William Leonard Cooper

THE TIMES

Monarchs

Victoria

1837-1901

Edward VII

1901-1910

George V

1910-1936

Edward VIII

1936-1936

George VI

1936-1952

EVENTS

Women's suffrage in New Zealand 1893

First commercial film release and the invention of the gramophone record 1894

First modern Olympic Games 1896

The Boer War 1899-1902

The first cars

Kenneth Grahame - The Wind In The Willows 1908

The first planes

WWI 1914-18

Russian Communist Revolution 1917

Radio

A. A. Milne publishes Winnie The Pooh 1926

'The Jazz Singer', the first "talkie", released.1927

Discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming 1928

Great Depression

WWII 1939-45

Jet planes

George Orwell's 1984 is published 1949

LIFE