Elizabeth II Biography and Timeline — Page 3

Charter

Southampton is granted a Royal Charter & granted city status

Role range: 1953-

Burial

Announces Churchills body will lie-in-state at the Palace of Westminster for 3 days

Role range: 1953-

Honours

The Beatles are awarded an MBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List

Role range: 1953-

Launch

The Queen Elizabeth II is launched & makes its maiden voyage

Role range: 1953-

QEII

The Queen Elizabeth II is launched & makes its maiden voyage

Role range: 1953-

Begins the bi-centenary Cook tour of Australia & New Zealand

Begins the bi-centenary Cook tour of Australia & New Zealand

Role range: 1970-1974 – 1953-

Anniversary

Elizabeth II celebrates 25yrs of marriage to Prince Phillip in Westminster Abbey

Role range: 1953-

London Bridge

Queen Elizabeth II opens the new London Bridge

Role range: 1953-

Parliament

Opens Parliament

Role range: 1953-

Forties Oil Field

Presses a button in the Forties control room to make Britain self-sufficient by 1980

Role range: 1953-

National Theatre

Opens the National Theatre

Role range: 1953-

Visit to To Luxembourg

Begins a 5 day state visit to Luxembourg

Role range: 1953-

Declaration

Visits Philadelphia during the bicentennial celebrations of US independence. Becomes the 1st sovereign to visit the US since the Declaration of independence

Role range: 1953-

Purchase of Gatcombe Park

Elizabeth II buys Gatcombe Park for Princess Anne & her husband Captain Mark Phillips

Role range: 1953-

Anniversary

Celebrates 25 years as Queen

Role range: 1953-

Sullom Voe

Opens Sullom Voe, the largest oil terminal of its kind in Europe costing 1200M

Role range: 1953-

Meeting with Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth

President Reagan meets Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth

Role range: 1953-

Order of the Garter

Bestows the Order of Merit on mother Teresa at New Dehli

Role range: 1953-

Constitution of Great Britain

Signs the Australia Bill in severing constitutional ties with Britain

Role range: 1953-

Legislation

Signs the Australia Bill in severing constitutional ties with Britain

Role range: 1953-

Constitution of Great Britain

Signs the Australia Bill in severing constitutional ties with Britain

Role range: 1953-

Independence of Australia

Signs the Australia Bill in severing constitutional ties with Britain

Role range: 1953-

Independence of Great Britain

Signs the Australia Bill in severing constitutional ties with Britain

Role range: 1953-

Visit to Beijing

Begins 7 day Royal visit to China at Peking

Role range: 1979-1990 – 1953-

Meeting with Deng Xiaoping in China

Meets Deng Xiaoping in China

Role range: 1979-1990 – 1953-

Visited by the King & Queen of Spain

Visited by the King & Queen of Spain

Role range: 1953-

Visited by the President of Korea at Windsor Castle

Visited by the President of Korea at Windsor Castle

Role range: 1979-1990 – 1953-

Princess Royal

Elizabeth II awards her daughter Princess Anne the title of "Princess Royal"

Role range: 1953-

Channel Tunnel

President Mitterand & Elizabeth II open the Channel Tunnel

Role range: 1953-

Elizabeth II returns to South Africa for the 1st time in 48

Elizabeth II returns to South Africa for the 1st time in 48 yrs

Role range: 1953-

Marriage

Under Elizabeth IIs 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."

Role range: 1953-

Protesters demand an apolgy for the Armritsar massacre 7 yrs

Protesters demand an apolgy for the Armritsar massacre 7 yrs before her birth

Role range: 1979-1990 – 1953-

National Maritime Museum

Opens the new look National Maritime Museum

Role range: 1953-

National Assembly

Opens the Welsh National Assembly

Role range: 1953-

Queen Opens British Museum Great Court

Queen Elizabeth II formally opened the transformed Great Court of the British Museum in December 2000.

Anniversary

Celebrates 50 yrs as Queen

Role range: 1953-

Daily Mirror

Wins a High Court Injunction banning publication of photos of royal apartments

Role range: 1953-

Parliament

Sate opening of Parliament

Role range: 1953-

Royal Borough Status

Grants Greenwich royal borough status in the Diamond Jubilee year.

Role range: 1952-

Succession Law Ends Male Preference

The Succession to the Crown Act 2013 ended male preference for children born after October 2011 in the British royal line.