1901 in the United Kingdom

none July 2022 January 2013 1901 Constituent countries of the United Kingdom England Ireland Scotland Wales Sport 1901 English cricket season Football: England Scotland Events from the year 1901 in the United Kingdom. This year marks the transition from the Victorian to the Edwardian era, with the death of the 81-year-old Queen and the accession of her 59-year-old son. Incumbents Monarch – Victoria (until 22 January), Edward VII (starting 22 January) Prime Minister – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (Coalition) Events thumb|Queen Victoria's funeral procession 1 January The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia.Australia. The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Edmund Barton becomes the first Australian Prime Minister. Nigeria becomes a British protectorate. 19 January – Queen Victoria is reported to be seriously ill.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-wJJAAAAIBAJ&pg=3438,901910&dq=queen+victoria&hl=en Belief in London With Regard to Queen's Illness The Meriden Daily Journal 19 January 1901 2012-01-31 22 January – Queen Victoria dies at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She was 81 years old and has served as monarch for nearly 64 years – the only longer reigning British monarch will be Queen Elizabeth II.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 Victoria's eldest son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, becomes King, reigning as Edward VII. 23 January – Guglielmo Marconi sends a wireless communication 299 km (186 mi) 'over the horizon' from Niton on the Isle of Wight to The Lizard in Cornwall.Peter Stanier Cornwall's Industrial Heritage Chacewater Twelveheads 2010 978-0-906294-57-4 14 2 February – The funeral of Queen Victoria takes place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. It is attended by many European royals, including Kaiser Wilhelm II and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/royalfunerals/qvicfuneral01.html The Funeral at Windsor of Queen Victoria The Royal Windsor Website.com ThamesWeb 2017-01-22 2016-10-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20161018223811/http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorhistory/royalfunerals/qvicfuneral01.html live 14 February – Edward VII opens his first parliament. 18 February – Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the House of Commons, concerning the Boer War.Paul Addison Paul Addison Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874–1965) 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/32413 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32413 2011-01-19 21 February – The Apollo Theatre opens in Shaftesbury Avenue, London. 5 March – Police eject jeering Irish nationalist demonstrators from the House of Commons. 12 March – The Whitechapel Art Gallery opens in London. 16 March–1 November – The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (the future King George V and Queen Mary) make a tour of the British Empire in Ophir sailing as a Royal Yacht.The Royal Tour, 1901 Harry Price Exeter Webb & Bower 1980 0906671108 31 March – The 1901 UK Census is held. The number of people employed in manufacturing is at its highest-ever recorded level. 26 April – First meeting of the Engineering Standards Committee, predecessor of the BSI Group.Robert C. McWilliam BSI: the first hundred years 2001 Thanet Press London 2 May–4 November – Glasgow International Exhibition.Glasgow International Exhibition – 1901 http://www.studygroup.org.uk/Exhibitions/Pages/1901%20Glasgow.htm Exhibition Study Group 5 May 2002 2012-07-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20100820121515/http://www.studygroup.org.uk/Exhibitions/Pages/1901%20Glasgow.htm 20 August 2010 dead 16 May – TS King Edward is launched at William Denny and Brothers' shipyard in Dumbarton. The first commercial merchant vessel propelled by steam turbines, she enters excursion service on the Firth of Clyde on 1 July. 18 May – Alexandra Palace opens to the public in London. 29 June – Horniman Museum in Forest Hill is opened to the public by founder Frederick Horniman as a gift 'to the people in perpetuity'.Our history - Horniman Museum and Gardens https://www.horniman.ac.uk/our-history/ 2026-08-01 www.horniman.ac.uk 1 July – The first UK Fingerprint Bureau is established at Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police headquarters in London, by Edward Henry. 12 July – Maidenhead enters the UK Weather Records with the highest sixty-minute total rainfall at 92mm. As of April 2021 this record remains. 22 July The House of Lords rules in the Taff Vale case that trade unions can be held liable for damages caused by members.