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The Housemans of Nidderdale
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 1901 - Abt 1902 (1 year) Submit Photo / Document
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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 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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