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| 1 | 1884 | - 1884: Vienna, Austria - Sigmund Freud published a paper in which he found cocaine, an alkaloid in coca, effective against fatigue and neurasthenia.
- 1884: UK - Hilaire de Chardonnet invented the first artificial textile, which was made from cellulose. It was later named rayon
- 1884: UK - Parliament passes the third Reform Act which further extends the franchise
- 1884: UK - Fabian Society forms, rejects Marxian theory, embraces Ricardian theory (socialist)
- 1884: One-third of world's shipping is British, including 4/5 of world's steamships
- 1884: Burma - Britain annexes Upper Burma
- 1884: Africa - Britain and Germany partition East Africa
- 1884: UK - Excess of births over deaths in England is 13.3, in Germany 10.8, and France 1.4.
- 1884: USA - James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
- 1884: UK - Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
- 1884: USA - Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
- 1884: USA - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
- 1884: CA - Canadian Parliament passes the Indian Advancement Act, encouraging democratic elections of chiefs. Mohawks at St. Regis, Ontario, resist the provision, preferring their traditional method of choosing leaders.
- 1884: NL - Er wordt een klinkerweg aangelegd tussen Emmen en Sleen.
- 1884: NL - Stieltjeskanaal bevaarbaar.
- 1884: NL - Opening spoorweg Groningen-Delfzijl.
- 2 Jan 1884: CA - "Humber Railway Disaster" 32 men and boys were killed upon the head on collision of a of a Grand Trunk Railway commuter train with an unscheduled freight train #42C near Toronto, Ontario. Most of the dead were workers being transported on the freight train to the Ontario Bolt Works in Swansea.
- 15 Oct 1884: CA - The La Presse newspaper is founded
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| 2 | 1885 | - 1885: Mesopotamia - Death of General Gordon at Khartoum.
- 1885: USA - Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1885-1889.
- 1885: Germany - Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal combustion engine.
- 1885: USA - Harim Maxim invents a machine gun.
- 1885: Germany - Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
- 1885: CA - Banff National Park, the first national park in Canada is established
- 1885: CA - A head tax on Chinese immigrants is imposed by the federal government
- 26 Mar 1885: CA - Louis Riel and the Métis battle the North West Mounted Police at Duck Lake
- 9 May 1885: CA - North-West Rebellion: Battle of Batoche the Métis are defeated in 3 day battle
- 3 Jun 1885: CA - North-West Rebellion: Battle of Loon Lake. The last Cree resistance is shattered.
- 2 Jul 1885: CA - Big Bear captured. Big Bear or Mistahimaskwa (c.1825 – 17 January 1888) was born in the Canadian Northwest, and became Chief of the Plains Cree First Nation during the latter half of the nineteenth century. He is most notable for his resistance against the Canadian government.
- 7 Nov 1885: CA - The transcontinental railway is completed
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| 3 | 1886 | - 1886: UK - Gladstone's third Liberal government fails to pass its first Irish Home Rule Bill through the House of Commons. Gladstone resigns as Prime Minister. Split in the Liberal Party. Salisbury establishes his second Conservative-Liberal-Unionist government.
- 1886: UK - The Royal Niger Company is chartered
- 1886: South Africa - Gold is discovered in the Transvaal
- 1886: New York, NY, USA - Statue of Liberty erected in New York Harbour
- 1886: UK - Local Government Act establishes County Councils as administrative organs of country life, replace Justices of Peace who are preserved as magistrates, creates London County Council (does not cover City); women are included with men in electorate of newly- established County Councils
- 1886: UK - British South Africa Company, formed by Yorkshireman Cecil Rhodes, colonization of Rhodesia begins
- 1886: UK - Great Dock Strike of London dockers, led by John Burns and Tom Mann
- 1886: USA - John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
- 1886: USA - Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
- 1886: UK - 3,992,880 migrants leave UK for US, 2,235,671 leave UK for British North America during period to 1927
- 1886: CA - Mohawk men of the Caughnawaga Reserve in Quebec are trained to help build a bridge across the St. Lawrence River, beginning a tradition of high steel construction work among the Iroquois.
