - Monmouth Rebellion
1687 : Sir Isaac Newton publishes law of gravitation
1688 : Start of the Nine Years War
Sep 1688 : Birth date of [P1515] Margaret GREG
16 Sep 1688 : Christening date of [P1515] Margaret GREG
9 Nov 1688 : William of Orange invades England at Torbay
11 Dec 1688 : James VII flees the country after William of Orange's invasion
28 Jan 1689 : End of reign of James VII
14 Feb 1689 : Start of reign of William III and Mary II
27 Jul 1689 : Battle of Killiecrankie - Jacobite uprising in Scotland
1 Jul 1690 : Battle of The Boyne in Ireland
Jul 1691 : Birth date of [P1305] Jean GREG
5 Jul 1691 : Christening date of [P1305] Jean GREG
13 Feb 1692 : MacDonalds massacred in Glencoe
23 May 1693 : Birth date of [P1517] Marion GREG
28 May 1693 : Christening date of [P1517] Marion GREG
1697 : End of the Nine Years War
21 Mar 1700 : Scottish colony on Darien fails
8 Mar 1702 : End of reign of William III and Mary II
9 Mar 1702 : Start of reign of Anne
1705 : Edmund Halley discovers Halley's comet
1707 : Act of Union
1709 : Invention of piano (hammerklavier)
1 Aug 1714 : End of reign of Anne
2 Aug 1714 : Start of reign of George I
9 Nov 1715 : Second Battle of Preston - Start of Jacobite rising (the '15)
13 Nov 1715 : Battle of Sheriffmuir
4 Feb 1716 : James "The Old Pretender" flees to France ending the uprising
1718 : Flintlock machine gun invented by James Puckle
10 Jun 1719 : Battle of Glen Shiel - Jacobites and Spanish defeated by the English
Aug 1720 : Collapse of the "South Sea Bubble"
23 Mar 1721 : Robert Walpole appointed first Prime Minister
1724 : First use of Portland cement
1725 : Invention of mine pump steam engine by Thomas Newcomen
1725 : Rob Roy MacGregor sent to Newgate prison
14 Jun 1725 : Troops fire on tax rioters in Glasgow
17 Oct 1726 : Jonathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels"
EST 1727 : Birth date of [P1268] John GREG
22 Jun 1727 : End of reign of George I
23 Jun 1727 : Start of reign of George II
EST 1728 : Birth date of [P1269] Florence EDDIE
1733 : Flying shuttle loom invented by John Kay
27 Aug 1736 : Capt. Porteous lynched at the Tollbooth in Edinburgh
1737 : General Wade completes military road building in the Highlands
30 Mar 1739 : Dick Turpin hanged for murder
1740 : 13% of Ireland's population die in famine
1745 : Jacquard draw-loom invented
19 Aug 1745 : Stuart standard raised at Glenfinnan - Start of Jacobite rebellion (the '45)
21 Sep 1745 : Battle of Prestonpans - "Hey Johnnie Cope"
18 Dec 1745 : Battle of Clifton Moor
17 Jan 1746 : Battle of Falkirk - Bonnie Prince Charlie defeats Hanovarian army
16 Apr 1746 : Battle of Culloden - last true battle on British soil - ends the rebellion
6 Apr 1747 : Parliament prohibits wearing of tartan
EST 1748 : Marriage date of [F404] - [P1268] John GREG = [P1269] Florence EDDIE
1748 : Bow Street Runners formed
22 Mar 1749 : Birth date of [P1272] Janet GREG
2 Apr 1749 : Christening date of [P1272] Janet GREG
EST 1750 : Birth date of [P1299] Andrew GREIG
EST 1751 : Birth date of [P1300] Mary HENDERSON
26 Nov 1751 : Birth date of [P1271] Christian GREG
27 Nov 1751 : Christening date of [P1271] Christian GREG
22 Aug 1752 : UK adopts Gregorian calendar - next day is 14 September
1754 : Royal and Ancient golf club founded
15 Apr 1755 : Dr Johnson publishes dictionary
6 Aug 1755 : Birth date of [P1270] Alexander GREG
21 Sep 1755 : Christening date of [P1270] Alexander GREG
1756 : Start of Seven Years War
20 Jun 1756 : 123 Britons die in the Black Hole of Calcutta
1757 : Clive defeats Bengalis - start of Empire in India
29 Jun 1757 : William Pitt becomes Prime Minister
EST 1760 : Birth date of [P1273] Alexander GREG
1760 : Turnpikes improve travelling by road
25 Oct 1760 : End of reign of George II
26 Oct 1760 : Start of reign of George III
1761 : Link between tobacco and cancer established
EST 1763 : Birth date of [P1090] Betty GREG
EST 1763 : Birth date of [P1091] William DUNLOP
1763 : End of Seven Years War
1764 : Invention of the spinning jenny by James Hargreaves
1767 : Construction of Edinburgh's New Town begins
6 May 1770 : Capt. Cook discovers Botany Bay
EST 1772 : Marriage date of [F409] - [P1299] Andrew GREIG = [P1300] Mary HENDERSON
26 Jul 1773 : Birth date of [P1301] Gershom Ebednezer GREIG
31 Jul 1773 : Christening date of [P1301] Gershom Ebednezer GREIG
1774 : Isolation of oxygen by Joseph Priestley
19 Apr 1775 : Battle of Lexington - Start of American War of Independence
24 Apr 1778 : John Paul Jones captures the Drake at Carrickfergus
1779 : Invention of spinning mule by Samuel Crompton
2 Jul 1780 : "Gordon" riots in London
2 Oct 1780 : Marriage date of [F405] - [P1273] Alexander GREG = [P1274] Margaret RUSSELL
1 Jan 1781 : World's first iron bridge completed over the River Severn
1782 : Invention of modern steam engine by James Watt
27 May 1782 : Birth date of [P1276] John GREG
