Timeline: George MENNELL: The Housemans of Nidderdale

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George MENNELL (1895 - 1932)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1895	1895—1895: Sir Henry Wood starts Promenade Concerts in London 12 January 1895—12 January 1895: The National Trust founded in England 24 May 1895—24 May 1895: Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted 28 May 1895—28 May 1895: Oscar Wilde sent to prison 12 July 1895—12 July 1895: First recorded motor journey of any length (56 miles) in Britain 17 October 1895—17 October 1895: First people in Britain to be charged with motor offences - John Henry Knight and James Pullinger of Farnham, Surrey November 1895—November 1895: X-rays discovered
2	1896	5 April 1896—5 April 1896: First modern Olympic Games held in Athens 2 June 1896—2 June 1896: Guglielmo Marconi receives a British patent (later disputed) for the radio
3	1897	1897—1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector
4	1898	1898—1898: First photograph using artificial light 1898—1898: Zeppelin builds airship 1898—1898: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company founded 17 March 1898—17 March 1898: USS Holland launched, the first practical submarine 27 June 1898—27 June 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)
5	1899	6 March 1899—6 March 1899: Aspirin first marketed by Bayer 11 October 1899—11 October 1899: Start of Second Boer War
6	1900	1900—1900: School leaving age in Britain raised to 14 years 1900—1900: Central Line opens in London: underground is electrified 1900—1900: Escalator shown at Paris exhibition 9 February 1900—9 February 1900: Davis Cup tennis competition established 27 February 1900—27 February 1900: Labour Party formed
7	1901	1901—1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded 1901—1901: Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner 22 January 1901—22 January 1901: Queen Victoria dies - Edward VII king 2 February 1901—2 February 1901: Queen Victoria's funeral - interred beside Prince Albert in the Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park June 1901—June 1901: Denunciation of use of concentration camps by British in Boer War 2 October 1901—2 October 1901: Britain's first submarine launched 12 December 1901—12 December 1901: First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi - Morse code from Cornwall to Newfoundland
8	1902	1902—1902: Balfour's Education Act provides for secondary education 1902—1902: Cremation Act - cremation can only take place at officially recognised establishments, and with two death certificates issued 1902—1902: Marie Curie discovers radioactivity 24 May 1902—24 May 1902: Empire Day (later Commonwealth Day) first celebrated 31 May 1902—31 May 1902: Treaty of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War 9 August 1902—9 August 1902: Coronation of Edward VII
9	1903	1903—1903: Workers' Education Association (WEA) formed in Britain 1903—1903: Women's Social and Political Union formed in Britain by Emmeline Pankhurst 1903—1903: Henry Ford sets up his motor company 14 December 1903—14 December 1903: First flight of Wilbur & Orville Wright
10	1904	1904—1904: Leeds University established 8 April 1904—8 April 1904: France and UK sign the Entente Cordiale 4 May 1904—4 May 1904: America takes over construction of the Panama Canal from the French (completed 1914)
11	1905	1905—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 1905—1905: Aliens Act in Britain: Home Office controls immigration 1905—1905: Germany lays down the first Dreadnought battleship 11 April 1905—11 April 1905: Einstein publishes Special Theory of Relativity
12	1906	1906—1906: Introduction of free school meals for poor children 10 February 1906—10 February 1906: Launching of HMS Dreadnought, first turbine-driven battleship 15 March 1906—15 March 1906: Rolls-Royce Ltd registered 26 May 1906—26 May 1906: Vauxhall Bridge opened in London 20 September 1906—20 September 1906: Launching of Cunard's RMS Mauretania on the Tyne
13	1907	1907—1907: New Zealand becomes a Dominion 1907—1907: Imperial College, London, is established 1907—1907: First airship flies over London 1907—1907: Lumiere develops a process for colour photography July 1907—July 1907: Leo Hendrik Baekeland patents Bakelite, the first plastic invented that held its shape after being heated 1 August 1907—1 August 1907: Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island 9 November 1907—9 November 1907: The Cullinan Diamond presented to Edward VII on his birthday
