Today in United Kingdom History (Part 6)
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 501 - 600 of 1,821
1893-07-06 - British King George V marries princess Victoria of Teck (Queen Mary)
1894-02-16 - British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast
1894-03-03 - 4th & last British government of Gladstone resigns
1894-04-12 - British & Belgian secret accord on dividing Central-Africa
1894-06-18 - Premier Roseberry declares Uganda a British protectorate
1894-08-02 - Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
1895-01-12 - The National Trust is founded in Britain.
1895-03-30 - British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge
1895-05-27 - British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
1895-06-21 - British Roseberry govt falls
1896-01-18 - British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa
1896-09-22 - Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1897-01-26 - Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army
1897-01-27 - British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)
1897-05-14 - Great-Britain signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1897-08-10 - Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club)
1897-09-25 - 1st British bus service opens
1898-06-09 - China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years
1898-09-02 - Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
1899-03-21 - British & French accord about West-Africa
1899-04-24 - Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid
1899-09-08 - British govt sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa
1899-09-17 - 1st British troops leave Bombay for South Africa
1899-10-09 - 1st British troops reaches Durban South Africa
1899-10-09 - South Africa President Kruger routes British authorities ultimatum
1899-10-11 - South African Boers declare war on Great Britain
1899-10-20 - Battle at Talana Hill Natal: British army vs Boers
1899-10-21 - Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army)
1899-10-22 - British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa
1899-10-24 - Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army
1899-10-30 - British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown
1899-11-12 - British troops reach Durban Natal
1899-11-22 - -23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army)
1899-11-28 - Battle of Mud river (Boer general. Cronjé beats British gen Methuen)
1899-12-08 - Natal: British fall/burst out belegerd Ladysmith
1899-12-10 - -15] British "Black Week" due to nederlagen in South Africa
1899-12-10 - Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army
1899-12-15 - Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army)
1900-01-01 - British protectorates of Northern & Southern Nigeria established
1900-01-05 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1900-01-16 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
1900-01-24 - Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900-02-05 - British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal
1900-02-05 - The United States and the United Kingdom sign treaty for Panama Canal
1900-02-06 - Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900-02-07 - British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal
1900-02-18 - Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured
1900-02-18 - British troops occupy Monte Christo Natal
1900-02-19 - British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal
1900-02-22 - Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900-02-23 - Battle at Hart's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900-02-27 - British Labour Party forms
1900-03-10 - Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900-03-13 - British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
1900-04-04 - British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet
1900-05-17 - British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)
1900-05-18 - Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga
1900-05-19 - Great Britain annexes Tonga archipelago
1900-05-26 - British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa
1900-05-31 - British troops under Lord Roberts occupy Johannesburg
1900-06-01 - British army occupiers Pretoria South-Africa
1900-06-07 - Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal
1900-06-11 - -12] Battle at Diamond Hill: British troops chase General Botha
1900-08-10 - 1st Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Boston (3-0)
1900-08-20 - Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
1900-08-30 - Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
1900-08-31 - British troops over run Johannesburg
1900-09-03 - British annex Natal (South Africa)
1900-09-06 - British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa
1900-09-17 - Queen Victoria disbands British parliament
1900-10-06 - Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
1900-12-29 - General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia
1901-01-01 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
1901-02-18 - Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
1901-04-15 - 1st British motorized burial
1901-09-26 - Great Britain annexes Gold Coast (Ghana)
1902-02-24 - Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British
1902-03-07 - Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal
1902-05-06 - British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die
1902-05-19 - Great Britain & Boers resume peace talks in Pretoria
1902-05-24 - Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain
1902-05-31 - Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
1902-07-11 - British premier Lord Salisbury resigns
1902-08-08 - 2nd Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in New York (3-2)
1902-08-09 - Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom.
1902-12-31 - Boers & British army sign peace treaty
1903-06-29 - British govt protests against abuser in Belgian Congo
1903-08-08 - 3rd Davis Cup: British Isles beats USA in Boston (4-1)
1903-12-11 - British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet
1904-02-22 - The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1904-04-08 - British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of the Book of the Law.