1783 : First flight of hot-air balloon by Montgolfier brothers
1783 : First steam powered ship built by Jouffroy d'Abbans
3 Sep 1783 : Treaty of Paris ends American War of Independence
22 Feb 1784 : Birth date of [P1277] Robert GREG
29 Feb 1784 : Christening date of [P1277] Robert GREG
2 Aug 1784 : First mail coach runs from Bristol to London
1785 : First power-driven loom invented by Edmund Cartwright
7 Feb 1785 : Marriage date of [F328] - [P1091] William DUNLOP = [P1090] Betty GREG
1786 : Robert Burns publishes "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect"
1787 : Transportation of criminals to Botany Bay begins
EST 1788 : Birth date of [P1529] John GREIG
23 Feb 1789 : Birth date of [P1275] Alexander GREG
8 Mar 1789 : Christening date of [P1275] Alexander GREG
28 Apr 1789 : Mutiny aboard HMS Bounty
16 Nov 1789 : Birth date of [P1443] Christian CAMPBELL
22 Nov 1789 : Christening date of [P1443] Christian CAMPBELL
1791 : The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain is founded
1793 : Invention of cotton gin by Eli Whitney
1 Feb 1793 : France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands
1795 : Poor Law devised
1796 : Discovery of Smallpox vaccine by Edward Jenner
21 Feb 1797 : French landing in Wales repulsed at Fishguard
15 Apr 1797 : First naval mutiny at Spithead
30 Jun 1797 : Second naval mutiny at the Nore
1798 : Irish Rebellion
1798 : Typhus epidemic kills thousands
9 Jan 1799 : Parliament passes the first income tax
1801 : Electric arc lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy
21 Oct 1805 : Nelson dies victorious at the Battle of Trafalgar
21 Aug 1808 : Sir Arthur Wellesley leads campaign in the Peninsular War
28 Jul 1809 : French driven from Portugal
13 Oct 1810 : Marriage date of [F468] - [P1529] John GREIG = [P1443] Christian CAMPBELL
1811 : Luddites attack textile machinery
ABT 1811 : Birth date of [P1154] John GREIG
Feb 1811 : Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent due to King's insanity
Feb 1811 : Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent due to King's insanity
1812 : French retreat from Moscow
12 Aug 1812 : Wellington takes Madrid
1815 : Humphry Davy invents mining safety lamp
18 Jun 1815 : Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
ABT 1816 : Birth date of [P1233] Mary CURRANDUFF
ABT 1816 : Birth date of [P1232] William GREIG
1816 : Invention of stethoscope by Rene Laennec in Paris
1816 : Invention of bicycle by K D von Sauerbronn
5 Aug 1816 : Birth date of [P1155] Jean GALT
1817 : Potato famine kills thousands in Ireland
1818 : Mary Shelley publishes "Frankenstein"
1819 : MacAdam revolutionises road building
EST 1819 : Birth date of [P1495] Janet LINDSAY
EST 1820 : Birth date of [P1205] George MORRIS
29 Jan 1820 : End of reign of George III
30 Jan 1820 : Start of reign of George IV
ABT 1821 : Birth date of [P1184] Marion GREIG
ABT 1821 : Birth date of [P92] Andrew GREIG
1822 : Invention of electric motor by Michael Faraday
EST 1823 : Birth date of [P1185] James REID
EST 1824 : Birth date of [P1097] Neil MCNEILISH
EST 1825 : Birth date of [P1485] William KERR
EST 1825 : Birth date of [P1083] George MCCULLOCH
EST 1825 : Birth date of [P1486] Rachael HUNTER
27 Sep 1825 : First passenger train service from Stockton to Darlington
1826 : Invention of the friction match by English chemist John Walker
ABT 1826 : Birth date of [P1494] Robert GREIG
30 Jan 1826 : Telford's Menai suspension bridge completed
1827 : Georg S Ohm postulates Ohm's Law of electric current
ABT 1827 : Birth date of [P1096] Grace GREGG
22 Jan 1828 : The Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister
1829 : George Stephenson builds first steam locomotive
EST 1829 : Birth date of [P1082] Hannah GREGG
28 Jan 1829 : Graverobber William Burke hanged for murder in Edinburgh
26 Sep 1829 : First proper police force established in London
ABT 1830 : Birth date of [P1552] James GREIG
26 Jun 1830 : End of reign of George IV
27 Jun 1830 : Start of reign of William IV
15 Sep 1830 : Liverpool to Manchester railway opens
1832 : Michael Faraday invents electric dynamo
EST 1832 : Birth date of [P1204] Mary GREG
ABT 1832 : Birth date of [P796] William WHITE
Jun 1832 : Cholera epidemic strikes Britain
7 Jun 1832 : Parliament passes Reform Act
29 Jul 1833 : Slavery abolished throughout British Empire
Mar 1834 : Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation
1835 : Development of efficient screw propeller by Francis Pettit Smith
1835 : Samuel Colt invents the revolver
1836 : Charles Darwin returns from South America
Mar 1836 : Birth date of [P795] Christina GREIG
30 Jul 1836 : Marriage date of [F360] - [P1154] John GREIG = [P1155] Jean GALT
1837 : Invention of telegraph by American Samuel F B Morse
1837 : John Deere invents the steel plough
20 Jun 1837 : End of reign of William IV
21 Jun 1837 : Start of reign of Queen Victoria
1838 : Birth date of [P1404] John GREIG
