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Female Abt 1912 - 1938  (26 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 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
  • 1912—1912:
    The Titanic sinks
  • 18 Jan 1912—18 Jan 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 Apr 1912—14 Apr 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
2 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
  • 1913—1913:
    SA - Miners' strikes and riots on Witwatersrand. Indian riots in Natal. March of Natal Indians into Transvaal. Natives Land Act restricts black ownership of land.
  • 4 Jun 1913—4 Jun 1913:
    Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the king's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby and dies
3 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 Jun 1914—28 Jun 1914:
    Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
  • 4 Aug 1914—4 Aug 1914:
    Britain declares war on Germany, citing Belgian neutrality as reason
  • 5 Aug 1914—5 Aug 1914:
    British cableship Telconia cut through all five of Germany's undersea telegraph links to the outside world
  • 15 Aug 1914—15 Aug 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)
  • Oct 1914—Oct 1914:
    Battle of Ypres - beginning of trench warfare on western front
  • 27 Nov 1914—27 Nov 1914:
    First policewoman goes on duty in Britain
  • 16 Dec 1914—16 Dec 1914:
    German battleships bombard Hartlepool and Scarborough
4 1915 
  • 1915—1915:
    Junkers construct first fighter aeroplane
  • 1915—1915:
    First automatic telephone exchange in Britain
  • 1915—1915:
    SA - Afrikaans becomes the second official language, after English. South West Africa and South Africa linked by railway line.
  • 19 Jan 1915—19 Jan 1915:
    First Zeppelin air raid on England, over East Anglia - four killed
  • Feb 1915—Feb 1915:
    Submarine blockade of Britain starts
  • Apr 1915—Apr 1915:
    Second Battle of Ypres - poison gas used for first time
  • 25 Apr 1915—25 Apr 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
5 1916 
  • 1916—1916:
    Compulsory military service introduced in Britain
  • Feb 1916—Feb 1916:
    Battle of Verdun - appalling losses on both sides, stalemate continues
  • 24 Apr 1916—24 Apr 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 Jun 1916—5 Jun 1916:
    Sinking of HMS Hampshire and death of Kitchener
  • 3 Aug 1916—3 Aug 1916:
    Sir Roger Casement hanged at Pentonville Prison for treason
  • 15 Sep 1916—15 Sep 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 Dec 1916—7 Dec 1916:
    Lloyd-George becomes British Prime Minister of the coalition government
6 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
  • Feb 1917—Feb 1917:
    February revolution in Russia; Tsar Nicholas abdicates
  • 16 Apr 1917—16 Apr 1917:
    Lenin returns to Russia after exile
  • 17 Apr 1917—17 Apr 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)
  • Jul 1917—Jul 1917:
    Battle of Passchendaele - little gained by either side (Jul-Nov)
  • 7 Nov 1917—7 Nov 1917:
    'October' Revolution in Russia - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government; Lenin becomes Chief Commissar
  • 6 Dec 1917—6 Dec 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 Dec 1917—9 Dec 1917:
    British forces capture Jerusalem
7 1918 
  • 1918—1918:
    Vote for women over 30, men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons)
  • 1918—1918:
    War of Independence in Ireland
  • 1918—1918:
    SA - Influenza epidemic with pneumonia.
  • 18 Jan 1918—18 Jan 1918:
    Bentley Motors founded
  • 8 Mar 1918—8 Mar 1918:
    Start of world-wide 'flu pandemic
  • Jul 1918—Jul 1918:
    Second Battle of the Marne: last major German offensive in WW1 (Jul-Aug)
  • 1 Oct 1918—1 Oct 1918:
    Arab forces under Lawrence of Arabia capture Damascus
  • 11 Nov 1918—11 Nov 1918:
    Armistice signed
  • Dec 1918—Dec 1918:
    First woman elected to House of Commons, Countess Markiewicz as a Sinn Fein member refused to take her seat
8 1919 
  • 1919—1919:
    Britain adopts a 48-hour working week
  • 1919—1919:
    Sir Ernest Rutherford publishes account of splitting the atom
  • 15 Jun 1919—15 Jun 1919:
    Alcock and Brown complete first nonstop flight across the Atlantic
  • 28 Jun 1919—28 Jun 1919:
    Treaty of Versailles signed
9 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)
  • Feb 1920—Feb 1920:
    First roadside petrol filling station in UK - opened by the Automobile Association at Aldermaston on the Bath Road
10 1921 
  • 1921—1921:
    Railway Act in Britain amalgamates companies - only four remained
  • 1921—1921:
    Insulin discovery announced
  • 1921—1921:
    First birth control clinic
  • 1921—1921:
    SA - Diamond mines closed down in Kimberley, economic depression.
