I often wonder what significant anniversaries are due at some point in the future as some of them might be of interest as triggers for blog posts or visits somewhere. However, it is often difficult to find out quickly what events have significant anniversaries - hence this section on the website.
By "significant anniversaries", I mean dates that are not, for example, the 73rd anniversary of something, but the 50th, 100th, 200th etc.
It should help to flag up interesting events.
Significant anniversaries during February 2018
| Anniversary | Details |
| 1st | Britain is hit by winds of up to 94 mph from Storm Doris, causing travel disruption and a number of casualties. (23rd Feb 2017) |
| 1st | Cressida Dick is appointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, becoming the first woman to hold the position in the force's 188-year history. (22nd Feb 2017) |
| 1st | The Queen commemorates her Sapphire Jubilee. (6th Feb 2017) |
| 5th | Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric, resigns as the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh due to allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour towards priests in the 1980s. (25th Feb 2013) |
| 5th | UK loses top AAA credit rating for first time since 1978 after being downgraded by the ratings agency Moody's (23rd Feb 2013) |
| 5th | The House of Commons votes 400 to 175 in favour of a vote on the bill to legalise same-sex marriage in England and Wales. (5th Feb 2013) |
| 5th | Former government Minister Chris Huhne pleads guilty to perverting the course of justice over claims he caused his ex-wife to accept speeding points he had incurred. He also announces his intention to resign his House of Commons seat. (4th Feb 2013) |
| 10th | An earthquake with an epicentre in Lincolnshire was felt across most of Britain, with several buildings suffering substantial damage. (27th Feb 2008) |
| 10th | A jury at Ipswich Crown Court found Steve Wright, 49, guilty of murdering five prostitutes during late 2006. (21st Feb 2008) |
| 40th | severe blizzards hit the south west of England. (20th Feb 1978) |
| 40th | inflation has fallen to 9.9% - the first time since 1973 that it has been in single figures. (17th Feb 1978) |
| 40th | Anna Ford becomes the first female newsreader on ITN. (13th Feb 1978) |
| 50th | Northampton, the county town of Northamptonshire, is designated as a New town, with the Wilson government hoping to double its size and population by 1980. (14th Feb 1968) |
| 60th | the Victorian Society, the pressure group for Victorian architecture, holds its first meeting. (28th Feb 1958) |
| 60th | Bertrand Russell launches the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, initiated at a meeting called by Canon John Collins on 15 January. (25th Feb 1958) |
| 60th | the government announces plans to close the 300-year-old dockyards at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, which would result in more than 2,500 workers losing their jobs. (20th Feb 1958) |
| 60th | the Manchester United F.C. team plane flying back from a European Cup tie in Belgrade crashes on take-off after refuelling at Munich Airport in West Germany. 21 of the 44 people on board are killed. Seven of them are Manchester United players. (6th Feb 1958) |
| 70th | Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth. (4th Feb 1948) |
| 75th | Nuffield Foundation established by William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield. (13th Feb 1943) |
| 80th | BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot" (11th Feb 1938) |
| 90th | An underground explosion at Haig Pit, Whitehaven, in the Cumberland Coalfield, kills thirteen miners undertaking clearance after an earlier fatal accident. (12th Feb 1928) |
| 90th | Heavy hailstorms kill eleven in England. (12th Feb 1928) |
| 90th | Malta becomes a British dominion. (12th Feb 1928) |
| 90th | John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York. (8th Feb 1928) |
| 100th | Representation of the People Act gives women the vote provided they are over 30 and are (or are married to) a local government elector. It also removes most property qualifications, giving all adult (over-21) male resident householders the vote, and requires elections to be restricted to a single day. (6th Feb 1918) |
| 150th | Benjamin Disraeli succeeds the Earl of Derby as Prime Minister following Derby's resignation due to ill-health. (27th Feb 1868) |
| 150th | the War Office sanctions the formation of what will become the Army Post Office Corps. (13th Feb 1868) |
| 225th | French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. (1st Feb 1793) |
| 600th | Hundred Years' War: English capture Falaise. (18th Feb 1418) |
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