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Political and Technological Developments Through Time [12-18]
United Kingdom
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
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