Event    From 1986  To 1986

International Year of Peace, 1986

Categories: Peace

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International Year of Peace, 1986

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Peace tree

To commemorate International Year of Peace, 1986, this field maple tree was p...

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Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel

Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.  Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey.  An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of d...

Person, Peace, Science, Seriously Famous, Sweden

1 memorial
Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst

Born in Manchester as Estelle Sylvia, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst.  Trained and initially worked as an artist. Worked with George Lansbury in the East End. 1924 Sylvia moved from the East End of...

Person, Gender Issues, Peace, Seriously Famous, Ethiopia

10 memorials
Sir Joseph Rotblat

Sir Joseph Rotblat

Born Warsaw. gained a doctorate in physics in 1939 and then came to the UK but could not get his wife out and she died in a concentration camp. In 1944 he joined the Manhatten Project to develop nu...

Person, Peace, Politics & Administration, Poland

1 memorial
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

Politician and peace maker. Born Robert Cecil at 11 Duchess Street, Portland Place. Son of the Prime Minister, the Marquess of Salisbury. He practised civil law for several years before entering pa...

Person, Law, Peace, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Pierre Cérésole

Pierre Cérésole

Engineer and peace activist. Born in Lausanne. He worked in the United States and Japan, returning to Switzerland at the outbreak of WW1. He became a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned beca...

Person, Engineering, Peace, Switzerland

1 memorial