- 1886: CA - Construction begins on the Banff Springs Hotel
- 25 Mar 1886: CA - Workman's Compensation Act passed in Ontario
- 6 Apr 1886: CA - Vancouver incorporated as a city
- 6 Jun 1886: CA - The Parliament buildings open in Ottawa
- 7 Jun 1886: CA - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau becomes the first Canadian cardinal
- 14 Dec 1886: CA - Yoho National Park established
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| 4 | 1887 | - 1887: Germany - Emile Berliner patents the gramophone
- 1887: UK - Queen Victoria celebrates her Golden Jubilee
- 1887: UK - The Independent Labour Party is founded
- 1887: UK - The British East Africa Company is chartered
- 1887: UK - Telegraph companies control 107,000 miles of submarine cable
- 1887: USA - There are estimated to be 5,400 cash registers in US (increases to 16,900 in 1890)
- 1887: Germany - Heinrich Hertz discovers radio waves.
- 1887: UK - F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
- 1887: NL - In Oostzaan neemt Albert Heijn de winkel van zijn vader over.
- 3 Mar 1887: CA/US - The United States imposes the Fisheries Retaliation Act putting limits on Canadian fishermen and traders
- 23 Apr 1887: CA - McMaster University founded
- 3 May 1887: CA - 148 coal miners are killed in a mine explosion near Nanaimo, British Columbia
- 3 Dec 1887: CA - Saturday Night is a Canadian general interest magazine. It was founded in Toronto, Ontario in 1887.
The publication was first established as a weekly broadsheet newspaper about public affairs and the arts, which was later expanded into a general interest magazine.
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| 5 | 1888 | - 1888: UK - Celluloid photographic film introduced
- 1888: UK - The County Councils' Act establishes representative county based authorities
- 1888: USA - Kodak box camera
- 1888: UK - Coin-operated public telephone invented
- 1888: UK - John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tyre.
- 1888: USA - Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
- 1888: USA - Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
- 1888: CA/US - Boundary survey started by Dr. William H. Dall of the United States and Dr. George M. Dawson of Canada.
- 30 Jun 1888: CA - The Northwest Territories holds its first general election; 22 members of the Legislative Assembly are elected. All are independents; there are no party politics in the territories
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| 6 | 1889 | - 1889: UK - The British South Africa Company is chartered
- 1889: Paris, France - The Eiffel Tower, designed by French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, is completed for the Paris Exposition.
- 1889: UK - First Official Secrets Act in UK
- 1889: USA - Benjamin Harrison president of the USA 1889-1893.
- 1889: UK - Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
- 1889: UK - Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
- 1889: CA - The Dominion Women Enfranchisement Association is created to campaign for women's right to vote
- 1889: NL - Er wordt een klinkerweg aangelegd tussen Emmen, Zuidbarge, Erica naar Nieuw Amsterdam
- 1889: NL - Jan Fabricius wordt geldloper en krantenbezorger bij de Provinciale Drentsche en Asser Courant.
- 1889: NL - Jonkheer Van Holthe tot Echten koopt als eerste Drent een auto: hij toert trots met zijn Benz door Assen.
- 19 Sep 1889: CA - A rock slide in Quebec City kills 45
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| 7 | 1890 | - 1890: UK - Starting this decade, women's clothing becomes less voluminous, lawn tennis takes place of croquet as means of meeting opposite sex, bicycle becomes fashionable
- 1890: NL - Koning Willem III overlijdt. Koningin Emma wordt regentes.
- 31 Mar 1890: CA - Manitoba Liberals under Thomas Greenway halt public funding of Catholic schools; causes uproar in Quebec.
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| 8 | 1891 | - 1891: UK - University of Wales founded; Act permits women to enter medical or other faculty on same terms as men
- 1891: USA - Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
- 1891: UK - Agricultural depression to 1899 as cheaper frozen meat from Australia, New Zealand and South America floods into Britain, cheaper grain comes in from North America
- 1891: CA - The Legislative Council of New Brunswick is abolished
- 1891: NL - Gerard en Anton Philips richten een gloeilampenfabriek op.
- 21 Feb 1891: CA - The first Springhill Mining Disaster occurs killing 125.
