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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