#FearlessFemales - Day 23 - Create a Timeline

March 23 — Create a timeline for a female ancestor using your favorite software program or an online timeline generator such as OurTimelines.Post an image of it or link to it.

I created this timeline in the MyHeritage Family Tree Builder programme and exported it in RTF. I then edited it and saved it in  Word and then resaved it as a PDF. I then copied images from the PDF which I stitched together in Paint and saved as a jpg image for uploading in this blog.

Phew - a lot of steps, but I'm happy with the outcome:

Of course if all I wanted was a PDF, I can save in that format straight from the MyHeritage programme, but because I wanted to edit the information, the RTF version was the first step.

But let's marry this time line to what was happening in the world via www.ourtimelines.com and you'll see what amazing times Mum lived in:

Reign of King George V (Windsor) from before birth until age 1

Great Depression from before birth until age 4

Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from before birth until age 10

Dustbowl at age 0

Abyssinian war from age 0 to 1

Spanish Civil War at age 1

Helicopter at age 1

Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 1 to 17

Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 1

Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 2 to 10

Nylon (by DuPont) at age 2

Germany annexes Austria at age 3

World War II from age 4 to 10

Digital Computer at age 4

Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 4

Color Television at age 5

1st black general in US army at age 5

Manhattan Project from age 6 to 10

Nuclear Reactor at age 7

Magnetic Recording Tape at age 7

Hypertext at age 10

United Nations formed at age 10

US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 10

Harry S Truman president of US from age 10 to 17

The Bikini at age 11

The Cold War from age 11 to 54

Transistor at age 12

India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 12

UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 12

33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 13

NATO formed at age 13

Israel inaugurated as state at age 13

Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 13

Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 14

Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 14

45 rpm musical recordings at age 14

McCarthyism from age 15 to 19

Korean War from age 15 to 18

World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 15

Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 15

Electricity from Atomic Power at age 16

1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 17

Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 17 until after timeline

Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 18 to 25

Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 19

Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 20

Warsaw pact formed at age 20

Invention of Velcro at age 20

Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 20

Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 21

Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 22

Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 23

FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 23

Integrated Circuit at age 23

US space agency (NASA) established at age 23

1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 24

Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 24

Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 24

1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 25

Laser at age 25

World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 25

Pantyhose at age 25

1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 26

First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 26

John F Kennedy president of US from age 26 to 28

7th Cholera pandemic from age 26 to 35

Vatican II from age 27 to 30

Cuban missile crisis at age 27

Compact Cassette Recordings at age 28

Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 28

1st artificial heart at age 28

Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 28 to 33

Vietnam War from age 29 to 40

US civil rights bill at age 29

Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 30

1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 30

1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 31

8-track tape players at age 31

Nigerian civil war from age 32 to 35

Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 32

Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 32

Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 32

1st human heart transplant at age 32

Martin Luther King assassinated at age 33

Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 33

Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 34

Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 34 to 39

Woodstock Music Festival at age 34

Microprocessor at age 35

Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 35

Pakistani civil war at age 36

Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 36

The Internet at age 38

October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 38

Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 39

Gerald Ford president of US from age 39 to 41

Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 40

Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 40

The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 40

American Bicentennial at age 41

Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 41

VHS Video Recordings at age 41

Television begins satellite delivery at age 41

James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 42 to 45

Neutron bomb at age 42

Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 43

1st test-tube baby at age 43

Laserdisc video recordings at age 43

Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 44

Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 44

Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 45

1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 46

1st female supreme court justice at age 46

Ronald Reagan president of US from age 46 to 53

IBM PC ships at age 46

1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 47

Compact Disks at age 48

Bluford 1st black in space at age 48

Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 48

Apple Macintosh Ships at age 49

HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 49

Amiga Computer Ships at age 50

Halley's Comet at age 51

Mir space station deployed at age 51

Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 51

Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 51

2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 52

Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 53

Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 54

Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 54

George Bush president of US from age 54 to 57

Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 54

Fall of Berlin Wall at age 54

US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 54

World Wide Web at age 55

Hubble space telescope deployed at age 55

Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 56

8th Cholera pandemic from age 56 until after timeline

Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 57

Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 58

Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 58

William Clinton president of US from age 58 until after timeline

South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 59

American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 60

DVD video recordings at age 61