Timeline: Frederick Wheeler: Dutton, Berrett & Hungerford Twigs

	Date	Event(s)
1	1837	20 Jun 1837—22 Jan 1901: Queen Victoria Queen Victoria was born in 1819 and died in 1901. She reigned as sovereign for 64 years from 1837 to 1901.
2	1871	2 Apr 1871: 1871 Census The 1871 census was taken.
3	1876	1876: Telephone The Scottish-born American scientist Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
4	1881	3 Apr 1881: 1881 Census The 1881 census was taken.
5	1884	1884: GMT Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the world’s time standard, is internationally adopted at the International Meridian Conference.
6	1891	5 Apr 1891: 1891 Census The 1891 census was taken.
7	1899	11 Oct 1899—31 May 1902: Boer War The Boer War was fought by Britain and her Empire against the descendants of the Dutch settlers (Boers) in the Transvaal region of South Africa. The war highlighted the limitations of 19th century military methods, employing for the first time modern automatic weapons and high explosives to decimate the enemy.
8	1901	22 Jan 1901—6 May 1910: King Edward VII King Edward VII was born in 1841 and died in 1910. He reigned as sovereign for nine years from 1901 to 1910. 31 Mar 1901: 1901 Census The 1901 census was taken.
9	1910	6 May 1910—20 Jan 1936: King George V King George V was born in 1865 and died in 1936. He reigned as sovereign for 26 years from 1910 to 1936.
10	1911	2 Apr 1911: 1911 Census The 1911 census was recorded.
11	1912	1912: Titanic Just 4 days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 people lose their lives in the sinking ship or freeze to death in the icy Atlantic waters.
12	1914	28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: WW1 World War 1, the ‘War to End All Wars’. By the time the Great War ended in 1918, sixteen million people had died. In Britain, barely a family was left untouched by this cataclysmic conflict.
13	1916	9 Jun 1916—10 Nov 1916: Battle of the Somme The 1916 Somme offensive was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the First World War (1914-18). The opening day of the attack, 1 July 1916, saw the British Army sustain 57,000 casualties, the bloodiest day in its history. The campaign finally ended in mid-November after an agonising five-month struggle that failed to secure a breakthrough. Over 150,000 British soldiers are buried on the Somme.
14	1918	1918: Education Act The Fisher Education Act made education compulsory up until 14 years old. Feb 1918—Apr 1920: Spanish Flu The 1918 influenza pandemic (often called the Spanish flu) killed an estimated 50 to 100 million people worldwide, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in recorded history. This devastated global populations, with an estimated one-third of the world's population becoming infected. 6 Feb 1918: Votes for Women Women won the right to vote as a result of the Representation of the People Act 1918. 11 Nov 1918: Armistice Day The armistice was signed at 5:45am in France between the Allies of World War 1 and Germany for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of WW1.
15	1919	1919—1921: Irish War of Independence The Irish War of Independence, also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921. It followed the Easter Rising of April 1916.
16	1921	1921: Irish Free State Irish Partition: formation of the Irish Free State 19 Jun 1921: 1921 Census The 1921 census was taken.
17	1928	1928: Penicillin Penicillin was discovered.
18	1936	11 Dec 1936—6 Feb 1952: King George VI King George VI was born in 1895 and died in 1952. He reigned as sovereign for 16 years from 1936 to 1952.
19	1939	1 Sep 1939—2 Sep 1945: WW2 WW2 - a truly world war, it was fought throughout Europe, Russia, North Africa, and across the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards. It is estimated that some 55 million lives were lost in total. 29 Sep 1939: 1939 Register The 1939 Register was used to produce identity cards and, once rationing was introduced in January 1940, to issue ration books. Those recorded as engaged in 'heavy work' received additional rations.
20	1940	7 Sep 1940—11 May 1941: London Blitz The London Blitz was a sustained eight-month German bombing campaign against the UK during WW2. Running from September 1940 to May 1941, the relentless aerial raids killed roughly 20,000 to 43,000 civilians in the capital, destroyed two million homes, and fundamentally reshaped the city’s urban landscape.
21	1944	6 Jun 1944: D-Day The Normandy Landings. Codenamed 'Operation Neptune', D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France and the rest of Western Europe.
22	1945	8 May 1945: VE Day VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) marked the formal unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies on May 8, 1945, officially ending World War II in Europe. 15 Aug 1945: VJ Day VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day) marks the anniversary of August 15th 1945, when Japan announced its surrender, bringing an end to the Second World War. In the UK, it is observed annually on August 15 to honor the British, Commonwealth, and Allied troops who fought in the Asia-Pacific.
23	1948	5 Jul 1948: NHS The NHS was created in the UK providing free healthcare for all at the point of use.
24	1949	1949: Clothes & sweet rationing ended Clothes and sweets were removed from ration books in the UK.
25	1951	1951: Festival of Britain A national exhibition and fair held throughout the UK. The intention was to give the British public a sense of recovery and progress after the devastation of WW2 and to promote British science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts.
26	1952	1952: Tea rationing ended Tea rationing ended in the UK.
27	1953	1953: Sugar & chocolate rationing ended Sugar and chocolate sweets were completely derationed in the UK. 2 Jun 1953: Queen Elizabeth II The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
28	1954	4 Jul 1954: Rationing ended In 1954 meat, bacon, and all remaining food restrictions officially ended on July 4
29	1960	31 Dec 1960: Conscription ends The last call-ups for peacetime National Service ended in December 1960 with the last conscripted men discharged from the Armed Forces in May 1963.
30	1962	Dec 1962—Mar 1963: Great Freeze It began to snow on Boxing Day in December 1962 and didn't stop until the end of March 1963. The country froze.
31	1968	1968—1968: Measles vaccine The measles vaccine was introduced in the UK in 1968. Twenty years later, in October 1988, it was replaced by the combined Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine.
32	1970	1970: Age of Majority Age of majority, including the voting age, is reduced from 21 to 18. The term refers to when, in the eyes of the law, children assume the status of adulthood.
33	1973	1973: EEC Britain joined the European Economic Community (EEC).
34	1982	1982: Falklands War Argentina forces invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands, a mere 8,000 miles away in the South Atlantic. A task force was quickly mobilised to reclaim the islands and in the bitter ten week war that followed, 655 Argentine and 255 British servicemen lost their lives.
35	1989	1989: Berlin Wall Berlin Wall comes down; collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.