Apr 1838 : First steam crossing of the Atlantic
Sep 1838 : Grace Darling rescues survivors of the "Forfarshire"
1839 : Rubber vulcanisation developed by Charles Goodyear
23 Jul 1839 : Battle of Ghazni - British capture Ghazni, Afganistan
24 Nov 1839 : Marriage date of [F399] - [P1232] William GREIG = [P1233] Mary CURRANDUFF
ABT 1840 : Development of photography
30 Jan 1840 : Birth date of [P1522] James Grant MONTGOMERY
6 May 1840 : Penny Post introduced
2 Jun 1840 : Britain annexes New Zealand
ABT 1841 : Birth date of [P1437] John GREIG
6 Jul 1841 : First UK national census taken
Sep 1841 : Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
ABT 1842 : Birth date of [P1405] Mary SINCLAIR
1842 : Birth date of [P1454] Thomas RAE
Mar 1842 : Dr Crawford Long uses ether as anesthetic during surgery
1843 : Birth date of [P318] Agnes GREIG
ABT 1843 : Birth date of [P1424] William GREIG
19 Aug 1843 : Marriage date of [F375] - [P1185] James REID = [P1184] Marion GREIG
26 Nov 1843 : Birth date of [P1438] Jean Taylor THOMSON
31 Dec 1843 : Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol"
1844 : Invention of the safety match by Gustaf E Pasch
Jun 1844 : Mines Act prohibits use of women and boys in mines
1845 : Invention of pneumatic tyre by Scotsman Robert W Thompson
1845 : Birth date of [P1521] Janet GREIG
ABT 1845 : Birth date of [P1425] Agnes HUSBAND
ABT 1846 : Birth date of [P1478] James GREIG
14 Mar 1846 : Marriage date of [F324] - [P1083] George MCCULLOCH = [P1082] Hannah GREGG
14 Mar 1846 : Marriage date of [F331] - [P1097] Neil MCNEILISH = [P1096] Grace GREGG
Jul 1846 : Potato famine hits Ireland and Scotland
7 Nov 1846 : Marriage date of [F458] - [P1494] Robert GREIG = [P1495] Janet LINDSAY
ABT 1847 : Birth date of [P1536] Robert Lindsay GREIG
Apr 1847 : Thousands emigrate from Ireland on "Coffin" ships
14 Aug 1847 : Marriage date of [F466] - [P1485] William KERR = [P1486] Rachael HUNTER
ABT 1848 : Birth date of [P1479] Rachael Smith KERR
ABT 1848 : Birth date of [P1537] William S GREIG
ABT 1849 : Birth date of [P1488] Robert GREIG
1849 : Birth date of [P1523] Rachael GREIG
Nov 1849 : Cholera epidemic takes 2000 lives a week
ABT 1850 : Birth date of [P1455] Alexander GREIG
ABT 1850 : Birth date of [P1456] Jessie STEWART
EST 1850 : Birth date of [P1474] Mary GREIG
EST 1850 : Birth date of [P1475] Peter O'NEIL
1850 : Invention of refrigerator by Twining / Harrison
1851 : Birth date of [P1540] William GREIG
ABT 1851 : Birth date of [P1538] Janet L GREIG
31 Mar 1851 : 1851 UK national census taken
1 May 1851 : Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park
EST 1852 : Birth date of [P1490] John Campbell GREIG
EST 1852 : Birth date of [P1492] Jane Clark Dickson MCGHEE
EST 1852 : Birth date of [P1525] Margaret Sim SCOTT
1853 : Birth date of [P1489] Jane Jessie BOYD
ABT 1853 : Transportation of criminals to Australia ends
ABT 1853 : Birth date of [P1526] Elizabeth Templeton GREIG
1853 : Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory
12 Mar 1853 : Birth date of [P1496] Thomas Wilson GREIG
7 Jun 1853 : Marriage date of [F385] - [P1205] George MORRIS = [P1204] Mary GREG
ABT 1854 : Death date of [P1154] John GREIG
26 Mar 1854 : Britain and France declare war on Russia starting the Crimean War
25 Oct 1854 : Battle of Balaclava - Charge of the Light Brigade - Thin Red Line
ABT 1855 : Birth date of [P1527] James KERR
20 Apr 1855 : Birth date of [P2013] Mary Frazer MCNEILISH
ABT 1856 : Birth date of [P1539] James P GREIG
AFT 1856 : Birth date of [P1774] Thomas Wilson GREIG
30 Mar 1856 : Treaty of Paris ends Crimean War
14 Jun 1856 : Birth date of [P1487] Mary GREIG
14 Jun 1856 : Birth date of [P1436] Ann GREIG
19 Jun 1856 : Death date of [P1496] Thomas Wilson GREIG
10 May 1857 : Sepoy mutiny in India
3 Oct 1857 : Birth date of [P2021] Margaret MCNEILISH
1858 : First US oil well sunk by Col. Edwin Drake in Pennsylvania
6 Jan 1858 : Birth date of [P2005] James REID
9 Apr 1859 : Marriage date of [F307] - [P1404] John GREIG = [P1405] Mary SINCLAIR
Jun 1859 : Pig War - Dispute over border between USA and Britain in San Juan Islands
24 Nov 1859 : Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species"
12 Jun 1860 : Birth date of [P1840] James BONE
7 Jul 1860 : Birth date of [P1442] Christina Campbell GREIG
1861 : Gatling gun invented by R J Gatling
6 Jan 1861 : Birth date of [P1839] Elizabeth CONN
4 Feb 1861 : Birth date of [P2011] Mary WHITE
22 Feb 1861 : Marriage date of [F437] - [P796] William WHITE = [P795] Christina GREIG
5 Mar 1861 : Birth date of [P2015] Christina MCNEILISH
8 Apr 1861 : 1861 UK national census taken
11 Sep 1861 : Birth date of [P1415] John GREIG
14 Oct 1861 : Birth date of [P1528] William SMITH
31 Dec 1861 : Marriage date of [F443] - [P1454] Thomas RAE = [P318] Agnes GREIG
4 Jul 1862 : Birth date of [P2007] Daniel McMillan RAE
10 Jan 1863 : London Underground opens
