1919 in the United Kingdom

1919 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1919 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

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

Events

* 1 January - In Scotland, "HMS Iolaire" sinks at rocks: 205 die.
* 31 January - 1919 Battle of George Square: The Army is called in to deal with riots and protests against high rents in Glasgow.
* 13 April - Amritsar Massacre: British and Gurkha troops in India kill 400 and injure more than 1200 people in a massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar.
* May - Beginning of the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
* 29 May - Observations made by Arthur Eddington during a solar eclipse confirmed part of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.
* 15 June - Aviators John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown complete the first non-stop transatlantic plane flight.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
* 28 June - Treaty of Versailles signed.
* 6 July - The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
* 18 July - the Cenotaph in London, as designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled to commemorate the dead of World War I.
* 19 July - Victory parades across Britain celebrate the end of World War I.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 357-358|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 31 July - Strike of policemen in London and Liverpool for recognition of the National Union of Police and Prison Officers. Over 2,000 strikers are dismissed.
* 8 August - Treaty of Rawalpindi ends the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
* 19 August - Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.
* 27 September - Last British troops leave Archangel, Russia and leave fighting to the Russians.
* 1 December - Nancy Astor becomes the first woman MP to take her seat in the Houses of Parliament.
* 25 December - The opening of Cliftonhill stadium in Coatbridge the home of Albion Rovers F.C. The match saw them lose 2 - 0 to St. Mirren.
* 30 December - Lincoln's Inn, in London admits its first female bar student.

Undated

* Britain comes off the Gold standard. [ [http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/officer.gold.standard EH.Net Encyclopedia: Gold Standard ] ]
* Creation of the "Mobile Patrol Experiment", the forerunner of the Metropolitan Police Service's Flying Squad.

Publications

* W. Somerset Maugham's novel "The Moon and Sixpence".
* P. G. Wodehouse's short story collection "My Man Jeeves".

Births

* 23 January - Bob Paisley, football player and manager (died 1996)
* 24 February - Betty Marsden, comedy actress (died 1998)
* 18 May - Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer (died 1991)
* 17 June - Beryl Reid, actress (died 1996)
* 7 July - Jon Pertwee, actor (died 1996)
* 15 July - Iris Murdoch, novelist and philosopher (died 1999)
* 1 August - Stanley Middleton, novelist
* 28 August - Godfrey Hounsfield, electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2004)
* 27 September - James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (died 1986)
* 5 October - Donald Pleasence, actor (died 1995)
* 22 October - Doris Lessing, writer

Deaths

* 18 January - Prince John of the United Kingdom (born 1905)
* 4 April - William Crookes, chemist and physicist (born 1832)
* 14 June - Weedon Grossmith, writer (born 1854)
* 30 June - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1842)
* 26 July - Edward Poynter, painter (born 1836)
* 11 August - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American philanthropist (born 1835)
* 18 October - William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, financier and statesman (born 1848)

Unknown dates

* Ernest Albert Waterlow, painter (born 1850)
* Charles Wyndham, actor (born 1837)

Notes

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