Today in United Kingdom History (Part 5)
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 401 - 500 of 1,821
1864-09-05 - British, French & Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits
1865-03-02 - British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing
1865-07-05 - Great Britain delegate's world 1st maximum speed laws
1865-11-11 - Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
1866-02-16 - Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes the British Secretary of State for War.
1867-03-29 - British North America Act (Canadian constitution) passes
1867-04-01 - Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies
1867-12-02 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
1868-02-29 - 1st British govt of Disraeli forms
1868-03-12 - Britain annexed Basutoland in Africa
1868-03-12 - Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa
1868-04-13 - Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
1868-12-02 - 1st British government of Disraeli resigns
1868-12-09 - 1st British govt of Gladstone forms
1869-10-05 - A strong hurricane devastates the Bay of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The storm had been predicted over a year before by a British naval officer.
1870-08-04 - British Red Cross Society forms
1870-10-19 - British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed
1871-01-26 - British Rugby Union forms
1871-07-20 - British Columbia becomes 6th Canadian province
1871-07-20 - British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
1871-10-17 - Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa
1872-03-11 - Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
1872-07-18 - Britain introduces secret ballot voting
1872-09-14 - Britain pays US$15½m for damages during Civil War
1873-01-22 - Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die
1873-04-01 - British White Star steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die
1873-06-04 - 1st contract workers of British-Indies Co arrives in Suriname
1874-07-30 - 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles
1874-09-12 - 1874 The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded.
1874-10-10 - Fiji becomes a British possession
1876-02-18 - Direct telegraph link established between Britain & NZ
1876-06-03 - Lacrosse introduced in Britain & Canada
1877-03-12 - British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
1877-03-12 - Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony
1877-03-31 - British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown
1877-04-12 - British annex Transvaal, in South Africa
1877-04-12 - The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1878-03-24 - British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
1878-06-04 - Cyprus ceded by Turkey to Britain for administrative purposes
1879-01-02 - British battleship Thunder explodes in Gulf of Ismid, 9 die
1879-01-11 - Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins
1879-01-12 - British Zulu War begins: Lt-General Chelmsford invades Zululand
1879-01-20 - British troops under Lord Chelmsford set camp at Isandlwana
1879-01-22 - Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa
1879-04-08 - Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers
1879-07-04 - Battle at Rorkes Drift: Britain ends attack on Zulus
1879-10-12 - British troops occupy Kabul Afghanistan
1879-12-28 - North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot)
1881-01-28 - Battle at Laing's Neck Natal: Boers beat superior powered British
1881-02-07 - Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces
1881-02-26 - -27] Natal: British troops under gen-major Colley occupy Majuba Hill
1881-03-23 - Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war
1881-04-05 - Transvaal regains independence under British suzerainty
1881-07-01 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, comes into effect.
1882-02-15 - 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin
1882-03-04 - Britain's first electric trams run in East London.
1882-07-11 - British fleet bombs Alexandria
1882-08-16 - British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria
1882-09-13 - Battle at Count el-Kebir: British troops invade Egypt
1882-09-14 - British General Wolseley reaches Cairo
1882-09-15 - British general Wolseley occupies Cairo
1882-11-15 - British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger
1882-11-16 - British HMS Flirt fire at & destroy Abari village in Niger
1883-08-01 - Inland postal service begins in Great Britain
1883-08-28 - Slavery banned throughout British Empire
1884-01-18 - Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom.
1884-02-26 - British & Portuguese treaty signed in Congo by Leopold II
1884-09-04 - Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
1884-09-26 - Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed
1884-11-06 - British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
1884-12-16 - Great Britain recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1885-03-30 - The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
1885-03-31 - Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate
1885-06-24 - British government of Salisbury forms
1885-09-30 - Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate
1886-01-27 - 1st British govt of Salisbury resigns
1886-02-12 - 2nd British govt of Salisbury forms
1886-04-08 - William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
1886-07-24 - China takes British protectorate of Burma
1886-08-01 - Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand
1886-10-30 - Great-Britain/Germany divide boundaries in East-Africa
1887-06-21 - Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
1887-10-01 - Balochistan conquered by the British Empire.
