Leicestershire and Rutland 20th Century Timeline
A date, a name, a place of birth means something but the flesh on the bones of your ancestors needs to be built up with stories, events, in fact anything that could possibly have affected that person in their daily lives.
Did they fight for their country? Was there a food shortage? What books could they have read? Where were they buried? Did they go to Church?
How did Leicestershire develop through the last 300 hundred years? How it developed affected the lives of any ancestors of yours that were born, lived or moved here to work in Leicestershire and Rutland.
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Did they fight for their country? Was there a food shortage? What books could they have read? Where were they buried? Did they go to Church?
How did Leicestershire develop through the last 300 hundred years? How it developed affected the lives of any ancestors of yours that were born, lived or moved here to work in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Check out the 19th 18th and 17th century timelines that you can help build!
- 1900 February 1900 saw the first meeting, in London's Farringdon Road, of the Labour Representation Committee, bringing together socialists and trade unionists
- 1900 The relief of Mafeking, in May
- 1900 The Queen Mother was born on 4th August
- 1900 Count Ferdinand Zeppelin was on the shores of Lake Constance to watch his first airship take to the skies.
- 1900 In 1900 a new Mines Act forbade the underground employment of boys under 13.
- 1900 A new British newspaper, the Daily Express, was daringly putting news, rather than advertising, on its front page. Strange times indeed.
- 1900 On June 18, 1900, the Empress Dowager (China) ordered all foreigners to be killed (Boxer Rebellion)
- 1901 Census taken on 31st March /1st April
- 1901 Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses.
- 1902 January 16 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945) (Chariots of Fire)
- 1902 March 7 – Second Boer War: South African Boers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.
- 1902 May 29 – Lord Rosebery opens London School of Economics.
- 1902 May 31 – The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the Second Boer War.
- 1902 June 11th - Lord Salisbury retires as British prime minister.
- 1902 June 16 – Australia: Female British subjects (with the exception of Asians, Aborigines and Africans) win the vote with the Uniform Franchise Act.
- 1902 June 26 – Edward VII institutes The Order. (of Merit) Medal
- 1902 August 9 – Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.
- 1902 August 22 – Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American President to ride in an automobile when he rides in a Columbia Electric Victoria through Hartford, Connecticut.
- 1902 September 26 – Death of Levi Strauss, inventor of Jeans (b. 1829)
- 1902 October 16 – The first Borstal (youth offenders' institution) opens in Borstal, Kent, U.K.
- 1902 December 30 – Discovery Expedition: Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point reached thus far by man, south of 82°S.
- 1902 / 1903 December–February 1903 – Venezuela Crisis, in which Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela in order to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims.
- 1903 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903
- 1904 The Registrar General suggested in 1904 that the birth and death certificates of workhouse inmates should have a euphemistic address, one that spared the family the disgrace of the workhouse.
- 1904 Benjamin Holt invents a tractor
- 1905 Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity published, e=mc2
- 1906 Lewis invents the first sonar like device
- 1907 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907
- 1908 Ford Model T car first sold
- 1909 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909
- 1909 January 16 – Ernest Shackleton's expedition claims to have found the magnetic South Pole, but the location recorded may be incorrect.
- 1909 March 10 – The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 is signed in Bangkok.
- 1909 March 18 – Einar Dessau uses a short-wave radio transmitter, becoming the first radio broadcaster.
- 1909 July 25 – Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across theEnglish Channel (thus a large open body of water) in a heavier-than-air craft.
- 1909 August 2 – The United States Army Signal Corp Division purchases the world's first military airplane, a Wright Military Flyer, from the Wright Brothers.
- 1909 Karl Landsteiner develops a system of blood grouping.
- 1910 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1910
- 1911 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911
- 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike
- 1911 Census
- 1912 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912
- 1912 National Coal Strike February till early April 1912
- 1912 Coal Mines Minimum Wage Act
- 1913 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913
- 1914 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1914
- 1914 The Great War (WWI) starts
- 1914 Defence of the Realm Act brought in
- 1914 19th October - German Sub fires last torpedo of the Great War
- 1915 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915
- 1915 sinking of the British ship Lusitania by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915
- 1915 August 21st Battle of Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli
- 1915 On the morning of October 12, 1915, the 49-year-old British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad in Brussels, Belgium.
- 1915
- 1916 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916
- 1917 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917
- 1917 In January 1917, Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare
- 1918 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918
- 1918 Votes for Women aged 30 and over
- 1918 November 18th - The Great War ends
- 1919 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919
- 1919 Leicester granted City Status
- 1919 King George V and Queen Mary visit the Corah Factory in Leicester
- 1919 Government passes an act to enable *Homes fit for Heroes*
- 1920 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920
- 1921 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921
- 1921 Census
- 1922 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922
- 1922 Howard Carter peers into the tomb of Tutankhamun - 26 November 1922
- 1922 January – The year begins with the British Empire at its largest extent, covering a quarter of the world and ruling over one in four people on earth.
