Coronation of Elizabeth II
1953 · Event
First televised British coronation; vast UK and Commonwealth audience watches the 27-year-old queen crowned.
On these timelines: Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
Around 1953
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- United Nations founded (1945)
- People's Republic of China founded (1949)