Elizabeth II ascends the British throne
February 6, 1952
On holiday in Kenya, watching elephants from a treetop hotel, a twenty-five-year-old princess was told her father George VI had died in his sleep. She flew home as queen. Her reign, nobody imagined, would last seventy years and would witness the near total dissolution of the empire her ancestors had built.
In context
Also in 1952 (3 other events on record)
- First hydrogen bomb test · Oceania · War
- Nasser's Free Officers seize Egypt · Middle East · Politics
- Great Smog of London · Europe · Disaster
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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