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The Housemans of Nidderdale
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 1899 - 1907 (8 years) Submit Photo / Document
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| 1 | 1899 | - 6 March 1899—6 March 1899: Aspirin first marketed by Bayer
- 11 October 1899—11 October 1899: Start of Second Boer War
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| 2 | 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
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| 3 | 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
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| 4 | 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
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| 5 | 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
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| 6 | 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)
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| 7 | 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
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| 8 | 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
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| 9 | 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
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