Timeline
1600 1700 1800 1900
EST 1669 : Birth date of [P1303] John GREG
1669 : Formation of the Hudson's Bay Company
EST 1670 : Birth date of [P1304] Margaret CLERK
Saturday 3 May 1679 : Archbishop Sharp murdered near St Andrews
Tuesday 27 January 1685 : End of reign of Charles II
Wednesday 28 January 1685 : Start of reign of James VII
Tuesday 21 April 1685 : Marriage date of [F410] - [P1303] John GREG = [P1304] Margaret CLERK
Friday 26 June 1685 : Battle of Sedgemoor
1686 : Sir Isaac Newton publishes law of gravitation
Sunday 16 September 1688 : Birth date of [P1515] Margaret GREG
Tuesday 30 October 1688 : William of Orange invades England
Saturday 1 December 1688 : James VII flees the country
Friday 18 January 1689 : End of reign of James VII
Monday 4 February 1689 : Start of reign of William III and Mary II
Wednesday 17 July 1689 : Battle of Killiecrankie
Saturday 21 June 1690 : Battle of The Boyne
1691 : Birth date of [P1305] Jean GREG
Sunday 5 July 1691 : Christening date of [P1305] Jean GREG
Wednesday 3 February 1692 : MacDonalds massacred at Glencoe
Tuesday 23 May 1693 : Birth date of [P1517] Mareon GREG
Thursday 21 March 1700 : Scottish colony on Darien fails
Wednesday 25 February 1702 : End of reign of William III and Mary II
Thursday 26 February 1702 : Start of reign of Anne
1704 : Edmund Halley discovers Halley's comet
1706 : Act of Union
1708 : Invention of piano (hammerklavier)
Wednesday 21 July 1714 : End of reign of Anne
Thursday 22 July 1714 : Start of reign of George I
Wednesday 2 November 1715 : Battle of Sheriffmuir
Wednesday 2 November 1715 : Battle of Preston 2
1717 : Machine gun invented by James Puckle
Saturday 30 May 1719 : Battle of Glen Shiel
August 1720 : Collapse of the "South Sea Bubble"
Thursday 23 March 1721 : Robert Walpole appointed first Prime Minister
1723 : First use of Portland cement
1724 : Invention of mine pump steam engine by Newcomen
Monday 14 June 1725 : Troops fire on tax rioters in Glasgow
1725 : Rob Roy MacGregor sent to Newgate prison
Monday 17 October 1726 : Jonathan Swift publishes "Gulliver's Travels"
EST 1727 : Birth date of [P1268] John GREG
Sunday 11 June 1727 : End of reign of George I
Monday 12 June 1727 : Start of reign of George II
EST 1728 : Birth date of [P1269] Florence EDDIE
1732 : Flying shuttle loom invented by John Kay
Friday 27 August 1736 : Capt. Porteous lynched at the Tollbooth in Edinburgh
1737 : General Wade completes military road building in the Highlands
Friday 30 March 1739 : Dick Turpin hanged for murder
1740 : 13% of Ireland's population die in famine
1744 : Jacquard draw-loom invented
Thursday 8 August 1745 : Start of Jacobite rebellion (the '45)
Thursday 8 August 1745 : Stuart standard raised at Glenfinnan
Tuesday 10 September 1745 : Battle of Prestonpans
Saturday 7 December 1745 : Battle of Clifton Moor
Monday 6 January 1746 : Battle of Falkirk
Saturday 5 April 1746 : End of Jacobite rebellion (the '45)
Saturday 5 April 1746 : Battle of Culloden - last true battle on British soil
Monday 6 April 1747 : Parliament prohibits wearing of tartan
EST 1748 : Marriage date of [F404] - [P1268] John GREG = [P1269] Florence EDDIE
1748 : Bow Street Runners formed
Sunday 2 April 1749 : Birth date of [P1272] Janet GREG
EST 1750 : Birth date of [P1299] Andrew GREIG
EST 1751 : Birth date of [P1300] Mary HENDERSON
Wednesday 27 November 1751 : Birth date of [P1271] Christian GREG
Saturday 22 August 1752 : UK adopts Gregorian calendar - next day is 14 September
1754 : Royal and Ancient golf club founded
1755 : Birth date of [P1270] Alexander GREG
Tuesday 15 April 1755 : Dr Johnson publishes dictionary
Sunday 21 September 1755 : Christening date of [P1270] Alexander GREG
1756 : Start of Seven Years' War
Sunday 20 June 1756 : 123 Britons die in the Black Hole of Calcutta
1757 : Clive defeats Bengalis - start of Empire in India
Wednesday 29 June 1757 : William Pitt becomes Prime Minister
1760 : Turnpikes improve travelling by road
EST 1760 : Birth date of [P1273] Alexander GREG
Saturday 25 October 1760 : End of reign of George II
Sunday 26 October 1760 : Start of reign of George III
1761 : Link between tobacco and cancer established
1763 : End of Seven Years' War
EST 1763 : Birth date of [P1090] Betty GREG
EST 1763 : Birth date of [P1091] William DUNLOP
1764 : Invention of the spinning jenny by J Hargreaves
1767 : Construction of Edinburgh's New Town begins
Sunday 6 May 1770 : Capt. Cook discovers Botany Bay
