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| 1926 | Baptism |  |
| May London Baptized by Dr Lang the Archbishop of York |
| 1926 | Birth | |
| 21st April London Birth of Elizabeth II, at 17 Bruton St, London,1st child of the Duke & Duchess of York |
| 1936 | Succession | |
| London Becomes in line to the succession after her father George VI |
| 1937 | National Maritime Museum | |
| 27th April Greenwich Present at George I's opening of the National Maritime Museum |
| 1939 | Marriage | |
| Dartmouth Elizabeth II first meets Prince Philip |
| 1942 | National Service | |
| 21st April Registers for national service |
| 1944 | Counsellor of State | |
| Appointed Counsellor of State, exercises functions of the throne for 1st time |
| 1944 | Launch Vanguard | |
| Greenock Launches the HMS Vanguard |
| 1945 | Junior Commander | |
| 27th July Appointed Junior Commander in the ATS |
| 1945 | VE Day | |
| 8th May Buckingham Pal Attends the VE Day celebrations in her ATS uniform |
| 1945 | VJ Day | |
| 15th Aug Buckingham Pal Celebrates the end of war with Japan at a dinner party in Buckingham Palace |
| 1946 | Counsellor of State | |
| Appointed Counsellor of State, Counsellors can be delegated sovereign authority |
| 1947 | Diplomacy | |
| Cape Town Tours Sth Africa & celebrates her 21st birthday at Cape Town |
| 1st Feb Portsmouth Elizabeth II's 1st trip outside the British Isles |
| 1st Feb Portsmouth Embarks on the HMS Vanguard for royal state visit to Sth Africa & Rhodes ia |
| 1947 | Marriage | |
| 9th July London George VI makes public his consent for Elizabrth to marry Prince Philip |
| 10th July London Philip's engagement to Princess Elizabeth is announced from Buckingham Palace |
| 20th Nov London Marries Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, formerly Prince of Greece & Denmark |
| 1947 | Speech | |
| Makes a "dedication" speech to the Empire on her 21st birthday from Sth Africa |
| 1948 | Award Order of the Garter | |
| 23rd April London Awarded by George VI marking the 600th anniversary of the Order of the Garter |
| 1948 | Birth | |
| 14th Nov London Birth of Charles , Elizabeth's 1st son & heir |
| 1948 | Diplomacy | |
| May Paris Elizabeth & Philip make their 1st official tour, a royal state visit to France |
| 1950 | Birth | |
| 15th Aug London Birth of Anne, gives birth to Princess Anne |
| 1950 | Diplomacy | |
| Nov Athens Pays a royal state visit to Greece |
| 1951 | Birth | |
| Rome Received by the Pope & celebrates her 25th birthday |
| 1951 | Diplomacy | |
| Pays a royal state visit to Italy |
| Rome Pays a royal state visit to Italy |
| Received by the Pope & celebrates her 25th birthday |
| 7th Oct Sets off for a 6 week state visit to Canada |
| Nov Washington Meets President Truman in Washington |
| 1952 | Claerwen Dam | |
| 23rd Oct Claerwen Dam Opens the Claerwen Dam |
| 1952 | Death | |
| 6th Feb Aberdare Death of George VI, hears of death in a tree-tops hut in the Aberdare Forest, Kenya |
| 1952 | Diplomacy | |
| 23rd Sep Visit of King Faisal of Iraq |
| 1952 | House of Windsor | |
| Elizabeth II officially declares her "Will and Pleasure that I and My children shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that my descendants who marry and their descendants, shall bear the name of Windsor" |
| 1952 | Succession | |
| 6th Feb London Both Houses of Parliament take the oath of allegiance to Elizabeth II |
| 6th Feb London Succeeds as Queen of Great Britain, Succeeds George II after his death |
| 1953 | Coronation | |
| 2nd June Westminster Abbey Crowned in Westminster Abbey |
| 24th June Edinburgh Given the crown, sceptre & sword, bestowing upon her the right to rule Scotland |
| 1953 | Death | |
| 24th Mar Death of Mary |
| 1953 | Diplomacy | |
| Mar Visited by President Tito |
| 23rd Nov Embarks on a tour of the Commonwealth with Prince Philip |
| 1953 | Rule of Scotland | |
| After a Nationalist court case the Queen can call herself Elizabeth II in Scotland |
| 1953 | Trial | |
| After a Nationalist court case the Queen can call herself Elizabeth II in Scotland |
| 1954 | Diplomacy | |
| 12th Jan Wellington Opens the NewZealand Parliament |
| 15th May Returns from the Commonwealth tour |
| July Visit of the King of Sweden |
| Oct Visit of Haile Selassie |
| 1954 | Owen Falls | |
| 29th April Owen Falls Opens Owen Falls |
| 1955 | Diplomacy | |
| June Visits Norway |
| Oct Visited by the President of Portugal |
| 1956 | Calder Hall | |
| 17th Oct Calder Hall Opens Calder Hall nuclear power station |
| 1956 | Coventry Cathedral | |
| 23rd Mar Coventry Lays the foundation stone for Coventry Cathedral |
| 1956 | Diplomacy | |
| 16th Feb Makes a state visit to Nigeria |
| 22nd April Khrushchev pays a visit to Elizabeth II |
| June Makes a state visit to Sweden |
| July Makes a state visit to Iraq |
| 1956 | Nuclear Warfare | |
| 17th Oct Calder Hall Opens Calder Hall nuclear power station |
| 1957 | Diplomacy | |
| Feb Makes a state visit to Portugal |
| Feb Pays a state visit to Portugal |
| April Paris Pays a state visit to France |
