United Kingdom
Queen Elizabeth II: 1952–2022
Queen Elizabeth II: British Historical Events from 1952 to 1989.
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26 min readSep 11, 2022
Decade: 1952–1959…
6 February 1952…
Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the British Dominions: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon. The princess, who is on a visit to Kenya when she hears of the death of her father, King George VI, aged 56, takes the title Elizabeth II. King George VI was born in 1895.
31 January 1953…
The North Sea flood of 1953 kills 1,836 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially Zeeland), 307 in the United Kingdom, and several hundred…
