Today in United Kingdom History (Part 3)
Sub-Topics: Ascension Islands - Bermuda - Cayman Islands - England - Falkland Islands - Gibraltar - Guernsey - Isle of Man - Jersey - Montserrat - Northern Ireland - Scotland - Turks and Caicos Islands - Virgin Islands (British) - Wales
Historical Events
Results 201 - 300 of 1,821
1796-06-01 - Last of Britain's troops withdraws from US
1797-02-18 - Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby.
1797-02-21 - Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to British
1797-02-22 - Last Invasion of Britain: 1797 The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1797-02-25 - Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain
1797-10-11 - British naval forces defeat Dutch off Camperdown, Netherlands
1798-05-24 - Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
1798-05-26 - British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara
1798-08-02 - British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
1798-09-03 - Weeklong battle of St. George's Caye begun between Spanish and British off the coast of Belize.
1798-09-10 - British Honduras beats Spain in battle of St George
1799-01-09 - British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon.
1799-05-04 - Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
1799-10-09 - British frigate HMS Lutine sinks off Dutch coast
1800-07-10 - The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.
1800-09-05 - Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops
1800-09-05 - Malta is conquered by Great Britain.
1801-01-01 - Ireland & Great Britain (England & Scotland) form United Kingdom
1801-03-08 - British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1801-03-10 - First census in Great Britain
1801-04-02 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen - The British destroy the Danish fleet.
1801-07-06 - Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British
1801-07-12 - Battle at Algeciras: British fleet beats French & Spanish
1803-05-18 - Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy & Switzerland
1803-07-05 - The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
1803-09-23 - Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army
1804-01-31 - British vice-admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao
1806-01-10 - Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
1806-01-19 - Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope
1806-06-27 - Buenos Aires captured by British
1806-07-10 - The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
1806-10-08 - British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
1807-02-03 - A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay.
1807-02-19 - British squadron under Adm Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle
1807-03-25 - British Parliament abolishes slave trade
1807-03-25 - George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs
1807-06-22 - British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
1807-06-28 - British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina
1807-12-22 - Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
1808-01-01 - Sierra Leone becomes a British colony
1808-08-21 - Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
1809-01-05 - Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France
1809-01-12 - British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from French (until 1814)
1809-01-16 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
1809-07-27 - Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army
1810-12-22 - British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1811-02-11 - Pres Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years
1812-01-19 - Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.
1812-06-18 - War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain
1812-08-19 - US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere
1812-10-25 - US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian
1813-01-28 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1813-06-24 - Battle of Beaver Dam-British & Indian forces defeat US forces
1813-07-05 - War of 1812: Three weeks of British raids on Fort Schlosser, Black Rock and Plattsburgh, New York begin.
1813-07-31 - British invade Plattsburgh NY
1813-08-14 - British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus
1813-09-10 - Comm Oliver H Perry defeats British in Battle of Lake Erie
1813-10-05 - Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
1813-10-23 - The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).
1813-12-18 - British take Ft Niagara in War of 1812
1813-12-29 - British burn Buffalo, NY during War of 1812
1814-03-30 - Britain & allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1814-05-05 - British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY
1814-05-11 - Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh
1814-07-05 - Americans defeat British & Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
1814-07-18 - British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
1814-07-25 - Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy's Lane); Americans defeat British
1814-08-13 - Cape of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch
1814-08-24 - British forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks
1814-08-25 - British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books
1814-09-11 - Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; American Navy defeats British
1814-12-24 - Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed
1815-03-02 - Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King.
1815-07-17 - Napoleonic Wars: In France, Napoleon surrenders at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime to British forces.
1816-08-14 - Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha
1818-01-02 - The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.
1818-06-03 - Maratha Wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends
1818-10-20 - US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
1819-02-19 - British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
1822-07-08 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
1824-01-21 - Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa
1824-01-22 - Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1824-03-04 - The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" was founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.
