Headstone for centenarian Mary Elizabeth Gilbert, aged 105, in St Peter's churchyard.
Born in 1887 -
" Monarch — Victoria
Prime Minister — Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative)
Events of 1887:
18 February — National Colliery disaster at Cwtch in the Rhondda: an underground explosion kills thirty.
7 March–18 April — The Times publishes a series of articles on "Parnellism and Crime" quoting letters, subsequently confessed to be forgeries, intended to discredit Charles Stewart Parnell by appearing to show him as implicated in illegal activities, in particular, support for the 1882 Phoenix Park Murders.
28 March — Irish Crimes Act suspends trial by jury in Ireland.
31 March — St. John Ambulance Brigade.
3 May — Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester, is opened by Princess Alexandra.
9 May — Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
28 May — Udston mining disaster in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland: 73 coal miners die in a firedamp explosion at Udston Colliery.
17 June — Hammersmith Bridge opens in London.
20–21 June — Queen Victoria and the country celebrate a Golden Jubilee, the 50th year of her reign.
22 June — Zululand becomes a British colony.
5 September — Theatre Royal, Exeter burns down, and 186 people die.
1 October — British Empire takes over Balochistan.
6 October — The Hovis process for manufacture of breadmaking flour is patented.
6 November — The Association football club Celtic F.C. is formed in Glasgow by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid to help alleviate poverty in the city's East End by raising money for his charity, the Poor Children's Dinner Table.
11 November — Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins.
13 November — Bloody Sunday: Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters.
17 December — English adventurer Thomas Stevens concludes the first circumnavigation by bicycle in Yokohama, having set out on his penny-farthing from San Francisco in 1884.
25 December — Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whisky first distilled."
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Passed away 1992 -
" Monarch - Elizabeth II
Prime Minister – John Major (Conservative)
Events of December 1992 -
1 December - The first episode of the children's series The Animals of Farthing Wood.
3 December - 1992 Manchester bombing: 65 people are injured by an IRA bomb in Manchester city centre but there are no fatalities.
9 December - The separation of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales is announced following months of speculation about their marriage, but there are no plans for a divorce and prime minister John Major announces that Diana could still become Queen.
11 December - The last MORI poll of 1992 shows Labour thirteen points ahead of the Conservatives on 47%, just three months after several polls had shown a Conservative lead. Black Wednesday, which has damaged much of the government's reputation for monetary excellence, is largely blamed for the fall in Conservative support.
12 December - Marriage of Anne, Princess Royal, and Timothy Laurence.
16 December
Four people are injured by IRA bombs in Oxford Street, London.
Japanese carmaker Toyota opens a factory at Burnaston, near Derby, which produces the Carina family saloon.
17 December
The national unemployment level has risen to more than 2,900,000, with the unemployment rate in the south-east of England now above 10% for the first time.
Jonathan Zito is stabbed to death by Christopher Clunis, a partially treated schizophrenic patient.
23 December - The Queen's Royal Christmas Message is leaked in The Sun newspaper, 48 hours ahead of its traditional Christmas Day broadcast on television.
31 December
The ORACLE teletext service is discontinued on ITV and Channel 4 to be replaced by a new service operated by the Teletext Ltd. consortium. It had been launched on ITV in 1974 and used by Channel 4 since its inception in 1982.
The economy has grown in the final quarter of this year - the second successive quarter of economic growth - but the recovery is still too weak for the end of the recession to be declared."
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