Alfred Knight 1850–? - Our Families

Alfred Knight1850–?

Name: Alfred Knight

Given names: Alfred

Surname: Knight

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Birth	between January 1850 and March 1850 31 28 Maidstone R D, Kent, England
History	1850 Note: Telegraph cable laid under English Channel.
History	1851 (Age 12 months) Note: Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace).
Death of a mother	between July 1853 and September 1853 (Age 3) Maidstone R D, Kent, England mother - Elizabeth Bigg
History	1853 (Age 3) Note: Crimean War.
Marriage of a father	Henry Knight - View family 6 August 1854 (Age 4) East Farleigh, Kent, England father - Henry Knight step-mother - Harriet Page
History	1855 (Age 5) Note: Livingston discovers Victoria Falls.
History	1857 (Age 7) Note: The Mutiny (India).
History	1858 (Age 8) Note: First Atlantic cable laid.
History	1861 (Age 11) Note: Albert dies, Victoria retires into mourning.<br />American Civil War.
History	1862 (Age 12) Note: Bismarck becomes Prussian premier.
Birth of a half-brother	25 June 1863 (Age 13) Linton, Kent, England half-brother - Percival "Percy" Knight
History	1864 (Age 14) Note: Geneva Convention establishes Red Cross.
History	1867 (Age 17) 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 19) Note: Suez Canal opened.
History	1869 (Age 19) Note: Union Pacific Railway completed in U.S.
History	1870 (Age 20) Note: Forster's Elementary Education Act establishes School Boards.<br />Franco-Prussian War.
History	1871 (Age 21) Note: Trade unions legalised.<br />Newcastle engineers strike for a nine-hour day.<br />Germany unified.
History	1876 (Age 26) Note: Victoria named Empress of India.<br />Edison invents the phonograph.<br />Compulsory school attendance in Great Britain.
History	1877 (Age 27) Note: Transvaal annexed.
History	1879 (Age 29) Note: Zulu war.
Death of a father	between July 1880 and September 1880 (Age 30) Maidstone R D, Kent, England father - Henry Knight
History	1880 (Age 30) Note: War with Transvaal.
History	1882 (Age 32) Note: Married Women's Property Act enables women to buy, own, and sell property, and to keep their own earnings.
History	1883 (Age 33) Note: Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan.
History	1884 (Age 34) Note: Third Reform Act and Redistribution Act extend vote to agricultural workers, electorate tripled.
History	1885 (Age 35) Note: Fall of Khartoum.
History	1886 (Age 36) Note: First (Irish) Home Rule bill rejected.
History	1887 (Age 37) Note: Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
History	1889 (Age 39) Note: London dock workers and match girls strike for 6d./hour.
History	1897 (Age 47) Note: Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
History	1898 (Age 48) Note: Spanish-American War.
History	1899 (Age 49) Note: Boer war.
History	1901 (Age 51) Note: Victoria dies, Edward Prince of Wales succeeds.
History	1903 (Age 53) Note: U.S. acquires Canal Zone from Panama.
History	1904 (Age 54) Note: Entente Cordiale (England and France).
History	1905 (Age 55) Note: Revolution in Russia.
History	1914 (Age 64) Note: The Great War (World War I).
History	1916 (Age 66) Note: Easter Rising in Dublin.
History	1917 (Age 67) Note: Russian Revolution.
History	1918 (Age 68) Note: All men over 21 and women over thirty enfranchised.
History	1922 (Age 72) Note: Irish Free State established.
History	1928 (Age 78) Note: Equal Franchise Act grants right to vote to women over 21 (as well as men).
History	1936 (Age 86) Note: Spanish Civil War.
History	7 July 1937 (Age 87) Note: The Japanese invasion of China (the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War).
History	1938 (Age 88) Note: Chamberlain cedes Czech territory to Hitler at Munich.
History	1 September 1939 (Age 89) Note: The German invasion of Poland.
History	3 September 1939 (Age 89) Note: France and Britain declared war on Germany .
History	10 June 1940 (Age 90) Note: Italy declares war on Britain and France.
History	22 June 1941 (Age 91) Note: German attack on the USSR.
History	7 December 1941 (Age 91) Note: Japan attacks America without any declaration of war (Pearl Harbour).
History	8 December 1941 (Age 91) Note: America declares war on Japan.
History	11 December 1941 (Age 91) Note: Germany and Italy declare war on America.
History	8 September 1943 (Age 93) Note: Italy surrenders.
History	13 October 1943 (Age 93) Note: Italy declares war on Germany.
History	19 April 1945 (Age 95) Note: German forces in Italy surrender.
History	8 May 1945 (Age 95) Note: Germany surrenders (VE Day, Victory in Europe Day).
History	2 September 1945 (Age 95) Note: Japan surrenders (VJ Day, Victory over Japan Day).
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father	Henry Knight Birth about 1819 East Farleigh, Kent, England Death between July 1880 and September 1880 Age: 61 Maidstone R D, Kent, England Loading...
3 years mother	Elizabeth Bigg Birth about 1822 Maidstone, Kent, England Death between July 1853 and September 1853 Age: 31 Maidstone R D, Kent, England Loading...
	Marriage: between October 1842 and December 1842 — Maidstone R D, Kent, England
2 years #1 elder brother	Edward Robert Knight Birth between October 1844 and December 1844 25 22 Maidstone R D, Kent, England Death Yes Loading...
5 years #2 himself	Alfred Knight Birth between January 1850 and March 1850 31 28 Maidstone R D, Kent, England Death Yes Loading...

Father’s family with Harriet Page - View family

father	Henry Knight Birth about 1819 East Farleigh, Kent, England Death between July 1880 and September 1880 Age: 61 Maidstone R D, Kent, England Loading...
step-mother	Harriet Page Death Yes Loading...
	Marriage: 6 August 1854 — East Farleigh, Kent, England
9 years #1 half-brother	Percival "Percy" Knight Birth 25 June 1863 44 Linton, Kent, England Death between January 1941 and March 1941 Age: 77 Milton R D, Kent, England Loading...