1824-03-05 - First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1825-02-22 - Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
1825-06-22 - British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
1827-01-17 - Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander
1829-03-22 - The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1829-04-25 - Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
1829-12-04 - Britain abolished "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
1830-11-22 - Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1831-04-09 - Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain & Spain
1831-09-08 - William IV is crowned King of Great Britain.
1832-03-23 - British Parliament passes reform bill
1833-01-01 - British government demands Falkland islands
1833-01-02 - Re-establishment of British rule on the Falklands.
1833-01-03 - Britain seizes control of Falkland Islands in South Atlantic
1833-08-23 - Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
1834-08-01 - Slavery abolished through out the British Empire
1834-10-28 - The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
Famous Birthdays
Results 201 - 300 of 2,319
1833-01-21 - Norman Willis, union leader (Britain's Trades Union Congress)
1833-02-05 - John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess mag)
1834-01-30 - Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician
1834-03-06 - George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
1834-07-10 - James A McNeill Whistler, US/British painter (Whistler's Mother)
1835-12-28 - Archibald Geikie, British geologist
1836-01-08 - Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter/husband of Laura Epps
1836-03-20 - Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (d. 1919)
1836-05-24 - Joseph Rowntree, British social reformer (d. 1925)
1836-07-08 - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister of Commerce/Colonies
1836-09-07 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British PM (L) (1905-08)
1836-11-30 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
1838-03-18 - Randal Cremer, Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
1838-05-11 - Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author (d. 1912)
1838-07-20 - George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
1838-12-03 - Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement
1840-10-09 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1843-01-08 - Frederick Abberline, British police investigator (d. 1929)
1843-04-25 - Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (d. 1878)
1843-06-30 - Ernest Mason Satow, British diplomat (d. 1929)
1844-12-01 - Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain/Ireland
1845-02-14 - Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion (1866)
1846-01-30 - Francis H Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism)
1846-02-10 - Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
1846-05-25 - Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1923)
1847-05-07 - Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95)
1847-12-07 - George Grossmith, British actor and writer (d. 1912)
1848-07-25 - Arthur Earl Balfour, (C), British PM (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration)
1849-04-06 - John William Waterhouse, British painter (d. 1917)
1849-08-23 - William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
1850-03-10 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906)
1850-03-24 - Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
1850-04-13 - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (d. 1917)
1851-09-04 - John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house member
1852-09-12 - Hubert H Asquith, premier Great Britain (L, 1908-16)
1852-09-12 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1928)
1852-09-28 - John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Earl of Ypres/British field marshall
1853-01-16 - Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander (d. 1947)
1854-01-01 - James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)
1854-03-04 - Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
1854-03-14 - John Lane, British publisher (d. 1925)
1854-03-23 - Alfred Milner, Giessen Germany, British governor (Cape colony)
1854-06-13 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine)
1854-08-02 - Francis Marion Crawford, British author
1854-12-23 - Henry B. Guppy, British botanist (d. 1926)
1855-05-24 - Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright
1855-09-07 - William Friese-Greene, British photographer (d. 1921)
1855-09-09 - Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist
1855-10-14 - George Edwardes, British composer (Gaiety Girl)
1856-07-21 - Harry A P Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania)
1856-07-23 - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindi leader
1856-07-30 - Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor (Life of A Smith)
1856-08-15 - J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
1856-08-17 - Violet Paget, [Vernon Lee], British author (Satan the master)
1857-03-16 - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (d. 1936)