1904-08-03 - British journalist Francis Younghusband visits forbidden city Lhasa
1904-09-04 - Dali Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
1904-09-26 - Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada
1904-10-22 - Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship
1904-11-02 - British newspaper, "Daily Mirror," begins publishing
1905-04-01 - British East African Protectorate becomes colony of Kenya
1905-11-22 - British, Italian, Russ, French & Aust-Hung fleet attack Lesbos
1905-12-04 - British government of Balfour resigns
1905-12-11 - British govt of Campbell-Bannerman forms
Famous Birthdays
Results 501 - 600 of 2,319
1906-05-29 - T.H. White, British author (d. 1964)
1906-06-03 - Robert Brown Black, British diplomat/gov (Hong Kong)
1906-06-05 - Kenneth Anderson, deputy comptroller (British GPO)
1906-06-05 - Viscount Rochdale, British CEO
1906-06-17 - Thomas G Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer
1906-07-15 - Edmund Davies, British lord of appeal
1906-09-30 - John I M Stewart, British detective writer (Comedy of Terrors)
1906-11-07 - Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar)
1906-11-18 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer (d. 1988)
1906-12-20 - Dick White, head of British secret service (MI-5/MI-6)
1906-12-25 - Lew Grade, British TV mogul (ATV)/movie producer (Boys from Brazil)
1907-01-05 - Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor
1907-01-14 - Derek Richter, British neuro chemist (Aspects of learning & memory)
1907-01-26 - Henry Cotton, English golfer (British Open 1934, 1937, 1948)
1907-01-27 - Henry Cotton, English golf champion (won 3x British Open)
1907-03-03 - Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter
1907-03-11 - Margaret Herbison, British minister (Lab)
1907-03-12 - Arthur Hewlett, British actor (d. 1997)
1907-04-15 - Nicholas Tinbergen, Neth/British biologist/zoologist (Nobel 1973)
1907-05-17 - Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power
1907-05-23 - Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant
1907-05-28 - Patrick Browne, British Lord justice of appeal
1907-05-31 - Valston Hancock, British air marshal
1907-06-14 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
1907-07-15 - Paterson Fraser, British air marshal
1907-07-27 - Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater/judge (Olympics 1932,36)
1907-09-17 - Desmond Heap, authority on British planning law
1907-09-22 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (d. 1981)
1907-09-25 - Phyllis Pearsall-Gross, British Geographer (A to Z Map Company)
1907-09-26 - Anthony F Blunt, British historian/spy for USSR
1907-09-27 - Bernard Miles, British actor (In Which We Serve, Mermaid Theatre)
1907-10-09 - Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
1907-11-25 - John Stuart Hindmarsh, British racing driver and aviator (d. 1938)
1908-01-18 - Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian
1908-01-26 - Stephane Grappelli, British (?) jazz/violinist
1908-02-05 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (d. 1969)
1908-02-11 - Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, geologist/explorer (British Antarctic Survey)
1908-03-17 - Radie Britain, composer
1908-03-25 - Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director
1908-04-08 - Neil Lawson, British high court judge
1908-04-23 - Herbert Telley, British actuary
1908-05-25 - David Lean, British director (Lawrence of Arabia)
1908-06-05 - Jack Jacob, senior master (British Supreme Court)
1908-06-30 - Winston Graham, British writer (d. 2003)
1908-07-16 - Maurice Adams, surgeon/British rear admiral
1908-07-27 - Lord Jenkins of Putney, British MP of Arts (Labour)
1908-08-12 - Lord Renton, QC/British govt minister
1908-08-21 - M. M. Kaye, British writer (d. 2004)
1908-09-05 - Gloria Holden, British actress (d. 1991)
1908-10-13 - John Grant, British rear-admiral
1908-10-19 - Patrick Cairns "Spike" Hughes, British jazz musician/composer (Elegy)
1908-11-26 - Charles Forte, Italian/British hotel magnate (Savoy)
1909-01-28 - Lionel KP "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II-George Medal)
1909-01-31 - Foley Newns, British colonial administrator
1909-02-15 - Harold Beeley, British diplomat
1909-02-24 - Max Black, Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy)
1909-03-17 - Patrick Reilly, British diplomat
1909-05-10 - Lord Collison, British union leader (agriculture workers)
1909-05-17 - Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant
1909-05-19 - Nicholas Winton, British Humanitarian
1909-05-31 - Jan Lewando, British director (Marks & Spencer)
1909-06-24 - William G Penney, British physicist (1st British Atom Bomb)
1909-07-12 - 2nd viscount Camrose, British Conserv Lower house leader (1941-45)
1909-07-26 - Peter Thorneycroft, British politician (d. 1994)
