1919 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1919 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - David Lloyd George, coalition
[edit] Events
- 1 January - In Scotland, HMS Iolaire sinks at rocks: 205 die.
- 31 January - 1919 Battle of George Square: The Army is called in to deal with riots and protests against high rents in Glasgow.
- 13 April - Amritsar Massacre: British and Gurkha troops in India kill 400 and injure more than 1200 people in a massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar.
- May - Beginning of the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
- 29 May - Observations made by Arthur Eddington during a solar eclipse confirmed part of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.
- 15 June - Aviators John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown complete the first non-stop transatlantic plane flight.[1]
- 28 June - Treaty of Versailles signed.
- 6 July - The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.[1]
- 18 July - the Cenotaph in London, as designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled to commemorate the dead of World War I.[1]
- 19 July - Victory parades across Britain celebrate the end of World War I.[2]
- 31 July - Strike of policemen in London and Liverpool for recognition of the National Union of Police and Prison Officers. Over 2,000 strikers are dismissed.
- 8 August - Treaty of Rawalpindi ends the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
- 19 August - Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 27 September - Last British troops leave Archangel, Russia and leave fighting to the Russians.
- 1 December - Nancy Astor becomes the first woman MP to take her seat in the Houses of Parliament.
- 25 December - The opening of Cliftonhill stadium in Coatbridge the home of Albion Rovers F.C. The match saw them lose 2 - 0 to St. Mirren.
- 30 December - Lincoln's Inn, in London admits its first female bar student.
[edit] Undated
- Britain comes off the Gold standard.[3]
- Creation of the "Mobile Patrol Experiment", the forerunner of the Metropolitan Police Service's Flying Squad.
[edit] Publications
- W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence.
- P. G. Wodehouse's short story collection My Man Jeeves.
[edit] Births
- 23 January - Bob Paisley, football player and manager (died 1996)
- 24 February - Betty Marsden, comedy actress (died 1998)
- 18 May - Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer (died 1991)
- 17 June - Beryl Reid, actress (died 1996)
- 7 July - Jon Pertwee, actor (died 1996)
- 15 July - Iris Murdoch, novelist and philosopher (died 1999)
- 1 August - Stanley Middleton, novelist
- 28 August - Godfrey Hounsfield, electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2004)
- 27 September - James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (died 1986)
- 5 October - Donald Pleasence, actor (died 1995)
- 22 October - Doris Lessing, writer
[edit] Deaths
- 18 January - Prince John of the United Kingdom (born 1905)
- 4 April - William Crookes, chemist and physicist (born 1832)
- 14 June - Weedon Grossmith, writer (born 1854)
- 30 June - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1842)
- 26 July - Edward Poynter, painter (born 1836)
- 11 August - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American philanthropist (born 1835)
- 18 October - William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, financier and statesman (born 1848)
[edit] Unknown dates
- Ernest Albert Waterlow, painter (born 1850)
- Charles Wyndham, actor (born 1837)
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 357-358. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ EH.Net Encyclopedia: Gold Standard