EST 1772 : Marriage date of [F409] - [P1299] Andrew GREIG = [P1300] Mary HENDERSON
July 1773 : Birth date of [P1301] Gershom Ebednezer GREIG
Saturday 31 July 1773 : Christening date of [P1301] Gershom Ebednezer GREIG
1774 : Isolation of oxygen by J Priestley
Friday 24 April 1778 : John Paul Jones captures the Drake at Carrickfergus
1779 : Invention of spinning mule by Samuel Crompton
Sunday 2 July 1780 : "Gordon" riots in London
Monday 2 October 1780 : Marriage date of [F405] - [P1273] Alexander GREG = [P1274] Margaret RUSSELL
Monday 1 January 1781 : World's first iron bridge completed over the River Severn
1782 : Invention of modern steam engine by James Watt
Monday 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 d'Abbans
Tuesday 4 February 1783 : Parliament proclaims an end to hostilities in America
Wednesday 3 September 1783 : UK, France, Spain, the Netherlands and the US sign the Treaty of Paris
Sunday 29 February 1784 : Birth date of [P1277] Robert GREG
Monday 2 August 1784 : First mail coach runs from Bristol to London
1785 : First power-driven loom invented by E Cartwright
Monday 7 February 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
Sunday 8 March 1789 : Birth date of [P1275] Alexander GREG
Tuesday 28 April 1789 : Mutiny aboard HMS Bounty
Sunday 22 November 1789 : Birth date of [P1443] Christian CAMPBELL
1791 : The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain is founded
1793 : Invention of cotton gin by Eli Whitney
Friday 1 February 1793 : France declares war on Britain and the Netherlands
1795 : Poor Law devised
1796 : Discovery of Smallpox vaccine by E Jenner
Tuesday 21 February 1797 : French landing in Wales repulsed at Fishguard
Saturday 15 April 1797 : First naval mutiny at Spithead
Friday 30 June 1797 : Second naval mutiny at the Nore
1798 : Typhus epidemic kills thousands
Wednesday 9 January 1799 : Parliament passes the first income tax
1801 : Electric arc lamp invented by Sir Humphrey Davy
Monday 21 October 1805 : Nelson dies victorious at Trafalgar
Sunday 21 August 1808 : Sir Arthur Wellesley leads campaign in Peninsular War
Friday 28 July 1809 : French driven from Portugal
Saturday 13 October 1810 : Marriage date of [F468] - [P1529] John GREIG = [P1443] Christian CAMPBELL
1811 : Luddites attack textile machinery
1811 : Birth date of [P1154] John GREIG
February 1811 : Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent due to King's insanity
1812 : French retreat from Moscow
Wednesday 12 August 1812 : Wellington takes Madrid
1815 : Humphry Davy invents mining safety lamp
Sunday 18 June 1815 : Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
1816 : Invention of phosphorous match by F Derosne
1816 : Invention of bicycle by K D von Sauerbronn
ABT 1816 : Birth date of [P1233] Mary CAIRNDUFF
ABT 1816 : Birth date of [P1232] William GREIG
Monday 5 August 1816 : Birth date of [P1155] Jean GALT
1817 : Potato famine kills thousands in Ireland
1818 : Mary Shelley publishes "Frankenstein"
1819 : Invention of stethoscope by R Laennec
1819 : MacAdam revolutionises road building
EST 1819 : Birth date of [P1495] Janet LINDSAY
Saturday 29 January 1820 : End of reign of George III
Sunday 30 January 1820 : Start of reign of George IV
ABT 1821 : Birth date of [P92] Andrew GREIG
ABT 1821 : Birth date of [P1184] Marion 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 [P1486] Rachael HUNTER
EST 1825 : Birth date of [P1083] George MCCULLOCH
Tuesday 27 September 1825 : First passenger train service from Stockton to Darlington
ABT 1826 : Birth date of [P1494] Robert GREIG
Monday 30 January 1826 : Telford's Menai suspension bridge completed
ABT 1827 : Birth date of [P1096] Grace GREGG
1827 : G S Ohm postulates Ohm's Law
Tuesday 22 January 1828 : Wellington becomes Prime Minister
1829 : George Stephenson builds first steam locomotive
EST 1829 : Birth date of [P1082] Hannah GREGG
Wednesday 28 January 1829 : William Burke hanged for murder in Edinburgh
Saturday 26 September 1829 : First proper police force established in London
ABT 1830 : Birth date of [P1552] James GREIG
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
1831 : Invention of the friction match by C Sauria
ABT 1832 : Birth date of [P796] William WHITE
1832 : M Faraday invents electric dynamo
June 1832 : Cholera epidemic strikes Britain
Thursday 7 June 1832 : Parliament passes Reform Act
Monday 29 July 1833 : Slavery abolished throughout British Empire