1909-09-14 - Peter Scott, British naturalist and explorer (d. 1989)
1909-09-16 - John Megaw, British Lord Justice of Appeal
1910-01-21 - Lord Cayzer, British financier/swcheeps magnate/multi-millionaire
1910-02-21 - Douglas R S Bader, British pilot (WW II)
1910-02-21 - Eddie Waring, British sports commentator (d. 1986)
1910-03-16 - Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer
1910-04-06 - Desmond Dreyer, British admiral
1910-05-12 - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist (penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964)
1910-05-31 - Francis Avery Jones, British gastro-enterologist
1910-06-09 - Geoffrey Musson, British General
1910-06-13 - Mary Whitehouse, British campaigner (d. 2001)
1910-07-03 - Bernard Burrows, British diplomat
1910-07-20 - Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, British historian (William the Silent)
1910-07-28 - Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot
1910-08-06 - Charles Crichton, British director (Battle of Sexes)
1910-09-15 - George D Kilpatrick, Canadian/British bible scholar
1910-10-06 - Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
1910-11-03 - Richard Hurndall, British actor (d. 1984)
1910-11-11 - Yisrael Eldad, British extremist politician
1910-12-29 - Ronald Coase, British economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1911-01-09 - Stafford WIlliam Somerfield, British newspaper editor
1911-01-29 - George Burns, British major-general
1911-01-31 - Eddie Byrne, British actor (d. 1981)
1911-03-11 - Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat soldier politician/historian
1911-03-23 - Richard Chapman, golfer (1940 US amateur, 1951 British amateur)
1911-03-28 - J. L. Austin, British philosopher of language (d. 1960)
1911-05-28 - Thora Hird, British actress (d. 2003)
1911-05-29 - James Marjoribanks, British ambassador
1911-06-09 - George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
1911-06-15 - W.V. Awdry, British children's writer (d. 1997)
1911-06-20 - Lord Brightman, British judge of appeals
1911-06-29 - Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy
1911-07-09 - Mervyn Peake, British writer and illustrator (d. 1968)
1911-07-27 - Rayner Heppenstall, British novelist (d. 1981)
1911-08-01 - Ronald MacDonald, British major-general
1911-08-27 - Kay Walsh, British actress (d. 2005)
Famous Deaths
Results 501 - 600 of 985
1968-07-26 - Lilian Harvey, British actress (Congress Dances), dies
1968-10-06 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (b. 1917)
1968-11-17 - Mervyn Peake, British writer (b. 1911)
1969-01-04 - Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
1969-01-08 - Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
1969-01-11 - Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890)
1969-02-02 - Boris Karloff, [Pratt], British actor (Frankenstein), dies at 81
1969-03-25 - Billy Cotton, British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889)
1969-11-18 - Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
1970-01-03 - Gladys Aylward, British missionary in China; portrayed by Ingrid Bergman in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (b. 1902)
1970-01-05 - Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87
1970-02-02 - Bertrand Russell, philosopher, British MP, dies in Merioneth at 97
1970-02-15 - Sir Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (b. 1882)
1970-12-26 - Lillian Board, British athlete (b. 1948)
1971-01-28 - Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
1971-06-16 - Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
1972-03-13 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941)
1972-08-05 - Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the British House of Commons (b. 1905)
1973-03-04 - Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
1973-03-05 - Michael Jeffery, British music manager (b. 1933)
1973-09-02 - John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbitt), dies of ulcer at 81
1973-09-23 - A S Neill, British headmaster, dies at at 89
1973-09-28 - Wystan H Auden, British/US writer (Spain/Platonic Blow), dies at 66
1974-01-20 - Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at 77
1974-07-13 - Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76
1974-08-02 - W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (b. 1893)
1974-08-10 - Ivor Dean, British actor (Theatre of Death), dies at 57
1974-08-22 - Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66
1974-11-07 - Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
1974-12-21 - James Henry Govier, British artist (b. 1910)
1975-01-03 - Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77
1975-02-08 - Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1976-01-08 - Robert Forgan, British fascist (b. 1891)
