As Redruth RFC celebrated it’s various anniversaries, other events were happening elsewhere. Here are just a few of them.
1875 - Founding of Redruth RFC.
- Passing of the Public Health Act improving sanitation
- Legalisation of peaceful picketing
- First rugby international between England and Ireland played
- The game of Lawn Tennis invented
1900 - Redruth RFC 25th Anniversary
- Creation of the Labour Party
- Relief of Mafeking
- Coca Cola goes on sale in the UK
- First Zeppelin airship takes to the skies
1925 - Redruth RFC 50th Anniversary
- All Black Cyril Brownie becomes the first ever player sent off in an International match.
- First ever traffic lights appear in UK, in Piccadilly, London
- Baird demonstrates the principle of television
- New dance craze the Charlestown scandalises polite society
1950 - Redruth RFC 75th Anniversary
- End of petrol rationing
- Start of Korean war
- BBC transmits TV pictures across the Channel for the first time
- Less than half UK houses have an indoor bathroom
1975 - Redruth RFC 100th Anniversary
- Margaret Thatcher becomes leader of the Conservative Party
- Sculptor Barbara Hepworth dies in a fire at St Ives
- Racing driver Graham Hill killed in a plane crash
- First Oil from the North Sea comes ashore
2000 - Redruth RFC 125th Anniversary