Anniversaries
Our coming of Age
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Anniversary Timelines for 2024
Type any year you wish into Wikipedia for a wealth of facts and figures for each year. See what was happening when you were born or your parents married etc. Excellent details for filling your narratives. For example: 1924 in the UK
Rather than type them all out I have found a couple of excellent timeline websites. Why repeat al the excellent work on the following website:
Anniversaries 2021
Also a website about 2020 the year our Forum was formed.
Its from Wikipedia and goes through the year month by month
795 Viking attack on Iona
1120 Sinking of the White Ship
1170 Murder of Thomas a Becket
1295 Model Parliament
1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold
1570 Queen Elizabeth 1 declared an heretic
1620 The Pilgrim Fathers
1645 Battle of Naseby
1670 Hudson's Bay Company
1695 Foundation of the Bank of Scotland
1720 South Sea Bubble 1745 Jacobite Rising
1770 NS Wales claimed for Britain
7/ 4/1770 William Wordsworth born
1795 Pontycysyllte Aqueduct built
17/ 1/1820 Birth of Anne Bronte
1820 Cato St Conspiracy 1845 The Great Famine (Ireland) 1870 - Forster's Education Act 1895 The National Trust 1920 Inauguration of the League of Nations 1945 VE Day Born 1945 1950 Nato was created 1960 President Kennedy was elected 1970 VCR and Floppy discs 1970 ½ crown and 2/- ceased to be legal tender, Born
- Andy Burnham, 1975 Microsoft appears on the scene,
1980 Rubiks Cube and Pacman 1990 Release of Nelson Mandela 1995 Collapse of Baring's Bank, LOCAL ANNIVERSARIES
- Nico Ditch running from Ashton-under-Lyne, through Audenshaw and Denton and on to Stretford. Legend claims it was built in a single night in 869 or 870 as a defence against Viking invaders
- 1730 a parish workhouse was established which consisted of a house and two cottages on Dungeon street in Ashton-under-Lyne.
- John Chapman (1810-1877) was MP for Grimsby, High Sheriff of Cheshire, JP and Chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. He lived in Broadbottom.
- Stalybridge St George's is the parish church on the Lancashire side of the river in the Diocese of Manchester. It is known as New St George's and its foundation stone was laid on 24 June 1840
- 1895 Opening of the Albion United Reformed Church in Ashton. Worship started in a house on Church Street in 1780 and after several moves of premises culminating in the present building, built almost in opposition to the parish church and its spire is 5 feet higher.
- E Taylor Electrical in Stalybridge, shop and business, opened in 1920, four generations of the family are celebrating its centenary this year
- Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, was born in Droylsden in 1890 - died 1960 The communist Party of great Britain was formed in 1920. He appears on a Soviet Union stamp of 1970. In 1945 he was within a thousand votes of taking Rhonda East from the Labour Party
- Ada Jane Summers MBE JP (née Broome; 1861-1944) was the first British woman to sit as a magistrate. She was also the first female councillor, mayor and freeman of Stalybridge near Manchester. She was also a philanthropist. In October 1920 she was appointed a Justice of the Peace in the borough in her own right, again the first woman in Britain to do so
- Stalybridge town's war memorial was extended after the war, to bear the names of an extra 124 men from the town; it was unveiled on 23 April 1950.
- Mrs Bowman published her epic "England in Ashton-uner-Lyne" in 1960
- Tameside Local History Forum was founded in 2000
- Tameside Family History Group was founded in 2000. One of the branches of the Family history Society of Chesire
Many thanks to Kate Booth and my joint effort finding these 02/02/2020
79 Romans build a wooden fort at Mamucium
1069 The Harrying of the North by William the Conquerer
20/8/1619 the start of the British slave trade
1669 Christopher Wren got the job of designing St Paul's Cathedral
1719 The publication of Robinson Crusoe
1729 the first Cotton Exchange built in Manchester
1759 James Brindley apointed by the Duke of Bridgewater to build his canal
1769 both the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon were born.
1769 Wedgewood factory opened in Stoke on Trent
1769 Arkwight patented his spinning frame
1769 Captain Cook discovered New Zealand
22/11/1819 birth of George Eliot - Mary Ann Evans. Author, poet, journalist and translator.
1819. 20th anniversary since the birth of Queen Victoria
1819 200th Anniversary of the birth of Joseph Bazalgette (Engineer of the London Sewers)
1819 The Peterloo Massacre
1819 Charles Kingsley author of The Water Babies was born
1839 Manchester to Salford Junction canal opens through the centre of Manchester
1869 The Co-operative Union decided to establish a central body
1869 Suez Canal opens
1869 The Cutty Sark was launched
1869 Henry Wood the Founder of the Proms was born
1869 Arthur Brooke opens his tea dealing business Brooke Bond at 23 Market Street
1869 Mahatmat Ghandi was born
1879 The first Provincial Telephone Exchange opens on Faulkner Street
1889 RSPB founded at Didsbury
1919 The first translatlantic Flight by Alcock and Brown
1919 Hundred years of the caravan
June 1919 The League of Nations was formed
July 1919 the first Airship crosses the Atlantic
1919 The Treaty of Versailles was signed following the end of the 1st World War
12/4/1919 - Amritsar Massacre
1919 - Homes fit for Heroes Housing Act
1919 - Womens' Engineering Society
1919 - Egyptian Revolution
12/5/1919 - The charity Combat Stress was founded.
