1960
Princess Margaret marries photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones in a Norman Hartnell gown

1960
Marc Bohan appointed creative director of Christian Dior and launches ‘the slim look’

1961
The US triple the number of American troops deployed in Vietnam

October 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis

2 May 1963
Beatles’ first UK number one single - 'From Me to You'

22 November 1963
Assassination of John F. Kennedy

1 January 1964
Top of the Pops first broadcast on the BBC

8 November 1965
Death penalty is abolished in Great Britain

1966
Twiggy named British Woman of the Year and the Face of 1966

1966
Mary Quant appointed OBE for her outstanding contribution to the fashion industry

15 April 1966
‘Swinging London’ is defined and immortalised in TIME magazine

1 June 1967
The Beatles release their 8th album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'

1967 
Abortion and homosexuality are legalised

1968
African American athletes peacefully protest at the Mexico City Olympics

4 April 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated

1969
Zandra Rhodes opens her own shop in London

20 July 1969
Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon

15–18 August 1969
Woodstock music festival

2 March 1969
Concorde's maiden flight