- 10 Dec 1891: CA - The Canadian Pacific Railway is extended to Edmonton
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| 9 | 1892 | - 1892: France - Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera
- 1892: UK - William Gladstone forms his fourth Liberal government
- 1892: UK - Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
- 1892: Germany - Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
- 1892: CA - First documented women's hockey game in takes place in Barrie, Ontario playing on a outdoor ice surface
- 1892: CA - The Toronto Star founded
- 1892: CA - Harbord Collegiate Institute was opened
- 1892: NL - Verschijning van het eerste dagblad de Telegraaf.
- 1892: NL - Industrieel Willem Albert Scholten komt te overlijden. Hij was de man die veel gedaan heeft voor de veenkoloniale ontwikkeling. Hij was sociaal erg meelevend. Het Scholtenskanaal dankt haar naam aan hem zoals Klazienaveen haar naam ontleend aan zijn vrouw Klaziena van der Sluis.
- 8 Jul 1892: CA - Two-thirds of St. Johns, Newfoundland, destroyed in a fire
- 5 Dec 1892: CA - Sir John Sparrow David Thompson becomes PM. One of his first acts is to establish the Criminal Code of Canada, which is the codification of most of the criminal offences and procedure in Canada. Section 91(27) of the Canadian constitution
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| 10 | 1893 | - 1893: USA - Whitcomb L. Judson invented the zip to help a friend with a stiff back who could not bend over to do up his shoes
- 1893: UK - Second Irish Home Rule Bill fails to pass the House of Lords
- 1893: New Zealand - First nation to grant women the right to vote
- 1893: France - Car number plates introduced
- 1893: USA - Grover Cleveland president of the USA 1893-1897.
- 1893: The Canada Evidence Act is an Act of the Parliament of Canada that regulates the rules of evidence. The Act only applies to law within the jurisdiction of the federal government. Thus the Act applies only to federally enacted courts.
- 1893: NL - Vissersramp op 1 december in Wierum. 22 vissers komen om.
- 27 May 1893: CA - Algonquin Park is established as a wildlife sanctuary in Ontario
- 16 Sep 1893: CA - Calgary incorporated as a city
- 27 Oct 1893: CA - The National Council of Women meets for the first time
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| 11 | 1894 | - 1894: UK - Rosebery takes power with his minority Liberal government
- 22 Mar 1894: CA - Montreal Hockey Club defeats Ottawa to win the first Stanley Cup challenge.
- 14 Jun 1894: Massey Hall opens in Toronto. The hall was the site of the legendary Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie concert recorded as Jazz at Massey Hall in May 1953. Accompanying Gillespie and Parker in this acoustically sound hall were Bud Powell, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus.
- 3 Sep 1894: CA - Labour Day celebrated for the first time in Canada.
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| 12 | 1895 | - 1895: UK - Oscar Wilde jailed for homosexuality
- 1895: UK - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, using a Crookes' tube, observed a new form of penetrating radiation, which he named X-rays
- 1895: Italy - Guglielmo Marconi sent longwave wireless telegraphic, or radio, signals over a distance of more than a mile
- 1895: UK - Salisbury forms his third Unionist ministry
- 1895: USA - Kellogg's Corn Flakes go on sale
- 1895: France - Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. The Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
- 1895: CA - The Chinese Board of Trade is formed in Vancouver
- 1895: NL - Koningin Wilhelmina en Koningin-regentes Emma bezoeken Drenthe
- 2 Oct 1895: CA - Additional provisional districts of the North-West Territories are established: the districts of Ungava, Mackenzie, Yukon, and Franklin. The districts of Keewatin and Athabaska are enlarged so that all points of Canada are either within a province or a district.
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| 13 | 1896 | - 1896: Vienna, Austria - Sigmund Freud suggested analyzing childhood conflicts in the study of neuroses. He also devised a psychoanalytic technique called free association which allows emotionally-charged, repressed material to be consciously recognized
- 1896: Sudan - British conquest of the Sudan begins
- 1896: USA - Lightner Witmer establishes at the University of Pennsylvania a clinic of psychology, the first psychological clinic in America and perhaps in the world
- 1896: UK - Items considered luxuries in 1837 are now common comforts; food, clothing, bedding, furniture, are all far more abundant; gas and oil lighting being replaced by electricity; seaside holidays no longer rare
- 1896: UK - Howard publishes Garden Cities of Tomorrow, forerunner of modern city planning
- 1896: York, UK - Seebohm Rowntree (of chocolate fame) studies poor, determines poverty due to inadequate wages, not shiftlessness
- 1896: USA - American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
- 1896: CA - A plan to populate the western prairies with immigration from eastern Europe is unveiled
- 1896: CA - The first Canadian blast furnace opens in Hamilton, Ontario
- 1896: NL - NL - Notaris Baccx rijdt als eerste in Nederland met een eigen auto.
