To commemorate the Golden Jubilee, we've put together a list of famous sporting events from yesteryear - looking back to 1977, the year of the Silver Jubilee, and to 1952, the year Queen Elizabeth took to the throne. 1977

6 February - Silver Jubilee of Queen's accession

2 April - Women were allowed to ride in the Grand National for the first time, and Red Rum became the first horse to win it three times.

15 May - Liverpool win the League Championship for the 10th time.

21 May - Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-1 to win the FA Cup Final.

25 May - Liverpool bounced back to win the European Cup, against German champions Borussia Moenchengladbach, who they beat 3-1.

1 June - Lester Piggott (look also to 1952!) has his eighth Derby win, this time on The Minstrel.

4 June - Damage is estimated at £15,000 when fans dig up the Wembley pitch after Scotland beat England 2-1.

6 June - Beacons are lit across the nation to begin the Silver Jubilee festivities.

1 July - Wimbledon's centenary win sees Virginia Wade win the singles final, giving Britain a "Jubilee victory".

11 August - Geoffrey Boycott scores the 100th century of his cricket career in a Test against Australia.

13 August - Steve Ovett wins the 1,500 metres at the European championships in Helsinki.

29 September - Muhammad Ali retains the world heavyweight title after 15 rounds against Earnie Shavers.

12 October - England beats Luxembourg 2-0 but it is unlikely they will qualify for the World Cup.

1952

14 February - Winter Olympics open in Oslo - Britain's Jeanette Altwegg wins a gold medal for figure skating on 20 February.

8 February - Elizabeth is proclaimed Queen.

29 March - Oxford wins the Boat Race in blizzard conditions.

3 May - Newcastle United became the first team since 1891 to win the FA Cup for two years running, beating Arsenal 1-0.

28 May - The Aga Khan's Tuylar wins the Derby; Mrs J. Rank's Gay Time is second, ridden by Lester Piggott, aged 16 (look to 1977).

12 June - Chris Chataway runs two miles in a record eight minutes 55.6 seconds. This was followed two years later by Roger Bannister's record-breaking four-minute mile in May 1954 at Iffley Road, Oxford.

5 July - American Maureen Connolly, "Little Mo", wins the Wimbledon singles title at 17.

19 July - Opening of 15th Olympic Games in Helsinki - with USSR competing for the 1st time since the 1917 Revolution. It would "long be remembered by the British as the one in which they very nearly failed to win a single gold medal." But 15 minutes before the closing ceremony, Colonel Harry Llewellyn and Foxhunter won the show-jumping.

22 August - Surrey wins the county cricket championship outright for the first time since 1914.

23 September - Yorkshire fast bowler Freddie Trueman, 21, wins the Cricket Writer's Club trophy as best young cricketer of 1952.

4 November - The Queen opens her first Parliament.