| Oct Virginia Pays a state visit to the United States for the 350th anniversary of Virginia |
| 1957 | Government | |
| 10th Jan Sends for MacMillan to succeed Eden |
| 1957 | Prime Minister | |
| 10th Jan Appoints MacMillan as Prime Minister |
| 1957 | Resignation | |
| 8th Jan London Eden informs Elizabeth II that he is resigning |
| 9th Jan London Publicly announces Eden's resignation |
| 1957 | Succession | |
| Cardiff Announces at the Commonwealth Games that Charles will become the next Prince of Wales |
| 1959 | Diplomacy | |
| June Pays a royal state visit to Canada |
| June Chicago Visits Chicago on the Britannia |
| 1959 | St Lawrence Seaway | |
| 26th June Queen Elizabeth and President Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway |
| 1960 | Birth | |
| 19th Feb London Birth of Andrew, gives birth to Prince Andrew |
| 1960 | Diplomacy | |
| Chicago Declares the familly name should be Mountbatten-Windsor, for HRH titles Windsor |
| 1960 | House of Windsor | |
| 8th Feb Elizabeth II confirms that she and her descendants will be known as the House and Family of Windsor, and further provided that their personal surname, whenever one should be needed, is "Mountbatten-Windsor" |
| 1961 | Consecration | |
| 17th May Guildford Consecrates Guildford Cathedral |
| 1961 | Diplomacy | |
| 5th June Elizabeth II entertains President Kennedy |
| 1964 | Birth | |
| 10th Mar London Birth of Edward, gives birth to Prince Edward |
| 1964 | Charter Southampton | |
| Southampton Southampton is granted a Royal Charter & granted city status |
| 1965 | Funeral Churchill | |
| 30th Jan London Announces Churchill's body will lie-in-state at the Palace of Westminster for 3 days |
| 1965 | Honours | |
| 12th June London The Beatles are awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List |
| 1967 | Launch QEII | |
| The Queen Elizabeth II is launched & makes its maiden voyage |
| 1967 | QEII | |
| The Queen Elizabeth II is launched & makes its maiden voyage |
| 1970 | Diplomacy | |
| 12th Mar Begins the bi-centenary Cook tour of Australia & NewZealand |
| 1972 | Anniversary | |
| 20th Nov Elizabeth II celebrates 25yrs of marriage to Prince Phillip in Westminster Abbey |
| 1974 | Parliament | |
| 29th Oct London Opens Parliament |
| 1975 | Forties Oil Field | |
| 4th Nov Forties Oil Press es a button in the Forties control room to make Britain self-sufficient by 1980 |
| 1976 | Diplomacy | |
| Philadelphia Becomes the 1st sovereign to visit the USAsince the Declaration of independence |
| Philadelphia Visits Philadelphia during the bicentennial celebrations of USAindependence |
| 8th Nov Begins a 5 day state visit to Luxembourg |
| 1976 | National Theatre | |
| 25th Oct London Opens the National Theatre |
| 1977 | Anniversary | |
| Celebrates 25 years as Queen |
| 1977 | Purchase Gatcombe Park | |
| 23rd June Gatcombe Park Elizabeth II buys Gatcombe Park for Princess Anne & her husband Captain Mark Phillips |
| 1981 | Sullom Voe | |
| Sullom Voe Opens Sullom Voe, the largest oil terminal of its kind in Europe costing œ1200M |
| 1982 | Diplomacy | |
| 7th June President Reagan meets Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth |
| 1983 | Order Garter Mother Teresa | |
| New Dehli Bestows the Order of Merit on mother Teresa at New Dehli |
| 1986 | Constitution | |
| 2nd Mar Canberra Signs the Australia Bill in severing constitutional ties with Britain |
| 1986 | Diplomacy | |
| London Meets Deng Xiaoping in China |
| 12th Oct Peking Begins 7 day Royal visit to China at Peking |
| 1986 | Independence | |
| 2nd Mar Canberra Signs the Australia Bill in severing constitutional ties with Britain |
| 1986 | Legislation | |
| 2nd Mar Canberra Signs the Australia Bill in severing constitutional ties with Britain |
| 1987 | Diplomacy | |
| 1st April Windsor Visited by the King & Queen of Spain |
| 1st April Windsor Visited by the President of Korea at Windsor Castle |
| 1987 | Inauguration of Glasgow | |
| 2nd Mar Glasgow Inaugurates Glasgow as the "cultural city of Europe" |
| 1987 | Princess Royal | |
| 12th June Elizabeth II awards her daughter Princess Anne the title of "Princess Royal" |
| 1994 | Channel Tunnel | |
| 6th May President Mitterand & Elizabeth II open the Channel Tunnel |
| 1995 | Diplomacy | |
| Elizabeth II returns to Sth Africa for the 1st time in 48 yrs |
| 1996 | Marriage | |
| 21st Aug Under Elizabeth II's Letters Patent, a divorced wife of a Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland "shall not be entitled to hold and enjoy the style, title or attribute of Royal Highness." |
| 1997 | Diplomacy | |
| Protesters demand an apolgy for the Armritsar massacre 7 yrs before her birth |
| 1999 | National Assembly | |
| 26th May Opens the Welsh National Assembly |
| 1999 | National Maritime Museum | |
| 11th May London Opens the new look National Maritime Museum |
| 2002 | Anniversary | |
| Celebrates 50 yrs as Queen |
| 2003 | Injunction Daily Mirror | |
| 20th Nov Wins a High Court Injunction banning publication of photos of royal apartments |
| 2003 | Parliament | |
| 26th Nov London Sate opening of Parliament |