- 26 May 1896: CA - a bridge collapse in Victoria, British Columbia kills 55 people
- 17 Aug 1896: CA - Gold is discovered in the Yukon, prompting the Klondike gold rush
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| 14 | 1897 | - 1897: UK - Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee
- 1897: USA - Telephone penetration in US is 7 per 1,000 people
- 1897: USA - William McKinley president of the USA 1897-1901. William McKinley dies in Buffalo, NY, 1901.
- 1897: NL - Coevorden aangesloten op het Overijsselse tramnet.
- 29 Jan 1897: CA - The Victorian Order of Nurses is founded in Ottawa and created as a gift for Queen Victoria for the purposes of home care and social services.
- 2 Feb 1897: CA - Clara Brett Martin becomes the first woman allowed to practice law in Ontario
- 19 Feb 1897: CA - World's first Women's Institute founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario
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| 15 | 1898 | - 1898: UK - Christopher Latham Sholes patented the typewriter. His QWERTY keyboard is still with us today.
- 1898: Sudan - British rule over Sudan fully established
- 1898: USA - Campbell's soups first appear with red and white labels, colors suggested by Cornell University's football uniforms.
- 1898: USA - Spanish-American War: United States vs Spain 1898.
- 1898: UK - Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
- 1898: CA - The Parliament of Canada passed the Quebec Boundary Extension Act that expanded the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the aboriginal Cree.
- 1898: CA - White Pass and Yukon Railway opens
- 1898: CA - Kit Coleman covers the Spanish-American War as Canada's first female war correspondent
- 1898: NL - Inhuldiging van koningin Wilhelmina te Amsterdam.
- 1898: NL - De Motor Tram Omnibus van Meijer gaat rijden.
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| 16 | 1899 | - 1899: Germany - German Naval expansion begins
- 1899: South Africa - Boer War begins and lasts three years, sparked when Englishman dies in Boer police custody. Scandalous British concentration camps cause many deaths of woman and children
- 1899: Australia - Unification of Australia as Commonwealth
- 1899: UK - Judges again declare trade unions illegal
- 1899: UK - J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
- 1899: UK - I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
- 1899: UK - Education is now compulsory to age 12. 1 in 8 receives education after age 14
- 1899: NL - De Transvaalse Oorlog breekt uit in Zuid-Afrika
- 20 Jan 1899: About 2000 Doukhobors arrive in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They are a Christian group of Russian origin who continue to live today in south-eastern British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
- 21 Jun 1899: CA - Treaty No. 8 cedes much of northern Alberta to the federal government
- 18 Sep 1899: CA - The new City Hall building opens in Toronto.
- 4 Oct 1899: CA - First Canadian troops sent to an overseas war (Boer War)
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| 17 | 1900 | - 1900: UK - Salisbury wins the Khaki election. The Labour Representation Committee is formed
- 1900: UK - Max Planck proposes quantum theory
- 1900: UK - There are reckoned to be 6,000 accountants in England
- 1900: China - Boxer Rebellion
- 1900: Italy - King Assassinated
- 1900: USA - Kodak Introduces $1 Brownie Cameras
- 1900: Vienna, Austria - Sigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams
- 1900: UK - Birmingham University founded
- 1900: Germany - The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
- 1900: USA - Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
- 1900: CA - The federal government doubles the head tax on Chinese immigrants
- 1900: CA - The Canadian Tuberculosis Association meets for the first time
- 18 Feb 1900: CA - Boer War: The Royal Canadian Regiment plays a decisive role in the Battle of Paardeburg over a span of 9 days.
- 26 Apr 1900: CA - Two-thirds of Hull, Quebec, is destroyed in a fire.
