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   Date  Event(s)
1 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
2 1901 
  • Commonwealth of Australia founded
  • Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner
  • 22 Jan 1901: Queen Victoria dies – Edward VII king
  • 2 Feb 1901: Queen Victoria's funeral – 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 – Morse code from Cornwall to Newfoundland
3 1902 
  • Balfour's Education Act provides for secondary education
  • Cremation Act – 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
4 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
5 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)
6 1905 
  • The title 'Prime Minister' noted in a royal warrant for the first time – 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
7 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
8 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
9 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
10 1909 
  • Beveridge Report prompts creation of labour Exchanges
  • Peary reaches the north pole
  • First commercial manufacture of Bakelite – 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)
11 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 – George V becomes King
12 1911 
  • Parliament Act in Britain reduces the power of the House of Lords
  • British MPs receive a salary
  • First British Official Secrets Act
  • Rutherford: theory of atomic structures
  • Strikes by seamen, dock and transport workers (1911-1912)
  • 2 Apr 1911: Census: Population - England and Wales: 36 Million; Scotland: 4.6 Million; N Ireland: 1.25 Million
  • 22 Jun 1911: Coronation of George V
  • 14 Dec 1911: National Insurance introduced in Britain
  

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