UK house prices from the year you were born to today
lovePROPERTY team
16 December 2022
How times and price tags have changed
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1963: President Kennedy is assassinated
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1964: The Beatles take the world by storm
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1965: Protestors march against the Vietnam War
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1966: Fashion gets fun
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1967: Twiggy enters the scene
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1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated
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1969: Neil Armstrong lands on the moon
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1970: Jimi Hendrix and The Who rock the Isle of Wight Festival
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1971: Greenpeace is born
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1972: Munich massacre
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1973: Sydney Opera House opens
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1974: Richard Nixon resigns after the Watergate scandal
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1975: Microsoft is founded
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1976: First commercial flights on Concorde
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1977: Elvis Presley dies
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1978: Space Invaders launches
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1979: Margaret Thatcher is elected
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1980: US boycott of Moscow Olympics
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1981: Lady Diana marries Prince Charles
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1982: The UK and Argentina go to war over the Falklands
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1983: Mario Bros. game released
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1984: Band Aid
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1985: First version of Windows is released
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1986: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station explodes
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1987: US stock market crashes
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1988: NASA resumes space shuttle flights
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1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall
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1990: Nelson Mandela is freed
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1991: World's first website launches
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1992: Euro Disney opens in France
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1993: Tsunami hits Japan
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1994: Channel Tunnel opens
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1995: O.J. Simpson acquitted of murder
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1996: Dolly the sheep is cloned
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1997: Princess Diana dies
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1998: Russian banks collapse
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1999: Global population exceeds six billion
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2000: Concorde crashes while taking off from Paris
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2001: World Trade Center attacked
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2002: The Queen celebrates her Golden Jubilee
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2003: The second Iraq war
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2004: Boxing Day tsunami hits Asia
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2005: Benedict XVI becomes the new Pope
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2006: New Horizon Space Probe is launched by NASA
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2007: Global financial crisis begins
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2008: Citigroup reports $9.8 billion loss
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2009: Barack Obama becomes US president
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2010: BP oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico
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2011: Arab Spring protests
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2012: Felix Baumgartner breaks the sound barrier
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2013: NSA secret surveillance program revealed
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2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 goes missing
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2015: Princess Charlotte is born
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2016: Britain votes to leave the EU
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2017: Donald Trump becomes 45th president of the United States
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2018: Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle
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2019: Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral catches fire
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2020: Coronavirus causes global lockdowns
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2021: Joe Biden becomes the 46th President of the United States
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2022: the death of Queen Elizabeth II
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