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This section gives keydates for national and international events
to stand alongside the main TBC Multimedia History.
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| 5 BC | (approx) Jesus born in Nazareth
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| 28 AD | (approx) Jesus crucified and rose again
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| 1848 | Karl Marx published Communist Manifesto
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| 1851 | Great Exhibition held in London
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| 1859 | Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species
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| 1861 | Prince Albert died
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| 1863 | First underground railway opened in London
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| 1865 | Lewis Carroll published Alice in Wonderland
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| 1870 | Dr Barnado opened first Children's Home
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| 1874 | Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone
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| 1879 | Edison invented electric light
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| 1885 | Benz built first motor car
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| 1890 | First Tube line opened in London
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| 1893 | James Keir Hardie founded Independent Labour Party
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| 1895 | Marconi made first long distance radio broadcast
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| 1896 | Invention of moving films (cinema)
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| 1897 | Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
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| 1899 | Boer War began (ended 1902)
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| 1901 | Queen Victoria died, succeeded by King Edward VII
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| 1903 | Wright brothers made first heavier than air flight
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| 1905 |
Einstein published first Theory of Relativity
First motorbuses used in London
First commercial cinema opened (in USA)
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| 1907 | Boy Scouts founded by Lord Baden-Powell
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| 1910 |
King Edward VII died, succeeded by King George V
Girl Guides founded by Lady Baden-Powell
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| 1911 | Amundsen reached South Pole (Scott follows in 1912)
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| 1912 | Titanic sank on maiden voyage
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| 1913 | Einstein published General Theory of Relativity
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| 1914 | First World War started
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| 1917 | Russian revolution
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| 1918 |
Women granted (limited) right to vote
First World War finished
League of Nations formed
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| 1921 | Irish Free State established (Eire in 1937)
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| 1922 | BBC began radio broadcasting
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| 1924 | Ramsay MacDonald became first Labour Prime Minister
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| 1926 | General Strike
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| 1928 |
Talkies introduced (films with sound)
Women granted same voting rights as men
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| 1929 | Wall Street Crash
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| 1933 | Hitler came to power in Germany
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| 1936 |
King George V died, succeeded by King Edward VIII
King Edward VIII abdicated, succeeded by King George VI
BBC began tv broadcasting
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| 1938 | Munich crisis
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| 1939 |
First jet aircraft flown (in Germany)
Second World War started
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| 1942 | Oxfam founded
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| 1945 |
First atomic bomb exploded
Second World War ended
Labour Party landslide win in General Election
United Nations replaced League of Nations
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| 1946 | Coal mines nationalised
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| 1947 | India and Pakistan became independent
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| 1948 |
West Indian immigrants arrived in UK on MS Windrush
National Health Service established
Railways nationalised
George Orwell published 1984
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| 1951 |
Festival of Britain
King George VI died, succeeded by Queen Elizabeth II
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| 1952 | Hillary and Tensing made first ascent of Everest
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| 1953 | Stalin died
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| 1954 | Transistor radio introduced
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| 1955 | Independent Television Authority began broadcasts
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| 1956 |
Suez crisis
First British nuclear power station opened
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| 1957 |
European Economic Community (EEC) founded
Sputnik launched (first satellite)
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| 1960 | Nigeria became independent
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| 1961 | Berlin Wall built
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| 1962 |
Cuban missile crisis
Satellite transmission of tv and telephone
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| 1963 |
John F Kennedy assassinated
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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| 1966 | England won World Cup (soccer)
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| 1967 |
Conversion of homes to natural gas
First heart transplant (in South Africa)
BBC started colour tv broadcasting
BBC started local radio stations
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| 1968 | Martin Luther King Jnr assassinated
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| 1969 |
Apollo 11 - first Moon landing
Origins of the Internet
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| 1971 | Pound decimalised
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| 1973 | UK joined European Economic Community (EEC)
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| 1977 | Elvis Presley died
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| 1978 | First test-tube baby born
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| 1979 | Conservative Party won General Election
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| 1982 | Falklands War
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| 1983 |
Conservatives won General Election
IBM PC launched
Mobiles phones launched in London
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| 1984 | British Telecom privatised
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| 1986 | British Gas privatised
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| 1987 | Conservatives won General Election
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| 1989 |
Berlin Wall demolished
Tiananmen Square demonstration
Water companies privatised (England and Wales)
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| 1990 |
Germany reunified
John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister
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| 1990-91 |
British electricity companies privatised (non-nuclear)
Gulf War
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| 1992 | Conservatives won General Election
Tim Berners-Lee invented WWW
Rio Earth Summit
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| 1994 | Coal mines privatised
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| 1995-97 | Railways privatised
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| 1996 | Nuclear electricity generation privatised
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| 1997 |
Labour Party landslide victory in General Election
Kyoto Climate Change Summit
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| 1998 |
Digital television launched in the UK
Hottest year of the Millennium
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| 1999 | Euro launched
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| 2000 | Millennium Celebrations of the birth of Jesus Christ
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| 2001 |
Labour Party won the General Election
World Trade Centre destruction (9 September)
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| 2002 |
World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg
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| 2003 |
Iraq War
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| 2004 |
South East Asia Tsunami (26 December)
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| 2005 |
Make Poverty History Campaign launched
Labour Party won the General Election
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans
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