Decade

British Monarchs

Some Events from History

1900

22 Jan 1901

King Edward VII

31 May 1902 - End of second Boer War

10 Oct 1903 - The Women's Social and Political Union is founded

8 Apr 1904 - ‘Entente Cordiale’ signed between Britain and France

1910

6 May 1910

King George V

4 Aug 1914 - Britain declares war on Germany

27 Jan 1916 - Conscription introduced

11 Nov 1918 - End of World War I

1920

26 Jan 1926 - John Logie Baird gives first public demonstration of television

3 May 1926 - General strike declared in UK

24 Oct 1929 - Wall Street crash

1930

22 Sep 1934 - Gresford mining disaster - 266 killed in North Wales

3 Sep 1939 - Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland

20 Jan 1936

King Edward VIII

10 Dec 1936

King George VI

1940

Jan 1942 - US troops arrive in Europe

6 Jun 1944 - D-Day landings

6 Aug 1945 - Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Japan surrenders on 15 Aug marking end of World War II

1950

25 Apr 1953 - Watson and Crick publish discovery of structure of DNA

22 Sep 1955 - first broadcast by ITV

5 Dec 1958 - Britain’s motorway system opens with M6 Preston bypass

6 Feb 1952

Queen Elizabeth II

1960

14 Jan 1963 - France vetoes Britain’s membership of EEC

8 Nov 1965 - Death penalty abolished

2 Mar 1969 - Concorde makes maiden flight

1970

15 Feb 1971 - Introduction of decimal currency

1 Jan 1973 - Britain joins EEC

3 May 1979 - Margaret Thatcher is Britain’s first woman Prime Minister

1980

2 Apr 1982 - Argentina invades Falkland Islands

1989 - Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web

1990

6 May 1992 - Channel tunnel opens

1994 - First women priests ordained by Church of England

31 Aug 1997 - Princess of Wales dies in car crash in Paris