Family Dates

Year	Month	Day	Family Event	Related Family Event	World Event
1756	May		Seven Years' War between Britain and France begins.
1771			'Factory Age' begins with the opening of Britain's first cotton mill at Cromford, Derbyshire.
1774			William born, location unknown.
1775	April	18	American War of Independence begins.
1785			Ann Barry born Guisborough, Yorkshire.
1788	January	01	First edition of 'The Times' of London is published.
1789	July	14	French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille.
1798	May	26	Society of United Irishmen rebel against British rule in Ireland.

Year	Month	Day	Family Event	Related Family Event	World Event
1801	January	01	Act of Union creates the United Kingdom.
1801	March	01	Britain holds its first census.
1805	October	21	Royal Navy defeats a French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.
1815	June	18	Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, defeats Napoleon at Waterloo.
1816?			William (1774) and Ann Barry married, possibly Guisborough.
1817			Henrietta born Guisborough, Yorkshire.
1818			Ann born Guisborough, Yorkshire.
1821	May	08	William born Guisborough, Yorkshire.
1824	July	23	Betsy Lord born Farnworth, Lancashire.
1825	September	25	World's first steam locomotive passenger service begins.
1830	June	26	George IV dies and is succeeded by his brother William IV.
1837	June	20	Victoria comes to the throne after the death of William IV.
1838	September	17	London-Birmingham line opens and the railway boom starts.
1840	January	10	A uniform postage rate of one penny is introduced in Britain.
1845	September		Irish potato famine begins.
1846	May	26	William (1874) died Great Ayton.
	June	01	William (1874) buried All Saints Church, Great Ayton.
	June	30	Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel resigns after the Corn Laws are repealed.
1847	April	05	World's first municipal park opens in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
1849	October	03	William (1821) and Betsy Lord married in Halshaw Moor Independent Chapel, Lancashire.

Year	Month	Day	Family Event	Related Family Event	World Event
1850	March	05	Robert Stephenson's Britannia Tubular Bridge (near Bangor, across to Anglesey) is opened.
	September	11	Robert William born Greenfield House, Kersley.
1851	May	01	The Great Exhibition opens at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London.
	November	02	Maria born Greenfield House, Kersley.
1852	July	30	Robert Lord died at Farnworth.
1854	March	28	Britain and France declare war on Russia and the Crimean War begins.
	December	01	Joseph born Greenfield House, Kersley.
1856	November	09	Arthur born Greenfield House, Kersley.
1860	October	17	Edward born Greenfield House, Kersley.
1862	April	18	Mary Ann born Greenfield House, Kersley.
		27	Mary Lord died at Farnworth.
1863	April	12	Arthur dies, location unknow.
1876	February	12	Ann (1785) died Ayton Villa, Birkdale, Southport.
		18	Ann (1785) buried All Saints Church, Great Ayton.
1881	January	17	Sir William Armstrong's home becomes the first to use electric light.
1890	September	01	Ann (1818) died Gorsey Road, Nottingham.
1892	July	24	Joseph and Mary Veitch Bardsley married All Saints Church, Southport.
1893	January	07	Henrietta died 29 Park Row, Nottingham.
	March	15	William born Cleveland Lodge, Northenden.
1894	July	12	John Reid born Cleveland Lodge, Northenden.
1899	March	01	Bessie died at Cleveland House, Eccles Old Road, Salford.
	October	10	Second Boer War begins in South Africa.

Year	Month	Day	Family Event	Related Family Event	World Event
1900	October	16	Conservatives are re-elected. Lord Salisbury remained as prime minister and became the last premier to sit in the House of Lords.
1901	January	22	Victoria dies and is succeeded by Edward VII.
1902	March	30	William (1821) dies 66a Eccles Old Rd, Salford.
1903	December	17	Orville and Wilbur Wright fly the first heavier than air craft.
1914	November	05	Britain declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1918	May	19	John Green Bardsley dies 26 Park Road, Southport.
	November	11	Official end of the First World War.
1919	April	30	William (1893) married Dorothy May Brown married in St James Church, Birkdale, Southport.
	October	01	John Reid and Kathleen Bardsley married St Mary's Church, Crumpsall, Manchester.
1920			Women at Oxford University are allowed to receive degrees.
1920	November	25	John Stewart born Wellington, Shropshire.
1922	May	24	William Reid born in a nursing home, Shrewsbury.
1923	July	30	Joseph died Cadvan Villa, (Bodorgan), Menai Bridge, Anglesey.
	August	02	Joseph buried Tonge Cemetery, Bolton.
1924	April	21	Elizabeth Mary born Lightwood House, Buxton.
1926	January	26	John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television.
	August	27	Mary born in a nursing home, Shrewsbury.
1928	May	07	All women over the age of 21 get the vote.
1929	February	14	Joseph William born Cold Springs, Buxton.
	October	24	Wall Street Crash sparks the Great Depression.
1932	September	15	Margaret born Cold Springs, Buxton.
1948	June	22	Post-war immigration from the Commonwealth begins.
1949	April	21	Elizabth Mary married William Penrose Kenneth Eveleigh St Peter's Church, Fairfield, Buxton.

Year	Month	Day	Family Event	Related Family Event	World Event
1950	February	23	Labour wins the general election with Clement Attlee returned as prime minister with a slim majority of only five seats.
1951	October	25	Labour called an election hoping to increase their majority. despite Labour polling over a million votes more than the Conservative Party - and more votes than in the 1950 election - it was the Conservatives who went on to form the next government, under Winston Churchill.
1955	April	05	Winston Churchill retires as prime minister.
1956	November	03	Margaret and John Gordon Stewart married st Peter's Church, Fairfield, Buxton.
1957	September	10	Iain Gordon Stewart born.
1960	January	03	Jane Everleigh born.
	March	18	Rory William Stewart born.
1961	April	11	Yuri A. Gargarin becomes the first human in space and to orbit the earth.
		29	Joseph William and Mary Walsh married in Salisbury Catholic Cathedral, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.
1962	July	03	William Arthur born Manugula Hospital, Mangula, Rhodesia.
	August	02	Susan Everleigh born.
	November	28	Alan Hinmers Stewart born.
1963	November	28	Joseph Thomas born Mangula Hospital, Mangula, Rhodesia.
1965	November	11	Ian Smith declares UDI.
1969	July	20	Neil Armstrong walks on the surface of the moon.
1974	September	30	William (1893) died Buxton, Derbyshire.
1975	October	28	Joseph William died Bahati Farm, Mangula, Rhodesia.
1979	May	03	Conservative Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first female prime minister.
1980	April	18	The United Kingdom ceremonially granted Zimbabwe independence.
1982	March	19	A group of Argentine scrap-metal merchants raise their flag over the island of South Georgia in the opening scene of what will become the Falklands War with Great Britain.
1990	August	02	Iraqi forces invade Kuwait.
1991	February	28	First Gulf war ceases.
1998	June	05	Sean William born Harare, Zimbabwe.
1999	January	01	Britain decides not to join the European Single Currency.
	December	05	Kevin Joseph born Harare, Zimbabwe.

Year	Month	Day	Family Event	Related Family Event	World Event
2001	August	08	Shane Pieter born Harare, Zimbabwe.
	September	11	Islamic terrorists crash aircraft on targets in New York and Washington.
		15	Mary died No 2 Kirstenbosch Mews, Harare, Zimbabwe.
2002	April	27	William Arthur and AMO married St Mary's Church, Yealand Conyers, Lancs.

World event dates obtained from the BBC via the British History Timeline webpage.