12 Mar 1863 : Birth date of [P2016] Jane WHITE
30 Mar 1863 : Birth date of [P2010] Janet MCNEILISH
31 Aug 1863 : Death date of [P1523] Rachael GREIG
14 Apr 1864 : Birth date of [P2009] John Greig RAE
3 Jun 1864 : Birth date of [P1417] Mary GREIG
20 Sep 1864 : Birth date of [P1098] Jane GREIG
2 Jun 1865 : Marriage date of [F433] - [P1437] John GREIG = [P1438] Jean Taylor THOMSON
ABT 1866 : Invention of the breech-loading rifle
Sep 1866 : Cholera sweeps London
1 Sep 1866 : Birth date of [P1499] William GREIG
30 Dec 1866 : Marriage date of [F453] - [P1478] James GREIG = [P1479] Rachael Smith KERR
1867 : Invention of reinforced concrete by Joseph Monier
1867 : Invention of the typewriter by Sholes and Glidden
1867 : Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
1867 : Joseph Lister pioneers antiseptic techniques
27 Jan 1867 : Birth date of [P1500] William GREIG
2 Apr 1867 : Marriage date of [F260] - [P1424] William GREIG = [P1425] Agnes HUSBAND
May 1867 : Birth date of [P1542] Rachel GREIG
22 May 1867 : Birth date of [P2012] Mary McMillan RAE
22 Jun 1867 : Death date of [P1542] Rachel GREIG
2 Dec 1867 : Birth date of [P1426] Agnes Cameron GREIG
Feb 1868 : Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
28 Mar 1868 : Birth date of [P1648] Agnes FERGUSON
5 Aug 1868 : Birth date of [P2014] Grace MCNEILISH
1869 : Invention of the bolt-action rifle by Paul Mauser
1869 : Dmitri Mendeleev constructs Periodic Table of elements
13 Jan 1869 : Birth date of [P1524] Margaret GREIG
19 Jan 1869 : Birth date of [P1413] James GREIG
28 May 1869 : Birth date of [P1501] William GREIG
1870 : Electric incandescent lamp invented by Thomas Edison
ABT 1870 : Birth date of [P1842] Charles GREIG
3 Mar 1870 : Birth date of [P1453] William GREIG
13 Mar 1870 : Birth date of [P2017] Jane Galt RAE
16 Nov 1870 : Death date of [P1232] William GREIG
16 Dec 1870 : Birth date of [P1484] Rachael GREIG
3 Apr 1871 : 1871 UK national census taken
11 May 1871 : Marriage date of [F451] - [P1475] Peter O'NEIL = [P1474] Mary GREIG
20 Jan 1872 : Birth date of [P1470] John GREIG
May 1872 : Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
2 Jun 1872 : Birth date of [P1446] Isabella GREIG
11 Jun 1872 : Birth date of [P1430] Alexander GREIG
20 Jun 1872 : Marriage date of [F457] - [P1490] John Campbell GREIG = [P1492] Jane Clark Dickson MCGHEE
3 Jul 1872 : Birth date of [P2018] Agnes RAE
4 Sep 1872 : Birth date of [P1471] John GREIG
9 Sep 1872 : Birth date of [P1547] James GREIG
18 Oct 1872 : Marriage date of [F444] - [P1455] Alexander GREIG = [P1456] Jessie STEWART
Dec 1872 : "Marie Celeste" discovered abandoned
ABT 1873 : Birth date of [P1533] Janet GREIG
20 Feb 1873 : Birth date of [P1491] Robert Lindsay GREIG
14 Jun 1873 : Marriage date of [F456] - [P1488] Robert GREIG = [P1489] Jane Jessie BOYD
31 Mar 1874 : Birth date of [P1493] Thomas Alexander McGhee GREIG
28 Apr 1874 : Birth date of [P1448] James Husband GREIG
5 May 1874 : Birth date of [P1543] Mary GREIG
10 Jun 1874 : Birth date of [P2006] Archibald GREIG
10 Jun 1874 : Birth date of [P1439] Archibald Thomson GREIG
12 Jul 1874 : Birth date of [P1431] Alexander (a twin) GREIG
12 Jul 1874 : Birth date of [P1406] Marion Rae (a twin) GREIG
22 Aug 1874 : Death date of [P1526] Elizabeth Templeton GREIG
29 Aug 1874 : Birth date of [P1502] William GREIG
19 Sep 1874 : Death date of [P1493] Thomas Alexander McGhee GREIG
8 Dec 1874 : Birth date of [P2008] John RAE
ABT 1875 : Marriage date of [F465] - [P1488] Robert GREIG = [P1525] Margaret Sim SCOTT
ABT 1875 : Birth date of [P1534] Jessie GREIG
5 Mar 1875 : Birth date of [P1546] William Grace LIND
9 Mar 1875 : Death date of [P1502] William GREIG
18 Jun 1875 : Death date of [P1489] Jane Jessie BOYD
1 Aug 1875 : Death date of [P1098] Jane GREIG
31 Dec 1875 : Marriage date of [F464] - [P1522] James Grant MONTGOMERY = [P1521] Janet GREIG
ABT 1876 : Birth date of [P1551] George KERR
ABT 1876 : Marriage date of [F467] - [P1527] James KERR = [P1487] Mary GREIG
17 Jan 1876 : Death date of [P796] William WHITE
10 Mar 1876 : Invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
ABT May 1876 : Birth date of [P1541] John Husband GREIG
1877 : Phonograph invented by Thomas Edison
26 Mar 1877 : Birth date of [P1644] Mary GREIG
1878 : Birth date of [P1544] Robert GREIG
1878 : Death date of [P1544] Robert GREIG
Sep 1878 : Second British invasion of Afghanistan
18 Nov 1878 : Death date of [P1484] Rachael GREIG
ABT 1879 : Birth date of [P1531] James GREIG
1879 : Birth date of [P1857] Margaret W B GREIG
22 Jan 1879 : Battle of Rorke's Drift - Zulu War
25 Mar 1879 : Birth date of [P1645] Jeannie GREIG
3 Sep 1879 : Death date of [P1494] Robert GREIG
28 Dec 1879 : Tay Bridge disaster
1880 : Death date of [P1531] James GREIG
ABT 1880 : Birth date of [P1480] Andrew Kerr GREIG
BEF 1881 : Death date of [P1533] Janet GREIG
1881 : Birth date of [P1858] Jane C GREIG
ABT 1881 : Birth date of [P1532] Alexander GREIG
