Today in United Kingdom History (Part 8)
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 701 - 800 of 1,821
1915-05-17 - Last liberal British govt of Asquith falls
1915-06-10 - British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
1915-06-16 - The foundation of the British Women's Institute.
1915-06-21 - Anti-British revolt in South-Africa ends with arrest of Gen De Law
1915-07-10 - British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa
1915-08-09 - British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipolis
1915-08-14 - British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000
1915-09-25 - -26] Battle at Loos: 8,246 British & 0 German casualties
1915-09-29 - British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamia
1915-10-08 - Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed
1915-10-16 - Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
1915-11-12 - Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice archipelago
1915-12-30 - Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die
1916-01-09 - The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are evacuated.
1916-01-12 - Britain proclaims Gilbert & Ellice Is colony in Pacific
1916-01-28 - German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France
1916-02-09 - Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)
1916-02-10 - Conscription begins in Britain
1916-03-12 - French airship sinks British submarine D3
1916-04-20 - German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
1916-04-24 - Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1916-05-09 - British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey
1916-05-17 - British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced
1916-05-21 - Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
1916-05-24 - Conscription begins in Britain
1916-05-24 - Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname
1916-05-31 - British battle cruiser Invincible explodes, killing all but 6
1916-07-01 - Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines
1916-07-01 - British court martial (Easter uprising)
1916-09-15 - Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme)
1916-11-03 - Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar
1916-11-13 - British offensive at Ancre Belgium
1916-12-07 - British govt of David Lloyd George forms
1916-12-07 - David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM
1916-12-11 - David Lloyd George forms British war govt
1917-02-21 - British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die
1917-03-11 - British troops occupy Baghdad
1917-05-11 - Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand
1917-06-04 - Order of British Empire inaugurated
1917-06-17 - British king George V takes the name Windsor
1917-06-19 - After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor
1917-07-09 - British warship "Vanguard" explodes at Scapa Flow killing 804
1917-07-17 - British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor
1917-07-22 - British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades
1917-08-05 - British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe Belgium
1917-09-20 - British assault on Polygon-forest, France
1917-09-26 - British assault on Menin-street, France
1917-10-04 - British assault on Broodseinde, France
1917-10-17 - 1st British bombing of Germany
1917-10-30 - British govt gives final approval to Balfour Declaration
1917-11-07 - British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks
1917-11-16 - British occupy Tel Aviv & Jaffa
1917-11-20 - 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)
1917-12-09 - British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem
1917-12-23 - 3 British warships come close to Holland
1918-01-05 - British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace
1918-01-31 - A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1918-02-06 - Britain grants women (30 & over) vote
1918-08-01 - British troops enter Vladivostok
1918-08-08 - Canada/Australian/British breakthrough with 600 tanks at Amiens
1918-08-17 - British troops attack Baku Azerbaijan
1918-08-20 - Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
1918-10-15 - British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6
1919-01-02 - Anti-British uprising in Ireland
1919-04-12 - British Parliament passes a 48-hour work week with minimum wages
1919-04-13 - Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India
1919-04-13 - British forces kill 100s of Indian Nationalists (Amritsar Massacre)
1919-05-03 - Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
1919-05-06 - Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; Ger E Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German SW Africa to South Africa
1919-07-06 - British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)
1919-08-08 - Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan's independence