  • 19 Jun 1921—19 Jun 1921:
    Census: Population - England and Wales: 37.9 Million; Scotland: 4.9 Million; N Ireland: 1.25 Million
  • 6 Dec 1921—6 Dec 1921:
    Anglo-Irish Treaty signed in London, leading to the formation of the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland
11 1922 
  • 1922—1922:
    Law of Property Act - the manorial system effectively ended
  • 1 Jun 1922—1 Jun 1922:
    Royal Ulster Constabulary founded
  • Oct 1922—Oct 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)
  • 4 Oct 1922—1922:
    SA - Inauguration of Witwatersrand University.
12 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
  • 1923—1923:
    SA - Platinum discovered in Waterberg district of Transvaal.
  • 1 Jan 1923—1 Jan 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 Feb 1923—16 Feb 1923:
    Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun
  • 28 Apr 1923—28 Apr 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 Sep 1923—28 Sep 1923:
    First publication of Radio Times
13 1924 
  • 4 Jan 1924—4 Jan 1924:
    First Labour government in Britain, headed by Ramsay MacDonald
  • 5 Feb 1924—5 Feb 1924:
    Hourly Greenwich Time Signals from the Royal Greenwich Observatory were first broadcast by the BBC
  • 31 Mar 1924—31 Mar 1924:
    British Imperial Airways begins operations (formed by merger of four British airline companies - became BOAC in 1940)
  • 17 Jun 1924—1924:
    SA - General elections in South Africa.
14 1925 
  • 1925—1925:
    Britain returns to gold standard
  • 1925—1925:
    SA - South Africa reverts to gold standard. Afrikaans constituted an official language.
  • 18 Jul 1925—18 Jul 1925:
    Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
15 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 Apr 1926—21 Apr 1926:
    Princess Elizabeth born
  • 3 May 1926—3 May 1926:
    General Strike begins. Lasts until May 12 (mine workers for 6 months more)
  • 31 Oct 1926—31 Oct 1926:
    Death of Harry Houdini
16 1927 
  • 1927—1927:
    Release of the first 'talkie' film (The Jazz Singer)
  • 7 Jan 1927—7 Jan 1927:
    First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London
  • 22 Jan 1927—22 Jan 1927:
    First football broadcast by BBC (Arsenal v Sheffield United at Highbury)
  • 1 May 1927—1 May 1927:
    First cooked meals on a scheduled flight introduced by Imperial Airways from London to Paris
  • 20 May 1927—20 May 1927:
    Lindbergh makes solo flight across the Atlantic, in 33? hours
  • 31 May 1927—31 May 1927:
    Last Ford Model T rolls off assembly line
  • 24 Jul 1927—24 Jul 1927:
    The Menin Gate war memorial unveiled at Ypres
17 1928 
  • 1928—1928:
    Women over 21 get vote in Britain - same qualification for both sexes
  • 26 Apr 1928—26 Apr 1928:
    Madame Tussauds opens in London
  • 15 Sep 1928—15 Sep 1928:
    Sir Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers penicillin (results published 1929)
18 1929 
  • 1929—1929:
    Abolition of Poor Law system in Britain
  • 1929—1929:
    Minimum age for a marriage in Britain (which had been 14 for a boy and 12 for a girl) now 16 for both sexes, with parental consent (or a licence) needed for anyone under 21
  • 1929—1929:
    BBC begins experimental TV transmissions
19 1930 
  • 1930—1930:
    First Nazis elected to the German Reichstag
  • 1930—1930:
    Youth Hostel Association (YHA) founded in Britain
  • 1930—1930:
    SA - White women receive the vote.
  • 30 Jan 1930—30 Jan 1930:
    Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
  • 31 Jan 1930—31 Jan 1930:
    3M begins marketing Scotch Tape
  • 6 Mar 1930—6 Mar 1930:
    Clarence Birdseye first marketed frozen peas
  • 5 Oct 1930—5 Oct 1930:
    R101 airship disaster - British abandons airship construction
20 1931 
  • 1931—1931:
    Statute of Westminster: British Dominions become independent sovereign states
  • 1931—1931:
    Collapse of the German banking system; 3,000 banks there close
  • 14 Apr 1931—14 Apr 1931:
    Highway Code first issued
  • 26 Apr 1931—26 Apr 1931:
    Census: Population - England and Wales; 40 Million; Scotland: 4.8 Million; N Ireland: 1.24 Million (Unfortunately, the census was destroyed by fire in WW2)
  • 21 Oct 1931—21 Oct 1931:
    National Government formed to deal with economic crisis - Britain comes off gold standard
21 1932 
  • 1932—1932:
    Great Hunger March of unemployed to London
  • 1932—1932:
    Moseley founds British Union of Fascists
  • 1932—1932:
    Cockroft and Walton accelerate particles to disintegrate an atomic nucleus
  • 1932—1932:
    Sir Thomas Beecham established the London Philharmonic Orchestra
  • 1932—1932:
    SA - Airmail service between South Africa and Britain started in January. Wireless telephone communication established with Britain in February.