1857-11-27 - Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1952)
1858-01-22 - Frederick Lugard, British captain/baron (Congo)
1858-06-19 - Charles Haddon George Alexander, [George Samson], British actor
1858-07-31 - Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist (d. 1936)
1858-08-02 - William Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest)
1858-09-16 - Andrew Bonar Law, British PM (C, 1922-23)
1859-06-08 - Smith Wigglesworth, British religious figure (d. 1947)
1859-12-05 - John Jellicoe, British admiral (d. 1935)
1860-08-07 - Alan Leo, British astrologer (d. 1917)
1860-10-04 - Sidney Paget, British illustrator (Sherlock Holmes)
1861-01-03 - William Renshaw, British champion tennis player (d. 1904)
1861-06-19 - Douglas Haig, British fieldmarshal (Sudan, WW I)
1862-01-03 - Sir Matthew Nathan, British Governor of Queensland and other places (d. 1939)
1862-02-17 - Edward German (Jones), Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer
1862-09-11 - Julian Byng, British army officer (d. 1935)
1863-01-17 - David Lloyd George, (L-PM-Britain, 1916-22)
1863-03-04 - Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
1863-05-31 - Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer
1863-09-13 - Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel 1934)
1863-10-16 - Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925)
1864-03-12 - W. H. R. Rivers, British psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1864-06-04 - Nassau William Senior, British economist
1864-07-18 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (d. 1937)
1864-08-16 - Ferdinand C S Schiller, British philosopher (Riddles of the Sphinx)
1864-10-17 - Elinor Glyn, British novelist (3 Weeks)
1865-01-03 - Henry Lytton, British actor and opera singer (d. 1936)
1865-06-03 - George V, Saksen-Coburg [Windsor], King of Great Britain (1910-36)
1865-06-03 - George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)
1865-06-26 - George C Pearce, actor (Country Kid, British Agent, Valiant)
1865-08-27 - Emmuska Orczy, British writer (Scarlet Pimpernel)
1866-04-17 - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (d. 1927)
1866-10-12 - James Ramsay MacDonald, (L) British PM (1924, 1929-35)
1867-01-11 - Edward B. Titchener, British psychologist. (d. 1927)
1867-05-26 - Mary, queen of Great Britain/North Ireland
1867-05-26 - Mary of Teck, wife of George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1953)
1867-08-02 - Ernest C Dowson, British poet
1867-08-03 - Stanley Baldwin, (C) British PM (1923-24, 1924-29, 1935-37)
1868-02-26 - Leonard Borwick, British(?) pianist
1868-06-06 - Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition
1868-07-06 - Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
1868-07-14 - Gertrude M L Bell, British archaeologist (Desert & The Sown)
1868-08-12 - Frederick JNT lord Chelmsford, viceroy of British-India (1916-21)
1869-03-14 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)
1869-03-18 - [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, British PM (C, 1937-40)
1869-12-16 - Albert F Pollard, British historian (Dict of natural biography)
Famous Deaths
Results 201 - 300 of 985
1855-08-16 - Henry Colburn, British publisher (b. ?)
1856-08-29 - Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, British Christian writer (b. 1778)
1857-06-08 - Douglas William Jerrold, British playwright and satirist (b. 1803)
1858-11-17 - Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
1858-12-16 - Richard Bright, British Dr (Bright's disease/nephritis), dies at 69
1859-01-28 - Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1782)
1859-09-15 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (b. 1806)
1860-10-12 - Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73
1860-10-31 - Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (b. 1775)
1860-12-02 - Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (b. 1796)
1862-02-11 - Elizabeth Siddal, British poet and artist (b. 1829)
1862-06-17 - Charles J Canning, English 1st viceroy of British-Indies, dies at 49
1863-08-14 - Colin Campbell, British officer (Cawnpore), dies at 70
1864-09-15 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer (b. 1827)
1864-12-08 - George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra (b. 1815)
1865-04-28 - Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787)
1865-12-24 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (b. 1793)
1867-04-19 - Robert Smirke, British architect, dies
1868-05-07 - Henry Peter Brougham, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1778)
1868-05-26 - Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution
1871-03-18 - Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)
1871-05-12 - John F W Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies
1872-11-28 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
1872-12-24 - William John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (b. 1820)
1873-05-01 - David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60
1875-02-22 - Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), dies at 77
1875-11-02 - JWW Birch, 1st British resident of Perak Malakka, murdered
