1921 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1921 in the United Kingdom.

1 Incumbents
2 Events
3 Publications
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 References
7 See also

[edit] Incumbents

Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister - David Lloyd George, coalition

[edit] Events

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