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1900 |
The Labour Party is founded |
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1901 |
Queen Victoria dies |
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1905 |
The title of Prime Minister becomes "official" |
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1907 |
The Boy Scout movement is founded by Lord Baden-Powell |
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1909 |
First Old Age pensions in Britain and Louis Bleriot flies over the English Channel |
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1912 |
The Girl Guide movement is founded |
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1914 - 1918 |
First World War |
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1922 |
Irish Free State is formed |
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1925 |
Summer Time Act passed |
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1927 |
Treaty of Jedda, Saudi Arabia gains independence from Britain |
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1928 |
Women get the vote |
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1930 |
R101 Airship crashes |
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1933 |
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1936 |
Crystal Palace destroyed |
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1937 |
Britain takes control of Aden as a Crown Colony |
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1938 |
The locomotive 'Mallard' breaks the world speed record at 126 mph |
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1939 -1945 |
Second World War |
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8th May 1945 |
V E Day (Victory in Europe) |
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1946 |
United Nations is formed |
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1948 |
Start of the National Health Service (NHS) |
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1949 |
Clothes rationing ends and the Irish Free State becomes, Eire, The Republic of Ireland |
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1954 |
Food rationing ends |
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1957 |
The Russians launch Sputnik, the first artificial satellite |
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1961 |
The Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space |
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1967 |
Drinking alcohol and Driving becomes illegal |
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1969 |
Maiden flight of Concorde, the first
supersonic airliner and on July 20th Neil
Armstrong stepped |
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1971 |
Decimal Currency is introduced into the UK |
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1973 |
Britain joins the European Community |
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1979 |
Margaret Thatcher becomes the fist female Prime Minister |
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1982 |
The Falklands War |
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1990 |
The Gulf War |
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1992 |
The Single European Market starts |
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1999 |
Hong Kong handed back to the Chinese |
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