Sophia Waterhouse1828–?
- Name
- Sophia Waterhouse
- Given names
- Sophia
- Surname
- Waterhouse
- Married Name
- Sophia Waghorn
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 Corn Laws (which had kept up the price of grain) repealed. |
Marriage | John 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). |
Death | Yes |
Family with John Waghorn - View family |
husband |
John Waghorn
Birth before 21 October 1821 32 39 Goudhurst, Kent, England Death Yes Loading...
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6 years herself |
Sophia Waterhouse
Birth about 1828 Goudhurst, Kent, England Death Yes Loading...
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Marriage: 5 July 1845 — Kilndown, Kent, England |