- 6 Dec 1900: CA - Alphonse Desjardins founds Mouvement Desjardins, the first credit union in North America.
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| 18 | 1901 | - 1901: USA - Willis H. Carrier invented the industrial air conditioner
- 1901: UK - Vacuum Cleaner invented by Hubert Cecil Booth
- 1901: Atlantic - Guglielmo Marconi sends wireless message from Cornwall to Newfoundland, a distance of over 2,000 miles
- 1901: Stockholm, Sweden - First Nobel Prizes Awarded
- 1901: USA - Theodore Roosevelt president of the USA 1901-1909. Vice president under William McKinley, he is sworn in as president upon death of McKinley.
- 1901: USA - King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
- 1901: UK - Edward VII, ruler of England to 1910. House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Eldest son of Queen Victoria, married Alexandra, Princess of Denmark.
- 1901: NL - Koningin Wilhelmina huwt Prins Hendrik, Hertog van Mecklenburg.
- 22 Jan 1901: UK - Death of Queen Victoria, aged 81, over 63 years as Queen
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| 20 | 1903 | - 1903: USA - Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright achieved flight in a manned, gasoline power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine at Kitty Hawk.
- 1903: UK - First Silent Movie, The Great Train Robbery
- 1903: India - Plague strikes
- 1903: Ireland - Irish land purchase bill, Wyndham's Act, permits Irish to buy land from landlords with £150 million of loans included
- 1903: UK - Liverpool University, Sheffield University and Leeds University founded
- 1903: UK - Balfour's Licensing Act reduces number of houses selling alcohol
- 1903: UK - Trade depression - unemployment results; Act sets up local committees to find employment, voluntary contributions give small stipend to unemployed
- 1903: UK - Act of Parliament secures highly privileged immunity for trades unions; Labour Party formed
- 1903: UK - Free school meals for poor children, Children's Act deals with cruelty to children, prohibits imprisonment of children under 14
- 1903: UK - 72 British ships have Marconi's radio, 1912 - 450, 1914 - 879
- 1903: UK - Beginning of Old Age Pension scheme
- 1903: UK - Trade depression - unemployment results; William Beveridge publishes Unemployment, a Problem of Industry, which prompts creation of Labour Exchanges
- 1903: Europe - Louis Bleriot flies across the English Channel
- 1903: UK - Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
- 1903: UK - Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
- 1903: UK - Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
- 1903: USA - William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
- 1903: NL - Tram Hoogeveen-Nieuw Amsterdam rijdt voor het eerst.
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| 26 | 1909 | - 1909: UK - Pianos reach maximum market penetration in UK households at one per ten people
- 1909: UK - 800 million postcards sold in England
- 1909: Japan - Prince Ito is Assassinated
- 1909: UK - Plastic Is Invented
- 1909: Arctic - Robert Peary Becomes the First to Reach the North Pole
- 1909: USA - William Taft president of the USA 1909-1913.
- 1909: UK - Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
- 1909: NL - Prinses Juliana geboren.
- 1909: NL - Opening N.O.L.S. spoorlijn Delfzijl-Zuidbroek.
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| 27 | 1910 | - 1910: UK - Georges Claude discovered that electricity conducted through a tube of the rare inert gas, neon, gives a bright red glow and that other gases gave off other colors, e.g., argon gives blue, helium gives yellow and white, etc.
- 1910: UK - First live opera broadcast
- 1910: UK - Halley's Comet Makes an Appearance
- 1910: UK - The Tango Catches On
- 1910: South Africa - Formation of Union of South Africa
- 1910: UK - Death of Edward VII
- 1910: UK - Population of England/Wales 36,070, Scotland - 4,761, N. Ireland - 1,251
- 1910: UK - Contributory National Insurance Scheme introduced by David Lloyd George, provides medical care, maternity benefits and sick pay
- 1910: UK - Parliament Act reduces House of Lords' veto to delaying power; House of Commons begins to pay members a stipend
- 1910: UK - There are 146,000 female clerical workers in England, up from 22,000 in 1891, 7,000 in 1881, and 19 in 1851
- 1910: USA - Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
- 1910: UK - Infant mortality now 110 per 1000 live births, declines steadily to 24.4 in 1956; emigration reaches about 464,000/year; divorces average 823/year, go to 3,619/year in 1920-1922, 7,955/year in 1939 (latter rise because willful desertion, cruelty and incurable insanity added to causes in 1937)
- 1910: UK - Strikes of seaman, dock and transport workers, general railway strike for higher wages during period to 1912
- 1910: NL - Glasfabrieken in Nieuw Buinen bieden werk aan 800 mensen.
