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Female 1901 - 1904  (3 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 1899 
  • 11 Oct 1899—31 May 1902:
    SA - The Second Anglo-Boer War.
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
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
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
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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