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The population of Britain is 44,3 million
-Arthur Evans discovers the ruins of Knossos, Crete
-The population of Britain is 44,3 million
-Britain authorizes the commonweath of Ausralia uniting the
separate colonies on the continen under one federal government with capital at Melbourne -
CommonWealth of Australia
Britain authorizes the commonweath of Ausralia uniting the
separate colonies on the continent under one federal government with capital at Melbourne -
Queen Victoria dies
- -Nigeria becomes a British protectorate -
Britain's population is 37,1 million
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Commonwealth of Australian colonies
The British colonies of Australia become the Federated commonweath of Australia -
Nigeria becomes a British protectorate
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Japan signs the London treaty with Britain
It recognizes Japan's rights in Korea and British's rights in China -
Boers and British sign a peace treaty
It grants autonomy to south africa and creating segregation for blacks -
Prime Minister
The conservative Arthur Balfour becomes prime minister of Britain -
The suffragette movement is founded
Women's social political union is founded -
British troops ocupy Tibet
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The Mall
The outdoor theater ''The Mall'' is inaugurated in London -
France and Britain
France and Britain agree to spheres of influence of their respective empires -
Britain apologizes to the Boer of S. Africa
Britain apologizes to the Boer of south Africa for the war and grants independence to the Transvaal and the Orange free state -
Comes into power
The Liberal party, representing financiers and entrepreneurs, comes into power -
Britain debuts the Dreadnought battleship
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New Zealand's free
New Zealand becomes a self-govering dominion of the British empire -
Britain and Russia negociate
They negociate the status of Persia, Tibet and Afghanistan -
Naval race
Britain and Germany engage in a naval race -
Britain enacts pensions for the eldery
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Lloyd George reforms..
He reforms tax land to pay sickness, invalidity and unemployement insurance -
The great illusion
Norman Angel publishes The Great illusion in which he claims that war has become pointless because the real competition is economic -
Universal health care is introduced
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A Parliament Act Weakens the house of Lords
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A minimum wage is introduced
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Naval treaty
Britain and France sign a naval treaty to fend off the threat of the German nay -
Canberra becomes capital
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WW1
World War I breaks out in the Blakans, pitting Britain, France, Italy, Russia, SERbia, USA and Japan against Austria, Germany, and Turkey, and both Gandhi and Tilak pledge alliance to Britain -
End of the British gold standard
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Britain oppupies the German colonies of West Africa
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British and French troops land in Gallipoli, Turkey
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German submarines...
German submarines sink the British passenger ship ''Lusitania'', killing almost 2000 people -
Lucknow pact
The Lucknow pact unites the Congress and the league in their fight for independence from Britain -
Ottoman troops
Ottoman troops led by Mustafa Kemal defeat the British at Gallipoli -
Britain conquers Iraq
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British troops conquer Jerusalem
The first Christian soldiers to do so since the crusades -
Cvil war
Civil war erupts between the REd Army of th Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks (helped by Britain and USA) -
Britain conqers Syria and Palestine from the Ottomans
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Universal male suffrage
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WW1 ends
2million russian, 1.8million Germans, 1.3 million French,, 1.1 million Austro-Hungarians, 0.9 million Britons, 0.6million Turks and 0.5million Italians are dead -
Istambul is occupied and divided by British, French and Italian troops
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NAncy Astor, the first woman to be elected to parliament
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1919 Various
-The IRA is formed in Ireland to fight British rule
-Britain bans opium
-Race riots in Liverpool and Cardiff
-British troops massacre 379 peaceful demonstrators in Amritsar, the beginning of large-scale riots in India
-Afghanistan gains independence from Britain -
1920 Various
-Palestine becomes a Britsh protectorate
-The British evacuate the Crimea and 150000 Russiand refugees flee to British-controlled Istanbul -
Unemployement reaches 17%
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Various
-Gandhi is imprisoned following terrorist acts agains the British
-Britain, the USA, France, Japan and Italy sign the Washington Naval treaty to lmit the size of their navies
-Egypt declares its independence
-Faysal esablishes the kingdom of Iraq under British protectorate -
Unemployement
unemployement skyrockets in Britain in the coal-mning, textile and shipbuilding industries -
First labour government
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Exhibition
The british empire exhibition is held at Wembley -
Britain...
Britain promotes the revision of Geran borders at the Locarno treaty -
Restrictions on tradre unions
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Equal status
Balfour declares that Britain and its dominions are equal in status and freely associated in a commonwealth of nations -
Universal female suffrage
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The world's stock markets crash
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Labour party victore
The Labur Party wins the national elections although the Conservative party got more votes and Ramsay McDonald becomes prime minister -
London Naval
Britain, Japan, France, Italy and USA sign the London Aval treaty, to reduce naval warfare -
Gandhi unleashes civil disobedience against the British
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EMI
EMI opens the largest recording studio in the world at Abbey Road in London -
Britain leaves the gold standard to let the sterling pound despreciate
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Convervatives
The Conservatives win the national elections in Britain but McDonald remains primes minister of a right-wing cabinet -
National Hunger march
Poor unemployed people from the British coutryside set out on the National Hunger march -
King George...
King George V broadcasts a speech on the radio to the entire British Empire -
The penguin publishing company is founded
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Marriage
Edward VIII abdicates in order to marry a divorced woman -
IRA
The IRA carries out the first bombings in Briain -
Unemployement
British unemployment is 9.3% compared with Germany's 2.1%