| 1901 |
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Edward VII comes to English throne |
| 1901 |
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Marconi sends first transatlantic radio message from Britain |
| 1906 |
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Movement for Women's Suffrage becomes active in Britain |
| 1906 |
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Liberal landslide government in Britain |
| 1908 |
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Herbert Asquith becomes Liberal Prime Minister |
| 1908 |
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Lord Baden-Powell founds Boy Scouts and Girl Guides |
| 1910 |
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First Post-Impressionist art exhibition (Cezanne/Van Gogh/Gauguin) in London |
| 1910 |
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Death of Florence Nightingale (nurse and hospital reformer) |
| 1910 |
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Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead publish "Principia Mathematica" |
| 1910 |
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George V succedes to British throne |
| 1914 |
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Britain drawn into First World War against Germany |
| 1916 |
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Inconclusive battles at Verdun and Somme in France |
| 1918 |
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Lawrence of Arabia aids British forces in Middle East |
| 1918 |
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End of First World War (25m killed) - Versailles Conference |
| 1918 |
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Women over 30 granted right to vote in Britain |
| 1918 |
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Earnest Rutherford splits the atom |
| 1921 |
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British-Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes his "Tractatus" |
| 1922 |
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TS Eliot writes "The Waste Land" |
| 1924 |
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First Labour Government under Ramsay MacDonald voted in Britain |
| 1926 |
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General Strike in Britain |
| 1928 |
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Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin |
| 1928 |
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Equal adult suffrage established in Britain |
| 1930 |
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Death of DH Lawrence (writer) |
| 1931 |
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National Coalition Government in Britain |
| 1932 |
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Aldous Huxley writes "Brave New World" |
| 1934 |
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Death of Sir Edward Elgar (composer) |
| 1936 |
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King George V dies - Edward VIII abdicates - George VI accedes |
| 1937 |
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Neville Chamberlaine's government appeases Germany and Italy |
| 1939 |
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Britain enters Second World War after Hitler invades Poland |
| 1940 |
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Sir Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister |
| 1940 |
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Battle of Britain - Germany defeated in air |
| 1941 |
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Death of Virginia Woolf (writer) |
| 1942 |
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British army under Montgomery drives Germans out of Egypt |
| 1944 |
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D-Day - Allies make crucial push into France |
| 1945 |
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Germany surrenders - end of Second World War (45m killed) |