1919-08-13 - British troops fire on Amritsar India demonstrators; killing 350
1919-09-04 - British intervene in Petrograd
1919-09-14 - British regime forbids Sinn Fein Dáil
1919-09-27 - British troops withdraw from Archangelsk
1919-11-28 - US-born Lady Astor elected 1st female member of British Parliament
1919-12-01 - Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
1920-03-31 - British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law
1920-04-20 - Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
1920-04-24 - British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
1920-07-23 - British East Africa renamed Kenya & becomes a British crown colony
1920-08-10 - Turkish Govt renounces its claim to Israel, recognizes British mandate
1920-12-17 - British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
1921-01-20 - British submarine K5 leaves with man & mouse
1921-02-12 - Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies
1921-02-18 - British troops occupy Dublin
1921-03-17 - Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)
1921-03-31 - British coal miners goes on strike
1921-05-24 - British Legion forms
1921-05-27 - After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty
1921-06-19 - Census in Great-Britain
1921-08-24 - British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die
1921-11-13 - US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1922-02-21 - Great Britain grants Egypt independence
1922-02-28 - Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1922-03-22 - British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison
1922-09-11 - British mandate of Palestine begins
1922-10-18 - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) forms
1922-11-15 - British Conservative wins election/Labour 2nd party
1922-11-16 - Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help
Famous Birthdays
Results 701 - 800 of 2,319
1916-06-14 - Geoffrey Goodwin, British professor of international relations
1916-06-20 - Johnny Morris, British broadcaster/actor (Once in a Lifetime)
1916-06-21 - Joe Bamford, British manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1916-06-25 - Theodore P Toynbee, British journalist/writer (Savage Days, Barricade)
1916-07-09 - Edward Heath, (C) British PM (1970-74)
1916-09-18 - Frank Bell, British educator (d. 1989)
1916-09-24 - John Lapsley, British air marshal
1916-10-22 - Michael F Howard, British Major-General (Gold Stick to the Queen)
1916-11-12 - Paul Emery, British racing driver (d. 1993)
1916-12-28 - Noel Johnson, British actor (Frenzy, Frightmare, Royal Flash)
1917-02-20 - Frederick Page, CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group)
1917-03-12 - Tom Normanton, British MP
1917-03-24 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1917-05-13 - Paul Osmond, British senior civil servant
1917-05-24 - Derek Hodgson, British high court judge
1917-06-04 - Allen Greenwood, deputy CEO (British Aerospace)
1917-06-26 - William Hamilton, British MP
1917-07-27 - John Cunningham, executive director (British Aerospace)
1917-07-27 - Robert Cowans, executive director (British Aerospace)
1917-08-01 - Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert
1917-09-21 - Phyllis Nicolson, British mathematician (d. 1968)
1917-10-27 - Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
1917-11-16 - John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Saint's Day)
1917-11-27 - Tiny Rowland, [Roland Fuhrop], German/British owner (Observer)
1918-01-28 - Trevor Skeet, British MP
1918-02-10 - Idwal Pugh, British ombudsman
1918-03-05 - Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/spy (MI6)/priest
1918-03-20 - Donald Featherstone, British writer and wargamer
1918-04-11 - William Perrie, British prison governor
1918-04-16 - Dick Gibson, British racing driver
1918-04-23 - Anthony Craxton, British TV producer
1918-05-13 - John Johnston, British diplomat (Rhodesia, Malaysia)
1918-07-03 - Lord Mulley, British MP (Labour)
1918-08-01 - Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist
1918-08-12 - Guy Gibson, British aviator, awarded Victoria Cross (d. 1944)
1918-08-13 - Denis Smallwood, British air chief marshal
1918-08-27 - Lord Winstanley, physician/British MP (Labour)
1918-09-08 - Derek Barton, British chemist (Nobel 1969)
1918-09-27 - Martin Ryle, Britain, radio astronomer/astronomer royal (1972-82)
1919-01-20 - Royalton Kisch, British(?) conductor
1919-01-29 - Norman F Simpson, British playwright (One Way Pendulum)
1919-03-06 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
1919-03-18 - Christopher Challis, British cinematographer
1919-03-23 - Michael Lyne, British air Vice-marshal
1919-04-05 - Douglas Henley, British auditor-general
1919-05-28 - Duke of Rutland, British land owner/multimillionaire
1919-06-06 - Charles Pringle, British air marshal
1919-06-18 - Ted Leadbitter, British MP (Lab)
1919-06-20 - Ronald Hines, Dutch/British actor (Pack of Lies)