14	1908	1908—1908: Coal Mines Regulation Act in Britain limits men to an eight hour day 1908—1908: Separate courts for juveniles established in Britain 1908—1908: Lord Baden-Powell starts the Boy Scout movement 1 July 1908—1 July 1908: SOS became effective as an international signal of distress 12 August 1908—12 August 1908: First 'Model T' Ford made
15	1909	1909—1909: Beveridge Report prompts creation of labour Exchanges 1909—1909: Peary reaches the north pole 1909—1909: First commercial manufacture of Bakelite - start of the plastic age 1 January 1909—1 January 1909: Old Age Pensions Act came into force 16 January 1909—16 January 1909: Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole 15 March 1909—15 March 1909: Selfridges department store opens in London 25 July 1909—25 July 1909: Bleriot flies across the Channel (36 minutes, Calais to Dover)
16	1910	1910—1910: Railway strike and coal strikes in Britain 1910—1910: Constitutional crisis in Britain 1910—1910: Dr Crippen caught by radio telegraphy; hanged 23 Nov at Pentonville 1910—1910: Madame Curie isolates radium 1910—1910: Halley's comet reappears 1910—1910: Tango becomes popular in North America and Europe 6 May 1910—6 May 1910: Edward VII dies - George V becomes King
17	1911	1911—1911: Parliament Act in Britain reduces the power of the House of Lords 1911—1911: British MPs receive a salary 1911—1911: First British Official Secrets Act 1911—1911: Rutherford: theory of atomic structures 1911—1911: Strikes by seamen, dock and transport workers (1911-1912) 2 April 1911—2 April 1911: Census: Population - England and Wales: 36 Million; Scotland: 4.6 Million; N Ireland: 1.25 Million 22 June 1911—22 June 1911: Coronation of George V 14 December 1911—14 December 1911: National Insurance introduced in Britain
18	1912	1912—1912: Irish Home Rule crisis grows in Britain 1912—1912: Britain nationalises the telephone system 1912—1912: Discovery of the 'Piltdown Man' - hoax, exposed in 1953 18 January 1912—18 January 1912: Captain Scott's last expedition - he and his team reach the south pole on Jan 18th; all die on the way back, their bodies found in November 14 April 1912—14 April 1912: The 'unsinkable' Titanic sinks on maiden voyage - loss of 1,513 lives 13 May 1912—13 May 1912: Royal Flying Corps (later the RAF) founded in Britain
19	1913	1913—1913: Third Irish Home Rule Bill rejected by House of Lords - threat of civil war in Ireland - formation of Ulster Volunteers to oppose Home Rule 1913—1913: Suffragette demonstrations in London - Mrs Pankhurst imprisoned 1913—1913: Trade Union Act in Britain establishes the right to use Union funds for political purposes 1913—1913: Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley of Sheffield 1913—1913: Geiger invents his counter to measure radioactivity 4 June 1913—4 June 1913: Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby and dies
20	1914	1914—1914: Irish Home Rule Act provides for a separate Parliament in Ireland; the position of Ulster to be decided after the War 1914—1914: Chaplin and De Mille make their first films 28 June 1914—28 June 1914: Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo 4 August 1914—4 August 1914: Britain declares war on Germany, citing Belgian neutrality as reason 5 August 1914—5 August 1914: British cableship Telconia cut through all five of Germany's undersea telegraph links to the outside world 15 August 1914—15 August 1914: Panama Canal opened, the Canal cement boat 'Ancon' making the first official transit (plans for a grand opening were cancelled due to the start of WW1) October 1914—October 1914: Battle of Ypres - beginning of trench warfare on western front 27 November 1914—27 November 1914: First policewoman goes on duty in Britain 16 December 1914—16 December 1914: German battleships bombard Hartlepool and Scarborough
21	1915	1915—1915: Junkers construct first fighter aeroplane 1915—1915: First automatic telephone exchange in Britain 19 January 1915—19 January 1915: First Zeppelin air raid on England, over East Anglia - four killed February 1915—February 1915: Submarine blockade of Britain starts April 1915—April 1915: Second Battle of Ypres - poison gas used for first time 25 April 1915—25 April 1915: Gallipoli campaign starts (declared ANZAC Day in 1916) 7 May 1915—7 May 1915: RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off coast of Ireland - 1,198 died 16 May 1915—16 May 1915: First meeting of a British WI (Women's Institute) took place in Llanfairpwll (aka Llanfair PG), Anglesey
