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Stephen Clayton Faulkner

Male 1868 - 1890  (22 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1868 
  • 1868: Last convicts landed in Australia (Western Australia)
1869 
  • 1869: Ball bearings, celluloid, margarine, and washing machines, all invented
  • 23 Nov 1869: Cutty Sark launched in Dumbarton
1870 
  • 1870: GPO takes over the privately-owned Telegraph Companies (nationalised)
  • 1870: Dr Thomas Barnardo opens his first home for destitute children
  • 1870: Water closets come into wide use
  • 1870: Diamonds discovered in Kimberley, South Africa
  • 1 Oct 1870: First British postcard – halfpenny post
1871 
  • 27 Mar 1871: First Rugby Football international, England v Scotland, played in Edinburgh
  • 29 Mar 1871: Opening of Royal Albert Hall, London
  • 29 Jun 1871: Trades Unions legalised in Britain, but picketing made illegal
1872 
  • 1872: Licensing hours introduced
  • 1872: Penalties introduced for failing to register births, marriages & deaths (Eng & Wales)
  • 4 Dec 1872: American ship "Mary Celeste" is found abandoned by the British brig "Dei Gratia" in the Atlantic Ocean
1874 
  • 1874: Factory Act introduces 56-hour week
  • 5 Apr 1874: Birkenhead Park opened, said to be the first civic public park in the world – features of it later copied in Central Park, New York
1875 
  • 1875: London's main sewage system completed
  • 1 Jan 1875: Midland Railway abolishes Second Class passenger facilities, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies followed during the rest of the year. (Third Class was renamed Second Class in 1956)
1876 
  • 14 Feb 1876: Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray each file a patent for the telephone – Bell awarded the rights
1877 
  • 1877: Edison invents microphone and phonograph
10 1878 
  • 1878: Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
  • 1878: Red Flag Act in Britain limits mechanical road vehicles to 4mph
  • 1878: CID established at New Scotland Yard
11 1879 
  • 18 Sep 1879: Blackpool illuminations switched on for first time
12 1880 
  • 1880: Education Act: schooling compulsory for 5-10 year olds
  • 1880: Mosquito found to be the carrier of malaria
  • 2 Aug 1880: Greenwich Mean Time adopted throughout UK
13 1881 
  • 1881: Postal Orders introduced
  • 1881: Flogging abolished in Army and Royal Navy
  • Sep 1881: Godalming in Surrey became the first town in England to have a public electricity supply installed (but in 1884 it reverted to gas lighting until 1904)
  • 26 Oct 1881: Gunfight at OK Corral
14 1882 
  • 1882: Fourth Eddystone Lighthouse completed
15 1883 
  • 1883: Statue of Liberty presented to USA by France
  • 24 May 1883: Brooklyn Bridge, New York opens (crosses East River)
  • 1 Aug 1883: Parcel post starts in Britain
  • 27 Aug 1883: Eruption of Krakatoa near Java – 30,000 killed by tidal wave
16 1884 
  • 31 May 1884: John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
  • 13 Oct 1884: Greenwich made prime meridian of the world
17 1885 
  • 1885: Carl Benz builds the 'Motorwagen', a single-cylinder motor car
  • 1885: Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
  • 1885: Eastman makes first coated photographic paper
  • 1885: Canadian Pacific Railway completed
  • Mar 1885: First UK cremation in modern times took place at Woking
  • 5 Sep 1885: The first train runs through the Severn Tunnel
  • 29 Sep 1885: First electric tramcar used at Blackpool
18 1886 
  • 20 Jan 1886: Mersey railway (under Mersey) opened by Prince of Wales
  • May 1886: Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage later named "Coca-Cola"
  • 29 May 1886: Putney Bridge opens in London
19 1887 
  • 1887: Daimler produces a four-wheeled motor car
20 1888 
  • 1888: Convention of Constantinople guarantees free maritime passage through Suez Canal in war and peace
  • 1888: Jack the Ripper active in east London during the latter half of the year
  • 1888: County Councils set up in Britain
  • 1888: Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre
  • 1888: First box camera – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film
  • 20 Mar 1888: Football League formed
21 1889 
  • 1889: Celluloid film produced
  • 1889: Dock Strike – docker's won their "Docker's Tanner", 6 old pennies
  • 31 Mar 1889: Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
  • 14 May 1889: Children's charity NSPCC launched in London
  • 3 Jun 1889: Canadian Pacific Railway completed from coast to coast
  • 28 Sep 1889: Length of a metre defined
22 1890 
  • 4 Mar 1890: Forth railway bridge opens – took six years to build
  • 4 Nov 1890: City & South London Railway opens – London's first deep-level tube railway and first major railway in the world to use electric traction