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| 1 | 1889 | - 1889—1889: Celluloid film produced
- 1889—1889: Dock Strike - docker's won their 'Docker's Tanner' 6 old pennies
- 31 March 1889—31 March 1889: Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
- 14 May 1889—14 May 1889: Children's charity NSPCC launched in London
- 3 June 1889—3 June 1889: Canadian Pacific Railway completed from coast to coast
- 28 September 1889—28 September 1889: Length of a metre defined
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| 2 | 1890 | - 4 March 1890—4 March 1890: Forth railway bridge opens - took six years to build
- 4 November 1890—4 November 1890: City & South London Railway opens - London's first deep-level tube railway
and first major railway in the world to use electric traction
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| 3 | 1891 | - 1891—1891: Primary education made free and compulsory
- 18 March 1891—18 March 1891: First telephone link between London & Paris
- 4 May 1891—4 May 1891: Fictional date when Sherlock Holmes throws Moriarty over Reichenbach Falls, then disappears for 3 years! (published in 1893)
- 24 August 1891—24 August 1891: Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera
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| 4 | 1892 | - 1892—1892: Electric oven invented
- 1892—1892: Shop Hours Act - limit 74 hours per week for under-18's
- 6 October 1892—6 October 1892: Alfred Lord Tennyson dies, aged 83, at his house Aldworth, near Haslemere
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| 5 | 1893 | - 1893—1893: Henry Ford's first car
- 1893—1893: Zip fastener invented
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| 6 | 1894 | - 1894—1894: Picture postcard introduced in Britain
- 1 January 1894—1 January 1894: Manchester Ship Canal opens
- 1 March 1894—1 March 1894: Blackpool Tower opens
- 30 June 1894—30 June 1894: Tower Bridge first opens
- 2 August 1894—2 August 1894: Death duties first introduced in Britain
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| 7 | 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
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| 8 | 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
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| 9 | 1897 | - 1897—1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector
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| 10 | 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)
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| 11 | 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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| 12 | 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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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 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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| 15 | 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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| 16 | 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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1889 - 1904 (14 years) 
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