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News Events Of 1900
February 27th - The British Labour Party launched under Ramsay MacDonald
February 28th - The end of Ladysmith's 118 day seige
May 17th - The relief of Mafeking after 31 weeks seige by the Boers
July 1st - First flight by Count Zeppelin's airship
August 4th - Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (The Queen Mother), youngest daughter of 14th Earl of Strathmore, born at St. Paul's Walden Bury, Herts
August 14th - Boxer rising against Europeans in China, Peking stormed by the allies (British, German, Japanese, Russian and USA) to end the rebellion
The Commonwealth of Australia was created
Russia occupied Korea
Britain was building several new battleships for Japan
Germany was planning a new fleet of 38 battleships
1903 cars had a max speed of 20mph -- over 100 years later we see no improvement
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Events Of 1903
January 1st - India pledges allegiance to the Imperial sovereignty
June 16th - The Ford Motor Company was formed
July - The death of Pope Leo XIII
July - Athur Henderson won the Barnard Castle by election become the third MP in Keir Hardies Labour Party
August - Pope Pius X was crowned
October 10th - Mrs Pankhurst formed the Womens Social and Political Union with the slogan "Deeds not Words" to secure votes for women
December 17th - Wilbur and Orville Wright brothers first flight (12 seconds) in a heavier-than-air craft, at Kittyhawk nr. Kill Devil Hill, NorthCarolina
London had its first electric trams
Kew bridge opened in London and so did the Gaiety Theatre
The Pepsi Cola brand name was registered
The first Wild West film Kit Carson was made
Marconi's Telegraphy link between the UK and USA started
US - Panama treaty gives Amerca control of the canal although building wasn't to start until 1904
A speed limit of 20mph was set for cars on British roads
February - The royal Navy's super battleship Dreadnought was launched at Portsmouth by Edward VII- nicknamed John Bull afloat by Fred T Jane
February 7th - The Liberals won a landslide election victory in UK
April 18th - San Fransisco was devastated by an earthquake more than 2500 people died, 497 city blocks destroyed at a loss of $350 million the land was displaced horizontally by 21ft (7 metres) the steel framed Bullock and Jones building withstood the shock more successfully
May - The Duma Russia's first elected parliament took office
June - A deputation representing half a million women went with a petition to 10 Downing Street to press women's claim to the vote
July - The Duma was dissolved by the Tsar and Martial Law was declared
October 3rd - SOS was adopted as the international distress signal
November - Japan launches the worlds biggest battle ship the Satsuma
There was a general strike in Spain and the King and Queen of Spain were nearly blown up
Simplon Tunnel was opened
Rolls Royce was founded
US President Theodore Roosevelt award Nobel Peace Prize for help to negotiate peace in the Russo-Japanese War.
Alfred Dreyfus, a French-Jewish army officer wrongly convicted of treason in 1899, is exonerated.
President Theodore Roosevelt declares Devil's Tower the first US National Monument.
January 3rd - Seige of Sidney Street, 1000 troops and armed police, ended as anarchists burn to death
January 21st - Publication of the discovery that cancer is spread by a virus
February 21st - Ramsay MacDonald elected Labour Party leader
June 23rd - George V crowned at Westminster Abbey
July 1st - Union of South Africa became a British Dominion
August 8th - Troops called in to control rioting strikers, fired on and killed one,in Liverpool
August 22nd - Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre
October 23rd - First model T Ford produced outside the United States. in Manchester
December 10th - Madame Curie awarded her second Nobel prize
December 14th - Captain Roald Amundsen (Norway) is the first man to the South Pole
December 29th - Revolution in China - Manchu dynasty overthrown - Centuries of imperial control ended by the first Chinese republic. Dr Sun Yat Sen took power
Italy declared war on Turkish troops in North africa
The Titanic was launched with her sister ship Olympic
New copyright law protected musicians and writers works for 50 years
Crystal Palace was bought for the nation
Cubism shook the art world when it was displayed at the Salo d'Automne in Paris
Gustav Mahler died in Vienna he was 50
Strauss's Der Rosenkavelier was performed for the first time in Dresden
The first Indianapolis 500 race took place in the USA
Broadway Ziegfields Follies launched the Irving Berlin hit "Everybody's doing it"
Parliament Act reduces powers of the House of Lords
Sun Yat-sen made first provisional President of Chinese Republic. Boy Emperor, Xuan Tong ("Pu Yi") abdicates in February 1912. Yuan Shikai becomes second provisional President.
