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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 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
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| 3 | 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)
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| 4 | 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
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| 5 | 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
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| 6 | 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
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| 7 | 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
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| 8 | 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
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| 9 | 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
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| 10 | 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
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| 11 | 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
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| 12 | 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
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| 13 | 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
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| 14 | 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
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| 15 | 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
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| 16 | 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)
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| 17 | 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
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| 18 | 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)
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| 19 | 1925 | - 1925—1925: Britain returns to gold standard
- 18 July 1925—18 July 1925: Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
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| 20 | 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
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1907 - 1926 (19 years) 
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