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Sophia Waterhouse1828–?

Name
Sophia Waterhouse
Given names
Sophia
Surname
Waterhouse
Married Name
Sophia Waghorn
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Birth about 1828
 Goudhurst, Kent, England

History 1829 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police.
History 1830 (Age 2)
 

Note: George IV dies, his brother William IV succeeds.<br />Manchester - Liverpool Railway (first in England).
History 1832 (Age 4)
 

Note: First Reform Bill: adds 10 pound/year householders to the voting rolls and reapportions Parliamentary representation much more fairly, doing away with most rotten and pocket boroughs. Adds 217,000 voters to an electorate of 435,000.
History 1833 (Age 5)
 

Note: Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire.<br />Factory Act.
History 1834 (Age 6)
 

Note: New Poor Law.<br />Houses of Parliament burn down.
History 1837 (Age 9)
 

Note: William IV dies, succeeded by his niece, Victoria.
History 1838 (Age 10)
 

Note: Regular Atlantic steamship service begins.
History 1839 (Age 11)
 

Note: Anti-Corn-Law League founded.
History 1840 (Age 12)
 

Note: Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert, who becomes Prince Consort.<br />Penny post started.<br />S.F.B. Morse invents the telegraph.<br />Grammar Schools Act.
History 1842 (Age 14)
 

Note: Chartist Riots.<br />Copyright Act.<br />Potato Failure in Europe, starvation in Ireland. Corn Laws (which had kept up the price of grain) repealed.
MarriageJohn Waghorn - View family
5 July 1845 (Age 17)
 Kilndown, Kent, England

History 1849 (Age 21)
 

Note: Gold discovered in California and Australia.
History 1850 (Age 22)
 

Note: Telegraph cable laid under English Channel.
History 1851 (Age 23)
 

Note: Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace).
History 1853 (Age 25)
 

Note: Crimean War.
History 1855 (Age 27)
 

Note: Livingston discovers Victoria Falls.
History 1857 (Age 29)
 

Note: The Mutiny (India).
History 1858 (Age 30)
 

Note: First Atlantic cable laid.
History 1861 (Age 33)
 

Note: Albert dies, Victoria retires into mourning.<br />American Civil War.
History 1862 (Age 34)
 

Note: Bismarck becomes Prussian premier.
History 1864 (Age 36)
 

Note: Geneva Convention establishes Red Cross.
History 1867 (Age 39)
 

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 41)
 

Note: Suez Canal opened.
History 1869 (Age 41)
 

Note: Union Pacific Railway completed in U.S.
History 1870 (Age 42)
 

Note: Forster's Elementary Education Act establishes School Boards.<br />Franco-Prussian War.
History 1871 (Age 43)
 

Note: Trade unions legalised.<br />Newcastle engineers strike for a nine-hour day.<br />Germany unified.
History 1876 (Age 48)
 

Note: Victoria named Empress of India.<br />Edison invents the phonograph.<br />Compulsory school attendance in Great Britain.
History 1877 (Age 49)
 

Note: Transvaal annexed.
History 1879 (Age 51)
 

Note: Zulu war.
History 1880 (Age 52)
 

Note: War with Transvaal.
History 1882 (Age 54)
 

Note: Married Women's Property Act enables women to buy, own, and sell property, and to keep their own earnings.
History 1883 (Age 55)
 

Note: Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan.
History 1884 (Age 56)
 

Note: Third Reform Act and Redistribution Act extend vote to agricultural workers, electorate tripled.
History 1885 (Age 57)
 

Note: Fall of Khartoum.
History 1886 (Age 58)
 

Note: First (Irish) Home Rule bill rejected.
History 1887 (Age 59)
 

Note: Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
History 1889 (Age 61)
 

Note: London dock workers and match girls strike for 6d./hour.
History 1897 (Age 69)
 

Note: Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
History 1898 (Age 70)
 

Note: Spanish-American War.
History 1899 (Age 71)
 

Note: Boer war.
History 1901 (Age 73)
 

Note: Victoria dies, Edward Prince of Wales succeeds.
History 1903 (Age 75)
 

Note: U.S. acquires Canal Zone from Panama.
History 1904 (Age 76)
 

Note: Entente Cordiale (England and France).
History 1905 (Age 77)
 

Note: Revolution in Russia.
History 1914 (Age 86)
 

Note: The Great War (World War I).
History 1916 (Age 88)
 

Note: Easter Rising in Dublin.
History 1917 (Age 89)
 

Note: Russian Revolution.
History 1918 (Age 90)
 

Note: All men over 21 and women over thirty enfranchised.
History 1922 (Age 94)
 

Note: Irish Free State established.
History 1928 (Age 100)
 

Note: Equal Franchise Act grants right to vote to women over 21 (as well as men).
History 1936 (Age 108)
 

Note: Spanish Civil War.
History 7 July 1937 (Age 109)
 

Note: The Japanese invasion of China (the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War).
History 1938 (Age 110)
 

Note: Chamberlain cedes Czech territory to Hitler at Munich.
History 1 September 1939 (Age 111)
 

Note: The German invasion of Poland.
History 3 September 1939 (Age 111)
 

Note: France and Britain declared war on Germany .
History 10 June 1940 (Age 112)
 

Note: Italy declares war on Britain and France.
History 22 June 1941 (Age 113)
 

Note: German attack on the USSR.
History 7 December 1941 (Age 113)
 

Note: Japan attacks America without any declaration of war (Pearl Harbour).
History 8 December 1941 (Age 113)
 

Note: America declares war on Japan.
History 11 December 1941 (Age 113)
 

Note: Germany and Italy declare war on America.
History 8 September 1943 (Age 115)
 

Note: Italy surrenders.
History 13 October 1943 (Age 115)
 

Note: Italy declares war on Germany.
History 19 April 1945 (Age 117)
 

Note: German forces in Italy surrender.
History 8 May 1945 (Age 117)
 

Note: Germany surrenders (VE Day, Victory in Europe Day).
History 2 September 1945 (Age 117)
 

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

Family with John Waghorn - View family
husband
John Waghorn

Birth before 21 October 1821 32 39  Goudhurst, Kent, England

Death Yes  

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6 years
herself
Sophia Waterhouse

Birth about 1828  Goudhurst, Kent, England

Death Yes  

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Marriage: 5 July 1845 — Kilndown, Kent, England
 

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