AFT 1881 : Death date of [P1233] Mary CURRANDUFF
25 Feb 1881 : Death date of [P1645] Jeannie GREIG
3 Apr 1881 : 1881 UK national census taken
1882 : Isolation of tuberculosis bacteria by Robert Koch
AFT 1882 : Death date of [P1404] John GREIG
13 Mar 1882 : Birth date of [P1535] Louise GREIG
4 Jul 1882 : Birth date of [P1550] Daniel McMillan Rae GREIG
25 Aug 1882 : Marriage date of [F521] - [P1840] James BONE = [P1839] Elizabeth CONN
1883 : Cholera bacteria isolated by Robert Koch
26 Aug 1883 : Krakatoa erupts causing global changes in weather
19 Dec 1883 : Birth date of [P1646] James GREIG
1884 : Capillary feed fountain pen invented by Lewis E Waterman in the US
23 Jan 1884 : Death date of [P1456] Jessie STEWART
25 Dec 1884 : Death date of [P1541] John Husband GREIG
1885 : Vaccine against rabies discovered by Louis Pasteur
1885 : First internal combustion carriage built by Karl F Benz
26 Jan 1885 : General Charles Gordon killed at Khartoum by the Mahdi's troops
16 Apr 1885 : Birth date of [P1530] Jane Galt MONTGOMERY
May 1885 : Birth date of [P1545] Unnamed GREIG
8 May 1885 : Death date of [P1479] Rachael Smith KERR
24 Aug 1885 : Birth date of [P1657] Mary Conn BONE
29 Dec 1885 : Birth date of [P1647] Robert GREIG
15 Jan 1886 : Death date of [P1646] James GREIG
1887 : Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1888 : Invention of hand-held camera by George Eastman
ABT 1888 : Birth date of [P1655] William JEFFREY
Oct 1888 : Jack the Ripper terrorises London's East End
14 Nov 1889 : Completion of the Forth Bridge - first large steel structure
1890 : Discovery of diphtheria vaccine by Pierre Paul Emile Roux
ABT 1890 : Birth date of [P1841] Jenny BONE
29 Oct 1890 : Death date of [P1470] John GREIG
1891 : Invention of the zip fastener by Whitcomb L Judson
1 Apr 1891 : 1891 UK national census taken
1893 : Thomas Edison invents motion pictures
30 Jun 1893 : Marriage date of [F487] - [P1500] William GREIG = [P1648] Agnes FERGUSON
17 Jul 1893 : Death date of [P1155] Jean GALT
1894 : Tower Bridge opens in London
1894 : Birth date of [P1881] Margaret BONE
10 Apr 1894 : Birth date of [P1649] John GREIG
1895 : Wireless telegraphy invented by Guglielmo Marconi
15 Jun 1895 : Death date of [P1471] John GREIG
8 Nov 1895 : Discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen
1896 : Discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel
2 Apr 1896 : Birth date of [P1650] Agnes Gardener GREIG
22 Jun 1897 : Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
19 Nov 1897 : Death date of [P1774] Thomas Wilson GREIG
13 Jul 1898 : Pierre and Marie Curie detect a new element, later called Polonium
27 Sep 1898 : Death date of [P1644] Mary GREIG
12 Nov 1898 : Birth date of [P1651] William GREIG
2 Dec 1898 : Death date of [P1651] William GREIG
26 Dec 1898 : Pierre and Marie Curie detect a new element, later called Radium
1899 : Introduction of aspirin by Felix Hoffman
1899 : Invention of first magnetic recorder by Valdemar Poulsen
11 Oct 1899 : Start of Boer War
1900 : Invention of rigid airship by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
28 Feb 1900 : Relief of Ladysmith
6 Apr 1900 : Birth date of [P1652] Jeannie GREIG
6 Apr 1900 : Birth date of [P1653] William GREIG
17 May 1900 : Relief of Mafeking
1 Jun 1900 : Death date of [P1532] Alexander GREIG
Aug 1900 : Boxer rebellion in Peking
1901 : First successful safety razor sold by K Gillette
22 Jan 1901 : End of reign of Queen Victoria
23 Jan 1901 : Start of reign of Edward VII
31 Mar 1901 : 1901 UK national census taken
27 May 1901 : Death date of [P1652] Jeannie GREIG
5 Apr 1902 : 20 killed as terracing collapses at Ibrox Park
31 May 1902 : End of Boer War
20 Sep 1903 : Birth date of [P1654] Charles GREIG
7 Feb 1904 : Birth date of [P1880] Janet BONE
24 Nov 1904 : Invention of caterpillar track by Benjamin Holt
4 Oct 1905 : Convicted Suffragettes choose to go to prison
1906 : Wassermann test for syphilis developed
12 Jun 1906 : Death date of [P1487] Mary GREIG
1907 : Albert Einstein postulates "E=mc²" theory
1910 : Domestic refrigerators begin to appear in the US
1910 : Invention of first synthetic plastic, Bakelite
2 Feb 1910 : Death date of [P795] Christina GREIG
6 May 1910 : End of reign of Edward VII
7 May 1910 : Start of reign of George V
21 Jul 1910 : Marriage date of [F488] - [P1655] William JEFFREY = [P1524] Margaret GREIG
31 Jul 1910 : Radio used to arrest Dr Crippen fleeing to Quebec
2 Aug 1910 : Marriage date of [F470] - [P1546] William Grace LIND = [P1530] Jane Galt MONTGOMERY
1911 : Ernest Rutherford puts forward nuclear model of the atom
1911 : Marie Curie becomes the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes
3 Jan 1911 : Three policemen die in the Seige of Sidney Street
2 Apr 1911 : 1911 UK national census taken
5 Jul 1911 : Birth date of [P1656] John Greig JEFFREY
31 Aug 1911 : Troops clash with strikers in north of England