1877-06-03 - Frank Pocock, British explorer, drowned in the Congo
1877-10-28 - Robert Swinhoe, British naturalist (b. 1835)
1878-05-28 - John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
1879-01-22 - Anthony Durnford, British colonel, dies in battle
1879-01-22 - George Shepstone, British political affiliate, dies in battle
1879-04-18 - Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies
1881-02-27 - George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at 46
1882-01-20 - John Linnell, British painter/minaturist/engraver, dies
1883-11-05 - William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle
1883-11-18 - Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies
1888-08-17 - James Jameson, British nature investigator (Congo), dies
1889-09-23 - Wilkie Collins, British author (b. 1824)
1890-10-20 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
1892-01-14 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, British prince (b. 1864)
1892-04-26 - Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791)
1892-05-15 - Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered
1893-01-02 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (b. 1805)
1893-01-15 - Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (b. 1809)
1893-06-23 - Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British-born South African statesman (b. 1817)
1893-12-03 - Allan Wilson, British/Rhodesian major, dies in battle
1895-01-24 - Lord Randolph Churchill, British politician (b. 1849)
1895-03-05 - Henry Rawlinson, British soldier and scholar (b. 1810)
1895-05-15 - Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack), dies at 75
1895-10-25 - Charles Halle, British pianist, dies
1895-12-30 - LP Hartley, British writer, dies
1896-04-22 - Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812)
1896-10-21 - James Henry Greathead, British engineer (b. 1844)
1896-11-26 - Coventry Patmore, British poet (b. 1823)
1896-12-27 - John Brown, British manufacturer (b. 1816)
1897-01-12 - Isaac Pitman, British inventor (Pitman Shorthand) (b. 1813)
1897-02-06 - Ebenezer C Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase & Fable), dies
1897-06-22 - Ralph Abercromby, British meteorologist, dies at about 54
1898-01-03 - James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (vacuum pump), dies at 70
1898-01-16 - Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
1898-05-19 - William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809)
1898-09-02 - Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire
1899-10-23 - W Penn Symons, British gen-maj, dies in battle
1899-10-28 - C Grant B Allen, Canada, British writer (Woman Who Did), dies
1899-12-11 - Andrew "Andy" Wauchope, British general-major, dies in battle
1899-12-11 - Lord Winchester, British marquis/major, dies in battle
1900-04-20 - Mebel Mercer, popular British singer, dies
1900-11-06 - PWJ Le Gallais, British lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville
1901-01-22 - Victoria, [Alexandrine], Britain's Queen (1837-1901), dies at 81
1901-06-10 - Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
1901-09-25 - Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
1901-10-30 - U Benson, British lt-col (Magers' fountain), killed in battle
1901-11-30 - Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86
1902-02-23 - Samuel R Gardiner, British historian (Oliver Cromwell), dies at 72
1902-06-18 - Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), dies at 66
1902-09-29 - William Topaz McGonagall, British poet (b. 1825)
1903-02-01 - George G Stokes, British physicist/pres Royal Society, dies at 83
1903-03-05 - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
1903-08-22 - Robert A T G C Salisbury, British premier (1885..1902), dies at 73
1903-09-03 - Joseph Skipsey, British poet (b. 1832)
1903-12-08 - Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83
1904-05-10 - Henry M Stanley, [John Rowlands], British explorer, dies
1905-08-14 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
1906-04-19 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
1906-06-20 - John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
1906-09-19 - Maria Georgina Grey, British writer and founder of the Girls' Day School Trust (b. 1816)
1907-01-14 - Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832)
1908-04-22 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British premier (1905-08), dies
1909-04-13 - Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (b. 1830)
1910-04-13 - William Orchardson, British painter, dies
1910-07-12 - Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887)
1911-12-10 - Joseph D Hooker, British botanist, dies at 94
1912-02-16 - Edgar Evans, British explorer (Antarctica), dies
1912-02-17 - L Oates, British explorer (Antarctica), dies
1912-03-29 - Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies
1912-07-25 - Lawrence Alma Tadema, Dutch/British painter, dies at 76
1912-09-01 - Samuel Coleridge Taylor, African-British composer, dies at 37
1912-10-30 - Preston Lockwood, British(?) actor/writer, dies
1912-12-14 - Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant (b. 1887)