1919 - NASUWT founded, the union for ordinary teachers
15/11/1919 - Nancy Astor elected to Parliament
1939 The Daily Express building designed by Sir Owen William is completed
6/6/1944 75th anniversary of the D Day Landings
1949 The Manchester Mark 1 computer is operable at Manchester University
9/11/1989 the fall of the Berlin Wall
20/7/1969 1st Moon Landing
20/7/1969 the last public performance by The Beatles
1969 The Family History Society of Cheshire was formed
1969 Concorde's maiden flight
1969 The Kray Twins convicted
1969 voting age lowered to 18
1969 First Solo sailing around the world Robin Knox Johnson
1969 First Troops sent to Northern Ireland
1969 The 50 pence coin issued
1969 Drilling for North Sea Oil began
1979 The start of Denton local History Society
1979 Major fire at Woolworths Manchester Piccadilly Store
1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989 The release of Nelson Mandella
1999 The opening of Portland Basin Museum
July 918 Aethelflaed daughter of King Alfred, leader of Mercians, dies at Tamworth, Staffs.
1348 7 July - the first case of the Black Death
1588 7 January - England loses its last possession in France (Calais)
1658 3 September - Oliver Cromwwell dies
1668 - Birth of Thomas Coram, seaman and philanthropist and founder of the London Foundling Hospital
1688 21 May - Birth of Alexander Pope, poet
1708 - The First Hyde Chapel built
1718 18 March - Birth of Thomas Chippendale, cabinet maker
1718 - British Convicts start being transported to penal colonies oversees
1728 3 July - Birth of Robert Adam, architect and interior designer
1728 7 November - Birth of James Cook, sea captain and explorer
1788 31 January - Death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 'Bonny Prince Charlie'
1788 31 January - Death of Thomas Gainsborough, portrait and landscape artist
1798 26 May - Irish Rebel Uprising
1808 - British West African Squadron is formed to suppress the Slave Trade
1812-1818 - Hampden Clubs are formed to advocate for Parliamentary Reform
1818 22 August - death of Warren Hastings first de factor Gov. General of India
1818 - construction of what is now the A57 road from Taylor Lane, Denton, to Reddish Bridge- replacing a circuitous route via Windmill Lane, Cornhill Lane etc.
See "About Denton", by Frank Brown, p35
1838 - Oliver Twist is published
1838 8 May - The Peoples Charter advocates Social and Political reform
1868 - First publication of Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women'
1918 6 February - Limited Vote for Women
1918 11 November Armistice bringing about end of hostilities in World War One
1918 Early Spring - Start of Spanish Flu Pandemic.
4th November 1918 Wilfred Owen of the Manchester Regiment and First World War poet dies at the Sambre-Oise canal, France.
1918 - Frank Hampson, illustrator and creator of Dan Dare, was born on 21 December 1918, in Audenshaw. See People who made Tameside and Oxford dictionary of National Biography
1928 7 September - All Women over 21 given the Vote
1938 12 February - The first Kinder Transport
1948 22 June - Post War Immigration Starts
1958 5 December - First motorway opens - The Preston Bypass
1968 Jan/Feb - Hull Triple Trawler disaster. 59 men of Hull fishing community lose their lives at sea. Women of community protest about safety at sea laws and bring about 88 safety measure
1958 6 February - The Munich Air disaster
1968 4 April - Martin Luther King, Civil Rights leader is shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee USA
1978 - the first Test Tube Baby born in Oldham - Louise Brown
1978 - Denton Local History Society is 40 years old in 2018 - more information about events to celebrate this later
1707 The first Old Chapel is built in Dukinfield. http://www.ukunitarians.org.uk/dukinfield/index.htm
1717 John "Blind Jack" Metcalfe of Knaresborough was born. Yorkshire's most extraordinary son and an ancestor of my husband. http://gayandmike.co.uk/blindjack.htm
1747 Liverpool overtakes Bristol as the nations busiest Slaveport.
1787 13th May The First Fleet of Convicts sails for Australia
1807 The Slave Trade in Britain is abolished
1817 The March of the Blanketeers 10 March forerunner to Peterloo in 1819
http://spartacus-educational.com/PRblanketeers.htm
Hugh Mason 1817 - 1886 Industrialist, Mill owner, Philanthropist. There is a statue of him in Trafalgar Square, Ashton
1837 20th June Queen Victoria ascends the Throne 1847 Ashton-under-Lyne becomes a Borough Council 1857 5th March Stalybridge Corporation is formed
Francis Thompson 16th December 1859 - 13th November 1907 local poet
1917 Ashton Munitions disaster 1917 The Imperial War Museum is created. 5 March 2017 will mark 100 years since the founding of the Imperial War Museum. MRT's Miles Rowland takes a look at how the museum has changed since its foundation.
https://www.martinrandall.com/iwm-anniversary
1917 100th Anniversary Battle of Passchendaele.The terrible battle commenced on 31st July, continuing until 10th November.