19 Mar 1912 : Death date of [P1522] James Grant MONTGOMERY
15 Apr 1912 : SS Titanic sinks with loss of 1513 lives
10 Feb 1913 : Explorer Capt. Scott found dead in Antartica
4 Jun 1913 : Emily Davison, a Suffragette, dies under King's horse at Epsom
26 Oct 1913 : Death date of [P1653] William GREIG
8 Apr 1914 : Death date of [P1655] William JEFFREY
28 Jun 1914 : Austrian Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
28 Jul 1914 : Austria declares war on Serbia - Start of World War I
1 Aug 1914 : Germany declares war on Russia
Aug 1914 : Battle of Tannenberg
3 Aug 1914 : Germany declares war on France
4 Aug 1914 : Britain declares war on Germany
4 Aug 1914 : Germany invades Belgium
Sep 1914 : First Battle of the Marne
25 Sep 1914 : Marriage date of [F489] - [P1647] Robert GREIG = [P1657] Mary Conn BONE
4 Oct 1914 : First bombs fall on London
19 Oct 1914 : Maj.Gen. Ernest Swinton suggests development of the military tank
Feb 1915 : Start of German submarine blockade of Britain
22 Apr 1915 : Germans first use of mustard gas at Ypres
26 Apr 1915 : British land in Turkey
7 May 1915 : SS "Lusitania" sunk by German submarine
22 May 1915 : 200 soldiers killed in train crash at Quintinshill
12 Aug 1915 : Death date of [P1424] William GREIG
6 Sep 1915 : Poland and Lithuania overrun by Germany
9 Sep 1915 : Death date of [P1480] Andrew Kerr GREIG
14 Oct 1915 : Britain and France declare war on Bulgaria
20 Dec 1915 : British withdraw from Gallipoli
Feb 1916 : Battle of Verdun
24 Apr 1916 : Easter Rising - insurrection in Ireland
31 May 1916 : Battle of Jutland is largest naval battle of WWI
7 Jun 1916 : Death date of [P1437] John GREIG
1 Jul 1916 : Start of Battle of the Somme
1 Aug 1916 : Birth date of [P1659] Elizabeth GREIG
1 Aug 1916 : Death date of [P1659] Elizabeth GREIG
27 Aug 1916 : Romaina declares war on Austria-Hungary
15 Nov 1916 : End of Battle of the Somme
6 Apr 1917 : USA declares war on Germany
17 Jun 1917 : Death date of [P1551] George KERR
Oct 1917 : Start of Battle of Caporetto
Dec 1917 : End of Battle of Caporetto
7 Dec 1917 : USA declares war on Austria-Hungary
15 Dec 1917 : Russian Bolsheviks now ally with Germany
21 Mar 1918 : Start of German offensive
1 Apr 1918 : Royal Air Force created
18 May 1918 : Sinn Féin banned and leaders arrested
Jul 1918 : Second Battle of the Marne
8 Aug 1918 : End of German offensive
4 Oct 1918 : Germany offers surrender
11 Nov 1918 : End of WWI - Hostilities cease on Western Front
1 Dec 1918 : Death date of [P1521] Janet GREIG
28 Dec 1918 : Women allowed to vote for the first time
21 Jan 1919 : Start of the Irish War of Independence
Mar 1919 : Spanish flu kills 150,000 throughout Britian, 50m-100m worldwide
28 Dec 1919 : Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
29 Sep 1920 : Death date of [P1442] Christina Campbell GREIG
18 Oct 1920 : State of emergency declared as miners strike
21 Nov 1920 : "Bloody Sunday" - 12 Irish killed by the Black and Tans
19 Jun 1921 : 1921 UK national census taken
11 Jul 1921 : Truce ends Irish War of Independence
6 Dec 1921 : Irish Free State created
1922 : Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate human insulin
5 Oct 1922 : Last casualty of the Irish war
23 Apr 1924 : First royal transmission by wireless
2 Jul 1924 : Death date of [P1650] Agnes Gardener GREIG
EST 1925 : Marriage date of [F245] - [P1654] Charles GREIG = [P1880] Janet BONE
11 Apr 1925 : Death date of [P1438] Jean Taylor THOMSON
1926 : First demonstration of television by John Logie Baird
1926 : Invention of the liquid-fuelled rocket by Robert Goddard
10 May 1926 : TUC calls first General Strike
7 Jan 1928 : River Thames floods killing 14
8 May 1929 : Death date of [P1425] Agnes HUSBAND
24 May 1930 : Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia
5 Oct 1930 : Airship R101 crashes in France killing 48
26 Apr 1931 : 1931 UK national census taken
12 Feb 1932 : Whipping of children under 14 is banned
28 Feb 1932 : Death date of [P1453] William GREIG
30 Sep 1932 : Unemployment reaches 25%
30 Dec 1933 : Death date of [P1647] Robert GREIG
1934 : Invention of first practical radar by Watson-Watt
13 Feb 1934 : Death date of [P1448] James Husband GREIG
21 Sep 1934 : 262 killed in blast at Gresford colliery
18 Mar 1935 : Thousands protest in Wales at "means test"
1936 : Invention of helicopter by Henrich Focke
1936 : Sir Frank Whittle invents the jet engine
20 Jan 1936 : End of reign of George V
21 Jan 1936 : Start of reign of Edward VIII
11 Nov 1936 : Jarrow Crusade reaches London
10 Dec 1936 : Edward VIII abdicates
10 Dec 1936 : End of reign of Edward VIII
11 Dec 1936 : Start of reign of George VI
28 May 1937 : Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister
1938 : Discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassmann
15 May 1938 : Death date of [P1439] Archibald Thomson GREIG
11 Jul 1938 : Last British troops leave Eire