1976-03-24 - Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88
1976-04-26 - Sid James, South African-born British comedian (b. 1913)
1976-07-21 - Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated
1976-10-06 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
1976-11-19 - Sir Basil Spence, British architect (b. 1907)
1976-12-04 - Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63
1977-01-14 - Anthony Eden, British premier (1955-57), dies at 79
1977-02-19 - Anthony Crosland, British politician (b. 1918)
1977-06-13 - Matthew Garber, British child actor (Mary Poppins) (b. 1956)
1977-11-30 - Terrence Rattigan, British writer and playwright (b. 1911)
1977-12-12 - Clementine O Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones, dies at 92
1978-01-14 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)
1978-01-21 - Freda Utley, British scholar and author. (b. 1898)
1978-01-22 - Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
1978-06-07 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1978-08-14 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer (b. 1907)
1979-03-02 - Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated in Holland
1979-03-25 - ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered
1979-03-30 - Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb
1979-08-08 - Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist (b. 1910)
1979-08-27 - Louis Mountbatten, British adm of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA
1979-10-10 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
1979-10-30 - Sir Barnes Wallis, British scientist, engineer and inventor (b. 1887)
1980-01-18 - Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76
1980-02-22 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93
1980-03-12 - Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1980-04-29 - Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80
1980-06-07 - Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)
1980-07-01 - Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends & Associates), dies at 75
1980-08-24 - Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
1980-12-03 - Oswald Mosley, British politician (b. 1896)
1981-03-31 - Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889)
1981-04-07 - Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager (The Who) (b. 1935)
1981-05-25 - Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (b. 1898)
1981-06-17 - Richard O'Connor, British general (b. 1889)
1981-10-15 - Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver (b. 1907)
1982-03-11 - Edmund Cooper, British sci-fi writer (Tomorrow Came), dies at 55
1982-04-26 - Celia Johnson, British actress (Jean Brodie), dies of stroke at 73
1982-05-28 - Lt Col 'H'. Jones VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1940)
1982-06-12 - Sgt Ian McKay VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1953)
1982-06-14 - Marie Rambert, [Cyviam Ramberg], Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94
1982-07-04 - Terry Higgins, early British AIDS death (b. 1945)
1982-08-08 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (b. 1920)
1982-11-03 - Edward H Carr, British historian, dies at 90
1982-11-16 - Arthur Askey, British comedian, dies at 82
1982-11-21 - John Hargrave, British Social Credit advocate (b. 1894)
1983-03-26 - Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at 75
1983-07-09 - Keith Wickenden, British Politician (b. 1932)
1983-11-15 - John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies at 71
1983-12-11 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897)
1983-12-13 - Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78
1983-12-26 - Violet Carson, British actress (b. 1898)
1984-01-01 - Alexis Korner, British blues musician (b. 1928)
1984-02-20 - Paul Dirac, British theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1902)
1984-03-04 - Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
1984-03-28 - Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead
1984-04-05 - Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies
1984-04-06 - Jimmy Kenndy, British songwriter (South of the Border), dies
1984-04-09 - Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies
1984-05-15 - Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist, dies at 85
1984-05-20 - Peter Bull, British actor (Dr Doolittle), dies of a heart attack at 72
1984-05-28 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe & Wise), dies at 58
1984-07-27 - James Mason, British actor (Lolita), dies of a heart attack at 75
1984-08-27 - Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street), dies at 69
1984-10-12 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing victim) (b. 1925)
1985-01-09 - Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
1985-01-22 - Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