1887-11-15 - British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
1887-12-10 - Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great-Britain signs military treaty of Balkan
1887-12-28 - Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
1888-09-03 - Queen Victoria grants William Mackinnons Imperial British
1890-03-04 - The longest bridge in the Great Britain, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII.
1890-07-01 - Great-Britain & Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty
1890-08-05 - British & French accord to divide African colonization
1890-11-04 - Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate
1891-03-17 - British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574
1891-03-18 - Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone
1891-05-15 - British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms
1892-07-04 - James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
1892-07-06 - Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
1892-08-15 - 4th & last British government of Gladstone forms
1893-01-13 - British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)
1893-03-30 - Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain
1893-06-22 - British fleet under vice-admiral George Tryon leaves Beirut
Famous Birthdays
Results 401 - 500 of 2,319
1894-02-10 - [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, (C) British PM (1957-63)
1894-06-21 - Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)
1894-10-27 - Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
1894-12-31 - Ernest John Moeran, British composer
1895-04-15 - Harry F V Edward, British Guiana, 100m/200m runner (Oly-bronze-1920)
1895-04-25 - Stanley Rous, British soccer official
1895-05-03 - Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director (Jungle Book, 4 Feathers)
1895-07-14 - Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment)
1895-07-26 - Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person (d. 1922)
1895-09-04 - Nigel Bruce, British/US actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes)
1895-09-27 - Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (d. 1948)
1895-12-02 - Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)
1895-12-14 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)
1896-01-09 - Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
1896-01-25 - John Moores, British gambling magnate/multi-millionaire
1896-07-26 - Henry Birkin, British racing driver (d. 1933)
1896-09-22 - Henry Segrave, British racing driver (d. 1930)
1896-11-16 - Oswald Mosley, baron/British nazi
1897-01-08 - Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977)
1897-04-16 - John B Glubb, British commandant/writer (A soldier with the Arabs)
1897-05-22 - Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (Waters of Babylon)
1897-06-08 - John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (d. 1974)
1897-06-12 - Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon (C), British PM (1955-57)
1897-07-18 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (d. 1935)
1897-07-29 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (d. 1983)
1897-11-07 - Ruth Pitter, British(?) poet
1897-11-09 - Ronald G W Norrish, British chemist (Nobel 1967)
1897-11-15 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (d. 1960)
1897-11-18 - Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist (nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948)
1898-01-07 - Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
1898-01-23 - Freda Utley, British scholar and author (d. 1978)
1898-04-08 - Cecil [Maurice] Bowra, British classics expert (Greek experience)
1898-04-18 - Lord Leatherland, British journalist/Labour peer
1898-05-24 - Kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando)
1899-01-23 - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931)
1899-05-06 - Billy Cotton, British entertainer (d. 1969)
1899-05-08 - [Friedrich] August von Hayek, Aust/British economist (Road to Serfdom)
1899-08-27 - C. S. Forester, British author (d. 1966)
1899-12-02 - John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)
1900-01-20 - Colin Clive, British actor (d. 1937)
1900-03-29 - Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974)
1900-05-05 - Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope)
1900-08-19 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
1900-09-23 - Bill Stone, British serviceman; one of the last surviving veterans of World War I
1901-02-20 - Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher (Daily Mirror)
1901-04-23 - E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988)
1901-06-18 - Llewellyn Rees, British theater actor (Invisible Creature)
1901-06-19 - Edward Lambert, British diplomat
1901-09-04 - William Lyons, British industrialist (Jaguar cars) (d. 1985)
1901-09-15 - Sir Donald Bailey, British engineer (d. 1985)
1901-09-16 - CFH "Freddie" Gough, British major scout (WW II, Arnhem)
1901-11-17 - Joyce Wethered, Surrey England, golfer (4 time British Amateur champ)
1901-12-07 - A F [Tony] Pugsley, British rear-admiral (Walcheren attack (1944))