  • 21 May 1932—21 May 1932:
    Amelia Earhart first solo nonstop flight across Atlantic by a female pilot
  • 3 Oct 1932—3 Oct 1932:
    Iraq gains independence from Britain
  • 3 Oct 1932—3 Oct 1932:
    'The Times' introduces 'Times New Roman' typeface
22 1933 
  • 1933—1933:
    ICI scientists discover polythene
  • 1933—1933:
    Only 6 pennies minted in Britain this year
  • 1933—1933:
    SA - South Africa House opened in London. Afrikaans Bible issued.
  • 12 Nov 1933—12 Nov 1933:
    First known photos of the 'Loch Ness Monster' taken
23 1934 
  • 1934—1934:
    Hitler becomes Fuehrer of Germany
  • 1934—1934:
    SA - Union Airways acquired by government on 01 August 1936. South African Broadcasting Corporation established.
  • 18 Jul 1934—18 Jul 1934:
    King George V opens Mersey Tunnel
  • 26 Sep 1934—26 Sep 1934:
    RMS Queen Mary launched
  • 30 Nov 1934—30 Nov 1934:
    First time a steam locomotive travels at 100 mph ('Flying Scotsman')
24 1935 
  • 1935—1935:
    London adopts a 'Green Belt' scheme
  • 1935—1935:
    Land speed record of 301.13 mph by Malcolm Campbell
  • 28 Feb 1935—28 Feb 1935:
    Nylon first produced by Gerard J. Berchet of Wallace Carothers' research group at DuPont (there is no evidence to the widely-supposed story that the name derives from New York-London)
  • 12 Mar 1935—12 Mar 1935:
    Hore-Belisha introduces pedestrian crossings and speed limits for built-up areas in Britain
  • 1 Jun 1935—1 Jun 1935:
    Voluntary driving tests introduced in UK
  • 30 Jul 1935—30 Jul 1935:
    Penguin paperbacks launched
25 1936 
  • 1936—1936:
    Jet engine first tested
  • 20 Jan 1936—20 Jan 1936:
    George V dies
  • 5 May 1936—5 May 1936:
    First flight of a Spitfire
  • 24 Jul 1936—24 Jul 1936:
    'Speaking clock' service starts in UK
  • 2 Nov 1936—2 Nov 1936:
    British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, world's first public TV transmission
  • 30 Nov 1936—30 Nov 1936:
    Crystal Palace destroyed by fire
  • 5 Dec 1936—5 Dec 1936:
    Edward VIII abdicates (announced Dec 10) - popular carol that Christmas: 'Hark the Herald Angels sing Mrs Simpson's got our King'
26 1937 
  • 1937—1937:
    '999' emergency telephone call facility starts in London
  • 1937—1937:
    Billy Butlin opens his first holiday camp
  • 12 Apr 1937—12 Apr 1937:
    Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft
  • 12 May 1937—12 May 1937:
    Coronation of King George VI
  • 28 May 1937—28 May 1937:
    Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister - policy of appeasement towards Hitler
  • 3 Jun 1937—3 Jun 1937:
    Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson
  • 4 Dec 1937—4 Dec 1937:
    'The Dandy' first published
27 1938 
  • 1938—1938:
    SA - Great Trek Centenary celebrations.
  • 1938—1938:
    Principle of paid holidays established in Britain
  • 1938—1938:
    HMS Rodney first ship to be equipped with radar
  • 1938—1938:
    First practical ball-point pen produced by Hungarian journalist, Lajos Biro
  • 12 Mar 1938—12 Mar 1938:
    Germany invades and annexes Austria
  • 3 Jul 1938—3 Jul 1938:
    'Mallard' reaches 126 mph (203 km/h); still world record for a steam locomotive
  • 27 Sep 1938—27 Sep 1938:
    Largest ocean liner ever built, Queen Elizabeth launched on Clydebank
  • 29 Sep 1938—29 Sep 1938:
    Chamberlain visits Hitler in Munich - promises 'peace in our time'
  • 30 Oct 1938—30 Oct 1938:
    Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of HG Wells 'The War of the Worlds', causing panic in the USA

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