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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
The UK's first nuclear bomb. 5 January – Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in the United States for an official visit and talks with President Harry S. Truman. [2]10 January – An Aer Lingus Douglas DC-3 aircraft on a London–Dublin flight crashes in Wales due to vertical draft in the mountains of Snowdonia, killing twenty passengers and the three crew.
1 June – the UK takes over administration of Lebanon and Syria. 4 June – Churchill, in a broadcast election speech, claims that a future socialist government "would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo". 7 June – Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes is first performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London with Peter Pears in the title ...
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[2] 16 February – A Commission of Government for the Dominion of Newfoundland is sworn in as a form of return to direct colonial rule by the UK forced by the island's economic collapse. [3] 27 March – The Betting and Lotteries Act 1934 is passed. Part 1 (betting) is designed to restrict betting on racecourses and tracks to a maximum of 104 ...
2 July – Bill Tilden and Suzanne Lenglen retain their Wimbledon Championships titles. 7 July – General Jan Smuts meets King George V to discuss the Irish situation.; 9 July – The Irish War of Independence comes officially to an end when a truce, coming into effect at noon on 11 July, is agreed between British and Irish forces.
4 February – Rolls-Royce went bankrupt [6] and was nationalised. 11 February – The UK – along with the USA, the USSR and others – signed the Seabed Treaty, outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor. 15 February Decimalisation: Decimal Day: the UK and the Republic of Ireland both switched to decimal currency. [6]
7 March – Frank Halford, aeronautical engineer (died 1955) 5 April – Chesney Allen, entertainer and singer (died 1982) 25 April – Billy Smart Sr., circus owner (died 1966) 2 May – Joseph Henry Woodger, theoretical biologist (died 1981) 4 May - Mary Louisa Avery , mother, grandmother and great grandmother (died 1988)