March 1834 : Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation
1835 : Samuel Colt invents the revolver
1836 : Charles Darwin returns from South America
1836 : Invention of screw propeller by F P Smith
March 1836 : Birth date of [P795] Christina GREIG
Saturday 30 July 1836 : Marriage date of [F360] - [P1154] John GREIG = [P1155] Jean GALT
1837 : Invention of telegraph by S F B Morse
Tuesday 20 June 1837 : End of reign of William IV
Wednesday 21 June 1837 : Start of reign of Queen Victoria
1838 : Birth date of [P1404] John GREIG
April 1838 : First steam crossing of the Atlantic
September 1838 : Grace Darling rescues survivors of the "Forfarshire"
1839 : Rubber vulcanisation developed by C Goodyear
Sunday 24 November 1839 : Marriage date of [F399] - [P1232] William GREIG = [P1233] Mary CAIRNDUFF
ABT 1840 : Development of photography
Thursday 30 January 1840 : Birth date of [P1522] James Grant MONTGOMERY
Wednesday 6 May 1840 : Penny Post introduced
Tuesday 2 June 1840 : Britain annexes New Zealand
ABT 1841 : Birth date of [P1437] John GREIG
Tuesday 6 July 1841 : First national census taken
September 1841 : Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
1842 : Birth date of [P1454] Thomas RAE
ABT 1842 : Birth date of [P1405] Mary SINCLAIR
1842 : First use of ether as anesthetic by CW Long
ABT 1843 : Birth date of [P1424] William GREIG
1843 : Birth date of [P318] Agnes GREIG
Saturday 19 August 1843 : Marriage date of [F375] - [P1185] James REID = [P1184] Marion GREIG
Sunday 26 November 1843 : Birth date of [P1438] Jean Taylor THOMSON
Sunday 31 December 1843 : Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol"
June 1844 : Mines Act prohibits use of women and boys in mines
ABT 1845 : Birth date of [P1425] Agnes HUSBAND
1845 : Birth date of [P1521] Janet GREIG
1845 : Invention of pneumatic tyre by R W Thompson
ABT 1846 : Birth date of [P1478] James GREIG
Saturday 14 March 1846 : Marriage date of [F331] - [P1097] Neil MCNEILISH = [P1096] Grace GREGG
Saturday 14 March 1846 : Marriage date of [F324] - [P1083] George MCCULLOCH = [P1082] Hannah GREGG
July 1846 : Potato famine hits Ireland and Scotland
Saturday 7 November 1846 : Marriage date of [F458] - [P1494] Robert GREIG = [P1495] Janet LINDSAY
ABT 1847 : Birth date of [P1536] Robert Lindsay GREIG
April 1847 : Thousands emigrate from Ireland on "Coffin" ships
Saturday 14 August 1847 : Marriage date of [F466] - [P1485] William KERR = [P1486] Rachael HUNTER
ABT 1848 : Birth date of [P1537] William S GREIG
ABT 1848 : Birth date of [P1479] Rachael Smith KERR
ABT 1849 : Birth date of [P1488] Robert GREIG
1849 : Birth date of [P1523] Rachael GREIG
November 1849 : Cholera epidemic takes 2000 lives a week
1850 : Invention of refrigerator by Twining / Harrison
1851 : Birth date of [P1540] William GREIG
ABT 1851 : Birth date of [P1538] Janet L GREIG
Monday 31 March 1851 : 1851 national census taken
Thursday 1 May 1851 : Great Exhibition opened in Hyde Park
EST 1852 : Birth date of [P1490] John Campbell GREIG
EST 1852 : Birth date of [P1525] Margaret Sim SCOTT
ABT 1852 : Birth date of [P1455] Alexander GREIG
EST 1852 : Birth date of [P1492] Jane Clark Dickson MCGHEE
ABT 1852 : Birth date of [P1456] Jessie STEWART
1853 : Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory
ABT 1853 : Transportation of criminals to Australia ends
ABT 1853 : Birth date of [P1526] Elizabeth Templeton GREIG
1853 : Birth date of [P1489] Jane Jessie BOYD
Saturday 12 March 1853 : Birth date of [P1496] Thomas Wilson GREIG
ABT 1854 : Death date of [P1154] John GREIG
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Britain and France declare war on Russia
Sunday 26 March 1854 : Start of Crimean War
1855 : Invention of the safety match by J E Lundstrom
1855 : Birth date of [P1487] Mary GREIG
ABT 1855 : Birth date of [P1527] James KERR
ABT 1856 : Birth date of [P1539] James P GREIG
AFT 1856 : Birth date of [P1774] Thomas Wilson GREIG
Sunday 30 March 1856 : End of Crimean War
Saturday 14 June 1856 : Birth date of [P1436] Ann GREIG
Thursday 19 June 1856 : Death date of [P1496] Thomas Wilson GREIG
Sunday 10 May 1857 : Sepoy mutiny in India
1859 : First oil well sunk by E L Drake in Pennsylvania
Saturday 9 April 1859 : Marriage date of [F307] - [P1404] John GREIG = [P1405] Mary SINCLAIR
Thursday 24 November 1859 : Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species"
Tuesday 12 June 1860 : Birth date of [P1840] James BONE
