1901 - 1907 (6 years)
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| 1 | 1899 | - 11 Oct 1899—31 May 1902:
SA - The Second Anglo-Boer War.
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| 2 | 1901 | - 1901—1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded
- 1901—1901:
Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner
- 1901—1901:
SA - Bubonic plague in Cape Town.
- 1901—1902:
SA - 200 teachers arrive from England to teach in the British concentration camps, followed by 100 teachers from Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
- 22 Jan 1901—22 Jan 1901:
Queen Victoria dies - Edward VII king
- 2 Feb 1901—2 Feb 1901:
Queen Victoria's funeral - interred beside Prince Albert in the Frogmore
Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park
- Jun 1901—Jun 1901:
Denunciation of use of concentration camps by British in Boer War
- 2 Oct 1901—2 Oct 1901:
Britain's first submarine launched
- 12 Dec 1901—12 Dec 1901:
First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi - Morse
code from Cornwall to Newfoundland
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| 3 | 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
- 31 Feb 1902—1902:
SA - Peace of Vereeniging signed, ending Anglo-Boer War.
- 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 Aug 1902—9 Aug 1902:
Coronation of Edward VII
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| 4 | 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 Dec 1903—14 Dec 1903:
First flight of Wilbur & Orville Wright
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| 5 | 1904 | - 1904—1904:
Leeds University established
- 1904—1904:
SA - Chinese labourers recruited for the Transvaal mines.
- 8 Apr 1904—8 Apr 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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| 6 | 1905 | - 1905—1905:
The title 'Prime Minister' noted in a royal warrant for the first time - placed the Prime
Minister in order of precedence in Britain immediately after the Archbishop of York
- 1905—1905:
Aliens Act in Britain: Home Office controls immigration
- 1905—1905:
Germany lays down the first Dreadnought battleship
- 11 Apr 1905—11 Apr 1905:
Einstein publishes Special Theory of Relativity
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| 7 | 1906 | - 1906—1906:
Introduction of free school meals for poor children
- 10 Feb 1906—10 Feb 1906:
Launching of HMS Dreadnought, first turbine-driven battleship
- 15 Mar 1906—15 Mar 1906:
Rolls-Royce Ltd registered
- 26 May 1906—26 May 1906:
Vauxhall Bridge opened in London
- 20 Sep 1906—20 Sep 1906:
Launching of Cunard's RMS Mauretania on the Tyne
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| 8 | 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
- 1907—1907:
SA - Asiatic Registration Act passed in Transvaal, Indians oppose it.
- Jul 1907—Jul 1907:
Leo Hendrik Baekeland patents Bakelite, the first plastic invented that held its
shape after being heated
- 1 Aug 1907—1 Aug 1907:
Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island
- 9 Nov 1907—9 Nov 1907:
The Cullinan Diamond presented to Edward VII on his birthday
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