1927 1st January The BBC created
Brian Wilde 1927 - 2008 Actor. Appeared in many programmes, his most famous being Last of the Summer Wine. Lived on Montague Road, Ashton
Coronation date of King George VI 12th May 1937.
Randal Mundy 1862 - 1937 -
teacher at Albion School, Poet, Linguist. Lived on Mellor Road, Ashton
1967 1st January The Beatles release Sergeant Pepper 1967 A British Midland flight full of holidaymakers was returning from Mallorca when the pilot suddenly lost power and the aircraft ploughed into a small patch of waste land at Hopes Carr in Stockport town centre at 10.09am on Sunday 4th June, 1967. Ronald Fraser 1930 -1997 - Actor, lived in Cockbrook. Appeared in more than 50 films and TV programmes
Branch RNLI Fund Raising Committee is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with a display in the George Lawton Hall during October and a book is being produced by Alison Wild and Shirley Howard recording past events. The Celebration Day is Thursday 5th October in the George Lawton Hall.
To Celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Congregational Church, come and Sing Messiah November 12 2016. Click here to download this advertising flyer for more details and to book your place.
Anniversary Timelines for 2021
Anniversary Timeline for 2020
- Birth of Bonnie Prince Charlie
- Launch of HMS Beagle
- Death of George 111
- Birth of Beethoven
- Birth of John Tenniel
- 12/ 5/1820 Birth of Florence Nightingale
- 1820 - Death of George 111
- Engels published 'The Condition of the Working Class in England
- Married Women's Property Act
- Birth of Lenin
- Death of Charles Dickens
- Oscar Wilde was imprisoned
- Welwyn Garden City
- Internment of the Unknown Warrior
- Rupert Bear
- 1st Public performance of The Planets
- 1st British Roller Coaster
- Partition of Ireland
- Dick Kerr's Ladies' Football team from Preston beat St Helen's: 53,000 crowd
- 1st woman served on a jury
- Agatha Christie's 1st novel published
- Birth of Isaac Asimov,
- Clive Dunn,
- Alf Ramsay,
- Michael Anderson,
- Frank Muir,
- Richard Adams,
- Leo McKern,
- Ronald Searle,
- Lewis Gilbert,
- Jack Odell,
- Patrick Troughton,
- Johnny Speight,
- Anthony Barber,
- Leslie Porter,
- PD James,
- Christopher
- Robin Milne,
- Peter Vansittart,
- Dick Francis,
- Roy Jenkins,
- Merlyn Rees,
- Bernard Weatherall.
- 1930 Birth of Billy Fury
- 1940 Food rationing
- Death of David Lloyd George
- 1945 Yalta Conference,
- Soviet troops enter Auschwitz,
- Bombing of Dresden,
- Channel Islands liberated,
- Charter of the UN,
- Labour landslide,
- Potsdam Conference, .
- Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima,
- Animal Farm published,
- the film Brief Encounter,
- Nuremberg War Trials,
- death of Anne Frank
- Barry John,
- Rod Stewart,
- Rocco Forte,
- Martin Shaw,
- Jacqueline du Pre,
- Charlotte Rampling,
- Bob Marley,
- Simon Scharma,
- Elkie Brooks,
- Eric Clapton,
- Alan Ball,
- Pete Townsend,
- Ken Livingstone,
- Helen Mirren,
- Van Morrison,
- Bryan Ferry,
- Jacqueline Wilson,
- Eve Pollard,
- Davy Jones.
- first organ transplant May 4th (kidney)
- The Beatles break up
- 18 year old allowed to vote,
- death of Jimmy Hendrix,
- death of Bertrand Russell,
- 1st Glastonbury Festival,
- Gay Lib Front founded.
- Minnie Driver,
- Simon Pegg,
- Louis Theroux,
- Naomi Campbell,
- Alan Shearer,
- Zoe Ball,
- Matthew Pinsent,
- Aled Jones,
- John Lennon is assassinated
- the Hubble telescope is launched
- 1st Women Chief Constable,
Anniversary Timeline to 2019
Anniversary Timeline to 2018
Anniversary Timeline to 2017
1837 1st July the Start of Civil Registration
1847 5th April the First Municipal Park opened - Birkenhead
http://www.ashton-under-lyne.com/history/explosion.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01q7vd4ion.htm I will be likely to add more about this event later
1967 27 July Abortion and Homosexuality are legalised
http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2007/06/04/040607_stockport_crash_feature.shtml
31 August Diana Princess of Wales dies
30 September Radio One goes on air
50th Anniversary of Mossley RNLI
Albion United Reformed Church
Stamford St. East Ashton-u- Lyne
Celebrating 200 years