- 1910: NL - Bentheimer Eisenbahn rijdt tussen Coevorden en Duitsland.
- 20 Jan 1910: UK - George V, ruler of England to 1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck.
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| 29 | 1912 | - 1912: North Sea - The Sinking of the Titanic: 1,515 people lose their lives.
- 1912: UK - Parachutes Invented
- 1912: UK - Piltdown Man, the 'Missing Link,' Discovered but later revealed as a fraud
- 1912: SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal
- 1912: UK - Motorized movie cameras invented, and replaced hand-cranked cameras.
- 1912: UK - The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
- 1912: USA - Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy
- 1912: NL - De ondergang van de Titanic.
- 1912: NL - De eerste officiële Elfstedentocht wordt gewonnen door Coen de Koning.
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| 30 | 1913 | - 1913: USA - Leo Baekeland invented a plastic laminate, known as Bakelite, and later as Formica
- 1913: Detroit, MI, USA - First assembly line introduced in Ford automobile factory
- 1913: New York, NY, USA - The Armory Show, an international display of some 1600 works of modern art, and one of the more important U.S. art exhibitions ever held, opens at the 69th-regiment armory. It arouses public curiosity, generates sensational news coverage, and helps change the direction of American art
- 1913: USA - Personal Income Tax introduced
- 1913: Washington, DC, USA - Woodrow Wilson president 1913-1921.
- 1913: UK - The crossword puzzle was invented by Arthur Wynne.
- 1913: USA - The Merck Chemical Company patented what is now known as ecstasy.
- 1913: USA - Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra
- 1913: USA - Gideon Sundback invents the modern zipper.
- 1913: NL - Gasselternijveen vierde havenstad van Nederland na Amsterdam,Rotterdam en Groningen.
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| 31 | 1914 | - 1914: UK - Battle of the Marne
- 1914: USA - Charlie Chaplin First Appeared as the Little Tramp
- 1914: UK - First Traffic Light
- 1914: Panama - Panama Canal Officially Opened
- 1914: Egypt - Britain proclaims protectorate over Egypt
- 1914: France - Stunning British casualty figures come from Loos -60,000; in on the Somme, 60,000 in one day; total for 5-month offensive - 400,000; Germans use poison gas at Ypres
- 1914: Ireland - Easter Monday Irish rebellion, Irish Volunteers (later Irish Republican Army) proclaim Irish Republic; German submarine lands Sir Roger Casement who is arrested, German ship with rifles intercepted off Irish coast, Casement executed; Sinn Fein and Ulster cannot agree on partition
- 1914: France - Passchendaele, British advance of 5 miles costs 400,000 casualties
- 1914: UK - Balfour Declaration promises Jews home in Palestine
- 1914: UK - First use of massed tanks (Battle of Cambrai)
- 1914: UK - King George V adopts Windsor as Royal Family's English surname in place of family's German name
- 1914: USA - Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask
- 1914: NL - Algemene mobilisatie.
- 4 Aug 1914: World War I begins and lasts until 1918, because Germany violates a treaty to respect neutrality of Belgium; Turkey enters war on Germany's side
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| 35 | 1918 | - 1918: UK - Influenza Epidemic
- 1918: Russia - Czar Nicholas II and his family are killed
- 1918: UK - Summer:Great Influenza Epidemic begins, reaches height end of year, new outbreak first quarter of 1919: England and Wales lose 150,000 (15,000 in London alone)
- 1918: UK - Final casualties for World War I - almost 1 million British Empire men killed, about 3 million maimed (744,000 killed are from UK)
- 1918: UK - Women over 30 given the vote (complete voting equality with men comes in 1928), all men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons) given vote
- 1918: UK - Consumer purchasing power now about 1/3 of what it was in 1914
- 1918: USA - Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
- 1918: UK - Police strikes this year and the next
- 1918: NL - NL - De Spaanse griep veroorzaakt wereldwijd meer dan 20 miljoen doden.
