1910 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1910 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

*Monarch - Edward VII of the United Kingdom (until 6 May), George V of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister - H. H. Asquith, Liberal

Events

* 15 January - A general election held in response to the House of Lords' rejection of the 1909 budget results in a reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the Conservative Party), 273).
* 31 January - Dr Crippen poisons his wife and buries her body in the cellar.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 1 February - first labour exchanges open in the UK.
* 4 April - Bill to abolish the legislative veto of the House of Lords introduced in the Commons, starting a prolonged clash between the two Houses of Parliament.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 343-344|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 27 April - House of Commons passes David Lloyd George's (1909) 'People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords on 28 April.
* 6 May - George V becomes King upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
* June - Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
* 1 June - Terra Nova Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on an expedition with the purpose of undertaking scientific research and exploration along the coast and interior of Antarctica.
* 2 June - Charles Rolls becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
* 28 June - Consecration of the Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral in London.
* 31 July - Dr Crippen arrested on board the SS "Montrose" after a telegraph is sent to the ship's Captain.
* 18 October - Dr Crippen put on trial for murder at the Old Bailey.
* 22 October - Dr Crippen found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.
* 18 November - Black Friday: 300 suffragettes clash with police outside Parliament over the failure of the Conciliation Bill. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/timeline/1910.shtml BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour - Women's History Timeline: 1910 - 1919] ]
* 23 November - Dr Crippen hanged.
* December - A second general election is held in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the House of Lords (Liberals, 272; Labour, 42; Irish Nationalists, 84; Unionists, 272 — making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish Home Rule).
* 16 December - In Houndsditch, London, four (Latvian) anarchists shoot three policemen in botched raid on a jewellers — three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January 1911) cornered in the 'siege of Sidney Street'.
* 26 December - London Palladium music hall opens.

Undated

* Girl Guides' Association founded.
* Admiralty Arch completed.

Publications

* Arnold Bennett's novel "Clayhanger", first in "The Clayhanger Family" series of novels.
* John Buchan's novel "Prester John".
* E. M. Forster's novel "Howards End".
* H. G. Wells' novel "The History of Mr Polly".

Births

* 10 February - Joyce Grenfell, actress, comedian and singer-songwriter (died 1979)
* 13 February - William Shockley, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
* 21 February - Douglas Bader, World War II fighter pilot (died 1982)
* 1 March - Archer John Porter Martin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)
* 22 March - Nicholas Monsarrat, novelist (died 1979)
* 12 May - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
* 4 June - Christopher Cockerell, inventor (died 1999)
* 12 June - Bill Naughton, playwright (died 1992)
* 13 June - Mary Whitehouse, TV campaigner (died 2001)
* 22 June - Peter Pears, tenor (died 1986)
* 14 July - Vincent Brome, biographer and novelist (died 2004)
* 8 November - Denis Mahon, art historian and collector
* 14 November - Eric Malpass, novelist (died 1996)
* 19 November - Griffith Jones, actor (died 2007)
* 1 December - Alicia Markova, ballerina (died 2004)
* 29 December - Ronald Coase, economist Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

* 27 January - Thomas Crapper, inventor (born 1836)
* 3 May - Elizabeth Blackwell, abolitionist and women's rights activist (born 1821)
* 6 May - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (born 1841)
* 12 July - Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator and automobile manufacturer (born 1877)
* 13 August - Florence Nightingale, nurse (born 1820)
* 12 September - Cuthbert A. Brereton, civil engineer (born 1850)

References

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