A Blackett Timeline..
Note: The compilers have done their best to position the Blackett references on the timeline to correspond to the era concerned, however exact correlation has not been possible.
Blakheved/Blackett History Timeline (1300 - 1800)
1300 | 1300 - Dante’s Divine Comedy written about this time 1314 - Battle Of Bannockburn - Robert the Bruce defeats Edward II and makes Scotland independent 1314 - The old St. Paul's Cathedral built | |
| Richard Blachved of Woodcroft ( - 1349) | 1325 | 1327 - Edward II abdicates and is imprisoned in a well by his wife and her lover 1329 - Robert the Bruce dies 1330 - Edward, The Black Prince is born 1337 - The Hundred Years' War begins 1340 - 1343 - Geoffrey Chaucer born 1349 - 1351 - The Black Death kills about 2 million people in Britain |
| Richard Blakheved of Woodcroft (1328 - 1368) | 1350 | 1356 - Battle of Poitiers, where the Black Prince captures the French King, 'John the Good' 1362 - A poll tax is levied for the first time (to fund the war with France) 1362 – First version of Piers Plowman, the first major literary work written in English |
1375 | 1377 - Richard II, the 10 year old son of the Black Prince becomes king 1382 - First translation of Bible into English 1386 - Chaucer begins ‘Canterbury Tales’ 1397 - Dick Whittington becomes Lord Mayor of London 1399 - Henry IV becomes king | |
| John Blakheved of Woodcroft (1360 - 1418) | 1400 | 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer dies 1400 - Average life expectancy in England 38 years 1415 - Henry V leads the English at the battle of Agincourt in France 1417 - End of the great Schism 1422 - Henry VI becomes king (aged 9 months) |
| John Blakheved of Woodcroft (1394 - 1463) | 1425 | 1431 - Joan of Arc burnt at the stake in Rouen 1431 - Henry VI crowned King of France 1437 - Assassination of James I of Scotland 1440 - Gutenberg prints from the first movable type |
1450 | 1453 - The fall of Constantinople to Sultan Mehmet II 1455 - The Wars Of The Roses begin in England 1461 - The Battle Of Towton fought near Leeds. The bloodiest battle fought on British soil. 24,000 die. 1465 - Music is printed for the first time | |
| Thomas Blakehed of Woodcoft (1440 - 1494) | 1475 | 1477 - Caxton prints the Canterbury Tales 1480 - The Spanish Inquisition begins 1483 - Edward V becomes King aged 12 1485 - The Battle Of Bosworth Field takes place where Richard III is slain 1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail across the Atlantic for the Americas 1494 - Whisky distilled in Scotland for the first time |
| Alexander Blakheved of Woodcoft (1468 - 1521) | 1500 | 1503 - Leonardo Da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa 1509 – Michael Angelo paints the Sistine Chapel 1509 - Henry VIII becomes King Of England aged 18 1519 - Magellan sets sail around the world and proves that it is round |
| Nicholas Blackett of Woodcroft (1500 - ) | 1525 | 1530 - The Reformation 1533 - The first lunatic asylums established in England 1539 - The suppression of monasteries in England 1546 - The death of Martin Luther 1547 - Ivan The Terrible crowned Tsar of Russia 1547 - Henry VIII dies aged 57 |
| Richard Blackett of Shipley and Hole House ( - 1597) | 1550 | 1550 - Michel Nostradamus publishes his prophecies 1558 - Mary Tudor dies aged 42 1558 - Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England |
| George Blackett of East Shipley (1565 - 1628) | 1575 | 1587 - Mary Queen of Scots beheaded 1588 - The Spanish Armada sets off to invade England 1596 - Galileo invents the thermometer |
1600 | 1603 - Queen Elizabeth I dies. James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England 1605 – Guy Fawkes and others attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament 1618 - Sir Walter Raleigh executed 1620 - Voyage of the Mayflower from Plymouth, England to the New World (the Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, USA) begins | |
| John Blackett of Hill House (1599-1664) | 1625 | 1625 - Accession of Charles I 1642 - The English Civil War begins 1642 - Income and property tax introduced to England 1649 - British monarchy abolished |
1650 | 1653 - Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector
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| John Blackett (1639 - ) | 1675 | 1680 - The last dodo dies 1685 - Charles II dies and James II accedes 1694 - The Bank Of England established |
| John Blackett of Kayslea (1658 - ) | 1700 | 1707 - The Act of Union (England and Scotland) passed creating “Great Britain” for the first time 1709 - Cristofori invents the piano 1712 - Last trial for witchcraft in England (Jane Wrenham) 1714 - The first Hanoverian monarch of England, George I is crowned 1721 - Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British Prime Minister |
| Elizabeth Blackett of Kayslea (1685-) | 1725 | 1727 - King George I dies 1731 - Invention of the seed drill by Jethro Tull 1731 - 10 Downing Street built for the British Prime Minister 1739 - Dick Turpin hanged at York 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie (the New Pretender) defeats the English at Prestonpans |
| Cuthbert Blackett of West Pitts, Hamsterley (1703-1778) | 1750 | 1752 - The Gregorian calendar adopted 1755 - Canal building begins in Britain 1756 - 123 British soldiers die in the 20ft square Black Hole of Calcutta 1770 - Captain James Cook discovers Australia |
| Cuthbert Blackett of Southside (1745 - 1809) | 1775 | 1776 - American Declaration Of Independence 1779 - First spinning mills operational in Scotland 1783 - The Montgolifier Brothers' first balloon flight 1789 - The Times newspaper printed for the first time in England 1789 - The French Revolution begins |
1800 | 1805 - Nelson dies at the Battle of Trafalgar 1807 - The slave trade is abolished throughout the British Colonies 1815 - The Battle of Waterloo takes place 1815 - The first decent roads built in Britain as toll and turnpike roads |
Blakheved/Blackett History Timeline (1825 - 2000)
| Cuthbert (1778 - 1861) | Cuthbert (1778 - 1861) | Joseph (1780-1869) | Joseph (1780-1869) | 1825 | 1825 - The Stockton and Darlington railway opens heralding the beginning of the Railway Age 1834 - The Poor Law Amendment Act passed leading to the creation of the infamous pauper workhouses 1837 - Charles Darwin writes ’The Origin Of Species’ 1837 - Queen Victoria is crowned Queen 1842 - The Chartist Movement begins |
| Joseph (1806-1870) | Joseph (1806-1870) | Robert (1818-1903) | Ralph (1812-1889) | 1850 | 1851 - Prince Albert organises ‘the Great Exhibition’ in Hyde Park, London 1853 - 1856 - Dr Livingstone crosses Africa 1861-The American Civil War begins 1868 - William Mildin, 14th Earl Of Sheatham, who was shipwrecked at the age of 11 on the west African Coast, becomes inspiration for Edgar Rice Burroughs' ‘Tarzan Of The Apes’ |
| Joseph (1844-1934) | Joseph (1844-1934) | Ralph (1842-1905) | Albert (1859-1936) | 1875 | 1876 - Alexander Bell invents the telephone 1888 - Jack the Ripper roams the streets of London 1895 - The first movie is shown in Paris, France |
| Thomas Winship (1874-1947) | Joseph (1866-1940) | Robert William (1865-1952) | Albert (1887-1958)
| 1900 | 1901 - Queen Victoria dies 1903 - The first aeroplane flight by the Wright brothers 1909 - Bleriot flies across the English Channel 1912 - The Titanic sinks 1914 - The Great War starts |
| Richard (1907-1965) | Margaret (1908-1992) | Julia (1897-1998) | Irene Evelyn (1932-) | 1925 | 1925 - Baird invents the television 1929 - The Wall Street crash leads to worldwide recession
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| Eric (1934- 1980) | Pat Longbottom (-) | Allan Kirtley (1942-) | John Burnell (1959-2007) | 1950 | 1950 - British troops support US forces in Korea 1951 - The Festival of Britain is opened by George VI 1952 - Queen Elizabeth II accedes to the throne 1965 - Death penalty in UK abolished 1965 - Winston Churchill dies 1966 - England wins the World Cup 1967 - The Beatles release ‘Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band’ |
| Martin Blackett (1964- ) | 1975 | 1978 - First test tube baby born in Oldham, England 1979 - Margaret Thatcher becomes first British woman Prime Minister 1989 - Tim Berners-Lee invents the worldwide web 1989 - The Berlin Wall falls as communist regimes collapse worldwide 1994 - First women priests ordained into the Church Of England |
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