1919-06-26 - Lord Rawlinson, British attorney general (Ewell)
1919-08-22 - Earl Cathcart, British major-general
1919-08-27 - Lord Dormand, of Eastington, British MP (Labour)
1919-11-24 - David Kossoff, British actor (d. 2005)
1920-01-06 - Doris Stokes, British psychic medium (d. 1987)
1920-01-09 - Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
1920-01-09 - Clive Dunn, British actor
1920-01-15 - John Junor, British editor in chief (Sunday Express)
1920-01-27 - John Box, British film production designer and art director (d. 2005)
1920-02-05 - Frank Muir, British comedian (d. 1998)
1920-03-11 - Henry Marking, CEO (British Airways)
1920-03-14 - Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Great Britain, high jumper (Oly-silver-36, 48)
1920-04-06 - Bernard Carter, British painter/etcher
1920-05-13 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
1920-05-20 - William Simpson, British trade union leader
1920-05-29 - Robin Haydon, British diplomat
1920-06-20 - Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge
1920-06-21 - Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service (QARANC)
1920-07-15 - Ruthven Wade, British Air Chief marshal
1920-07-18 - Eric Brandon, British racing driver (d. 1982)
1920-07-20 - Jack Harman, British general
1920-07-20 - Jeffrey Petersen, British diplomat
1920-07-27 - James Munn, commissioner (British University)
1920-08-12 - Peter West, British sports commentator
1920-09-04 - Teddy Johnson, British singer
1920-09-05 - Peter Racine Fricker, British composer
1920-09-16 - Sheila Quinn, adviser (British Red Cross)
1920-09-23 - Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon
1920-10-06 - Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)
1920-11-11 - Roy Jenkins, British MP (Labour)
1920-11-22 - Anne Crawford, British film actor (d. 1956)
1920-12-06 - George Porter, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1921-01-13 - Dachine Rainer, British writer (d. 2000)
1921-02-16 - Araucaria, British crossword compiler
1921-02-20 - Ruth Gipps, British(?) conductor/composer
1921-02-22 - David Greene, British television director (d. 2003)
1921-03-06 - Oliver Wright, British Ambassador (To US)
1921-03-26 - George Jefferson, CEO (British Telecom)
1921-04-05 - Lady Fisher, founder (British Women Caring Trust)
1921-04-06 - Franta Belsky, British sculptor
1921-04-13 - James Wilson, British Lt-General
1921-05-06 - Robert Fell, CEO (British Stock Exchange)
1921-05-13 - Syd[ney G] Vincent, British mine workers leader
1921-05-17 - John Garlick, British senior civil servant
1921-05-20 - John Harrison, British vice admiral/surgeon
1921-05-31 - Andrew Grima, British jeweller
1921-06-12 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (d. 2007)
1921-06-27 - Muriel Pavlow, British actress
1921-07-31 - Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005)
1921-08-01 - Benjamin Roberts, British industrial relations expert
1921-08-08 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist (d. 1979)
Famous Deaths
Results 701 - 800 of 985
1994-09-08 - Arthur Rex Alston, British sports commentator, dies at 93
1994-09-10 - Amy Clampitt, British poet (Silence Opens), dies at 74
1994-09-16 - Dolly Hare, German/British actress (Broken Blossom), dies at 84
1994-12-10 - Keith Joseph, British MP (C), dies
1994-12-11 - Stanislaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major (WW II), dies at 102
1994-12-21 - Shauna McDonald Brown, British TV producer, dies at 37
1995-01-03 - Gerard W Taylor, South African/British surgeon, dies at 74
1995-01-06 - Edward Sutcliffe, judge (British Central Criminal Court), dies at 77
1995-01-07 - Larry Grayson, British entertainer (Generation Game), dies at 65 or 71
1995-01-22 - Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar), dies at 88
1995-01-27 - Geoffrey Parsons, Australian/British pianist, dies at 65
1995-01-27 - Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/MI6-spy/priest, dies at 76
1995-01-29 - Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect, dies at 69
1995-01-29 - Richard Burnell, British rower (Olympics-gold-1948), dies at 77
1995-01-30 - Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70
1995-02-04 - Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies
1995-02-08 - Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor, dies at 88
1995-02-15 - Viscount Camrose, British large landowner/Conservative, dies
1995-02-25 - Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73
1995-03-05 - Vivian Stanshall, British musician (Magical Mystery Tour), dies at 51
1995-03-07 - Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74
1995-03-08 - Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83
1995-03-29 - Baltimora, British singer (b. 1957)
1995-05-24 - Harold Wilson, British PM (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79
1995-05-28 - Jean Muir, (Dress Queen), British model, dies at 66