- 9 Nov 1918: Europe - Kaiser abdicates, peace signed two days later at Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I
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| 37 | 1920 | - 1920: India - Bubonic Plague strikes
- 1920: UK - League of Nations Established
- 1920: UK - Population of England/Wales - 37,887, Scotland - 4,882, N.Ireland - 1,258
- 1920: UK - Economic slump, 2,170,000 unemployed
- 1920: Palestine - Serious clashes between Jews and Arabs
- 1920: USA - US restricts immigration
- 1920: Ireland - Southern Irish parliament passes Government of Ireland Act, civil war effectively ends (until 1968)
- 1920: UK - Lloyd George sells honours in return for party contributions, partly responsible for downfall of Coalition government
- 1920: Egypt - Britain recognizes Egyptian independence
- 1920: UK - British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins transmission of speech over air to public
- 1920: Italy - Benito Mussolini becomes fascist dictator
- 1920: UK - First football cup final at Wembley
- 1920: UK - Greyhound racing becomes popular
- 1920: UK - Radio and cinema begin growth (by 1929, 3,000 cinemas in Britain)
- 1920: UK - Convictions for drunkenness fall from 189,000 in 1913 to 53,000 in 1930
- 1920: France - Tuberculosis vaccine developed
- 1920: UK - The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
- 1920: USA - The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
- 1920: Ireland - Irish Republican Army begins Civil War with raids on police barracks and income tax offices all over Ireland
- 1920: UK - Communist Party of Great Britain founded; affiliation with Labour Party rebuffed = schism between communism and socialism
- 1920: UK - Population of Great Britain has grown by 5 per cent, emigration overseas declines from 256,000 in 1923 (post-war peak) to 92,000 in 1930 and many return to offset those leaving; British population gravitates to south and away from depressed areas of South Wales and northern England, Greater London is now over 8 million
- Dec 1920: Ireland - New Government of Ireland Act proposes partition of Ireland into Ulster (north) and Irish Free State (south), each to have its own government
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| 48 | 1931 | - 1931: UK - Housing Act passes, provides subsidies for slum clearance
- 1931: USA - Al Capone Imprisoned for Income Tax Evasion
- 1931: UK - Auguste Piccard Reaches Stratosphere
- 1931: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Christ Monument Built on Hilltop
- 1931: New York, NY, USA - Empire State Building Completed
- 1931: USA - First official US National Anthem
- 1931: UK - Census shows British professional workers now number .75 million (8 per cent); up from 80,000 in 1921 Census: population: England/Wales - 39,952, Scotland - 4,842, N. Ireland - 1,243
- 1931: USA - Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
- 1931: Germany - Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
- 1931: NL - De werkloosheidscijfers in Nederland stijgen tot ongekende hoogten.
- 24 Aug 1931: UK - Resignation of Labour government accepted by King, asks Ramsay MacDonald to form National Government (Coalition) to deal with economic crisis
- 21 Oct 1931: UK - General Election, vote for National Government overwhelming, more votes for Conservatives, Liberal party in disarray
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| 49 | 1932 | - 1932: UK - Agricultural Marketing Act passed, regulates quality of produce
- 1932: USA - Air Conditioning Invented
- 1932: Amelia Earhardt First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
- 1932: Cambridge, UK - Scientists Split the Atom
- 1932: USA - Zippo Lighters Introduced
- 1932: Ireland - De Valera succeeds Cosgrave as Prime Minister of Irish Free State, ousts British Governor-General, abolishes senate, alters law re citizenship to distinguish Irish nationality from British, but still claims Commonwealth membership
- 1932: USA - Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
- 1932: UK - Unemployment falls from 3 million to below 2 million in July 1935; production rises, but imports steady, exports decline; new industries booming - chemicals, rayon, cars, radio, cost of living falls
- 1932: NL - De Zuiderzee wordt op 20 September officieel omgedoopt tot IJsselmeer.