22	1916	1916—1916: Compulsory military service introduced in Britain February 1916—February 1916: Battle of Verdun - appalling losses on both sides, stalemate continues 24 April 1916—24 April 1916: Easter Rising in Ireland - after the leaders are executed, public opinion backs independence 21 May 1916—21 May 1916: First use of Daylight Saving Time in UK 31 May 1916—31 May 1916: Battle of Jutland - only major naval battle between the British and German fleets 5 June 1916—5 June 1916: Sinking of HMS Hampshire and death of Kitchener 3 August 1916—3 August 1916: Sir Roger Casement hanged at Pentonville Prison for treason 15 September 1916—15 September 1916: First use of tanks in battle, but of limited effect (Battle of the Somme 1 July to 18 Nov: over 1 million casualties) 7 December 1916—7 December 1916: Lloyd-George becomes British Prime Minister of the coalition government
23	1917	1917—1917: Battle of Cambrai - first use of massed tanks, but effect more psychological than actual 1917—1917: Ministry of Labour is established in Britain February 1917—February 1917: February revolution in Russia; Tsar Nicholas abdicates 16 April 1917—16 April 1917: Lenin returns to Russia after exile 17 April 1917—17 April 1917: USA declares war on Germany 26 May 1917—26 May 1917: George V changes surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor (Royal proclamation on 17 July) July 1917—July 1917: Battle of Passchendaele - little gained by either side (Jul-Nov) 7 November 1917—7 November 1917: 'October' Revolution in Russia - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government; Lenin becomes Chief Commissar 6 December 1917—6 December 1917: Halifax (Nova Scotia) Explosion, one of the world's largest artificial non-nuclear explosions to date: a ship loaded with wartime explosives blew up after a collision, obliterating buildings and structures within two square kilometres of the explosion 9 December 1917—9 December 1917: British forces capture Jerusalem
24	1918	1918—1918: Vote for women over 30, men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons) 1918—1918: War of Independence in Ireland 18 January 1918—18 January 1918: Bentley Motors founded 8 March 1918—8 March 1918: Start of world-wide 'flu pandemic July 1918—July 1918: Second Battle of the Marne: last major German offensive in WW1 (Jul-Aug) 1 October 1918—1 October 1918: Arab forces under Lawrence of Arabia capture Damascus 11 November 1918—11 November 1918: Armistice signed December 1918—December 1918: First woman elected to House of Commons, Countess Markiewicz as a Sinn Fein member refused to take her seat
25	1919	1919—1919: Britain adopts a 48-hour working week 1919—1919: Sir Ernest Rutherford publishes account of splitting the atom 15 June 1919—15 June 1919: Alcock and Brown complete first nonstop flight across the Atlantic 28 June 1919—28 June 1919: Treaty of Versailles signed
26	1920	1920—1920: Regular cross-channel air service starts 1920—1920: Marconi opens a radio broadcasting station in Britain 1920—1920: Thompson patents his machine gun (Tommy gun) February 1920—February 1920: First roadside petrol filling station in UK - opened by the Automobile Association at Aldermaston on the Bath Road
27	1921	1921—1921: Railway Act in Britain amalgamates companies - only four remained 1921—1921: Insulin discovery announced 1921—1921: First birth control clinic 19 June 1921—19 June 1921: Census: Population - England and Wales: 37.9 Million; Scotland: 4.9 Million; N Ireland: 1.25 Million 6 December 1921—6 December 1921: Anglo-Irish Treaty signed in London, leading to the formation of the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland
28	1922	1922—1922: Law of Property Act - the manorial system effectively ended 1 June 1922—1 June 1922: Royal Ulster Constabulary founded October 1922—October 1922: BBC established as a monopoly, and begins transmissions in November (2LO in London on 14 Nov; 5IT in Birmingham and 2ZY in Manchester on 15 Nov)