1995-08-02 - Brian Smith, British sportscaster, dies
1995-08-19 - Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70
1995-08-25 - John Killan Houston Brunner, British sci-fi writer, dies at 60
1995-08-29 - Harry Broadhurst, British airman, dies at 89
1995-10-09 - Alec Douglas-Home, PM of Britain (1963-64), dies
1995-10-09 - Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies
1995-11-21 - Noel Jones, British diplomat (b. 1940)
1996-01-01 - Arleigh Albert Burke, British Admiral, dies at 94
1996-02-17 - Bentley Bridgewater, british Museum secretary, dies at 84
1996-03-04 - Barbara Lewis, British obituarist, dies at 55
1996-03-28 - Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, British bibliophile, dies at 87
1996-04-30 - David Michael Ifshin, British political campaign organiser, dies at 46
1996-05-24 - John Abbott, British actor (Lady Jane, Quest), dies at 90
1996-06-10 - Norman Lambert, British restuarateur, dies
1996-06-11 - Alan Weeks, British sports commentator, dies at 72
1996-06-25 - Sir Arthur Snelling, British Ambassador (b. 1914)
1996-07-09 - Peter Martini, British journalist, dies at 31
1996-07-09 - Susan Cowdy, British ornithologist, dies at 81
1996-12-29 - Willaim Brown, British TV executive, dies at 67
1997-02-02 - Godfrey Baseley, British radio executive, dies at 92
1997-08-07 - Vincent Gulliver, Britain's oldest man, dies at 109
1997-09-06 - P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918)
1997-12-02 - Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (b. 1930)
1997-12-04 - Richard Vernon, British actor (Gandhi, Hard Days Night), dies at 72
1998-02-08 - Enoch Powell, British Conservative MP and shadow cabinet member (b.1912)
1998-03-16 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1998-04-05 - Cozy Powell, British musician (b. 1947)
1998-05-02 - Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949)
1998-06-11 - Catherine Cookson, British novelist (b. 1906)
1998-07-27 - Binnie Barnes, British actress (b. 1903)
1998-09-10 - Carl Forgione, British actor (b. 1944)
1998-10-17 - Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
1998-10-28 - Ted Hughes, British poet (b. 1930)
1998-11-02 - Vincent Winter, British actor (b. 1957)
1998-11-13 - Valerie Hobson, British actress (b. 1917)
1998-12-01 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (b. 1902)
1998-12-07 - John Addison, British composer (b. 1920)
1999-01-15 - Betty Box, British film producer (b. 1915)
1999-02-09 - Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931)
1999-02-28 - Christine Glanville, British Puppeteer (. 1924)
1999-03-17 - Rod Hull, British comedian (b. 1936)
1999-03-21 - Ernie Wise, British comedian (b. 1925)
1999-04-14 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (b. 1931)
1999-04-15 - Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (b. 1944)
1999-04-26 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (b.1961)
1999-05-08 - Dirk Bogarde, British actor (b. 1921)
1999-06-01 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor (b. 1910)
1999-06-16 - David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
1999-06-23 - Buster Merryfield, British actor (b. 1920)
1999-07-12 - Bill Owen, British actor (b. 1914)
1999-08-15 - Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (b. 1910)
1999-09-17 - Frankie Vaughan, British singer (b. 1928)
1999-11-21 - Quentin Crisp, British writer, raconteur and actor (b. 1908)
1999-12-29 - Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (b. 1906)
2000-01-02 - Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (b. 1914)
2000-01-17 - Philip Jones, British trumpeter (b. 1928)
2000-01-26 - Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898)
2000-03-07 - Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)
2000-03-28 - Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
2000-04-11 - Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
2000-05-21 - Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904)
2000-05-25 - Nicholas Clay, British actor (b. 1946)
2000-05-27 - Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch, British statesman (b. 1917)
2000-06-02 - Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912)
2000-06-24 - Vera Atkins, Romanian-born British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
2000-06-28 - Jane Birdwood, British anti-Semitic activist (b. 1913)
2000-07-01 - Sarah Payne, British murder victim (b. 1992)
2000-07-22 - Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)
2000-08-05 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor (b. 1914)
2000-09-09 - Julian Critchley, British politician (b. 1930)
2000-09-19 - Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)
2000-10-01 - Reginald Kray, British gangster (b. 1933)
2000-10-03 - John Grant, British politician (b. 1932)
2000-11-09 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
2001-01-11 - Michael Williams, British actor, husband of Judi Dench (b. 1935)