Date

Event(s)

1837

20 Jun 1837—22 Jan 1901: Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria was born in 1819 and died in 1901. She reigned as sovereign for 64 years from 1837 to 1901.

1871

2 Apr 1871: 1871 Census
The 1871 census was taken.

1876

1876: Telephone
The Scottish-born American scientist Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

1881

3 Apr 1881: 1881 Census
The 1881 census was taken.

1884

1884: GMT
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the world’s time standard, is internationally adopted at the International Meridian Conference.

1891

5 Apr 1891: 1891 Census
The 1891 census was taken.

1899

11 Oct 1899—31 May 1902: Boer War
The Boer War was fought by Britain and her Empire against the descendants of the Dutch settlers (Boers) in the Transvaal region of South Africa. The war highlighted the limitations of 19th century military methods, employing for the first time modern automatic weapons and high explosives to decimate the enemy.

1901

22 Jan 1901—6 May 1910: King Edward VII
King Edward VII was born in 1841 and died in 1910. He reigned as sovereign for nine years from 1901 to 1910.
31 Mar 1901: 1901 Census
The 1901 census was taken.

1910

6 May 1910—20 Jan 1936: King George V
King George V was born in 1865 and died in 1936. He reigned as sovereign for 26 years from 1910 to 1936.

1911

2 Apr 1911: 1911 Census
The 1911 census was recorded.

1912

1912: Titanic
Just 4 days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 people lose their lives in the sinking ship or freeze to death in the icy Atlantic waters.

1914

28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: WW1
World War 1, the ‘War to End All Wars’. By the time the Great War ended in 1918, sixteen million people had died. In Britain, barely a family was left untouched by this cataclysmic conflict.

1916

9 Jun 1916—10 Nov 1916: Battle of the Somme
The 1916 Somme offensive was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the First World War (1914-18). The opening day of the attack, 1 July 1916, saw the British Army sustain 57,000 casualties, the bloodiest day in its history. The campaign finally ended in mid-November after an agonising five-month struggle that failed to secure a breakthrough. Over 150,000 British soldiers are buried on the Somme.