Wednesday 4 July 1860 : Birth date of [P1442] Christina Campbell GREIG
1861 : Gatling gun invented by R J Gatling
Sunday 6 January 1861 : Birth date of [P1839] Elizabeth CONN
Friday 22 February 1861 : Marriage date of [F437] - [P796] William WHITE = [P795] Christina GREIG
Monday 8 April 1861 : 1861 national census taken
Wednesday 11 September 1861 : Birth date of [P1415] John GREIG
Monday 14 October 1861 : Birth date of [P1528] William SMITH
Tuesday 31 December 1861 : Marriage date of [F443] - [P1454] Thomas RAE = [P318] Agnes GREIG
Saturday 10 January 1863 : London Underground opens
Monday 31 August 1863 : Death date of [P1523] Rachael GREIG
Friday 3 June 1864 : Birth date of [P1417] Mary GREIG
Tuesday 20 September 1864 : Birth date of [P1098] Jane GREIG
Friday 2 June 1865 : Marriage date of [F433] - [P1437] John GREIG = [P1438] Jean Taylor THOMSON
ABT 1866 : Invention of the breech-loading rifle
September 1866 : Cholera sweeps London
Saturday 1 September 1866 : Birth date of [P1499] William GREIG
Sunday 30 December 1866 : Marriage date of [F453] - [P1478] James GREIG = [P1479] Rachael Smith KERR
1867 : Invention of the typewriter by Sholes and Glidden
1867 : Joseph Lister pioneers antiseptic techniques
1867 : Alfred Nobel invents dynamite
Sunday 27 January 1867 : Birth date of [P1500] William GREIG
Tuesday 2 April 1867 : Marriage date of [F260] - [P1424] William GREIG = [P1425] Agnes HUSBAND
May 1867 : Birth date of [P1542] Rachel GREIG
Saturday 22 June 1867 : Death date of [P1542] Rachel GREIG
Monday 2 December 1867 : Birth date of [P1426] Agnes Cameron GREIG
February 1868 : Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
Saturday 28 March 1868 : Birth date of [P1648] Agnes FERGUSON
1869 : D Mendeleev constructs Periodic Table of elements
Wednesday 13 January 1869 : Birth date of [P1524] Margaret GREIG
Tuesday 19 January 1869 : Birth date of [P1413] James GREIG
Friday 28 May 1869 : Birth date of [P1501] William GREIG
1870 : Electric incandescent lamp invented by T A Edison
ABT 1870 : Birth date of [P1842] Charles GREIG
Thursday 3 March 1870 : Birth date of [P1453] William GREIG
Wednesday 16 November 1870 : Death date of [P1232] William GREIG
Friday 16 December 1870 : Birth date of [P1484] Rachael GREIG
Monday 3 April 1871 : 1871 national census taken
Saturday 20 January 1872 : Birth date of [P1470] John GREIG
May 1872 : Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
Sunday 2 June 1872 : Birth date of [P1446] Isabella GREIG
Tuesday 11 June 1872 : Birth date of [P1430] Alexander GREIG
Thursday 20 June 1872 : Marriage date of [F457] - [P1490] John Campbell GREIG = [P1492] Jane Clark Dickson MCGHEE
Wednesday 4 September 1872 : Birth date of [P1471] John GREIG
Monday 9 September 1872 : Birth date of [P1547] James GREIG
Friday 18 October 1872 : Marriage date of [F444] - [P1455] Alexander GREIG = [P1456] Jessie STEWART
December 1872 : "Marie Celeste" discovered abandoned
ABT 1873 : Birth date of [P1533] Janet GREIG
1873 : Death date of [P1533] Janet GREIG
1873 : Invention of pianoforte by J Broadwood
Thursday 20 February 1873 : Birth date of [P1491] Robert Lindsay GREIG
Saturday 14 June 1873 : Marriage date of [F456] - [P1488] Robert GREIG = [P1489] Jane Jessie BOYD
Tuesday 31 March 1874 : Birth date of [P1493] Thomas Alexander McGhee GREIG
Tuesday 28 April 1874 : Birth date of [P1448] James Husband GREIG
Tuesday 5 May 1874 : Birth date of [P1543] Mary GREIG
Wednesday 10 June 1874 : Birth date of [P1439] Archibald Thomson GREIG
Sunday 12 July 1874 : Birth date of [P1406] Marion Rae (a twin) GREIG
Sunday 12 July 1874 : Birth date of [P1431] Alexander (a twin) GREIG
Saturday 22 August 1874 : Death date of [P1526] Elizabeth Templeton GREIG
Saturday 29 August 1874 : Birth date of [P1502] William GREIG
Saturday 19 September 1874 : Death date of [P1493] Thomas Alexander McGhee GREIG
ABT 1875 : Birth date of [P1534] Jessie GREIG
ABT 1875 : Marriage date of [F465] - [P1488] Robert GREIG = [P1525] Margaret Sim SCOTT
Friday 5 March 1875 : Birth date of [P1546] William Grace LIND
Tuesday 9 March 1875 : Death date of [P1502] William GREIG
Friday 18 June 1875 : Death date of [P1489] Jane Jessie BOYD
Sunday 1 August 1875 : Death date of [P1098] Jane GREIG
Friday 31 December 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
1876 : Invention of the telephone by A G Bell
Monday 17 January 1876 : Death date of [P796] William WHITE