1902-01-17 - Geoffrey W Lloyd, British minister of Brandstoffen/Energy (1951-55)
1902-02-04 - Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
1902-03-30 - Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969)
1902-05-06 - Walter Dawson, British Air Chief marshall
1902-07-28 - Karl Raimund Popper, Austrian/British philosopher (Logic of Forschung)
1902-09-20 - Stevie Smith, British poet (d. 1971)
1902-10-09 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
1902-11-09 - Anthony Asquith, British director (Carrington V C (Court martial))
1902-12-19 - Leonard Hirsch, British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symph Orch)
1903-01-18 - Berthold Goldschmidt, German/British (opera)composer (Beatrice Cenci)
1903-01-27 - John Eccles, British physiologist/neurologist
1903-01-30 - G Evelyn Hutchinson, British zoologist (Treatise on Limnology)
1903-04-24 - Siegfried F Nadel, Austrian/British anthropologist (Black Byzantium)
1903-05-12 - Lennox R F Berkeley, British composer (Castaway)
1903-05-17 - Douglas Packard, British Lt General
1903-05-25 - Binnie Barnes, British actress (d. 1998)
1903-05-29 - Bob Hope, British-born comedian and actor (d. 2003)
1903-06-25 - George Orwell, [Eric A Blair], British writer (Animal Farm, 1984)
1903-07-01 - Amy Johnson, British pilot
1903-07-02 - Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, (C) British PM (1963-64)
1903-08-10 - Lisle, British lord
1903-12-13 - John Piper, British writer (US Churches in WW I)/official war painter
1904-04-08 - John R Hicks, British economist (Nobel 1972)
1904-04-13 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1987)
1904-05-05 - Gordon Richards, British jockey (winner of 4,870 races)
1904-05-24 - Kenneth Buckley, British rear-admiral
1904-07-28 - [John] Selwyn [Brooke] Lloyd, British statsman
1904-08-27 - Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983)
1904-09-17 - Frederick Ashton, British choreographer (Cinderella)
1904-09-29 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
1904-10-15 - Julian Hodge, British financier/multi-millionaire (Hodge Group)
1904-11-11 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (d. 1960)
1904-11-18 - Theodore DN Besterman, British bibliographer
1904-12-28 - Clabon W Allen, Australian/British astronomer
1905-02-16 - Lord Franks, British ambassador (to US)
1905-06-26 - Jack Longland, British director of education (Derbyshire)
1905-07-25 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist (Life-Terms, Nobel 1981)
1905-08-09 - Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice
1905-08-10 - Bernard Benjamin Gillis, British judge
1905-08-10 - Richard F Kahn, baron of Hampstead/British economist
1905-09-05 - Arthur Koestler, Hungary, British writer (Arrow in Blue)
1905-09-07 - John Whitley, British air-marshal
1905-10-15 - C. P. Snow, British writer (d. 1980)
1906-02-09 - Gwen Catley, British(?) soprano
1906-02-11 - Denis Barnett, British air chief marshal
1906-03-25 - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (English history 1914-1915)
1906-05-28 - Mary Ralton, director (British WRAC)
Famous Deaths
Results 401 - 500 of 985
1944-05-12 - Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80
1944-06-06 - Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day
1944-07-19 - Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87
1944-09-18 - Anthony Stefanich, British boxer/captain, killed in Arnhem
1944-09-18 - Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem
1944-09-19 - David Lord, British lieutenant/Dakota-pilot DFC/VC, dies in battle
1944-09-19 - Hilary Barlow, British colonel, dies
1944-09-19 - John AC Fitch, British lt-colonel, dies in battle in Arnhem
1944-09-22 - "Cab" Calloway, British scout, dies in battle of Oosterbeek
1944-10-26 - Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, daughter of Queen Victoria (b. 1857)
1944-11-06 - Lord Moyne, British prefect (Middle-East), murdered
1945-03-18 - William Grover-Williams, British racing driver
1945-03-26 - David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82
1945-04-18 - Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44
1945-04-21 - John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25
1945-11-20 - Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1877)
1945-12-22 - Otto Neurath, Austrian/British philosopher, dies at 63
1946-01-03 - William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason
1947-11-12 - Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82
1947-12-01 - Aleister Edward S Crowley, British occultist, dies at 72
1948-07-27 - Woolf Barnato, British racing driver (b. 1898)
1949-02-22 - Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire), dies
1950-05-24 - Archibald Wavell, British general (b. 1883)
1950-07-29 - Joe Fry, British racing driver (b. 1915)
1950-09-06 - Olaf Stapledon, British writer and philosopher (b. 1886)
1950-09-11 - John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/S African PM (1919..48), dies at 80
1950-12-01 - Ernest John Moeran, British composer, dies at 55
1950-12-25 - Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
