Edward Diggins?–?
- Name
- Edward Diggins
- Given names
- Edward
- Surname
- Diggins
| Birth | Yes |
| History | 1837 Note: William IV dies, succeeded by his niece, Victoria. |
| History | 1838 Note: Regular Atlantic steamship service begins. |
| History | 1839 Note: Anti-Corn-Law League founded. |
| History | 1840 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 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 Corn Laws (which had kept up the price of grain) repealed. |
| History | 1849 Note: Gold discovered in California and Australia. |
| History | 1850 Note: Telegraph cable laid under English Channel. |
| History | 1851 Note: Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace). |
| History | 1853 Note: Crimean War. |
| History | 1855 Note: Livingston discovers Victoria Falls. |
| History | 1857 Note: The Mutiny (India). |
| History | 1858 Note: First Atlantic cable laid. |
| History | 1861 Note: Albert dies, Victoria retires into mourning.<br />American Civil War. |
| History | 1862 Note: Bismarck becomes Prussian premier. |
| History | 1864 Note: Geneva Convention establishes Red Cross. |
| Marriage | Elizabeth Chambers - View family 17 March 1867 Husband: > 21 Wife: > 21 Hackney R D, Middlesex, England Address: St John Marriage - Edward Diggens and Elizabeth Chambers - 1867 |
| History | 1867 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) |
| Birth of a son #1 | between January 1869 and March 1869 Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England
son -
Edward John Diggins
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| History | 1869 Note: Suez Canal opened. |
| History | 1869 Note: Union Pacific Railway completed in U.S. |
| History | 1870 Note: Forster's Elementary Education Act establishes School Boards.<br />Franco-Prussian War. |
| History | 1871 Note: Trade unions legalised.<br />Newcastle engineers strike for a nine-hour day.<br />Germany unified. |
| History | 1876 Note: Victoria named Empress of India.<br />Edison invents the phonograph.<br />Compulsory school attendance in Great Britain. |
| History | 1877 Note: Transvaal annexed. |
| History | 1879 Note: Zulu war. |
| History | 1880 Note: War with Transvaal. |
| History | 1882 Note: Married Women's Property Act enables women to buy, own, and sell property, and to keep their own earnings. |
| History | 1883 Note: Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan. |
| Death of a wife | between July 1884 and September 1884 Mile End Old Town, London, England
wife -
Elizabeth Chambers
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| History | 1884 Note: Third Reform Act and Redistribution Act extend vote to agricultural workers, electorate tripled. |
| History | 1885 Note: Fall of Khartoum. |
| History | 1886 Note: First (Irish) Home Rule bill rejected. |
| History | 1887 Note: Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. |
| History | 1889 Note: London dock workers and match girls strike for 6d./hour. |
| History | 1897 Note: Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. |
| History | 1898 Note: Spanish-American War. |
| History | 1899 Note: Boer war. |
| History | 1901 Note: Victoria dies, Edward Prince of Wales succeeds. |
| History | 1903 Note: U.S. acquires Canal Zone from Panama. |
| History | 1904 Note: Entente Cordiale (England and France). |
| History | 1905 Note: Revolution in Russia. |
| History | 1914 Note: The Great War (World War I). |
| History | 1916 Note: Easter Rising in Dublin. |
| History | 1917 Note: Russian Revolution. |
| History | 1918 Note: All men over 21 and women over thirty enfranchised. |
| History | 1922 Note: Irish Free State established. |
| History | 1928 Note: Equal Franchise Act grants right to vote to women over 21 (as well as men). |
| History | 1936 Note: Spanish Civil War. |
| History | 7 July 1937 Note: The Japanese invasion of China (the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War). |
| History | 1938 Note: Chamberlain cedes Czech territory to Hitler at Munich. |
| History | 1 September 1939 Note: The German invasion of Poland. |
| History | 3 September 1939 Note: France and Britain declared war on Germany . |
| History | 10 June 1940 Note: Italy declares war on Britain and France. |
| History | 22 June 1941 Note: German attack on the USSR. |
| History | 7 December 1941 Note: Japan attacks America without any declaration of war (Pearl Harbour). |
| History | 8 December 1941 Note: America declares war on Japan. |
| History | 11 December 1941 Note: Germany and Italy declare war on America. |
| History | 8 September 1943 Note: Italy surrenders. |
| History | 13 October 1943 Note: Italy declares war on Germany. |
| History | 19 April 1945 Note: German forces in Italy surrender. |
| History | 8 May 1945 Note: Germany surrenders (VE Day, Victory in Europe Day). |
| History | 2 September 1945 Note: Japan surrenders (VJ Day, Victory over Japan Day). |
| Death | Yes |
| Family with Elizabeth Chambers - View family |
| himself |
Edward Diggins
Death Yes |
| wife |
Elizabeth Chambers
Birth about 1830 23 22 St Georges, Surrey, England Death between July 1884 and September 1884 (Age 54) Age: 55 Mile End Old Town, London, England |
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Marriage: 17 March 1867 — Hackney R D, Middlesex, England |
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22 months #1 son |
Edward John Diggins
Birth between January 1869 and March 1869 39 Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England Death Yes |
| Private + Elizabeth Chambers - View family |
| wife |
Elizabeth Chambers
Birth about 1830 23 22 St Georges, Surrey, England Death between July 1884 and September 1884 (Age 54) Age: 55 Mile End Old Town, London, England |
| #1 step-son |
George Cleaver Chambers
Birth between October 1855 and December 1855 25 Stepney, Middlesex, England Death Yes |
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