January 12th - Captain Robert Scott reached the South Pole, none of his party survived the return.
March 1st - Window smashing rampage in Londons West end by Suffragettes
April 15th - Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage, 1513 passengers and crew were drowned and 706 were saved after an SOS mesage was picked up by the Liner Carpathia
September 28th - Ulster Loyalists determined to fight Home Rule by force
October 1st - First Balkan war - Turkey invaded by Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro
November 5th - Democrat Woodrow Wilson elected 28th president of the usa
"Lots of chocolate for me to eat - warm face, warm hands, warm feet, wouldn't it be lovely"
11:47 Dec 16 2007 Times Read: 931
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January 15th - Warnings of threatened Civil war in Ulster over Home Rule
April 12th - Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion had a triumphant opening
April 21st - US Marines seized the Mexican Port of Veracruz
May 22nd - 57 arrested after "Votes for Women" protest at Buckingham Palace
June 28th - Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand (heir to Austro-Hungarian Empire) assassinated in Sarajevo
August 1st - German declaration of war on Russia
August 4th - British declaration of war after German invasion of Belgium
August 23rd - British retreat from Mons
September 14th - German Armies stopped by the French at the Marne
November 17th - Announcement that income tax was to be doubled in UK to finance the war
November 29th - Former president Roosevelt criticised US neutrality policy
December 16th - North East of England coastal towns, Scarborough, shelled by German warships several fatalities
Suffragettes - Mary Richardson slashed the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery and got six months. More attacks followed to the British Museum, The Royal Academy a bomb destroyed Yarmouth Pier and Wargrave church was burnt down
Union leaders in South Africa were arrested and secretly deported after a general strike
Cricket ball makers in Kent went on strike for better wages!
Irish Home Rule Act was passed but was immediately suspended
Northeren and Southern Nigeria were united as one colony
The screen début of Charlie Chaplin
Ford Motor Company announces an 8-hour working day, paid at a minimum, $5 per day.
USA and Panama sign Panama Canal Treaty.
Last known Passenger Pigeon dies at Cincinnati Zoo.
January 6th - House of Commons voted in favour of conscription in Britain
February 21st - German offensive launched at Verdun, checked by the French
April 25th - Easter Rising in Dublin with a proclamation of the Irish Republic
May 21st - British Summer Time introduced, clocks went forward 1 hour
May 27th - Call for a "League of Nations" by president Wilson of the USA
May 31st - Battle of Jutland; heavy losses by British and German Navies
June 6th - Lord Kitchener, Britain's War Secretary, was drowned when HMS Hampshire was sunk
June 21st - Arab rising against the Turks started
July 3rd - Somme offensive launched (my great grandfather killed July 16th)(the combined battles of Verdun and the Somme claimed nearly 2 million lives)
July 6th - David Lloyd George appointed War Secretary, in succession to Lord Kitchener
August 3rd - Sir Roger Casement executed for high treason
September 15th - Tanks first used in Battle on the Somme
September 23rd - The first Zeppelin to crash on Britain at Potters Bar
September 28th - John D Rockefeller became the worlds first Billionaire
November - The Emperor of Austria Franz Josef died
December 7th - David Lloyd George took over as British Prime Minister
December 30th - Grigori Rasputin was murdered in Russia
T. E. Lawrence appointed liaison officer to Faysal's army
February 1st - German submarine war intensified, US ships armed
The Germans ask Mexico to declare war on the US
March 16th - Tsar of Russia abdicated :Cossacks demonstrating in Petrograd
The Housatonic is sunk off Sicily
April 6th - War declared on Germany by the USA
April 19th - The US ship Mongolia sank a German submarine
April 16th - Lenin returned to Russia from exile in Europe
June 1st - Convoy system introduced as defence against U-Boats
June 13th - First bombing raid on London by German aircraft with 100 fatalities
August 20th - Third Ypres offensive launched by Allies
September 17th - Russian army defeated by Germans at Riga
October 15th - Mata Hari (born Margaretha Gertruida Zelle in 1876, the notorious Dutch exotic dancer was executed at Vincennes, Paris, for spying for the Germans
