Updated 25 Oct 2008

Felling a large dead oak

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Oak rings

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1877-1898 |

1890-1930 |

1919-1971 |

1965-2008


               CHRONOLOGY

1850 This TREE was PLANTED

1851 The GREAT EXHIBITION

1852 First public toilet for women

1853 First potato crisps

1854 First gas lighting

1855 "Daily Telegraph" starts

1856 Victoria Cross started

1857 Sheffield first soccer club

1858 "Wedding March" first played

1859 Big Ben first rings

1860 Abraham Lincoln US president

1861 American Civil War starts

1862 Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"

1863 Football Association formed

1864 First Fish and Chip shop

1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated

1866 Great Tea Race won by "Taiping"

1867 Suez Canal opens

1868 Last public hanging in UK

1869 First person killed by a car

1870 Wagner's "Valkeries" first played

1871 "Dr Livingstone, I presume" first spoken  

1872 "Mary Celeste" found without crew

1873 First typewriter made

1874 First electric light bulb made

1875 Captain Webb swims the channel

1876 Telephone patented

1877 Gramophone invented

1878 First floodlit football match