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| 1 | 1837 | - 20 Jun 1837—22 Jan 1901: Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria was born in 1819 and died in 1901. She reigned as sovereign for 64 years from 1837 to 1901.
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| 2 | 1884 | - 1884: GMT
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the world’s time standard, is internationally adopted at the International Meridian Conference.
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| 3 | 1891 | - 5 Apr 1891: 1891 Census
The 1891 census was taken.
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| 4 | 1899 | - 11 Oct 1899—31 May 1902: Boer War
The Boer War was fought by Britain and her Empire against the descendants of the Dutch settlers (Boers) in the Transvaal region of South Africa. The war highlighted the limitations of 19th century military methods, employing for the first time modern automatic weapons and high explosives to decimate the enemy.
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| 5 | 1901 | - 22 Jan 1901—6 May 1910: King Edward VII
King Edward VII was born in 1841 and died in 1910. He reigned as sovereign for nine years from 1901 to 1910.
- 31 Mar 1901: 1901 Census
The 1901 census was taken.
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| 6 | 1910 | - 6 May 1910—20 Jan 1936: King George V
King George V was born in 1865 and died in 1936. He reigned as sovereign for 26 years from 1910 to 1936.
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| 7 | 1911 | - 2 Apr 1911: 1911 Census
The 1911 census was recorded.
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| 8 | 1912 | - 1912: Titanic
Just 4 days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 people lose their lives in the sinking ship or freeze to death in the icy Atlantic waters.
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| 9 | 1914 | - 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: WW1
World War 1, the ‘War to End All Wars’. By the time the Great War ended in 1918, sixteen million people had died. In Britain, barely a family was left untouched by this cataclysmic conflict.
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| 10 | 1916 | - 9 Jun 1916—10 Nov 1916: Battle of the Somme
The 1916 Somme offensive was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the First World War (1914-18). The opening day of the attack, 1 July 1916, saw the British Army sustain 57,000 casualties, the bloodiest day in its history. The campaign finally ended in mid-November after an agonising five-month struggle that failed to secure a breakthrough. Over 150,000 British soldiers are buried on the Somme.
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| 11 | 1918 | - 1918: Education Act
The Fisher Education Act made education compulsory up until 14 years old.
- Feb 1918—Apr 1920: Spanish Flu
The 1918 influenza pandemic (often called the Spanish flu) killed an estimated 50 to 100 million people worldwide, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in recorded history. This devastated global populations, with an estimated one-third of the world's population becoming infected.
- 6 Feb 1918: Votes for Women
Women won the right to vote as a result of the Representation of the People Act 1918.
- 11 Nov 1918: Armistice Day
The armistice was signed at 5:45am in France between the Allies of World War 1 and Germany for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of WW1.
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Dutton, Berrett & Hungerford Twigs
Cal 1883 - 1918 (35 years)