October 27th - American troops had their first engagement on the Western Front
October 30th - Italians defeated at Caporetto
November 7th - Kerensky's government ousted by Bolshevik coup in Russia, Lenin and Trotsky rise to power and Joseph Stalin became a member of the Politburo
November 9th - Jewish homeland in Palestine promised by Balfour Declaration
November 29th - Peace talks announced between Russia and Germany
December 9th - Jerusalem captured by the British
December - The US Senate vote for the Prohibition of Alcohol
Buffalo Bill (Cody) died
n New York at Reisenwebers restaurant the Original dixieland Jass (later Jazz)Band played. The first Jazz record was recorded :The Original Dixieland One Step
January 8th - 'Fourteen Points' for peace announced by President Wilson
January 25th - Food rationing introduced in Britain and the health of the nation improved!
March 3rd - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed by Russia and Germany
School leaving age raised to 14
March - Moscow was declared the new capital of Russia instead of Petrograd
March 31st - German offensive launched breaking all allied lines
Stonehenge was presented to the nation
April 1st - Royal Air Force formed in Britain (combined the Royal Flying Corps with The Royal Naval Air Service)
April 21st - Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron) was shot down and killed
June - British marines seized Murmansk to stop the port falling into german hands
July 16th - Tsar Nicholas II and his family murdered in Russia
August 2nd - Allied troops landed in Archangel to support White Russians
August 8th - Allied counter offensive launched on Western Front
Spanish Flu sweeps through France and Britain 2000 per week were dying in London and more Americans died from Flu than in battle!
October 3rd - Damascus taken by Arab forces under T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
German High Seas Fleet mutinies
October 31st - Germany appealed for an armistice
November 11th - Germany signed armistice with Allies at Compiègne the guns fell silent at 11am; End of 1st World War Ten million people had died, nearly 1 million from Britain and her Empire and "the lost generation" was a familiar phrase
December 28th - First women voted in UK (over 30); Lloyd George's government re-elected
Charlie Chaplin stars in Shoulder Arms
In USA daylight saving time was introduced
George Gershwin had his first hit with Swanee
Wilfred Owen dies, aged 25
Lloyd George's coalition goverment is returned to power in British general election
January 11th - Ruhr occupied by the French because Germany refused to pay war reparations to seize payment in coal
January 23rd - The engagement of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (The Queen Mother who died in 2002) and The Duke of York (King George VI who died in 1952)
January 27th - First Nazi (National Socialist) party rally held in Munich, addressed by Hitler
February 16th Friday was the opening of Tutankhamens Tomb by Howard Carter
April 26th - The Wedding of The Duke of York and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
September 1st - Tokyo and Yokohama destroyed by earthquake 72,000 deaths
October 29th - Turkish Republic proclaimed by military leader Mustafa Kemal
November 11th - Hitler arrested after failed coup in Munich. He was jailed for 5 years and whilst in prison wrote Mein Kampf (My struggle)
November 15th - German currency worthless; cost of loaf was 200 Billion marks, children used bundles of Mark notes as building blocks and paper Marks generally were sold to waste paper merchants
Dr FG Banting discovers Insulin as a treatment of Diabetics following previous testing the year before
Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister
Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th US president after the death of Harding
January 21st - Death of Lenin, founder of the Soviet State, at 54. Buried on the 27th to a salute of factory sirens. Stalin takes power
January 22nd - Britains first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald
March 31st - Imperial Airways formed as Britain's National airline
April 4th - The BBC broadcasted the first radio programmes for schools
April 23rd - British Empire Exhibition opened at Wembley
July - The Paris Olympic Games Harold Abrahams won gold 100 metres and Eric Liddell 400 metres (later a film Chariots of Fire)
August - pictures from the telescope on Mount Wilson observatory California proclaimed Venus as having abundant vegetation and animal life!
