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The Housemans of Nidderdale
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 1891 - 1897 (6 years) Submit Photo / Document
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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 1893 | - 1893—1893: Henry Ford's first car
- 1893—1893: Zip fastener invented
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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 1897 | - 1897—1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector
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