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1872 AD             - (18 Jul)                    - Voting by secret ballot is introduced
1876 AD             - (01 May)                 - Victoria is declared Empress of India
1878 AD             - (13 Jul)                    - Congress of Berlin aims to settle European problems
1879 AD             - (28 Dec)                  - Tay Bridge collapses in gale force winds
1880 AD             - (02 Aug)                  - Education becomes compulsory for children under ten
                            - (24 Aug)                 - National Eisteddfod Association holds its first meeting
1881 AD             - (17 Jan)                   - Sir William Armstrong’s home becomes the first to use electric light
                            - ( 16 Aug)                - Second Land Act reforms Irish property law
1882 AD             - (06 May)                 - Two British Government Officials are murdered in Dublin
1883 AD             - (01 Jan)                   - Married women obtain the right to acquire their own property
1884 AD             - (Dec)                       - Third Reform Act stops short of creating a male democracy
1885 AD             - (01 Jan)                   - Rumours emerge that William Gladstone supports ‘Home Rule’ for Ireland
1889 AD             -                                 - New local government authorises take up their duties
1894 AD             - (Mar)                       - Parish councils are created
                            - (02 Aug)                  - Death Duties are introduced
1897 AD             - (02 Jul)                    - Guglielmo Marconi is awarded a patent for radio communications
1897 AD                                               - Women’s suffrage campaign gains momentum
1899 AD                                               - Second Boer War begins in South Africa
1900 AD             - (16 Oct)                   - Conservatives are re-elected
1901 AD             - (22 Jan)                   - Victoria dies and is succeeded by Edward VII
                            - (22 Jul)                    - The ‘Taff Vale’ case leads to the birth of the Labour Party
1902 AD             - (31 May)                 - Treaty of Vereeniging ends the second Boer War
                            - (11 Jul)                    - Arthur Balfour succeeds Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister
1903 AD             - (Sept)                      - ‘Lib-Lab’ pact enables Labour to break into national politics
                            - (10 Oct)                  - Women’s Social and Political Union is formed to campaign for women’s suffrage
1904 AD             - (08 Apr)                   - ‘Entente Cordiale’ is signed between Britain and France
1905 AD             - (31 Mar)                  - Germany tests the ‘Entente Cordiale’ by triggering a crisis in Morocco
                            - (04 Dec)                  - Liberals form a government under Henry Campbell-Bannerman
1906 AD             - (10 Feb)                   - Royal Navy launches the first ‘Dreadnought’ class battleship
1907 AD             - (31 Aug)                   - Britain and Russia agree an entente on ‘Spheres of Influence’ in Asia
1908 AD             - (08 Apr)                   - Herbert Asquith becomes Liberal Prime Minister
                            - (27 Apr)                   - Olympic Games open at White City in London
                            - (27 Oct)                   - Parliament approves old age pensions
1909 AD             - (29 Apr)                   - Chancellor Davis Lloyd George introduces the ‘People’s Budget’
                            - (30 Nov)                  - House of Lords rejects the ‘People’s Budget’
1910 AD             - (15 Feb)                   - Liberals win the election but lose their overall majority
                            - (06 May)                  - Edward VII dies and is succeeded by George V
                            - (19 Dec)                   - Liberals retain power in the second general election of the 1910
1911 AD             - (01 Jul)                      - German gunboat provokes the ‘Agadir crisis’ with France
                            - (10 Aug)                   - House of Lords loses its power of veto over legislation
                            - (Dec)                        - National Insurance Act provides cover against sickness and unemployment
1912 AD             - (11 Apr)                    - Liberals propose Irish ‘Home Rule’ for the third time
                            - (13 Apr)                   - Royal Flying Corps is established
                            - (15 Apr)                   - ‘Titanic sinks with the loss of 1,503 live
1913 AD             - (04 Jun)                     - Suffragette Emily Davidson is killed by the king’s horse
1914 AD             - (20 Mar)                   - Elements of the army say they won’t enforce Irish ‘Home Rule’
                            - (28 Jun)                    - Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo