1904 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1904 in the United Kingdom.
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Incumbents
- Monarch - King Edward VII
- Prime Minister - Arthur Balfour, Conservative
Events
- 1 January - Number plates are introduced as cars are licensed for the first time. A speed limit of 20 miles per hour is introduced.[1]
- 12 March - Britain's first surface electric trains begin running from Liverpool to Southport on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.[2]
- 26 March - 80,000 demonstrators gather in Hyde Park, London, to protest against the importation of Chinese labourers to South Africa by the British government.
- 8 April - Entente Cordiale signed between the United Kingdom and France.[2]
- 4 May - Frederick Henry Royce meets Charles Stewart Rolls to discuss Rolls-Royce agreement.
- 24 May - Celebration of Empire Day introduced to the UK by Lord Meath.
- 9 June - The London Symphony Orchestra performs its first concert.[2]
- 28 June - The Danish liner SS Norge is wrecked off Rockall with the loss of 635 lives.[3]
- 1 July–23 November - Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri and win one gold and one silver medal.
- 21 July - Official opening of Birmingham Corporation Water Department’s scheme bringing water to the city from the Elan Valley Reservoirs in Wales via the Elan aqueduct.[4][5]
- 3 August - A British expedition under Colonel Francis Younghusband takes Lhasa in Tibet.
- September - Start of 1904–1905 Welsh Christian revival.
- 21 October - The Dogger Bank incident; Russian fleet mistakes British fishing trawlers in the North Sea for Japanese torpedo boats, and opens fire, sinking one. War is narrowly averted.[1]
- 10 December
- John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies".[6]
- William Ramsay wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determination of their place in the periodic system".[7]
- 24 December - The Coliseum Theatre in London opens.[2]
- 27 December - The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premières in London.[2]
Undated
- John Ambrose Fleming invents the diode valve.[8]
- Hill House, Helensburgh, Scotland, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, completed.[9]
- Herbert Beerbohm Tree establishes an Academy of Dramatic Art, which will become RADA, at His Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket (London).
- Loftus Road and Griffin Park football stadiums opened in London.
Publications
- G. K. Chesterton's novel The Napoleon of Notting Hill.
- Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo.
- W. H. Hudson's novel Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest.
- Halford Mackinder's paper The Geographical Pivot of History.
- Hermann Muthesius' study Das englische Haus begins publication in Berlin.
- Frederick Rolfe's novel Hadrian the Seventh.
- Saki's short story collection Reginald.
Births
- 14 January - Cecil Beaton, photographer (died 1980)
- 18 January - Cary Grant, actor (died 1986)
- 8 April - John Hicks, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
- 14 April - Sir John Gielgud, actor (died 2000)
- 26 April - Jimmy McGrory, footballer (died 1982)
- 27 April - Cecil Day-Lewis, poet (died 1972)
- 8 May - John Snagge, radio personality (died 1996)
- 27 July - Anton Dolin, dancer and choreographer (died 1983)
- 26 August - Christopher Isherwood, novelist (died 1986)
- 29 September - Greer Garson, actress (died 1996)
- 20 October - Anna Neagle, actress (died 1986)
- 2 November - Hugh Patrick Lygon, aristocrat (died 1936)
- 11 November - J. H. C. Whitehead, mathematician (died 1960)
- 14 November - Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1988)
- 12 December - Edward Pilgrim, victim of bureaucracy (died 1954)
Deaths
- 22 February - Leslie Stephen, writer and critic (born 1832)
- 5 March - John Lowther du Plat Taylor, founder of the Army Post Office Corps (born 1829)
- 16 April - Samuel Smiles, author and reformer (born 1812)
- 8 May - Frederick York Powell, historian and scholar (born 1850)
- 10 May - Henry Morton Stanley, explorer and journalist (born 1841)
- 22 July - Wilson Barrett, actor (born 1846)
- 4 October - Laurence Hope, poetess (born 1865)
References
- ^ a b Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 335–336. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b c d e Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Sebak, Per Kristian (2004). Titanic's Predecessor: the S/S Norge Disaster of 1904. Laksevaag: Seaward. ISBN 82-996779-0-4.
- ^ City of Birmingham Water Department (1926). A Short History of the Development of the Undertaking, with a Description of the Existing Sources of Supply.
- ^ Judge, Colin (1987). The Elan Valley Railway: the Railway of the Birmingham Corporation Waterworks. Oxford: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-353-2.
- ^ Lord Rayleigh The Nobel Prize in Physics 1904
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1904
- ^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN -85986-000-1.
- ^ Grewe, Armin (2001-6). "C. R. Mackintosh: Hill House in Helensburgh". The Armin Grewe Homepage. Aldermaston. Archived from the original on 23 June 2010. http://www.armin-grewe.com/crm/crm-hillhouse.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
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