25 Aug 1939 : IRA bomb Coventry killing 5
1 Sep 1939 : Germany invades Poland
Sep 1939 : Children evacuated from London and major cities
3 Sep 1939 : Britain and France declare war on Germany - Start of WWII
29 Sep 1939 : UK National Register of civilians for the issue of ID cards
17 Dec 1939 : The German battleship "Graf Spee" scuttled off Montevideo
ABT 1940 : New element Plutonium (Z=94) is discovered
14 Jan 1940 : Death date of [P1436] Ann GREIG
10 May 1940 : Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
10 May 1940 : Churchill takes over as Prime Minister of Great Britain
12 May 1940 : Germany invades France
26 May 1940 : Allied evacuation from Dunkirk begins
10 Jun 1940 : Italy invades France
10 Jun 1940 : Italy declares war on France and Britain
14 Jun 1940 : Germans enter Paris unopposed
22 Jun 1940 : France surrenders to Germany
14 Nov 1940 : Coventry bombed by the Luftwaffe
17 Apr 1941 : Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany
27 Apr 1941 : British leave Greece
22 Jun 1941 : Germany attacks Russia
14 Aug 1941 : Britain and USA sign Atlantic Charter
7 Dec 1941 : Japan attack USA at Pearl Harbour
11 Dec 1941 : Britain and USA declare war on Japan
11 Dec 1941 : Germany and Italy declare war on USA
1942 : New element Promethium (Z=61) is discovered
15 Feb 1942 : British surrender Singapore to Japanese
9 Apr 1942 : USA surrenders Bataan peninsula to Japanese
6 May 1942 : USA surrenders Corregidor Island to Japanese
10 Jun 1942 : Lidice, Czechoslovakia razed by Germans
28 Jul 1942 : Death date of [P1500] William GREIG
8 Nov 1942 : British and US troops land in North Africa
14 Jan 1943 : Casablanca conference
1 Feb 1943 : Germans surrender at Stalingrad
12 May 1943 : War in Africa ends
25 Jul 1943 : Mussolini deposed
3 Sep 1943 : Allies land in Italy
8 Sep 1943 : Italy surrenders
10 Sep 1943 : Germans take Rome
22 Nov 1943 : Cairo conference
28 Nov 1943 : Teheran Conference
1944 : New element Curium (Z=96) is discovered
1944 : New element Americium (Z=95) is discovered
22 Jan 1944 : British and US troops land at Anzio
4 Jun 1944 : British and US troops enter Rome
6 Jun 1944 : D-Day landings in Normandy
25 Aug 1944 : Paris liberated
13 Oct 1944 : Athens liberated
20 Oct 1944 : USA invades Philippines
16 Dec 1944 : Battle of the Bulge
11 Feb 1945 : Yalta agreement
28 Apr 1945 : Mussolini executed at Lake Como
1 May 1945 : Hitler's suicide announced
2 May 1945 : Berlin falls
7 May 1945 : VE Day. Germany surrenders
16 Jul 1945 : The "Trinity" test is the first detonation of an atomic bomb
17 Jul 1945 : Potsdam conference
6 Aug 1945 : USA drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
8 Aug 1945 : USSR declares war on Japan
9 Aug 1945 : USA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
14 Aug 1945 : Japan surrenders
2 Sep 1945 : VJ Day. Japanese sign surrender aboard USS Missouri - End of WWII
Feb 1946 : 50,000 "GI brides" shipped out to the USA
Dec 1946 : Fuel and food shortages continue
3 Jan 1947 : Death date of [P1524] Margaret GREIG
1 Aug 1947 : Death date of [P1648] Agnes FERGUSON
20 Nov 1947 : Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh
1 Jan 1948 : Railways nationalised
28 Jun 1948 : Troops break dockers' strike
5 Aug 1948 : Death date of [P1546] William Grace LIND
Dec 1948 : Labour government constructs "Welfare State"
1949 : Radiocarbon dating technique discovered by Willard Libby
1949 : New element Berkelium (Z=97) is discovered
15 Mar 1949 : Clothes rationing ends
18 Apr 1949 : Eire becomes Republic of Ireland
1950 : New element Californium (Z=98) is discovered
ABT 1950 : Albert Einstein puts forward theories of relativity
28 Jun 1950 : Royal Navy enters Korean War
25 Dec 1950 : Stone of Destiny taken from Westminster Abbey
8 Apr 1951 : 1951 UK national census taken
7 Jun 1951 : Soviet spies Burgess and MacLean disappear
1952 : New element Einsteinium (Z=99) is discovered
1952 : New element Fermium (Z=100) is discovered
6 Feb 1952 : End of reign of George VI
7 Feb 1952 : Start of reign of Elizabeth II
20 Oct 1952 : Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya
1 Nov 1952 : US detonates the first hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll
24 Nov 1952 : "Mousetrap" opens in London
11 Dec 1952 : Derek Bentley sentenced to hang for the murder of PC Miles in Croydon
1953 : Discovery of measles vaccine by Enders and Peebles
1953 : A canyon is discovered along the centre of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
31 Jan 1953 : Ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in the Irish Sea
3 Feb 1953 : Hundreds die as East Coast is flooded
1 Apr 1953 : Death date of [P1426] Agnes Cameron GREIG
12 Apr 1953 : Death date of [P1528] William SMITH
30 May 1953 : Edmund Hillary reaches the top of Mount Everest
1954 : Discovery of first polio vaccine by Jonas E Salk
13 Jan 1954 : Death date of [P1446] Isabella GREIG