- 1923 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923
- 1924 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924
- 1925 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925
- 1926 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926
- 1927 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927
- 1928 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928
- 1928 The Welford Road Co-op opens 1928
- 1929 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929
- 1929 The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General) case.
- 1929 The BBC broadcast a television transmission for the first time (see "1929 in television")
- 1929 Tintin, a comic book character created by Hergé, who would appear in over 200 million comic books in 60 languages. Popeye, another comic strip character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, also appeared in this year.
- 1929 January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
- 1929 February 12 – Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (b. 1853)
- 1929 May 31 – The British general election returns a hung parliament yet again; the Liberals will determine who has power.
- 1929 June 8 – Ramsay MacDonald founds a new Labour government.
- 1929 June 12 – Anne Frank, German-born diarist and Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
- 1929 June 16 – Bramwell Booth, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
- 1929 June 27 – The first public demonstration of color TV is held, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York.
- 1929 July 27 The Geneva Convention addresses the treatment of prisoners of war.
- 1929 December 29 – The All India Congress in Lahore demands Indian independence.
- 1930 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930
- 1930 The Braunstone Co-op store opens on Hallam Crescent East
- 1931 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931
- 1931 Census
- 1931 New Co-op opens at the Aylestone Tram terminus
- 1932 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932
- 1932 Hunger march passes through city
- 1932 New Belgrave Co-op opens in May
- 1932 Wolsey Workers on strike
- 1933 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933
- 1934 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934
- 1935 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935
- 1936 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936
- 1937 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937
- 1938 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938
- 1939 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939
- 1939 Britain and Poland sign Military pact April 6th
- 1940 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940
- 1940 Evacuation of Dunkirk June 4th
- 1940 Battle of Britain July 10th
- 1940 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941
- 1941 No Census
- 1941 On 26 November 1941, under great secrecy, the Japanese armada, commanded by Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, left Japan to attack the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. The armada included all six of Japan’s first-line aircraft carriers.
- 1942 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942
- 1943 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943
- 1944 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944
- 1944 June 6th - D Day Landings
- 1945 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945
- 1945 April 15th Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp liberated by British Soldiers
- 1946 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946
- 1946 Leicester City Council erect *temporary* prefabs
- 1947 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947
- 1948 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948
- 1949 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949
- 1950 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950
- 1951 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951
- 1951 Census
- 1952 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952
- 1953 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953
- 1954 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954
- 1955 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955
- 1956 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956
- 1957 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957
- 1958 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958
- 1959 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959
- 1960 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960
- 1961 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961
- 1961 Census
- 1962 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962
- 1963 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963
- 1964 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964
- 1965 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965
- 1966 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966
- 1967 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967
- 1967 January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
- 1967 January 12 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with the intent of future resuscitation.
- 1967 January 26 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalize 90% of the British steel industry.
- 1967 May 11 – The United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for European Economic Community membership.
- 1967 June 25 – 400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love".
- 1967 June 27 – The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of the Barclays Bank in Enfield, England.
- 1967 July 4 – The British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality.
- 1967 August 15 – The United Kingdom Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshorepirate radio illegal. Radio Caroline defies the Act and continues broadcasting.
- 1967 December 11 – Supersonic airliner Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France.
- 1967 St Christopher's Hospice, the world's first purpose-built secular hospice specialising in palliative care of the terminally ill, is established in South London by Cicely Saunders.[10]
- 1968 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968
- 1969 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969
- 1970 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970
- 1971 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971
- 1972 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972
- 1972 The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395).
- 1972 January 4th Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge at the Old Bailey in London.
- 1972 January 5 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
- 1972 January 9 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor.
- 1972 January 20th Fears are growing about the economy of theUnited Kingdom, where unemployment is now exceeding 1 million for the first time since World War II.[2]
- 1972 January 25 – Shirley Chisholm, the first African American Congresswoman, announces her candidacy for President.
- 1972 January 30 Bloody Sunday: The British Army kills 14 unarmed nationalist civil rights marchers in Derry,Northern Ireland.
- 1972 Anti-British riots take place throughout Ireland. The British Embassy in Dublin is burned to the ground, as are several British-owned businesses.
- 1972 February 4 – Mariner 9 sends pictures as it orbits Mars.
- 1972 February 9 – The British government declares a state of emergency over a miners' strike.
- 1972 February 22nd Aldershot bombing: An Official IRA bomb kills 7 in Aldershot, England.
- 1972 March 24th The British government announces the prorogation of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and the introduction of 'Direct Rule' of Northern Ireland, after the Unionist government refuses to cede security powers.
- 1972 March 26th The last trolleybus system in the United Kingdom closes in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire after over 60 years of operation.
- 1972 March 30 – Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
- 1972 December 15th - Apollo 17 mission and man blasts off from the moon, never to return?
- 1982 11th October - The raising of the Mary Rose, Henry VIII's ship, from the seabed just off the coast off Portsmouth where she had lain since she sank on 19th July 1545.
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