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UK-related events during the year of 1904
Events from the year
1904 in the
United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
1 January –
Number plates are introduced as cars are licensed for the first time. A
speed limit of 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) is introduced.
[1]
25 January –
Halford Mackinder 's influential paper
The Geographical Pivot of History is delivered to the
Royal Geographical Society in London.
[2]
26 January
12 March – Britain's first surface electric trains begin running from
Liverpool to
Southport on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway .
[6]
26 March – 80,000 demonstrators gather in
Hyde Park, London , to protest against the importation of
Chinese labourers to South African gold mines.
[7]
8 April –
Entente Cordiale signed between the United Kingdom and France.
[6]
25 April –
Herbert Beerbohm Tree establishes an Academy of Dramatic Art, which will become
RADA , at
His Majesty's Theatre in the
Haymarket (London) .
[8]
May –
Royal Horticultural Society completes the move of its demonstration garden to
RHS Garden, Wisley , Surrey from
Chiswick .
[9]
4 May –
Charles Rolls and
Henry Royce meet for the first time, at the new
Midland Hotel, Manchester , to agree production of
Rolls-Royce motor cars; the first produced under their joint names in Manchester are launched in December.
[10]
24 May – Celebration of
Empire Day introduced to the UK by
Lord Meath .
9 June – The
London Symphony Orchestra performs its first concert.
[6]
[11]
28 June – The
Danish
liner
SS Norge is wrecked on
Helen's Reef off
Rockall with the loss of 635 lives.
[12]
1 July–23 November –
Great Britain and Ireland compete at the
1904 Summer Olympics in
St. Louis, Missouri and win one gold and one silver medal.
21 July – Official opening of
Birmingham Corporation Water Department 's scheme bringing water to the city from the
Elan Valley Reservoirs in
Wales via the
Elan aqueduct .
[13]
[14]
3 August – A
British expedition under Colonel
Francis Younghusband takes
Lhasa in
Tibet .
September – Start of
1904–1905 Welsh Christian revival .
1 September –
Griffin Park football ground, home of
Brentford F.C. , opens in west London.
c. October – Mrs H. Millicent McKenzie is appointed Associated
Professor of Education at the
University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in
Cardiff , the first woman in Britain to hold a professorial title.
[15]
11 October –
Loftus Road football stadium, home of
Shepherd's Bush F.C. , opens in west London.
20 October –
Admiral "Jackie" Fisher takes office as
First Sea Lord , initiating a period of modernisation of the Royal Navy.
[16]
21 October –
Dogger Bank incident : the
Baltic Fleet of the
Imperial Russian Navy , heading for the
Russo-Japanese War , mistakes British fishing trawlers in the
North Sea for Japanese
torpedo boats and opens fire, sinking one, and causing serious diplomatic conflict between Russia and Britain.
[1]
Late October – The first members of what will become the
Bloomsbury Group move to the
Bloomsbury district of London.
[17]
c. November –
Finchley fire brigade becomes the first to take delivery of a petrol-engined self-propelled motor fire pump.
9 November – Bahamian Dr.
Allan Glaisyer Minns becomes
Mayor of
Thetford , the first Black person to hold such an office in Britain.
[18]
[19]
[20]
[21]
16 November –
John Ambrose Fleming
patents the first
thermionic
vacuum tube , the two-electrode
diode ("oscillation valve" or
Fleming valve ).
[22]
7 December –
Royal Navy
torpedo boat destroyer
HMS Spiteful (1899) begins sea trials as the first capital
warship to be powered solely using
fuel oil .
10 December
24 December – The
Coliseum Theatre in London opens.
[6]
27 December – The stage play
Peter Pan , or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up premières in
London .
[6]
Undated
Publications
Births
14 January –
Cecil Beaton , photographer (died 1980)
[27]
18 January –
Cary Grant , actor (died 1986)
[28]
28 February –
Anthony Havelock-Allan , film producer (died 2003)
[29]
1 March –
Margaret Steuart Pollard , née Gladstone, oriental scholar, bard of the
Cornish Gorsedd , philanthropist and eccentric (died 1996)
[30]
8 March –
C. R. Boxer , historian (died 2000)
30 March –
Wilfred White , equestrian (died 1995)
[31]
8 April –
John Hicks , economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
[32]
14 April
23 April –
Ivor Montagu , aristocrat, documentary film maker, table tennis player and Communist activist (died 1984)
[35]
26 April –
Jimmy McGrory , footballer (died 1982)
[36]
27 April –
Cecil Day-Lewis , poet (died 1972)
[37]
[38]
6 May –
Max Mallowan , archaeologist (died 1978)
[39]
8 May –
John Snagge , radio personality (died 1996)
[40]
20 May –
Margery Allingham , writer (died 1966)
[41]
26 May –
George Formby , entertainer (died 1961)
[42]
28 May –
Margaret Harris , costume designer (died 2000)
4 June –
Jack Lauterwasser , racing cyclist (died 2003)
[43]
6 June –
Lesley Blanch , writer and fashion editor (died 2007)
[44]
8 June –
Angus McBean , photographer (died 1990)
[45]
12 July –
Edward Max Nicholson , environmentalist (died 2003)
[46]
24 July –
Anton Dolin , dancer and choreographer (died 1983)
[47]
[48]
16 August –
Mollie Maureen , actress (died 1987)
24 August –
Ida Cook , campaigner for Jewish Holocaust refugees and (as Mary Burchell) romance novelist (died 1986)
26 August –
Christopher Isherwood , novelist (died 1986)
19 September –
Enid Hattersley , politician (died 2001)
29 September –
Greer Garson , actress (died 1996)
2 October –
Graham Greene , author (died 1991)
20 October –
Anna Neagle , actress (died 1986)
31 October –
Elisabeth Collins , painter and sculptor (died 2000)
2 November –
Hugh Patrick Lygon , aristocrat (died 1936)
11 November –
J. H. C. Whitehead , mathematician (died 1960)
14 November
16 November –
Norman Feather , nuclear physicist (died 1978)
12 December –
Edward Pilgrim , victim of bureaucracy (died 1954)
Deaths
17 January – Sir
Henry Keppel , admiral (born 1809)
[49]
[50]
26 January –
Whitaker Wright , fraudulent financier (born 1846) (suicide)
[3]
[4]
[5]
8 February –
Alfred Ainger , biographer (born 1837)
[51]
22 February –
Sir Leslie Stephen , writer and critic (born 1832)
[52]
5 March –
John Lowther du Plat Taylor , founder of the Army Post Office Corps (born 1829)
[53]
17 March –
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge , grandson of King George III (born 1819)
[54]
[55]
5 April –
Tom Allen , boxing champion (born 1840)
16 April –
Samuel Smiles , author and reformer (born 1812)
[56]
[57]
8 May
10 May –
Sir Henry Morton Stanley , Welsh explorer and journalist (born 1841)
[60]
[61]
[62]
1 July –
George Frederic Watts ,
symbolist painter and sculptor (born 1817)
[63]
[64]
[65]
22 July –
Wilson Barrett , playwright and actor (born 1846)
[66]
[67]
12 August –
William Renshaw , tennis player (born 1861)
4 October –
Violet Nicolson ("Laurence Hope"), poet (born 1865)
7 October –
Isabella Bird , explorer, writer, photographer and naturalist (born 1831)
12 November –
George Lennox Watson , naval architect (born 1851)
24 November –
Christopher Dresser , designer influential in the Anglo-Japanese style (born 1834)
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