29	1923	1923—1923: Roads in Great Britain classified with A and B numbers 1923—1923: Hubble shows there are galaxies beyond the Milky Way 1923—1923: First American broadcasts heard in Britain 1 January 1923—1 January 1923: The majority of the railway companies in Great Britain grouped into four main companies, the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, LMSR - lasted until nationalisation in 1948 16 February 1923—16 February 1923: Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun 28 April 1923—28 April 1923: First Wembley cup final (West Ham 0, Bolton 2) - 'I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles ' popular song of the time became the West Ham anthem 28 September 1923—28 September 1923: First publication of Radio Times
30	1924	4 January 1924—4 January 1924: First Labour government in Britain, headed by Ramsay MacDonald 5 February 1924—5 February 1924: Hourly Greenwich Time Signals from the Royal Greenwich Observatory were first broadcast by the BBC 31 March 1924—31 March 1924: British Imperial Airways begins operations (formed by merger of four British airline companies - became BOAC in 1940)
31	1925	1925—1925: Britain returns to gold standard 18 July 1925—18 July 1925: Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
32	1926	1926—1926: First public demonstration of television (TV) by John Logie Baird 1926—1926: Adoption of children is legalised in Britain 1926—1926: Kodak produces 16mm movie film 1926—1926: Walt Disney arrives in Hollywood 21 April 1926—21 April 1926: Princess Elizabeth born 3 May 1926—3 May 1926: General Strike begins. Lasts until May 12 (mine workers for 6 months more) 31 October 1926—31 October 1926: Death of Harry Houdini
33	1927	1927—1927: Release of the first 'talkie' film (The Jazz Singer) 7 January 1927—7 January 1927: First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London 22 January 1927—22 January 1927: First football broadcast by BBC (Arsenal v Sheffield United at Highbury) 1 May 1927—1 May 1927: First cooked meals on a scheduled flight introduced by Imperial Airways from London to Paris 20 May 1927—20 May 1927: Lindbergh makes solo flight across the Atlantic, in 33? hours 31 May 1927—31 May 1927: Last Ford Model T rolls off assembly line 24 July 1927—24 July 1927: The Menin Gate war memorial unveiled at Ypres
34	1928	1928—1928: Women over 21 get vote in Britain - same qualification for both sexes 26 April 1928—26 April 1928: Madame Tussauds opens in London 15 September 1928—15 September 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers penicillin (results published 1929)
35	1929	1929—1929: Abolition of Poor Law system in Britain 1929—1929: Minimum age for a marriage in Britain (which had been 14 for a boy and 12 for a girl) now 16 for both sexes, with parental consent (or a licence) needed for anyone under 21 1929—1929: BBC begins experimental TV transmissions
36	1930	1930—1930: First Nazis elected to the German Reichstag 1930—1930: Youth Hostel Association (YHA) founded in Britain 30 January 1930—30 January 1930: Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany 31 January 1930—31 January 1930: 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape 6 March 1930—6 March 1930: Clarence Birdseye first marketed frozen peas 5 October 1930—5 October 1930: R101 airship disaster - British abandons airship construction
37	1931	1931—1931: Statute of Westminster: British Dominions become independent sovereign states 1931—1931: Collapse of the German banking system; 3,000 banks there close 14 April 1931—14 April 1931: Highway Code first issued 26 April 1931—26 April 1931: Census: Population - England and Wales; 40 Million; Scotland: 4.8 Million; N Ireland: 1.24 Million (Unfortunately, the census was destroyed by fire in WW2) 21 October 1931—21 October 1931: National Government formed to deal with economic crisis - Britain comes off gold standard
38	1932	1932—1932: Great Hunger March of unemployed to London 1932—1932: Moseley founds British Union of Fascists 1932—1932: Cockroft and Walton accelerate particles to disintegrate an atomic nucleus 1932—1932: Sir Thomas Beecham established the London Philharmonic Orchestra 21 May 1932—21 May 1932: Amelia Earhart first solo nonstop flight across Atlantic by a female pilot 3 October 1932—3 October 1932: Iraq gains independence from Britain 3 October 1932—3 October 1932: 'The Times' introduces 'Times New Roman' typeface