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	Date	Event(s)
1	1879	18 Sep 1879: Blackpool illuminations switched on for first time
2	1880	Education Act: schooling compulsory for 5-10 year olds Mosquito found to be the carrier of malaria 2 Aug 1880: Greenwich Mean Time adopted throughout UK
3	1881	Postal Orders introduced Flogging abolished in Army and Royal Navy Sep 1881: Godalming in Surrey became the first town in England to have a public electricity supply installed (but in 1884 it reverted to gas lighting until 1904) 26 Oct 1881: Gunfight at OK Corral
4	1882	Fourth Eddystone Lighthouse completed
5	1883	Statue of Liberty presented to USA by France 24 May 1883: Brooklyn Bridge, New York opens (crosses East River) 1 Aug 1883: Parcel post starts in Britain 27 Aug 1883: Eruption of Krakatoa near Java â€“ 30,000 killed by tidal wave
6	1884	31 May 1884: John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes 13 Oct 1884: Greenwich made prime meridian of the world
7	1885	Carl Benz builds the 'Motorwagen', a single-cylinder motor car Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle Eastman makes first coated photographic paper Canadian Pacific Railway completed Mar 1885: First UK cremation in modern times took place at Woking 5 Sep 1885: The first train runs through the Severn Tunnel 29 Sep 1885: First electric tramcar used at Blackpool
8	1886	20 Jan 1886: Mersey railway (under Mersey) opened by Prince of Wales May 1886: Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage later named "Coca-Cola" 29 May 1886: Putney Bridge opens in London
9	1887	Daimler produces a four-wheeled motor car
10	1888	Convention of Constantinople guarantees free maritime passage through Suez Canal in war and peace Jack the Ripper active in east London during the latter half of the year County Councils set up in Britain Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre First box camera â€“ George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film 20 Mar 1888: Football League formed
11	1889	Celluloid film produced Dock Strike â€“ docker's won their "Docker's Tanner", 6 old pennies 31 Mar 1889: Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution) 14 May 1889: Children's charity NSPCC launched in London 3 Jun 1889: Canadian Pacific Railway completed from coast to coast 28 Sep 1889: Length of a metre defined
12	1890	4 Mar 1890: Forth railway bridge opens â€“ took six years to build 4 Nov 1890: City & South London Railway opens â€“ London's first deep-level tube railway and first major railway in the world to use electric traction
13	1891	Primary education made free and compulsory 18 Mar 1891: First telephone link between London & Paris 4 May 1891: Fictional date when Sherlock Holmes throws Moriarty over Reichenbach Falls, then disappears for 3 years! (published in 1893) 24 Aug 1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera
14	1892	Electric oven invented Shop Hours Act â€“ limit 74 hours per week for under-18's 6 Oct 1892: Alfred Lord Tennyson dies, aged 83, at his house Aldworth, near Haslemere
15	1893	Henry Ford's first car Zip fastener invented
16	1894	Picture postcard introduced in Britain 1 Jan 1894: Manchester Ship Canal opens 1 Mar 1894: Blackpool Tower opens 30 Jun 1894: Tower Bridge first opens 2 Aug 1894: Death duties first introduced in Britain
17	1895	Sir Henry Wood starts Promenade Concerts in London 12 Jan 1895: The National Trust founded in England 24 May 1895: Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted 28 May 1895: Oscar Wilde sent to prison 12 Jul 1895: First recorded motor journey of any length (56 miles) in Britain 17 Oct 1895: First people in Britain to be charged with motor offences â€“ John Henry Knight and James Pullinger of Farnham, Surrey Nov 1895: X-rays discovered
18	1896	5 Apr 1896: First modern Olympic Games held in Athens 2 Jun 1896: Guglielmo Marconi receives a British patent (later disputed) for the radio
19	1897	Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector
20	1898	First photograph using artificial light Zeppelin builds airship Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company founded 17 Mar 1898: USS Holland launched, the first practical submarine 27 Jun 1898: The first solo circumnavigation of the globe completed at Rhode island by Joshua Slocum in Spray (started from Boston, Mass on Apr 24, 1895)
21	1899	6 Mar 1899: Aspirin first marketed by Bayer 11 Oct 1899: Start of Second Boer War
22	1900	School leaving age in Britain raised to 14 years Central Line opens in London: underground is electrified Escalator shown at Paris exhibition 9 Feb 1900: Davis Cup tennis competition established 27 Feb 1900: Labour Party formed
23	1901	Commonwealth of Australia founded Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner 22 Jan 1901: Queen Victoria dies â€“ Edward VII king 2 Feb 1901: Queen Victoria's funeral â€“ interred beside Prince Albert in the Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park Jun 1901: Denunciation of use of concentration camps by British in Boer War 2 Oct 1901: Britain's first submarine launched 12 Dec 1901: First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi â€“ Morse code from Cornwall to Newfoundland
24	1902	Balfour's Education Act provides for secondary education Cremation Act â€“ cremation can only take place at officially recognised establishments, and with two death certificates issued Marie Curie discovers radioactivity 24 May 1902: Empire Day (later Commonwealth Day) first celebrated 31 May 1902: Treaty of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War 9 Aug 1902: Coronation of Edward VII
25	1903	Workers' Education Association (WEA) formed in Britain Women's Social and Political Union formed in Britain by Emmeline Pankhurst Henry Ford sets up his motor company 14 Dec 1903: First flight of Wilbur & Orville Wright
26	1904	Leeds University established 8 Apr 1904: France and UK sign the Entente Cordiale 4 May 1904: America takes over construction of the Panama Canal from the French (completed 1914)
27	1905	The title 'Prime Minister' noted in a royal warrant for the first time â€“ placed the Prime Minister in order of precedence in Britain immediately after the Archbishop of York Aliens Act in Britain: Home Office controls immigration Germany lays down the first Dreadnought battleship 11 Apr 1905: Einstein publishes Special Theory of Relativity
28	1906	Introduction of free school meals for poor children 10 Feb 1906: Launching of HMS Dreadnought, first turbine-driven battleship 15 Mar 1906: Rolls-Royce Ltd registered 26 May 1906: Vauxhall Bridge opened in London 20 Sep 1906: Launching of Cunard's RMS Mauretania on the Tyne
29	1907	New Zealand becomes a Dominion Imperial College, London, is established First airship flies over London Lumiere develops a process for colour photography Jul 1907: Leo Hendrik Baekeland patents Bakelite, the first plastic invented that held its shape after being heated 1 Aug 1907: Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island 9 Nov 1907: The Cullinan Diamond presented to Edward VII on his birthday
30	1908	Coal Mines Regulation Act in Britain limits men to an eight hour day Separate courts for juveniles established in Britain Lord Baden-Powell starts the Boy Scout movement 1 Jul 1908: SOS became effective as an international signal of distress 12 Aug 1908: First 'Model T' Ford made
31	1909	Beveridge Report prompts creation of labour Exchanges Peary reaches the north pole First commercial manufacture of Bakelite â€“ start of the plastic age 1 Jan 1909: Old Age Pensions Act came into force 16 Jan 1909: Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole 15 Mar 1909: Selfridges department store opens in London 25 Jul 1909: Bleriot flies across the Channel (36 minutes, Calais to Dover)
32	1910	Railway strike and coal strikes in Britain Constitutional crisis in Britain Dr Crippen caught by radio telegraphy; hanged 23 Nov at Pentonville Madame Curie isolates radium Halley's comet reappears Tango becomes popular in North America and Europe 6 May 1910: Edward VII dies â€“ George V becomes King

Jane Henderson GREIG 1879 - 1910

Jane Henderson GREIG
1879 - 1910