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Priscilla Barker1856–?

Name
Priscilla Barker
Married Name
Priscilla Ledger
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Birth 1856
 Shadwell, Middlesex, England

History 1857 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: The Mutiny (India).
History 1858 (Age 2)
 

Note: First Atlantic cable laid.
History 1861 (Age 5)
 

Note: Albert dies, Victoria retires into mourning.<br />American Civil War.
History 1862 (Age 6)
 

Note: Bismarck becomes Prussian premier.
History 1864 (Age 8)
 

Note: Geneva Convention establishes Red Cross.
History 1867 (Age 11)
 

Note: Telegraph cable laid under the Atlantic.<br />Second Reform Bill: enfranchises many workingmen, adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales. (Disraeli's legislation)
History 1869 (Age 13)
 

Note: Suez Canal opened.
History 1869 (Age 13)
 

Note: Union Pacific Railway completed in U.S.
History 1870 (Age 14)
 

Note: Forster's Elementary Education Act establishes School Boards.<br />Franco-Prussian War.
History 1871 (Age 15)
 

Note: Trade unions legalised.<br />Newcastle engineers strike for a nine-hour day.<br />Germany unified.
History 1876 (Age 20)
 

Note: Victoria named Empress of India.<br />Edison invents the phonograph.<br />Compulsory school attendance in Great Britain.
History 1877 (Age 21)
 

Note: Transvaal annexed.
MarriageWalter William Ledger - View family
1878 (Age 22)
 West Hammersmith, Middlesex, England

History 1879 (Age 23)
 

Note: Zulu war.
History 1880 (Age 24)
 

Note: War with Transvaal.
History 1882 (Age 26)
 

Note: Married Women's Property Act enables women to buy, own, and sell property, and to keep their own earnings.
History 1883 (Age 27)
 

Note: Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan.
History 1884 (Age 28)
 

Note: Third Reform Act and Redistribution Act extend vote to agricultural workers, electorate tripled.
History 1885 (Age 29)
 

Note: Fall of Khartoum.
History 1886 (Age 30)
 

Note: First (Irish) Home Rule bill rejected.
History 1887 (Age 31)
 

Note: Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
History 1889 (Age 33)
 

Note: London dock workers and match girls strike for 6d./hour.
History 1897 (Age 41)
 

Note: Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
History 1898 (Age 42)
 

Note: Spanish-American War.
History 1899 (Age 43)
 

Note: Boer war.
History 1901 (Age 45)
 

Note: Victoria dies, Edward Prince of Wales succeeds.
History 1903 (Age 47)
 

Note: U.S. acquires Canal Zone from Panama.
History 1904 (Age 48)
 

Note: Entente Cordiale (England and France).
History 1905 (Age 49)
 

Note: Revolution in Russia.
History 1914 (Age 58)
 

Note: The Great War (World War I).
History 1916 (Age 60)
 

Note: Easter Rising in Dublin.
History 1917 (Age 61)
 

Note: Russian Revolution.
History 1918 (Age 62)
 

Note: All men over 21 and women over thirty enfranchised.
History 1922 (Age 66)
 

Note: Irish Free State established.
History 1928 (Age 72)
 

Note: Equal Franchise Act grants right to vote to women over 21 (as well as men).
History 1936 (Age 80)
 

Note: Spanish Civil War.
History 7 July 1937 (Age 81)
 

Note: The Japanese invasion of China (the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War).
History 1938 (Age 82)
 

Note: Chamberlain cedes Czech territory to Hitler at Munich.
History 1 September 1939 (Age 83)
 

Note: The German invasion of Poland.
History 3 September 1939 (Age 83)
 

Note: France and Britain declared war on Germany .
History 10 June 1940 (Age 84)
 

Note: Italy declares war on Britain and France.
History 22 June 1941 (Age 85)
 

Note: German attack on the USSR.
History 7 December 1941 (Age 85)
 

Note: Japan attacks America without any declaration of war (Pearl Harbour).
History 8 December 1941 (Age 85)
 

Note: America declares war on Japan.
History 11 December 1941 (Age 85)
 

Note: Germany and Italy declare war on America.
History 8 September 1943 (Age 87)
 

Note: Italy surrenders.
History 13 October 1943 (Age 87)
 

Note: Italy declares war on Germany.
History 19 April 1945 (Age 89)
 

Note: German forces in Italy surrender.
History 8 May 1945 (Age 89)
 

Note: Germany surrenders (VE Day, Victory in Europe Day).
History 2 September 1945 (Age 89)
 

Note: Japan surrenders (VJ Day, Victory over Japan Day).
DeathYes
 

Family with Walter William Ledger - View family
husband
Walter William Ledger

Birth 1857 28 31  Ulcombe, Kent, England

Death Yes  

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herself
Priscilla Barker

Birth 1856  Shadwell, Middlesex, England

Death Yes  

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Marriage: 1878 — West Hammersmith, Middlesex, England
 

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