- 1901 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1901 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
Victoria of the United Kingdom (until22 January ),Edward VII of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury , ConservativeEvents
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1 January
** The British colonies ofNew South Wales ,Queensland ,South Australia ,Tasmania , Victoria andWestern Australia federate as theCommonwealth of Australia . [CIA_World_Factbook_link|as|Australia]Edmund Barton becomes firstPrime Minister .
**Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
*22 January - Queen Victoria dies atOsborne House .cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006] Her eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales becomes King, reigning as Edward VII. His son, Prince George, Duke of York becomesDuke of Cornwall .
*2 February - Funeral of Queen Victoria takes place at St. George's Chapel,Windsor Castle .
*18 May -Alexandra Palace opened to the public.
*12 July -Maidenhead enters theUK Weather Records with the "Highest 60-min total"rainfall at 92 mm. As of July 2006 this record remains.
*22 July - TheHouse of Lords rules in the Taff Vale case thattrade union s can be held liable for damages caused by members.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=459–460]
*5 August - Britain's first cinema opens inIslington .
*6 August -Discovery Expedition :Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on theRRS Discovery to explore theRoss Sea inAntarctica .
*30 August - EngineerHubert Cecil Booth patents the electrically-poweredvacuum cleaner .
*7 September - The United Kingdom is amongst the signatories of theBoxer Protocol ending theBoxer Rebellion inChina .
* October - first performance ofEdward Elgar 's "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1" in Liverpool.
*2 October -Royal Navy 's firstsubmarine , "Holland 1 ", launched at Barrow.
*9 November - Prince George,Duke of Cornwall becomesPrince of Wales andEarl of Chester .
*18 November - The United Kingdom andUnited States sign theHay-Pauncefote Treaty allowing the US to build a canal throughPanama .Undated
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Winston Churchill enters the House of Commons.
*Imperial Tobacco founded by William Henry Wills.
*Electric tram s introduced in London, Glasgow, and Portsmouth.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 331-332|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]Ongoing events
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Second Boer War (1899–1902)Publications
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Rudyard Kipling 's novel "Kim".
*H. G. Wells ' novel "The First Men in the Moon ".Births
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13 February -Lewis Grassic Gibbon , writer (died 1935)
*12 June -Norman Hartnell , fashion designer (died 1979)
*9 July -Barbara Cartland , novelist (died 2000)
*15 September -Donald Bailey , engineer (died 1985)
*17 September -Francis Chichester , aviator and sailor (died 1972)
*28 November -Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (died 1960)
*25 December -Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (died 2004)Deaths
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22 January - Queen Victoria (born 1819)
*3 April -Richard D'Oyly Carte , theatrical impresario (born 1844)
*5 August - Victoria, Empress of Germany, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria (born 1840)
*6 November -Kate Greenaway , children's book illustrator and writer (born 1846)
*30 November -Edward John Eyre , explorer (born 1815)
*1 December -George Lohmann , English cricketer (tuberculosis) (born 1865)
*John Jabez Edwin Mayall , photographer (born 1813)References
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