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/459 registration Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 459–460 British congress on tuberculosis opens. 5 August Britain's first permanent cinema opens in Islington, London. Victoria, Princess Royal, Empress Dowager of Prussia and elder sister of the King, dies aged 60 at Friedrichshof in Germany. 6 August – Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on the barque-rigged auxiliary steamship Discovery from The Solent to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica; the ship, launched on 21 March in Dundee, is the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the UK (and becomes the first Royal Research Ship in 1923). 17 August – The Factory and Workshop Act raises the minimum working age to twelve years and extends legislation regarding the education of working children, employee's meal times, and provision of fire escapes. 30 August – Engineer Hubert Cecil Booth patents the electrically powered vacuum cleaner. 7 September – The United Kingdom is amongst the signatories of the Boxer Protocol ending the Boxer Rebellion in China. October – First performance of Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, in Liverpool. 2 October – The Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness. 29 October – The Aero Club of the United Kingdom is established.1901 Royal Aero Club http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/1901_Royal_Aero_Club Grace's Guide 2011-03-03 9 November – The Prince George, Duke of Cornwall and York (later George V) becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester. This is the only time in British history that the titles of Prince of Wales and Duke of York are held by the same man. 13 November – Caister lifeboat disaster: Life-boat Beauchamp capsizes on service off Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, during a major storm: nine of the twelve crew on board are killed.Tooke Colin 1986 Caister – Beach Boats and Beachmen North Walsham Poppyland Publishing 0-946148-19-8 This gives ride to the lifeboatmen's motto "Never turn back." 18 November – The United Kingdom and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty allowing the U.S. to build a canal through Panama under its sole control. 30 November – Frank Hornby of Liverpool is granted a patent for the construction toy that will become Meccano.http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=GB190100587&F=0 2010-08-14 Hornby's 1901 patentJune 2026 InternetArchiveBot 12 December – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, sent from Poldhu in Cornwall to Newfoundland, the letter "S" in Morse.Gordon Bussey Marconi's Atlantic Leap Coventry Marconi 2000 0-9538967-0-6 22 December – Charles Aked, a Baptist minister in Liverpool, protests about the Second Boer War concentration camps. A crowd follows him home and breaks the windows of his house.http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/chronology/special-chrono/governance/mainframe-womencamp.htm Women & Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War South African History Online 2024-11-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20110607091953/http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/chronology/special-chrono/governance/mainframe-womencamp.htm 2011-06-07 dead Wayback Machine Undated Imperial Tobacco founded by W. H. Wills. Electric trams introduced in London and Portsmouth.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 331–332 0-7126-5616-2 The first codified rules of netball are published.Summers David The Sports Book 2007 DK Publishing New York 978-0-7566-3195-6 165 Ongoing events Second Boer War (1899–1902) Publications Dictionary of National Biography concludes publication. Patrick S. Dinneen's novel Cormac Ó Conaill, the first in Irish to be published complete in book form. Thomas Hardy's collection Poems of the Past and the Present. Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim. Seebohm Rowntree's survey of York Poverty, A Study of Town Life. H. G. Wells' novel The First Men in the Moon and his collected articles on futurology Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought. Births 135px|thumb|Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester 3 February – Rosamond Lehmann, novelist (died 1990) 10 February – Delia de Leon, Panamanian-born actress (died 1993)Horder John Obituary: Delia de Leon https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-delia-de-leon-1495780.html The Independent 5 March 1993 13 February – Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Scottish writer (died 1935) 15 February – Kenneth Callow, biochemist (died 1983) 19 February – Florence Green, Royal Air Force member, last surviving World