ABT May 1876 : Birth date of [P1541] John Husband GREIG
1877 : Phonograph invented by Thomas Edison
1877 : Invention of reinforced concrete by J Monier
Monday 26 March 1877 : Birth date of [P1644] Mary GREIG
1878 : Birth date of [P1544] Robert GREIG
1878 : Death date of [P1544] Robert GREIG
Monday 18 November 1878 : Death date of [P1484] Rachael GREIG
ABT 1879 : Birth date of [P1531] James GREIG
1879 : Birth date of [P1857] Margaret W B GREIG
Tuesday 25 March 1879 : Birth date of [P1645] Jeannie GREIG
Wednesday 3 September 1879 : Death date of [P1494] Robert GREIG
Sunday 28 December 1879 : Tay Bridge disaster
1880 : Death date of [P1531] James GREIG
1881 : Birth date of [P1858] Jane C GREIG
ABT 1881 : Birth date of [P1532] Alexander GREIG
AFT 1881 : Death date of [P1233] Mary CAIRNDUFF
Friday 25 February 1881 : Death date of [P1645] Jeannie GREIG
Sunday 3 April 1881 : 1881 national census taken
1882 : Isolation of tuberculosis bacteria by R Koch
AFT 1882 : Death date of [P1404] John GREIG
Monday 13 March 1882 : Birth date of [P1535] Louise GREIG
Tuesday 4 July 1882 : Birth date of [P1550] Daniel McMillan Rae GREIG
Friday 25 August 1882 : Marriage date of [F521] - [P1840] James BONE = [P1839] Elizabeth CONN
1883 : Cholera bacteria isolated by Robert Koch
Sunday 26 August 1883 : Krakatoa erupts
Wednesday 19 December 1883 : Birth date of [P1646] James GREIG
1884 : Fountain pen invented by L E Waterman
Wednesday 23 January 1884 : Death date of [P1456] Jessie STEWART
Thursday 25 December 1884 : Death date of [P1541] John Husband GREIG
1885 : Vaccine against rabies discovered by Louis Pasteur
1885 : First internal combustion carriage built by K. Benz
ABT 1885 : Birth date of [P1480] Andrew Kerr GREIG
Monday 26 January 1885 : General Gordon killed at Khartoum
Thursday 16 April 1885 : Birth date of [P1530] Jane Galt MONTGOMERY
May 1885 : Birth date of [P1545] Unnamed GREIG
Friday 8 May 1885 : Death date of [P1479] Rachael Smith KERR
Monday 24 August 1885 : Birth date of [P1657] Mary Conn BONE
Tuesday 29 December 1885 : Birth date of [P1647] Robert GREIG
Friday 15 January 1886 : Death date of [P1646] James GREIG
1887 : Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle
1888 : Invention of hand-held camera by George Eastman
October 1888 : Jack the Ripper terrorises London's East End
1889 : Invention of the bolt-action rifle by P von Mauser
Thursday 14 November 1889 : Completion of the Forth Bridge - first large steel structure
1890 : Discovery of diphtheria vaccine by E von Behring
ABT 1890 : Birth date of [P1841] Jenny BONE
Wednesday 29 October 1890 : Death date of [P1470] John GREIG
1891 : Invention of the zip fastener by W L Judson
Wednesday 1 April 1891 : 1891 national census taken
1893 : Thomas Edison invents motion pictures
Friday 30 June 1893 : Marriage date of [F487] - [P1500] William GREIG = [P1648] Agnes FERGUSON
Monday 17 July 1893 : Death date of [P1155] Jean GALT
1894 : Birth date of [P1881] Margaret BONE
1894 : Tower Bridge opens in London
Tuesday 10 April 1894 : Birth date of [P1649] John GREIG
1895 : Discovery of x-rays by W K Roentgen
1895 : Wireless telegraphy invented by G Marconi
Saturday 15 June 1895 : Death date of [P1471] John GREIG
1896 : Discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel
Thursday 2 April 1896 : Birth date of [P1650] Agnes Gardener GREIG
Tuesday 22 June 1897 : Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
Friday 19 November 1897 : Death date of [P1774] Thomas Wilson GREIG
Tuesday 27 September 1898 : Death date of [P1644] Mary GREIG
Saturday 12 November 1898 : Birth date of [P1651] William GREIG
Friday 2 December 1898 : Death date of [P1651] William GREIG
1899 : Introduction of aspirin by Felix Hoffman
1899 : Invention of first tape recorder by V Poulsen
October 1899 : Start of Boer War
1900 : Invention of agricultural tractor by B Holt
1900 : Invention of rigid airship by von Zeppelin
Friday 6 April 1900 : Birth date of [P1653] William GREIG
Friday 6 April 1900 : Birth date of [P1652] Jeannie GREIG
Friday 1 June 1900 : Death date of [P1532] Alexander GREIG
August 1900 : Boxer rebellion in Peking
1901 : First successful safety razor sold by K Gillette
Tuesday 22 January 1901 : End of reign of Queen Victoria
Wednesday 23 January 1901 : Start of reign of Edward VII
Monday 27 May 1901 : Death date of [P1652] Jeannie GREIG
Saturday 5 April 1902 : 20 killed as terracing collapses at Ibrox Park
