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150 Years
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1971–8 H. Christie ( 9 )
1973 Britain joins the European Economic Community
1971–8
1977 CommodorePET,firstsuccessfullymass-marketedPC,introduced
1978–88 Phillips ( 10 )
1978/9 Winter of Discontent
1978–88
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
1978–88
1981 Brixton Riots
1978–88
1982 Falklands War
1988–2004 D. Christie ( 11 ) 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invents the WorldWide Web
1988–2004
1992 Channel Tunnel opens, linking England and France
1988–2004
1994 First women priests are ordained by the Church of England
1988–2004
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in Paris
1988–2004
2001 9/11 in New York
1988–2004
2003 Invasion of Iraq
2004–11 Trotman ( 12 )
2004 Facebook is launched
2004–11
2009 Barack Obama becomes 44th President of USA
2011–
Jones (13)
2012 Olympic Games at Stratford in London
1877–93 Simeon ( 1 )
1880 Education becomes compulsory for children under
the age of ten
1877–93
1881 First home in England uses electric light
1877–93
1886 Benz granted patent for his first automobile
1877–93
1887 Hertz invents radar
1893–6
Hobson ( 2 )
1894 Death Duties introduced
1896–1904 Hudson ( 3 )
1897 Marconi wins patent for radio communication
1896–1904
1901 Queen Victoria dies
1896–1904
1901 Birth of Labour Party
1896–1904
1904
Entente Cordiale
signed between England and France
1904–13
Sing ( 4 )
1908 Old Age Pension introduced
1904–13
1908 Olympic Games at the White City in London
1904–13
1912 Titanic sinks
1904–13
1912 Royal Flying Corps is established
1913–25 Ferguson ( 5 )
1914 Outbreak of WWI
1913–25
1918 Limited numbers of women given the vote for the first time
1913–25
1919 Lady Astor becomes first female MP
1913–25
1920–1 Oxford and Cambridge grant full status to
women undergraduates
1925–54 Kendall ( 6 )
1926 First public demonstration of television
1925–54
1927 BBC is created
1925–54
1928 First ‘talkie’ film shown in UK
1925–54
1929 Wall Street crash
1925–54
1935 First Penguin paperbacks go on sale
1925–54
1936 Jarrow March
1925–54
1939 Outbreak of WWII
1925–54
1945 Two atomic bombs dropped
1925–54
1945 UN comes into existence
1925–54
1948 National Health Service established. Olympic Games
at Wembley
1925–54
1951 Festival of Britain
1925–54
1952 Queen Elizabeth II succeeds her father, George VI
1925–54
1953 DNA structure discovered
1954–66
Fisher ( 7 )
1956 John Osborne play
Look Back in Anger
first staged
1954–66
1960 The Pill first used widely in the US
1954–66
1966 England win the football World Cup
1966–71 Bradley ( 8 )
1966 The Beatles release
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
1966–71
1967 Abortion and homosexuality are legalised
1966–71
1969 Man lands on the moon
1966–71
1971 Decimalised curency takes over from £sd
YEARS
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YEARS
WARDEN DATE HISTORICAL EVENT
Left: Stained glass from the
Warden’s House.
Below: View of the School before
Oakthorpe Road was built.
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