1913 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1913 in the United Kingdom.
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Incumbents
- Monarch - King George V
- Prime Minister - H. H. Asquith, Liberal
Events
- 1 January - British Board of Film Censors receives the authority to classify and censor films.[1]
- 15 January - Unemployment and Maternity benefits introduced.[1]
- 30 January - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill for the second time.
- 31 January - Ulster Volunteer Force established to fight against Irish Home Rule.[1]
- 10 February - News reaches London of the failure of Capt. Scott's 1912 Polar expedition.[2]
- 15 February - Barry Jackson opens the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
- 28 March - The Morris Oxford 2-seater car goes on sale.[1]
- 2 April - Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst sentenced to three years of penal servitude.[3]
- 21 April - RMS Aquitania, built by John Brown & Company, is launched on the Clyde.
- 20 May - The first Chelsea Flower Show held in London.[3]
- 4 June - Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of the King's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies four days later, never having regained consciousness.[4]
- 26 June - First woman magistrate appointed, Miss Emily Dawson, in London.
- 26 July - 50,000 women take part in a pilgrimage in Hyde Park, London organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.[4]
- 13 August - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley in Sheffield (concurrent with the invention of stainless steel in the United States by Elwood Haynes).[3]
- 14 October - 439 miners die in the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, Britain's worst pit disaster.[3]
- 16 October - HMS Queen Elizabeth launched at Portsmouth Dockyard as the Royal Navy's first oil-fired battleship.[5]
- 20 December - Serious fire at Portsmouth Dockyard destroys the semaphore tower.[6]
Undated
- British steamship Calvadas disappears in the Marmara Sea with 200 hands on board.
- Caroline Spurgeon named Hildred Carlile professor of English literature, University of London, the second woman professor in England.[7]
- Sir Aston Webb remodels Buckingham Palace's main East Front, in London.[8]
- Carter's Crisps of London introduce commercial manufacture of potato crisps to the U.K.[9]
Publications
- E. C. Bentley’s novel Trent's Last Case.[10]
- Walter de la Mare's Peacock Pie: a book of rhymes.
- Arthur Holmes' book The Age of the Earth, describing the estimation of the age of the Earth to 1.6 billion years using radiometric dating.
- D. H. Lawrence's novel Sons and Lovers.
- Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, 3rd volume of Principia Mathematica, one of the most important and seminal works in mathematical logic and philosophy.
Births
- 2 January - Anna Lee, actress (died 2004)
- 18 January - George Unwin, fighter ace WWII (died 2006)
- 30 January - Percy Thrower, gardener and broadcaster (died 1988)
- 6 February - Mary Leakey, anthropologist (died 1996)
- 13 February - George Barker, poet (died 1991)
- 15 February - William Scott, Ulster Scots painter (died 1989)
- 1 March - R. S. R. Fitter, writer (died 2005)
- 21 March - George Abecassis, race car driver (died 1991)
- 29 March - R. S. Thomas, poet (died 2000)
- 13 April - Fred Davis, snooker and billiards player (died 1998)
- 25 May - Richard Dimbleby, journalist and broadcaster (died 1965)
- 26 May - Peter Cushing, actor (died 1994)
- 2 June - Barbara Pym, novelist (died 1980)
- 25 June - Cyril Fletcher, comedian (died 2005)
- 2 July - Marcus Sieff, Baron Sieff of Brimpton, businessman (died 2001)
- 23 July - Michael Foot, Leader of UK Labour Party 1980-1983 (died 2010)
- 11 August - Angus Wilson, novelist and short story writer (died 1991)
- 30 August - Richard Stone, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
- 31 August - Bernard Lovell, physicist and radio astronomer.
- 2 September - Bill Shankly, Football manager (died 1981)
- 29 September - Trevor Howard, actor (died 1988)
- 26 October - Hugh Scanlon, trade union leader (died 2004)
- 5 November - Vivien Leigh, actress (died 1967)
- 21 November - John Boulting, film director (died 1985)
- 21 November - Roy Boulting, film director and producer (died 2001)
- 22 November - Benjamin Britten, composer (died 1976)
- 10 December - Harry Locke, character actor (died 1987)
Deaths
- 8 June - Emily Davison, suffragette (born 1872)
- 25 October - Frederick Rolfe, writer and artist (born 1860)
- 6 November - William Henry Preece, electrical engineer and inventor (born 1834)
- 7 November - Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist (born 1823)
References
- ^ a b c d Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 348–349. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635-1985. Caterham: Marden. p. 22.
- ^ a b c d Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. pp. 94. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ a b "BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour - Women's History Timeline: 1910 - 1919". Archived from the original on 06 January 2008. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/timeline/1910.shtml. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
- ^ Crowhurst, Richard (2005). "A History of Firsts: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard". TimeTravel-Britain.com. http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/museums/portsmouth.shtml. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
- ^ "Portsmouth Dockyard - Interwar". Sea Your History. Royal Naval Museum. http://www.seayourhistory.org.uk/content/view/118/206/. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
- ^ Schwarz, John H. (2004). "Spurgeon, Caroline Frances Eleanor (1869–1942)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/48509. Retrieved 2011-01-28. subscription or UK public library membership required. (Edith Morley (1908) was the first.)
- ^ Harris, John; de Bellaigue, Geoffrey; Millar, Oliver (1968). Buckingham Palace. London: Nelson. p. 34. ISBN 0-17-141011-4.
- ^ Robertson, Patrick (1974). The Shell Book of Firsts. London: Ebury Press. p. 138. ISBN 0-7181-1279-2.
- ^ Keating, H. R. F. (1982). Whodunit? – a guide to crime, suspense and spy fiction. London: Windward. ISBN 0-7112-0249-4.
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