1921 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1921 in the United Kingdom.

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2 Births
3 Deaths
4 References

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1 January - Car tax discs introduced.^[1]
January 3 - The airships R.36 and R.37 are completed.
8 January - Chequers becomes the official residence of the Prime Minister. ^[1]
January 14 - Unemployment stands at 927,000.
January 20 - The Royal Navy submarine K.5 sinks in the English Channel with the loss of 56 lives.
January 26 - Seventeen people are killed when two passenger trains collide in Montgomeryshire.
February 12 - Winston Churchill is appointed Colonial Secretary.
February 16 - Unemployment now stands at over one million. The Government announces an increase in unemployment benefit.
March 11 - Queen Mary becomes the first woman to be awarded an (honorary) degree by Oxford University.
March 16 - The United Kingdom signs a trade agreement with the Russian SFSR.
March 17 - Andrew Bonar Law, the Conservative leader, resigns due to ill-health.
March 17 - Dr Marie Stopes opens the United Kingdom's first birth control clinic in Holloway, London.
March 21 - Austen Chamberlain replaces Bonar Law as Conservative leader.
March 26 - Shaun Spadah wins the Grand National.
March 31 - A state of emergency is declared after another coal strike is called.
April 3 - Coal rationing begins.
April 13 - Lloyds Bank takes over Fox, Fowler and Co, the last provincial English bank to issue its own banknotes.
April 15 - The national strike, due to be declared by the 'Triple Alliance', is called off.
April 23 - Tottenham Hotspur beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 in the FA Cup Final.
April 26 - Police patrol London on motorcycles for the first time.
May 4 - The IRA kill a former RIC inspector in Glasgow.
May 7 - Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan arrives on an official visit.
May 10 - Ivy Williams becomes the first woman to become a member of the English Bar.^[2]
May 22 - The USA beats the United Kingdom 9 rounds to 3 in the first golf international between the two countries.
May 24 - In general elections for the new Northern Ireland Parliament, Ulster Unionists win 40 out of 52 seats. One-party rule will last for fifty years.
June 1 - Humorist wins the Derby. For the first time the result is broadcast live by wireless.
June 6 - King George V opens Southwark Bridge in London.
June 7 - The new Northern Ireland Parliament assembles.
June 10 - Unemployment reaches 2.2 million.
June 12 - Sunday postal collection and delivery ends.
June 15 - Two million workers are currently involved in pay disputes.
June 22 - King George V opens the first Northern Ireland Parliament.
June 24 - The world's largest airship, the R.38, makes its maiden flight at Bedford.
June 25 - Rainfall ends a 100-day drought.
June 28 - The coal strike ends.
July 2 - Bill Tilden and Suzanne Lenglen retain their Wimbledon titles.
July 7 - General Jan Smuts meets King George V to discuss the Irish situation.
July 12 - Sinn Féin representatives arrive in London for talks.
July 18 - Ulster Unionist negotiators walk out of the truce talks in London.
August 19 - Unemployment falls to 1,640,600.
August 24 - The airship ZR II explodes at Hull, killing 43 people.
August 30 - England beat Australia, for the first time this year, in the final Test Match.
September 9 - Charlie Chaplin visits London and is met by thousands.
September 23 - The second female MP enters Parliament.
October 8 - The steamer Rowan sinks off the coast of Scotland. 36 people lose their lives.
October 11 - The Irish Treaty Conference opens in London.
November 21 - Troops are sent to restore order after rioting breaks out in East Belfast.
November 22 - At least ten people die in widespread shootings in Belfast.
November 30 - Sir Basil Thompson retires after forty years as the head of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.
December 7 - British and Irish negotiators sign an agreement giving independence to the Irish Free State.
December 16 - Parliament ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Frederick Soddy wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes" ^[3]