October 31st - Labour routed by Tories after a "red scare", provoked by Zinoviev letter (ordering a Red Revolution in Britain)it is now considered to have been a forgery Baldwin became Prime Minister once more.
More Tutankhamun treasures revealed
George Bernard Shaw's St Joan was produced on the London Stage
Sansovino won the Derby
Calvin Coolidge elected 30th President of the USA
E. M. Forster's A Passage to India was published
J. Edgar Hoover appointed to head Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Mahatma Gandhi goes on 21-day fast for Indian unity and religious tolerance, after communal fighting between Hindus and Muslims.
First Winter Olympics held in Chamonix, France.
Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.
January 16th - Trotsky removed from Soviet War Council by Stalin
March 13th - Daylight saving Summer time , in the UK, made permanent by parliament.
April 4th - A tornado went through 5 states and in particular Murphysboro, Illinois, it killed 800 people and injured 3000
April 30th - Art Deco style launched by Paris Exposition des Art Décoratifs.
May 25th - John Scopes brought to trial in Tennessee, USA, for teaching about evolution.
June 29th - Colour bar made legal in South Africa with work ban for the blacks.
June 18th - Hitler's personal testament, Mein Kamp ('My Struggle') published.
October 24th - Thomas Bell, Ernest Cant and Willie Gallacher were charged at Bow Street under the Incitement to Mutiny act of 1797, as leading communists. A few hundred people collected outside and sang "The Red Flag".
PG Wodehouse publishes his second novel about Bertie Wooster - Carry on Jeeves
Many people migrated to Canada, New Zealand, Australia or South Africa and Rhodesia, in the UK there was bad housing education, bad wages and little health care.
Roman mosaic uncovered at Colchester
Roman ruins at Jemila, Algeria described as an 'African "Pompei"'
Mr LSB Leakey's British Musem Expedition in Tanganyika which had set out to obtain bones of a Gigantosaurus
So many cars on the road in the UK that there were suggestions for a three tier system for cities - pedestrians above, cars at ground level and railways below as the dazzle of car headlights was a continuing problem
John Logie Baird demonstrates television?
Malcolm Campbell breaks the world land speed record.
The British General election returned a historic victory for Labour who polled less votes than the Conservatives
February 11th - Mussolini and the Pope agreed to create a Vatican State
February 17th - First in-flight movie shown on an internal flight in the USA
May Day riots demonstrations of Communists in Berlin and 23 people were killed
May - Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford presented the first 'Oscars' for outstanding films
June 7th - First british woman, Margaret Bondfield, cabinet minister appointed
June 27th - First colour television image demonstrated in New York
August 19th - Death of Sergei Diaghilev, impresario of Russian Ballet
August 28th - The German airship Graf Zeppelin arrived in Los Angeles after crossing the Pacific from Tokyo in 12 days as part of its round the world flight in 21 days
September 5th - United States of Europe suggested by French premier Briand, Kellogg-Briand pact outlawing war comes into operation
October 24th - Wall Street Crash began with 13 million shares changing hands, in 4 days 5 billion dollars were wiped off stock and share values. This set off the great world wide depression of the 30s when at its worst 1 person in 3 (of the employable) was unemployed in the US
October - Viceroy of India Lord Irwin stated that India would eventually be granted dominion status
November 18th - The Japanese began to invade Manchuria
November - some American police have started making sound-films of prisoners under interrogation to shown in court.
December 2nd - Britains first 22 public telephone boxes came into service
December 8th - Nazi Party victorious in Bavarian municipal elections
Books - Robert Graves Goodbye to All That describing with realism the degradation suffered by the men who died in the trenches as a result of obstinate stupidity of the generals.
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front told the story of unspeakable horrors endured by the German troops in trench warfare
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