1951-03-07 - Ivor Novello, British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies at 58
1951-03-13 - James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/Catholic bishop, dies at 67
1951-04-22 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (b. 1870)
1951-10-06 - Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated
1952-02-06 - George VI, King of Britain (1936-52), dies at 56
1952-02-06 - George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
1952-02-10 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
1952-09-29 - John Cobb, British racing driver (b. 1899)
1953-01-08 - Admiral Sir Hugh Binney, British naval commander and Governor of Tasmania (b. 1883)
1953-03-24 - Mary, queen of Great-Britain/North-Ireland, dies at 85
1953-05-04 - Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60
1953-07-20 - Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901)
1953-09-21 - Roger Quilter, British composer, dies at 75
1953-10-03 - Arnold Bax, British composer, dies at 69
1954-01-01 - Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (b. 1890)
1954-06-08 - Alan M Turing, British mathematician (Turing), commits suicide at 41
1954-09-24 - Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)
1955-07-09 - Don Beauman, British racing driver (b. 1928)
1955-08-23 - Reginald Tate, British actor (b. 1896)
1955-09-10 - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70
1956-04-19 - Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II), dies at 47
1956-10-17 - Anne Crawford, British film actor (b. 1920)
1957-03-07 - Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
1957-04-22 - Ignatius Roy D Campbell, British poet (Garcia Lorca), dies at 54
1957-10-19 - Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian, dies at 65
1958-02-05 - Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Under red ensign), dies at 84
1958-02-11 - Ernest Jones, British psychonanalyst (b. 1879)
1958-04-16 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
1958-05-19 - Ronald Colman, British actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 67
1958-06-13 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer (b. 1887)
1958-06-28 - Alfred Noyes, British poet/essayist (Robin Hood), dies at 77
1958-09-17 - Friedrich Adolf Paneth, Austrian/British chemist, dies at 71
1959-09-06 - Kay Kendall, British actress (Genevieve), dies of leukemia at 32
1959-11-26 - Albert Ketèlbey, British composer (b. 1875)
1960-01-09 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)
1960-02-08 - Giles Gilbert Scott, British architect (b. 1880)
1960-02-08 - John Langshaw Austin, British philosopher, (b. 1911)
1960-02-28 - F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74
1960-05-08 - J. H. C. Whitehead, British mathematician (b. 1904)
1960-07-06 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)
1960-09-22 - Melanie Klein, Austria/British psycho analyst, dies at 78
1960-09-30 - Harry St John Philby, [sheik Abdullah], British explorer, dies
1960-12-29 - Eden Phillpotts, British writer (b. 1862)
1961-02-05 - Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist, dies at 73
1961-03-06 - George Formby, British singer/comedian, dies at 56
1962-06-13 - Eugene Goossens, British composer (Perseus), dies at 69
1963-02-18 - Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at 56
1963-03-13 - Austin Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1912)
1963-06-12 - Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80
1963-06-17 - John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies
1963-09-01 - Guy Burgess, British spy for the USSR
1963-09-12 - Mervyn A Ellison, British astronomer (spectrohelioscope), dies at 63
1963-12-02 - Thomas J. Hicks, British-born runner (b. 1875)
1964-07-24 - Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer, dies
1964-07-26 - Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (b. 1884)
1964-08-12 - Ian L Fleming, British journalist/writer (James Bond), dies at 56
1965-01-24 - Winston Churchill, PM of Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55), dies at 90
1965-03-28 - Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
1965-05-03 - Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76
1965-05-21 - Geoffrey de Havilland, British aircraft designer (b. 1882)
1965-05-22 - Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882)
1965-10-02 - [John] Selwyn (Brooke) Lloyd, British statesman, dies
1965-11-25 - Dame Myra Hess, British pianist (b. 1890)
1966-04-10 - Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62
1966-06-27 - Arthur D Waley, [Schloss], British sinology/poet (Monkey), dies
1967-05-12 - John Masefield, British writer (b. 1878)
1967-06-03 - Arthur W Tedder of Glenguin, British air marshal (WW II), dies at 76
1967-07-13 - Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)
1967-08-14 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver (b. 1931)
1967-09-18 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1967-10-08 - Clement R Attlee, premier pf Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84
1968-02-21 - Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65
