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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1888 | - 20 Mar 1888—20 Mar 1888: Football League formed
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| 2 | 1889 | - 3 Jun 1889—3 Jun 1889: Canadian Pacific Railway completed from coast to coast
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| 3 | 1891 | - 1891—1891: Primary education made free and compulsory
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| 4 | 1893 | - 1893—1893: Zip fastener invented
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| 5 | 1895 | - Nov 1895—Nov 1895: X-rays discovered
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| 6 | 1897 | - 1897—1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector
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| 7 | 1900 | - 1900—1900: School leaving age in Britain raised to 14 years
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| 8 | 1901 | - 1901—1901: Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner
- 12 Dec 1901—12 Dec 1901: First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi - Morse
code from Cornwall to Newfoundland
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| 9 | 1902 | - 1902—1902: Marie Curie discovers radioactivity
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| 10 | 1906 | - 1906—1906: Introduction of free school meals for poor children
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| 11 | 1907 | - 1907—1907: First airship flies over London
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| 12 | 1908 | - 1 Jul 1908—1 Jul 1908: SOS became effective as an international signal of distress
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| 13 | 1909 | - 25 Jul 1909—25 Jul 1909: Bleriot flies across the Channel (36 minutes, Calais to Dover)
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| 14 | 1912 | - 14 Apr 1912—14 Apr 1912: The 'unsinkable' Titanic sinks on maiden voyage - loss of 1,513 lives
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| 15 | 1914 | - 4 Aug 1914—4 Aug 1914: Britain declares war on Germany, citing Belgian neutrality as reason
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| 16 | 1917 | - 7 Nov 1917—7 Nov 1917: 'October' Revolution in Russia - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government;
Lenin becomes Chief Commissar
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| 17 | 1918 | - 1918—1918: Vote for women over 30, men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons)
- 8 Mar 1918—8 Mar 1918: Start of world-wide 'flu pandemic
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| 18 | 1923 | - 16 Feb 1923—16 Feb 1923: Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun
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| 19 | 1926 | - 1926—1926: Adoption of children is legalised in Britain
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| 20 | 1927 | - 1927—1927: Release of the first 'talkie' film (The Jazz Singer)
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| 21 | 1928 | - 1928—1928: Women over 21 get vote in Britain - same qualification for both sexes
- 15 Sep 1928—15 Sep 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers penicillin (results published 1929)
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| 22 | 1929 | - 1929—1929: Minimum age for a marriage in Britain (which had been 14 for a boy and 12 for a girl)
now 16 for both sexes, with parental consent (or a licence) needed for anyone under 21
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1888 - 1933 (44 years)