1918

1918: Education Act
The Fisher Education Act made education compulsory up until 14 years old.
Feb 1918—Apr 1920: Spanish Flu
The 1918 influenza pandemic (often called the Spanish flu) killed an estimated 50 to 100 million people worldwide, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in recorded history. This devastated global populations, with an estimated one-third of the world's population becoming infected.
6 Feb 1918: Votes for Women
Women won the right to vote as a result of the Representation of the People Act 1918.
11 Nov 1918: Armistice Day
The armistice was signed at 5:45am in France between the Allies of World War 1 and Germany for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of WW1.

1919

1919—1921: Irish War of Independence
The Irish War of Independence, also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921. It followed the Easter Rising of April 1916.

1921

1921: Irish Free State
Irish Partition: formation of the Irish Free State
19 Jun 1921: 1921 Census
The 1921 census was taken.

1928

1928: Penicillin
Penicillin was discovered.

1936

11 Dec 1936—6 Feb 1952: King George VI
King George VI was born in 1895 and died in 1952. He reigned as sovereign for 16 years from 1936 to 1952.

1939

1 Sep 1939—2 Sep 1945: WW2
WW2 - a truly world war, it was fought throughout Europe, Russia, North Africa, and across the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards. It is estimated that some 55 million lives were lost in total.
29 Sep 1939: 1939 Register
The 1939 Register was used to produce identity cards and, once rationing was introduced in January 1940, to issue ration books. Those recorded as engaged in 'heavy work' received additional rations.

1940

7 Sep 1940—11 May 1941: London Blitz
The London Blitz was a sustained eight-month German bombing campaign against the UK during WW2. Running from September 1940 to May 1941, the relentless aerial raids killed roughly 20,000 to 43,000 civilians in the capital, destroyed two million homes, and fundamentally reshaped the city’s urban landscape.

1944

6 Jun 1944: D-Day
The Normandy Landings. Codenamed 'Operation Neptune', D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France and the rest of Western Europe.

1945

8 May 1945: VE Day
VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) marked the formal unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies on May 8, 1945, officially ending World War II in Europe.
15 Aug 1945: VJ Day
VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day) marks the anniversary of August 15th 1945, when Japan announced its surrender, bringing an end to the Second World War. In the UK, it is observed annually on August 15 to honor the British, Commonwealth, and Allied troops who fought in the Asia-Pacific.

1948

5 Jul 1948: NHS
The NHS was created in the UK providing free healthcare for all at the point of use.

1949

1949: Clothes & sweet rationing ended
Clothes and sweets were removed from ration books in the UK.

1951

1951: Festival of Britain
A national exhibition and fair held throughout the UK. The intention was to give the British public a sense of recovery and progress after the devastation of WW2 and to promote British science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts.

1952

1952: Tea rationing ended
Tea rationing ended in the UK.

1953

1953: Sugar & chocolate rationing ended
Sugar and chocolate sweets were completely derationed in the UK.
2 Jun 1953: Queen Elizabeth II
The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

1954

4 Jul 1954: Rationing ended
In 1954 meat, bacon, and all remaining food restrictions officially ended on July 4

1960

31 Dec 1960: Conscription ends
The last call-ups for peacetime National Service ended in December 1960 with the last conscripted men discharged from the Armed Forces in May 1963.

1962

Dec 1962—Mar 1963: Great Freeze
It began to snow on Boxing Day in December 1962 and didn't stop until the end of March 1963. The country froze.

1968

1968—1968: Measles vaccine
The measles vaccine was introduced in the UK in 1968. Twenty years later, in October 1988, it was replaced by the combined Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine.

1970

1970: Age of Majority
Age of majority, including the voting age, is reduced from 21 to 18. The term refers to when, in the eyes of the law, children assume the status of adulthood.

1973

1973: EEC
Britain joined the European Economic Community (EEC).

1982

1982: Falklands War
Argentina forces invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands, a mere 8,000 miles away in the South Atlantic. A task force was quickly mobilised to reclaim the islands and in the bitter ten week war that followed, 655 Argentine and 255 British servicemen lost their lives.

1989

1989: Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall comes down; collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.

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