BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY PART – XVII/XII

BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY

PART – XVII/XII

MODERN PERIOD

CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORICAL EVENTS

1885 Radio waves discovered; Internal combustion engine invented

1886 Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill for Ireland defeated

1887 Victoria's Golden Jubilee

1890 Parnell falls as leader of Irish Home Rule Party after being cited in the

O'shea divorce case

1893 Second Home Rule Bill rejected by the House of Lords

1895 X-Rays discovered

1896 Wireless telegraphy invented

1887 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

1899-1902 Boer War

1900 Relief of Mafeking

1901 Death of Queen Victoria; Accession of Edward VII

1903 First aeroplane flight; Foundation of Women's Social and Political

Union

1904 Franco-British Entente

1906 Liberal Government Elected; Launch of HMS Dreadnought

1907 Anglo-Russian Entente

1908 Old Age Pensions Act; Elgar's first symphony

1909 English Channel Flow; 'People's Budget'

1910 Death of Edward VII: accession of George V King; First post-Impressionist Exhibitor

1911 National Insurance Act

1912 Death of Scott in the Antarctic; Home Rule Bill rejected by Lords;

Second Pos Impressionist Exhibition

1913 Second rejection of Home Rule Bill by Lords

1914 Home Rule Bill passed

1914-18 First World War

1915 Second Battle of Ypres; Sinking of SS Lusitania

1916 Easter Rising in Dublin; Battle of the Somme; Gallipoli Campaign

1917 Russian Revolution; Third Battle of Ypres; T.E. Lawrence's campaigns

in Arabia

1918 Second Battle of the Somme; Franchise Act granting the vote to women over 30

1919 Atlantic flow; Treaty of Versailles

1921 Irish Free State established

1922 Fascism takes power in Italy

1924 First Labour Government

1926 General Strike

1928 Death of Hardy

1929-30 World Economic Depression

1931 Fall of Labour Government; National Government formed

1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1935 George V's Silver Jubilee

1936 Civil War breaks out in Spain; First of the Moscow show trials; Death of George V; Accession of Edward VIII; Abdication crisis; Accession of George VI.

1938 German occupation of Austria; Munich agreement; Dismemberment of

Czechoslovakia

1939 End of the Civil War in Spain; Outbreak of the Second World War;

Russo-German pact agreed; Germany in invades Poland.

1940 Fall of France; Beginning of the 'Blitz'.

1945 End of the Second World War; Labour Government returns to power;

Atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1946 Nationalization of the Coal Industry; Foundation of National Health

Service

1947 Nationalisation of transport; Independence of India and Pakistan

1948 Britain accepts American aid

1949 Steel Industry nationalized

1950 Labour Government returned to office with a substantially reduced

majority.

1951 Conservative Party returned to power; Festival of Britain.

1952 Death of George VI; Accession of Elizabeth II

1956 Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal; Britain, France, and Israel intervene

and are obliged to withdraw. Soviet invasion of Hungary.

1957 C.N.D. Formed

1960 Unexpurgated text of Lady Chatterley's Lover found not obscene in

Court of Law.

1962 Establishment of the National Theatre.

1967 Legalization within limits of homosexuality and abortion.

1968 Britain abandons her role in world-wide defence; hostility between

'Catholic' and 'Protestant' groups in Northern Ireland is renewed and

remains a continuing problem; censorship of the theatre by the Lord

Chamberlains office comes to an end

1969 Abolition of Capital Punishment

1970 Age of majority reduced from 21 to 18

1973 United Kingdom enters the European Economic Community

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