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Female 1905 - 1910  (5 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 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
2 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
3 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
4 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
  • 1908—1908:
    SA - Second Asiatic Registration Act passed in Transvaal, beginning of passive resistance campaigns.
  • 1 Jul 1908—1 Jul 1908:
    SOS became effective as an international signal of distress
  • 12 Aug 1908—12 Aug 1908:
    First 'Model T' Ford made
5 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
  • 1909—1909:
    SA - S.S. Waratah lost between Durban and Cape Town.
  • 1 Jan 1909—1 Jan 1909:
    Old Age Pensions Act came into force
  • 16 Jan 1909—16 Jan 1909:
    Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
  • 15 Mar 1909—15 Mar 1909:
    Selfridges department store opens in London
  • 25 Jul 1909—25 Jul 1909:
    Bleriot flies across the Channel (36 minutes, Calais to Dover)
6 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
  • 1910—1910:
    SA - Laying of foundation stone of Union Buildings in Pretoria.
  • 1910—1910:
    SA - Union of South Africa established
  • 6 May 1910—6 May 1910:
    Edward VII dies - George V becomes King
  • 31 May 1910—1910:
    SA - Union of South Africa established by joining the British colonies and the Boer republics

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