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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 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
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| 2 | 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
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| 3 | 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
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| 4 | 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
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| 5 | 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
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| 6 | 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
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| 7 | 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
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| 8 | 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
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| 9 | 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.
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