War I veteran (died 2012) 3 March – Claude Choules, last surviving World War I combat veteran from England (died 2011) 7 April Stella Mary Newton, fashion designer (died 2001) Christopher Wood, painter (suicide 1930) 12 April – Thomas Sharp, urban planner (died 1978) 15 April – Joe Davis, snooker and billiards player (died 1978) 19 April – Edith Summerskill, physician, feminist, Labour politician and campaigner (died 1980) 23 May – Edmund Rubbra, composer (died 1986) 1 June – John Van Druten, dramatist (died 1957 in the United States) 9 June – John Skeaping, sculptor and equine painter (died 1980) 10 June – Eric Maschwitz, lyricist and broadcast executive (died 1969) 12 June – Norman Hartnell, fashion designer (died 1979) 17 June – F. 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Yeo-Thomas, World War II hero (died 1964) 23 June – Richard Ripley, 400 m runner (died 1996) 9 July – Barbara Cartland, novelist (died 2000) 13 July Reginald Goodall, conductor (died 1990) Eric Portman, film actor (died 1969) 20 July – Dilys Powell, film critic (died 1995) 29 August – Anna Zinkeisen, Scottish-born artist (died 1976) 15 September Donald Bailey, engineer (died 1985) Sylvia Crowe, landscape architect (died 1997) 4 September – William Lyons, automobile engineer and designer, founder of Jaguar Cars (died 1985) 9 September – James Blades, orchestral percussionist (died 1999) 17 September – Francis Chichester, aviator and sailor (died 1972) 20 September – Tolchard Evans, composer (died 1978) 4 October – Adrian Bell, rural writer and crossword compiler (died 1980) 1 November – Cecil Jackson-Cole, humanitarian (died 1979) 6 November – Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker, phycologist (died 1957) 17 November – Joyce Wethered, golfer (died 1997) 28 November – Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, née Ashley (died 1960) 28 November – Roy Urquhart, major-general (died 1988) 1 December – Charles Tunnicliffe, wildlife painter (died 1979) 25 December – Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (died 2004)Panton James Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy 24 February 2011 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-7497-8 42 https://books.google.com/books?id=BiyyueBTpaMC&pg=PA42 en 26 December – Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer (died 1947) 27 December – Stanley Hayter, printmaker (died 1988 in France) Deaths 135px|thumb|Queen Victoria 8 January – John Barry, Irish soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1873) 14 January – Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London (died in office) (born 1843) 22 January – Queen Victoria (born 1819)Queen Victoria https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/queen-victoria Westminster Abbey 7 October 2022 en 11 February – Henry Willis, organ builder (born 1821)Douglas Earl Bush Richard Kassel The Organ: An Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=cgDJaeFFUPoC&pg=PA630 2006 Psychology Press 978-0-415-94174-7 630 21 February – Henry Peach Robinson, photographer (born 1830) 6 March – John Jabez Edwin Mayall, photographer (born 1813 31 March – Sir John Stainer, composer and organist (born 1840)Dibble Jeremy Jeremy Dibble http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=9607 John Stainer: A life in music 2007 Boydell & Brewer Woodbridge, Suffolk 978-1-84383-297-3 308 23 August 2021 27 October 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141027221919/http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=9607 dead 3 April – Richard D'Oyly Carte, theatrical impresario (born 1844)Jacobs, Arthur. "Carte, Richard D'Oyly (1844–1901)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004, accessed 12 September 2008, 10.1093/ref:odnb/32311 13 April – Sir Edward Watkin, politician and railway entrepreneur (born 1819) 15 April – Francis Baker, cricketer (born 1847) 21 May – Sir John Commerell, admiral of the fleet (born 1829) 24 May – Charlotte Mary Yonge, novelist (born 1823) 9 June – Sir Walter Besant, novelist and historian (born 1836) 5 August Alfred Heaver, property developer (murdered) (born 1841) Victoria, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria (born 1840) 6 November – Kate Greenaway, children's book illustrator and writer (born 1846) 13 November – Sir William Houston Stewart, admiral (born 1822) 30 November – Edward John Eyre, explorer (born 1815) 1 December – George Lohmann, English cricketer (tuberculosis) (born 1865) 23 December – Edward Onslow Ford, sculptor (born 1852) See also List of British films before 1920 References 1901 Category:Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom Category:1901 by country Category:1900s in the United Kingdom Category:1901 in Europe