1906 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1906 in the United Kingdom.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Edward VII
- Prime Minister - Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Liberal)
Events
- 8 February - The Liberal Party led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman win the general election with a large majority.
- 10 February – HMS Dreadnought is launched and sparks the naval race between Britain and Germany.
- 15 February - Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in Parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
- 10 March - Bakerloo line of the London Underground opened.[1]
- 15 March - Rolls-Royce Ltd is registered.
- 22 March - First international rugby match. England defeats France 25-8.[2]
- 21 April - Manchester United F.C., known as Newton Heath until four years ago, secure promotion to the Football League First Division.[3]
- 15 May - Our Dumb Friends League opens its first animal hospital, in Victoria, London.[4]
- 26 May - Opening of Vauxhall Bridge in London.[1]
- 30 May - Royal Navy battleship HMS Montagu runs aground on the island of Lundy and becomes a loss.[5]
- 22 June - The present King's daughter Maud is crowned as queen consort of Norway.
- 27 June - Swansea earthquake causes considerable damage.[6]
- 30 June - Salisbury rail crash: A London and South Western Railway express train suffers derailment and collision passing through Salisbury station at excessive speed; 24 passengers and 4 railwaymen are killed.[7][8]
- 31 August–3 September - Heat wave reaches its peak.[9]
- 19 September - Grantham rail accident: A Great Northern Railway sleeping car train suffers derailment passing through Grantham station at excessive speed; 14 are killed.[7]
- October - New City Hall, Cardiff, opens in Cathays Park.
- 8 October - German inventor and hairdresser Karl Nessler gives the first public demonstration of his permanent wave machine in London.[1]
- 23 October - Suffragettes disrupt the State Opening of Parliament.[2]
- 2 December - HMS Dreadnought commissioned, the first all-big-gun warship.
- 10 December - J. J. Thomson wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases."[10]
- 13 December
- Trade Disputes Act legalises picketing.[2]
- Workmen's Compensation Act entitles workers to compensation for industrial injuries or disease.[2]
- 15 December - Piccadilly line of the London Underground opened.[1]
- 21 December - Education (Provision of Meals) Act allows local education authorities to provide free school meals to the poorest children.[11]
Undated
- Hampstead Garden Suburb established in north London.
- Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.
- Anti-vivisection Brown Dog statue is erected in Battersea, provoking riots.
- Alice Perry becomes the first woman to graduate with a degree in civil engineering in the British Isles, at Queen's College, Galway, Ireland, and is appointed in December as an acting county surveyor.[12]
- J. K. Farnell of London manufacture the first British teddy bear.
Publications
- Angela Brazil's schoolgirl story The Fortunes of Philippa.
- William De Morgan's novel Joseph Vance.[13]
- The English Hymnal edited by Percy Dearmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
- Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler's book The King's English.
- John Galsworthy's first Forsyte Saga novel The Man of Property.
- Rudyard Kipling's historical fantasy Puck of Pook's Hill.
- E. Nesbit's novel The Railway Children (in book form).
- J. M. Dent and Company commence publication of the Everyman's Library series with Boswell's Life of Johnson.
Births
- 22 January – Joe Gladwin, actor (d. 1987)
- 10 February – Arthur Elton, pioneer documentary film maker (died 1973)
- 19 February – Grace Williams, Welsh composer (died 1977)
- 26 February – Madeleine Carroll, actress (died 1997)
- 16 March – Henny Youngman, American-domiciled comedian (died 1998)
- 25 March – A. J. P. Taylor, historian (died 1990)
- 9 April - Hugh Gaitskell, Labour politician (died 1963)
- 21 April – Stephen Tennant, eccentric socialite (died 1987)
- 29 May – T. H. White, novelist (died 1964)
- 19 June – Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (died 1979)
- 20 June
- Catherine Cookson, novelist (died 1998)
- Robert Trent Jones, American-domiciled golf course designer (died 2000)
- 27 June – Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (died 1967)
- 30 June – Ralph Allen, footballer (died 1981)
- 5 August – Joan Hickson, actress (died 1998)
- 28 August – John Betjeman, poet laureate (died 1984)
- 27 September – William Empson, poet (died 1984)
- 1 November – Beryl Cooke, actress (died 2001)
- 18 November – Alec Issigonis, car designer (died 1988)
- 8 December – Richard Llewellyn, novelist (died 1983)
- 24 December – James Hadley Chase, novelist (died 1985)
Deaths
- 22 January – George Holyoake, secularist and proponent of the cooperative movement (born 1817)
- 8 March – Henry Baker Tristram, clergyman and ornithologist (born 1822)
- 19 April – Spencer Gore, tennis player and cricketer (born 1850)
- 20 June – John Clayton Adams, artist (born 1840)
- 9 November – Dorothea Beale, proponent of women's education (born 1831)
- 19 December – Frederic William Maitland, historian and jurist (born 1850)
- 30 December – Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist (born 1814)
References
- ^ a b c d Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ a b c d Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 338–339. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ "English Second Division 1905/1906". www.manchesterunited-mad.co.uk. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ "Blue Cross: 100 not out". Mature Times. 1 August 2006. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- ^ Burt, R. A. (1988). British Battleships 1889-1904. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. pp. 205–206. ISBN 0-87021-061-0.
- ^ "The day an earthquake hit Swansea". BBC. 27 June 2006.
- ^ a b Rolt, L. T. C. (1955). Red for Danger: a history of railway accidents and railway safety precautions. London: Bodley Head.
- ^ Pattenden, Norman (2001). Salisbury, 1906: an answer to the enigma?. Swindon: South Western Circle. ISBN 0-9503741-6-4.
- ^ Suri, Dan (16 February 2001). "Warm spells in September". Retrieved 7 September 2010.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906". Retrieved 3 February 2008.
- ^ Andrews, L. (1972). "The School Meals Service". British Journal of Educational Studies. 20: 70–75. doi:10.2307/3119787.
- ^ "Alice Perry". Institution of Engineers of Ireland. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
- ^ Stoker, Bram (June 1908). "Mr. De Morgan's Habits of Work". World's Work. XVI: 10337–10342. Retrieved 10 July 2009.