Sunday 1 June 1902 : End of Boer War
Sunday 20 September 1903 : Birth date of [P1654] Charles GREIG
Sunday 7 February 1904 : Birth date of [P1880] Janet BONE
Wednesday 4 October 1905 : Convicted Suffragettes choose to go to prison
1906 : Wassermann test for syphilis developed
Tuesday 12 June 1906 : Death date of [P1487] Mary GREIG
1907 : Albert Einstein postulates "E=mc²" theory
1910 : Invention of first synthetic plastic, Bakelite
Wednesday 2 February 1910 : Death date of [P795] Christina GREIG
Friday 6 May 1910 : End of reign of Edward VII
Saturday 7 May 1910 : Start of reign of George V
Thursday 21 July 1910 : Marriage date of [F488] - [P1655] William JEFFREY = [P1524] Margaret GREIG
Sunday 31 July 1910 : Radio used to arrest Dr Crippen fleeing to Quebec
Tuesday 2 August 1910 : Marriage date of [F470] - [P1546] William Grace LIND = [P1530] Jane Galt MONTGOMERY
1911 : E. Rutherford puts forward nuclear model of the atom
Tuesday 3 January 1911 : Three policemen die in the Seige of Sidney Street
Wednesday 5 July 1911 : Birth date of [P1656] John Greig JEFFREY
Thursday 31 August 1911 : Troops clash with strikers in north of England
Tuesday 19 March 1912 : Death date of [P1522] James Grant MONTGOMERY
Monday 15 April 1912 : SS Titanic sinks with loss of 1513 lives
Monday 10 February 1913 : Capt. Scott found dead in Antartica
June 1913 : Suffragette dies under King's horse at Epsom
Sunday 26 October 1913 : Death date of [P1653] William GREIG
1914 : Invention of military tank by E Swinton
Wednesday 8 April 1914 : Death date of [P1655] William JEFFREY
Sunday 28 June 1914 : Austrian Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
Tuesday 28 July 1914 : Austria declares war on Serbia
Tuesday 28 July 1914 : Start of World War I
August 1914 : Battle of Tannenberg
Saturday 1 August 1914 : Germany declares war on Russia
Monday 3 August 1914 : Germany declares war on France
Tuesday 4 August 1914 : Germany invades Belgium
Tuesday 4 August 1914 : Britain declares war on Germany
September 1914 : First Battle of the Marne
Friday 25 September 1914 : Marriage date of [F489] - [P1647] Robert GREIG = [P1657] Mary Conn BONE
Sunday 4 October 1914 : First bombs fall on London
February 1915 : Start of German submarine blockade of Britain
Thursday 22 April 1915 : Germans first use of mustard gas at Ypres
Monday 26 April 1915 : British land in Turkey
Friday 7 May 1915 : SS Lusitania sunk by German submarine
Saturday 22 May 1915 : 200 soldiers killed in train crash at Quintinshill
Thursday 12 August 1915 : Death date of [P1424] William GREIG
Monday 6 September 1915 : Poland and Lithuania overrun by Germany
Thursday 9 September 1915 : Death date of [P1480] Andrew Kerr GREIG
Thursday 14 October 1915 : Britain and France declare war on Bulgaria
Monday 20 December 1915 : British withdraw from Gallipoli
February 1916 : Battle of Verdun
Monday 24 April 1916 : 450 die in Easter Rising in Dublin
Wednesday 31 May 1916 : Battle of Jutland
Wednesday 7 June 1916 : Death date of [P1437] John GREIG
Saturday 1 July 1916 : Start of Battle of the Somme
Tuesday 1 August 1916 : Birth date of [P1659] Elizabeth GREIG
Tuesday 1 August 1916 : Death date of [P1659] Elizabeth GREIG
Sunday 27 August 1916 : Romaina declares war on Austria-Hungary
Wednesday 15 November 1916 : End of Battle of the Somme
Friday 6 April 1917 : USA declares war on Germany
Sunday 17 June 1917 : Death date of [P1551] George KERR
October 1917 : Start of Battle of Caporetto
December 1917 : End of Battle of Caporetto
Friday 7 December 1917 : USA declares war on Austria-Hungary
Saturday 15 December 1917 : Russian Bolsheviks now allies with Germany
Thursday 21 March 1918 : Start of German offensive
Monday 1 April 1918 : Royal Air Force created
Saturday 18 May 1918 : Sinn Féin banned and leaders arrested
July 1918 : Second Battle of the Marne
Thursday 8 August 1918 : End of German offensive
Friday 4 October 1918 : Germany offers surrender
Monday 11 November 1918 : End of World War I
Monday 11 November 1918 : Hostilities cease on Western Front
Sunday 1 December 1918 : Death date of [P1521] Janet GREIG
Saturday 28 December 1918 : Women allowed to vote for the first time
March 1919 : Spanish flu kills 150,000 throughout Britian
Sunday 28 December 1919 : Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
Wednesday 29 September 1920 : Death date of [P1442] Christina Campbell GREIG
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
