1921 in the United Kingdom

1921 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1921 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - David Lloyd George, coalition

Events

* 1 January - Car tax discs introduced.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 3 January - The airships R.36 and R.37 are completed.
* 8 January - Chequers becomes the official residence of the Prime Minister.
* 14 January - Unemployment stands at 927,000.
* 20 January - The Royal Navy submarine K.5 sinks in the English Channel with the loss of 56 lives.
* 26 January - Seventeen people are killed when two passenger trains collide in Montgomeryshire.
* 12 February - Winston Churchill is appointed Colonial Secretary.
* 16 February - Unemployment now stands at over one million. The Government announces an increase in unemployment benefit.
* 11 March - Queen Mary becomes the first woman to be awarded an (honorary) degree by Oxford University.
* 16 March - The United Kingdom signs a trade agreement with the Russian SFSR.
* 17 March
** Andrew Bonar Law, the Conservative leader, resigns due to ill-health.
** Dr Marie Stopes opens the United Kingdom's first birth control clinic in Holloway, London.
* 21 March - Austen Chamberlain replaces Bonar Law as Conservative leader.
* 26 March - Shaun Spadah wins the Grand National.
* 31 March - A state of emergency is declared after another coal strike is called.
* 3 April - Coal rationing begins.
* 13 April - Lloyds Bank takes over Fox, Fowler and Co, the last provincial English bank to issue its own banknotes.
* 15 April - The national strike, due to be declared by the 'Triple Alliance', is called off.
* 23 April - Tottenham Hotspur beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 in the FA Cup Final.
* 26 April - Police patrol London on motorcycles for the first time.
* 4 May - The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill a former Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) inspector in Glasgow.
* 7 May - Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan arrives on an official visit.
* 10 May - Ivy Williams becomes the first woman to become a member of the English Bar. [ [http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1922/may_10_1922_82320.html Brainy History] ]
* 22 May - The USA beats the United Kingdom 9 rounds to 3 in the first golf international between the two countries.
* 24 May - In general elections for the new Northern Ireland Parliament, Ulster Unionists win 40 out of 52 seats. One-party rule will last for fifty years.
* 1 June - Humorist wins the Derby. For the first time the result is broadcast live by wireless.
* 6 June - King George V opens Southwark Bridge in London.
* 7 June - The new Northern Ireland Parliament assembles.
* 10 June - Unemployment reaches 2.2 million.
* 12 June - Sunday postal collection and delivery ends.
* 15 June - Two million workers are currently involved in pay disputes.
* 22 June - King George V opens the first Northern Ireland Parliament.
* 24 June - The world's largest airship, the R.38, makes its maiden flight at Bedford.
* 25 June - Rainfall ends a 100-day drought.
* 28 June - The coal strike ends.
* 2 July - Bill Tilden and Suzanne Lenglen retain their Wimbledon titles.
* 7 July - General Jan Smuts meets King George V to discuss the Irish situation.
* 12 July - Sinn Féin representatives arrive in London for talks.
* 18 July - Ulster Unionist negotiators walk out of the truce talks in London.
* 19 August - Unemployment falls to 1,640,600.
* 24 August - The airship ZR II explodes at Hull, killing 43 people.
* 30 August - England beat Australia, for the first time this year, in the final Test Match.
* 9 September - Charlie Chaplin visits London and is met by thousands.
* 17 September - Shackleton-Rowett Expedition: Ernest Shackleton sets sail on his last expedition to Antarctica. [cite web|url=http://www.south-pole.com/p000098b.htm|title=Shackleton Returns to Europe, South-Pole.com|accessdate=2007-08-19]
* 23 September - The second female Member of Parliament enters Parliament.
* 8 October - The steamer "Rowan" sinks off the coast of Scotland. 36 people lose their lives.
* 11 October - The Irish Treaty Conference opens in London.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=490–491]
* 11 November - the Royal British Legion holds the first official Poppy Day.
* 21 November - Troops are sent to restore order after rioting breaks out in East Belfast.
* 22 November - At least ten people die in widespread shootings in Belfast.
* 30 November - Sir Basil Thompson retires after forty years as the head of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.
* 7 December - British and Irish negotiators sign an agreement giving independence to the Irish Free State.
* 10 December - Frederick Soddy wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes". [ [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1921/ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1921] ]
* 16 December - Parliament ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Publications

* Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel "The Mysterious Affair at Styles".
* Aldous Huxley's novel "Crome Yellow".
* D. H. Lawrence's novel "Women in Love".

Births

* 13 March - Cyril Poole, cricketer (died 1996)
* 28 March - Dirk Bogarde, actor and author (died 1999)
* 16 April - Peter Ustinov, actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur (died 2004)
* 23 May - Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician and broadcaster (died 2008)
* 14 July - Leon Garfield, writer (died 1996)
* 8 September - Harry Secombe, entertainer (died 2001)
* 30 September - Deborah Kerr, actress (died 2007)
* 2 October - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 2000)
* 11 November - Ron Greenwood, footballer and manager (died 2006)

Deaths

* 27 February - Schofield Haigh, cricketer (born 1871)
* 22 March - Ernest William Hornung, author (born 1866)
* 27 April - Arthur Mold, cricketer (born 1863)
* 2 September - Henry Austin Dobson, poet (born 1840)
* 7 September - Alfred William Rich, watercolour painter (born 1856)
* 23 October - John Boyd Dunlop, inventor (born 1840)
* George Ashlin, architect (born 1837)

References

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