Timeline

timeline montage When you are researching your ancestors it is often interesting to place events in their lives in context with what was happening around them. The following list is our personal choice of memorable events between 1900 and 1918.

  • 1900 Boxer Uprising in China
  • 1901 Establishment of Commonwealth of Australia
  • 1902 First celebration of Empire Day in England
  • 1903 First ever aeroplane flight by Wright Brothers
  • 1904 Britain and France sign the Entente Cordiale
  • 1905 Workers’ Revolt in Russia crushed
  • 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
  • 1907 Lusitania sets Atlantic crossing record
  • 1908 Introduction of the Model T Ford
  • 1909 North Pole Reached
  • 1910 Coronation of George V
  • 1911 South Pole Reached
  • 1912 Royal Flying Corps formed in England
  • 1913 Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated in Sarajevo
  • 1914 Start of WW1 (-1918)
  • 1915 First Feature Film – ‘The Birth of a Nation’ produced by D.W. Griffith
  • 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin leads to Irish Independence
  • 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
  • 1918 Women over 30 get the vote in UK

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