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This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragicall History of D. Faustus (probably written and first performed between 1588/89 and Marlowe's death in 1593) is published in London. King James publishes A Counterblaste to Tobacco. Table Alphabeticall, the first known English dictionary to be organised by alphabetical ordering, is published.
Pages in category "Historical events in the United Kingdom" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Walter de la Mare's The Listeners, and Other Poems.; Ethel M. Dell's first novel The Way of an Eagle. [15]Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World.; The first Georgian Poetry anthology Georgian Poetry 1911–12 edited by Edward Marsh.
Prince Albert (later George VI), having become Duke of York earlier in the year, meets Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, who will become his wife in 1923 (and later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). [23] Huddersfield Corporation buys the leaseholds of much of the town from the Ramsden estate for £1.3M, becoming "the town that bought itself". [24]
11 April – The Stone of Scone is located at Arbroath Abbey, having been stolen from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalists on Christmas Day 1950. [7] 17 April The submarine HMS Affray sinks, killing all 75 crew members. [8] Seven unofficial dockers' leaders are acquitted of offences under a wartime regulation intended to prevent ...
A majority of the Miners Federation have voted to continue the strike but with less than the required two-thirds majority. December – Imperial Chemical Industries formed by merger of Brunner Mond , Nobel Explosives , the United Alkali Company , and the British Dyestuffs Corporation .