Tuesday 6 December 1921 : Irish Free State created
1922 : Banting and MacLeod isolate human insulin
Wednesday 23 April 1924 : First royal transmission by wireless
Wednesday 2 July 1924 : Death date of [P1650] Agnes Gardener GREIG
EST 1925 : Marriage date of [F245] - [P1654] Charles GREIG = [P1880] Janet BONE
Saturday 11 April 1925 : Death date of [P1438] Jean Taylor THOMSON
1926 : Invention of the liquid-fuelled rocket by R Goddard
1926 : First demonstration of television by J L Baird
Monday 10 May 1926 : TUC calls first General Strike
Saturday 7 January 1928 : River Thames floods killing 14
Sunday 30 September 1928 : Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming
Wednesday 8 May 1929 : Death date of [P1425] Agnes HUSBAND
Saturday 24 May 1930 : Amy Johnson flies solo to Australia
Sunday 5 October 1930 : Airship R101 crashes in France killing 48
Friday 12 February 1932 : Whipping of children under 14 is banned
Sunday 28 February 1932 : Death date of [P1453] William GREIG
Friday 30 September 1932 : Unemployment reaches 25%
Saturday 30 December 1933 : Death date of [P1647] Robert GREIG
1934 : Invention of first practical radar by Watson-Watt
Tuesday 13 February 1934 : Death date of [P1448] James Husband GREIG
Friday 21 September 1934 : 262 killed in blast at Gresford colliery
Monday 18 March 1935 : Thousands protest in Wales at "means test"
1936 : Invention of helicopter by H Focke
1936 : Sir Frank Whittle invents the jet engine
Monday 20 January 1936 : End of reign of George V
Tuesday 21 January 1936 : Start of reign of Edward VIII
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
Friday 28 May 1937 : Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister
1938 : Discovery of nuclear fission by Hahn and Strassmann
Sunday 15 May 1938 : Death date of [P1439] Archibald Thomson GREIG
Monday 11 July 1938 : Last British troops leave Eire
Friday 25 August 1939 : IRA bomb Coventry killing 5
Friday 1 September 1939 : Germany invades Poland
September 1939 : Children evacuated from London and major cities
Sunday 3 September 1939 : Start of World War II
Sunday 3 September 1939 : Britain and France declare war on Germany
Sunday 17 December 1939 : the Graf Spee scuttled off Montevideo
Sunday 14 January 1940 : Death date of [P1436] Ann GREIG
Friday 10 May 1940 : Germany invades Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
Friday 10 May 1940 : Churchill takes over as Prime Minister
Sunday 12 May 1940 : Germany invades France
Sunday 26 May 1940 : Allied evacuation from Dunkirk begins
Monday 10 June 1940 : Italy declares war on France and Britain
Monday 10 June 1940 : Italy invades France
Friday 14 June 1940 : Germans enter Paris unopposed
Saturday 22 June 1940 : France surrenders to Germany
Thursday 14 November 1940 : Coventry bombed
Thursday 17 April 1941 : Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany
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 7 December 1941 : Japan attack USA at Pearl Harbour
Thursday 11 December 1941 : Britain and USA declare war on Japan
Thursday 11 December 1941 : Germany and Italy declare war on USA
Sunday 15 February 1942 : British surrender Singapore to Japanese
Thursday 9 April 1942 : USA surrenders Bataan peninsula to Japanese
Wednesday 6 May 1942 : USA surrenders Corregidor Island to Japanese
Wednesday 10 June 1942 : Lidice, Czechoslovakia razed by Germans
Tuesday 28 July 1942 : Death date of [P1500] William GREIG
Sunday 8 November 1942 : British and US troops land in North Africa
Thursday 14 January 1943 : Casablanca conference
Monday 1 February 1943 : Germans surrender at Stalingrad
Wednesday 12 May 1943 : War in Africa ends
Sunday 25 July 1943 : Mussolini deposed
Friday 3 September 1943 : Allies land in Italy
Wednesday 8 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 4 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
Sunday 11 February 1945 : Yalta agreement
Saturday 28 April 1945 : Mussolini killed at Lake Como
Tuesday 1 May 1945 : Hitler's suicide announced
Wednesday 2 May 1945 : Berlin falls
Monday 7 May 1945 : VE Day. Germany surrenders
Tuesday 17 July 1945 : Potsdam conference
Monday 6 August 1945 : USA drops atom bomb on Hiroshima
Wednesday 8 August 1945 : USSR declares war on Japan
Thursday 9 August 1945 : USA drops atom bomb on Nagasaki
Tuesday 14 August 1945 : Japan surrenders
Sunday 2 September 1945 : VJ Day. Japanese sign surrender aboard USS Missouri
