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Wikipedia. : On this day/Today. 1837 – Queen Victoria (pictured) acceded to the British throne, beginning a 63-year reign. 1921 – British Army officer Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army near Moydrum, Ireland.
11–19 February – Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland and win one bronze medal. 12 February. An underground explosion at Haig Pit, Whitehaven, in the Cumberland Coalfield, kills thirteen miners undertaking clearance after an earlier fatal accident. [5]
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, History of the formation of the United Kingdom and History of the United Kingdom
22 April – Chat Moss airport opens in Manchester, Britain's first municipal airport. [3] Age of Marriage Act 1929 passed, raising the legal marriageable age to sixteen years for both parties to a marriage. Yorkshire cricketer Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a match against Oxford University.
4–9 December – Great Smog blankets London, causing transport chaos and, it is believed, around 4,000 deaths. [30] 10 December – Archer Martin and Richard Synge win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for their invention of partition chromatography". [31] 12 December – BBC children's television series Flower Pot Men debuts.
6 December – the 1923 United Kingdom general election, is won by the Conservative Party led by Stanley Baldwin but without enough seats to form a majority. [5] This is the last UK general election in which a third party wins over 100 seats (158 for the Liberals). Among the new members of parliament is 26-year-old Anthony Eden, the ...
9 March – 37 people are arrested and 10 police officers injured in Brixton, London, during rioting against the new Community Charge. 13 March – The ambulance crew dispute ends after six months when workers agree to a 17.6% pay rise. 15 March. Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
Events. 1 January – establishment of the National Council for Civil Liberties by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith. [1] 21 January – ten thousand people attend a British Union of Fascists rally in Birmingham, organised by Oswald Mosley. [2] 27 March – the Betting and Lotteries Act 1934 is passed.