4 Mar 1954 : First successful kidney transplant carried out in Boston
May 1954 : "Teddy Boys" appear
3 Jul 1954 : Rationing ends
1955 : New element Mendelevium (Z=101) is discovered
13 Jul 1955 : Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged
31 Oct 1956 : Britain invades Suez
Apr 1957 : IBM delivers the first compiler for the FORTRAN language
17 Oct 1957 : Air borne radiation leaks from Windscale nuclear plant
1958 : New element Nobelium (Z=102) is discovered
6 Feb 1958 : 7 members of Manchester United die in plane crash
5 Dec 1958 : First motorway in Britain, M6 Preston Bypass opens
1959 : Lewis Urry invents the alkaline battery
31 Dec 1960 : National Service abolished
1961 : New element Lawrencium (Z=103) is discovered
23 Apr 1961 : 1961 UK national census taken
27 Mar 1963 : Dr Beeching proposes cutting 25% of rail lines
5 Jun 1963 : John Profumo resigns after sex scandal
4 Nov 1963 : The Beatles appear in the Royal Variety Show
10 Dec 1963 : Aden Emergency
1964 : New element Rutherfordium (Z=104) is discovered
11 Jan 1964 : US Surgeon General reports that smoking may be a health hazard
22 Feb 1964 : Death date of [P1649] John GREIG
21 Dec 1964 : Death penalty abolished in Britain
28 Oct 1965 : Brady and Hindley charged with Moors Murders
17 Jul 1966 : Death date of [P1656] John Greig JEFFREY
21 Oct 1966 : 144 die in Aberfan as coal bing buries school
1967 : Emergence of Flower Power
1968 : Thomas Gold describes radio pulsars as fast rotating neutron stars
1968 : New element Dubnium (Z=105) is discovered
2 Jan 1968 : Dr Christian Barnard performs first successful heart transplant
17 Dec 1968 : Death date of [P1548] William KERR
5 Mar 1969 : London gangsters the Kray twins sentenced to life
4 Apr 1969 : Dr Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart
2 Jan 1971 : 66 die when barriers collapse at Ibrox Park
15 Feb 1971 : British currency goes decimal
25 Apr 1971 : 1971 UK national census taken
15 Nov 1971 : Intel release the first microprocessor, the 4004
22 Jan 1972 : Britain joins the EEC
30 Jan 1972 : 13 shot in another Bloody Sunday in Derry
Feb 1972 : Miners strike leads to power cuts
1 Feb 1972 : First scientific hand-held calculator produced by Hewlett-Packard
8 Mar 1973 : IRA begins mainland bombing
17 Dec 1973 : Three day week introduced
1974 : New element Seaborgium (Z=106) is discovered
12 Nov 1974 : Lord Lucan escapes and disappears
11 Jul 1975 : Inflation reaches 25%
Nov 1975 : Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Micro-Soft
1 Apr 1976 : Apple Computer Company formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
Aug 1976 : Drought causes water shortages
18 Jan 1977 : Legionella bacteria isolated as the cause of Legionnaire's Disease
2 Apr 1977 : Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time
11 Sep 1977 : Last wild infection of smallpox is reported in Somalia
16 Feb 1978 : CBBS, the first computer bulletin board is created in Chicago, Illinois
13 Dec 1978 : Jeremy Thorpe, MP charged with incitement to murder
1979 : VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software is released
Jan 1979 : "Winter of Discontent". Strikes cause food shortages and power cuts
4 May 1979 : Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister
2 Sep 1979 : Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim
10 Dec 1979 : Death date of [P1880] Janet BONE
5 May 1980 : SAS storms Iranian embassy in London
1981 : New element Bohrium (Z=107) is discovered
1981 : Dr Bruce Reitz performs the first heart-lung transplant at Stanford Hospital
5 Apr 1981 : 1981 UK national census taken
12 Apr 1981 : The IBM Personal Computer is released
Jul 1981 : Riots break out in 8 inner city areas
1982 : New element Meitnerium (Z=109) is discovered
1982 : Rich Skrenta writes the Elk Cloner computer virus, the first to escape into the wild
2 Apr 1982 : Argentina invades Falkland Islands
18 Apr 1982 : Death date of [P1530] Jane Galt MONTGOMERY
14 Jun 1982 : British troops regain control of Falklands
1 Jan 1983 : The ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet
May 1983 : The first report of the virus which causes AIDS is published
25 Sep 1983 : 134 IRA prisoners escape from the Maze prison
1984 : New element Hassium (Z=108) is discovered
22 Jan 1984 : The Apple Macintosh computer is introduced
May 1984 : Coal strikes crushed by riot police
12 Oct 1984 : IRA bombs Tory conference in Brighton
11 May 1985 : 40 killed as fire destroys Bradford City stand
1 Sep 1985 : The wreck of the RMS "Titanic" is located off the coast of Newfoundland
23 Jul 1986 : Prince Andrew marries Sarah Ferguson at Wesminster Abbey
2 Jan 1987 : Death date of [P1654] Charles GREIG
16 Oct 1987 : Hurricane hits southern England
18 Nov 1987 : 30 die in King's Cross Underground fire
29 Dec 1987 : The antidepressant drug Prozac appears in the US
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