Sunday 2 September 1945 : End of World War II
February 1946 : 50,000 "GI brides" shipped out to the USA
December 1946 : Fuel and food shortages continue
Friday 3 January 1947 : Death date of [P1524] Margaret GREIG
Friday 1 August 1947 : Death date of [P1648] Agnes FERGUSON
Thursday 20 November 1947 : Princess Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh
Thursday 1 January 1948 : Railways nationalised
Monday 28 June 1948 : Troops break dockers' strike
Thursday 5 August 1948 : Death date of [P1546] William Grace LIND
December 1948 : Labour government constructs "Welfare State"
Tuesday 15 March 1949 : Clothes rationing ends
Monday 18 April 1949 : Eire becomes Republic of Ireland
ABT 1950 : Albert Einstein puts forward theories of relativity
Wednesday 28 June 1950 : Royal Navy enters Korean War
Monday 25 December 1950 : Stone of Destiny taken from Westminster Abbey
Thursday 7 June 1951 : Soviet spies Burgess and MacLean disappear
Wednesday 6 February 1952 : End of reign of George VI
Thursday 7 February 1952 : Start of reign of Elizabeth II
Monday 24 November 1952 : "Mousetrap" opens in London
Thursday 11 December 1952 : Derek Bentley sentenced to hang
1953 : Discovery of measles vaccine by Enders and Peebles
Saturday 31 January 1953 : Ferry Princess Victoria sinks in the Irish Sea
Tuesday 3 February 1953 : Hundreds die as East Coast is flooded
Wednesday 1 April 1953 : Death date of [P1426] Agnes Cameron GREIG
Sunday 12 April 1953 : Death date of [P1528] William SMITH
Saturday 30 May 1953 : Edmund Hillary reaches the top of Mount Everest
1954 : Discovery of first polio vaccine by J E Salk
Wednesday 13 January 1954 : Death date of [P1446] Isabella GREIG
May 1954 : "Teddy Boys" appear
Saturday 3 July 1954 : Rationing ends
Wednesday 13 July 1955 : Ruth Ellis is the last woman to be hanged
Wednesday 31 October 1956 : Britain invades Suez
Thursday 17 October 1957 : Air borne radiation leaks from Windscale
Thursday 6 February 1958 : 7 members of Manchester United die in plane crash
Friday 5 December 1958 : First motorway in Britain, M6 Preston Bypass opens
Saturday 31 December 1960 : National Service abolished
Wednesday 27 March 1963 : Dr Beeching proposes cutting 25% of rail lines
Wednesday 5 June 1963 : John Profumo resigns after sex scandal
Monday 4 November 1963 : The Beatles appear in the Royal Variety Show
Saturday 22 February 1964 : Death date of [P1649] John GREIG
Monday 21 December 1964 : Death penalty abolished in Britain
Thursday 28 October 1965 : Brady and Hindley charged with Moors Murders
Sunday 17 July 1966 : Death date of [P1656] John Greig JEFFREY
Friday 21 October 1966 : 144 die in Aberfan as coal bing buries school
1967 : Emergence of Flower Power
Tuesday 17 December 1968 : Death date of [P1548] William KERR
Wednesday 5 March 1969 : London gangsters the Kray twins sentenced to life
Saturday 2 January 1971 : 66 die when barriers collapse at Ibrox Park
Monday 15 February 1971 : British currency goes decimal
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
Thursday 8 March 1973 : IRA begins mainland bombing
Monday 17 December 1973 : Three day week introduced
Tuesday 12 November 1974 : Lord Lucan escapes and disappears
Friday 11 July 1975 : Inflation reaches 25%
August 1976 : Drought causes water shortages
Saturday 2 April 1977 : Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time
Wednesday 13 December 1978 : Jeremy Thorpe charged with incitement to murder
January 1979 : "Winter of Discontent" causes chaos
Friday 4 May 1979 : Margaret Thatcher becomes first woman Prime Minister
Sunday 2 September 1979 : Yorkshire Ripper claims 12th victim
Monday 10 December 1979 : Death date of [P1880] Janet BONE
Monday 5 May 1980 : SAS storms Iranian embassy in London
July 1981 : Riots break out in 8 inner city areas
Friday 2 April 1982 : Argentina invades Falkland Islands
Sunday 18 April 1982 : Death date of [P1530] Jane Galt MONTGOMERY
Monday 14 June 1982 : British troops regain control of Falklands
Sunday 25 September 1983 : 134 IRA prisoners escape from the Maze prison
May 1984 : Coal strikes crushed by riot police
Friday 12 October 1984 : IRA bombs Tory conference in Brighton
Saturday 11 May 1985 : 40 killed as fire destroys Bradford City stand
Friday 2 January 1987 : Death date of [P1654] Charles GREIG
Friday 16 October 1987 : Hurricane hits southern England
Wednesday 18 November 1987 : 30 die in King's Cross Underground fire
Back to Genealogy Start Page