- Sep 1932: UK - 6-7 million living on 'dole', worse in Tyne and Tees and Welsh valleys
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| 50 | 1933 | |
| 51 | 1934 | |
| 52 | 1935 | - 1935: USA - First successful three-color roll film available to amateur photographers as Kodachrome, for slides, this year, and as Kodacolor (for prints) in 1942.
- 1935: UK - First Kit Kat sold
- 1935: USA - Alcoholics Anonymous Founded
- 1935: Germany - Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws issued
- 1935: UK - John Maynard Keynes Suggests New Economic Theory
- 1935: USA - Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invent nylon
- 1935: USA - The first canned beer made.
- 1935: NL - Behalve het bekende Noorder Dierenpark dat op 1 mei wordt geopend, wordt tevens de oudheidskamer in gebruik genomen
- 1935: NL - Noorder Sanatorium wordt gebouwd in Zuidlaren
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| 53 | 1936 | - 1936: UK - Edward VIII, ruler of England 1936. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): Eldest son of George V.
- 1936: UK - BBC starts regular TV broadcasts
- 1936: USA - Dale Carnegie Publishes How to Win Friends and Influence People
- 1936: Germany - Nazi Olympics in Berlin
- 1936: Spain - Spanish Civil War Begins. Germany and Italy help rebels against government, Soviet Union aids government, as do International Brigade with volunteers from European countries and US during period to 1939
- 1936: UK - Arabs attack Jews and British troops and police, riots, strikes, outbursts of great violence, Jews attack Arabs and British, disorder continues through beginning of World War II
- 1936: USA - Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
- 1936: USA - Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
- 1936: Germany - Hitler and Mussolini make Rome-Berlin Axis agreement to conduct aggression together, followed by German agreement with Japan which Italy signs later
- 20 Jan 1936: UK - Death of King George V
- 12 May 1936: UK - George VI, ruler of England 1936-1952. House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of George V, Duke of York; married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
- 16 Nov 1936: UK - Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin learns Edward VIII wants to marry twice-divorced Mrs.Simpson and will abdicate if necessary, public storm breaks on 2- 3 December, King abdicates on 5 December, announces 10 December, Abdication Act rushes through 11 December; Duke of York (father of Queen Elizabeth II) becomes George VI
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| 54 | 1937 | |
| 55 | 1938 | |
| 56 | 1939 | |
| 57 | 1940 | |
| 58 | 1941 | |
| 59 | 1942 | |
| 60 | 1943 | |
| 61 | 1944 | - 1944: France - D-Day landings
- 1944: France - First German V1 and V2 Rockets Fired
- 1944: Berlin, Germany - Hitler Escapes Assassination Attempt
- 1944: USA - The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
- 1944: USA - Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
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| 62 | 1945 | |
| 63 | 1946 | |
| 64 | 1947 | |
| 65 | 1948 | - 1948: USA - Life magazine makes painter Jackson Pollock an overnight celebrity by devoting a three-page spread with color photographs to him and his paintings under the headline, Jackson Pollock: Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?; Abstract Expressionism becomes a subject of widespread popular ridicule.
- 1948: Berlin, Germany - Berlin Airlift
- 1948: UK - Big Bang Theory Formulated
- 1948: India - Gandhi Assassinated
- 1948: South Africa - Policy of Apartheid Begun
- 1948: Israel - State of Israel Founded
- 1948: USA - The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
- 1948: USA - Velcro® invented by George de Mestral.
- 1948: USA - Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox
- 1948: NL - Tweede politionele actie in Nederlands-Indië.
- 1948: NL - Koningin Wilhelmina treedt af. Zij wordt opgevolgd door haar dochter Juliana.
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| 66 | 1949 | |
| 67 | 1950 | |
| 68 | 1951 | |
| 69 | 1952 | |
| 70 | 1953 | |
| 71 | 1954 | |
| 72 | 1955 | |
| 73 | 1956 | |
| 74 | 1957 | |
| 75 | 1958 | |
| 76 | 1959 | |
| 77 | 1960 | |
| 78 | 1961 | |
| 79 | 1962 | |
| 80 | 1963 | |
| 81 | 1964 | |
| 82 | 1965 | |
| 83 | 1966 | |
| 84 | 1967 | |
| 85 | 1968 | |
| 86 | 1969 | |
1884 - 1969 (85 years)