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UK-related events during the year of 1905
Events from the year 1905 in the United Kingdom .
Incumbents
Events
1 January – East Coast gales:
Great Yarmouth flooded and
pier at
Scarborough washed away.
[1]
5 January – The play
The Scarlet Pimpernel opens at the
New Theatre in
London and begins a run of 122 performances and numerous revivals.
16 February – At
Haulbowline
Base in
Ireland , two explosions on board submarine
HMS A5 , due to petrol fumes after refuelling, kill six of the eleven crew.
23 February – Beginning of
Eliza Sheffield 's unsuccessful breach of promise case against
Lord Townshend .
February –
Alf Common becomes the first £1,000 footballer in his transfer from
Sheffield United to
Middlesbrough .
[2]
10 March
14 March – 23 of the 26 crew of the
barque Kyber die when the ship is wrecked at
Gwennap Head in Cornwall.
[5]
20 March – The title
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is officially recognised by
Edward VII by a royal warrant.
[6]
29 March – Carmaker
Vauxhall opens a factory at
Luton ,
Bedfordshire , as its main manufacturing base following expansion from
London .
[7]
[8]
6 May – The
Naval, Shipping and Fisheries Exhibition opens in Earl's Court to mark 100 years since the
Battle of Trafalgar
12 May – First public protest by
suffragettes , led by
Emmeline Pankhurst , at Westminster.
[9]
23 May – First performance of
George Bernard Shaw 's 1903 play
Man and Superman at the
Royal Court Theatre ,
London .
29 May – The recently formed Chelsea F.C. are elected to the
Football League for the
1905–06 football season ; on 2 September they play their first match, at the new
Stamford Bridge stadium (which the existing
Fulham F.C. have declined to become tenants of).
[4]
June –
Cadbury Dairy Milk
chocolate bar first produced, in
Bournville .
1 June –
General Post Office
London to
Brighton horse-drawn
parcel post coach makes its last run, being replaced by a motor
lorry the following day.
[1]
9 June –
Charlton Athletic F.C. is founded.
15 June –
Princess Margaret of Connaught marries
Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden .
29 June –
The Automobile Association inaugurated.
[10]
July –
British Red Cross Society formally inaugurated.
3 July – Release of
Cecil Hepworth 's
short
silent
drama film
Rescued by Rover presenting a significant advance in film techniques.
[11]
[12]
11 July –
National Colliery disaster at Wattstown in the
Rhondda : an underground
explosion kills 120, with just one survivor.
[13]
11 August –
Aliens Act 1905 , the first modern legislation to control
immigration into the U.K.
[14]
12 August – First running of the
Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb , the world's oldest motorsport event to have been staged continuously on its original course
25 August – '
Ancient Order of Druids ' initiate
neo-druidic rituals at
Stonehenge .
26 September –
Newbury Racecourse first used.
3 October –
HMS Dreadnought is laid down at
Portsmouth , revolutionising battleship design and triggering an international naval arms race.
13 October –
Annie Kenney and
Christabel Pankhurst interrupt a
Liberal Party rally at the
Free Trade Hall in
Manchester and choose imprisonment when convicted, the first militant action of the suffragette campaign.
18 October –
London County Council 's new street at
Kingsway and redevelopment of
Aldwych are opened.
21 October –
Henry Wood first conducts a performance of his
Fantasia on British Sea Songs at a
Trafalgar Day concert in London.
26 October –
Aspirin sold in the UK for the first time.
[10]
5 November –
Edward VII declares his eldest daughter
The Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife , the
Princess Royal . He also orders that the daughters of Princess Louise,
Lady Alexandra Duff and
Lady Maud Duff are to be styled as
Princesses of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland with the style
Highness .
19 November – 39 men die in a fire at a model lodging house in Watson Street,
Glasgow .
[15]
28 November – Irish nationalist
Arthur Griffith founds
Sinn Féin in
Dublin as a
political party whose goal is independence for all of
Ireland .
4 December – Internal splits within the
Conservative Party over tariff reform lead to the resignation of Balfour as Prime Minister. Campbell-Bannerman takes over for the
Liberal Party , pending a general election in the new year.
[9]
6 December –
”Jacky" Fisher promoted to
Admiral of the Fleet .
[16]
1905
Suicide rate of 303 per million, all-time UK peak year.
[17]
Local authority expenditure reaches an all-time peak as a proportion of all government expenditure of 51%.
[18]
E.Nesbit wrote the well-known book, 'The Railway Children'.
Publications
Births
2 January –
Michael Tippett , composer (died 1998)
6 January –
Idris Davies , Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1953)
14 January –
Jane Welsh , actress (died 2001)
1 February –
Joan Morgan , actress (died 2004)
4 February –
Hylda Baker , actress (died 1986)
10 February –
Rachel Thomas , actress (died 1995)
16 February –
Oliver Franks , public figure (died 1992)
18 February –
Queenie Leonard , actress (died 2002)
21 February –
Henry Mollison , actor (died 1985)
26 February
18 March –
Robert Donat , actor (died 1958)
26 March –
Geoffrey Gorer , anthropologist and author (died 1985)
28 March –
Audrey Withers , magazine editor (died 2001)
30 March –
Albert Pierrepoint , hangman (died 1992)
3 May –
Sebastian Shaw , actor (died 1994)
16 May –
H. E. Bates , novelist (died 1974)
12 July –
Prince John (died 1919)
17 July –
Marjorie Reeves , historian and educationalist (died 2003)
25 July –
Denys Watkins-Pitchford , writer (died 1990)
15 August –
Lady Jean Rankin , courtier (died 2001)
23 August –
Constant Lambert , composer (died 1951)
4 September –
Mary Renault , novelist (died 1983)
22 September –
Muriel Box , film director and screenwriter (died 1991)
29 September –
Marie Hartley , writer (died 2006)
4 October –
Leslie Mitchell , announcer (died 1985)
15 October –
C. P. Snow , novelist and physicist (died 1980)
29 October
31 October –
Elizabeth Jenkins , novelist (died 2010)
4 November –
Frank Owen , journalist and politician (died 1979)
25 November –
Patrick Devlin , judge (died 1992)
26 November –
Emlyn Williams , dramatist and actor (died 1987)
4 December –
Guy Mountfort , advertising executive and ornithologist (died 2003)
5 December –
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford , peer, politician and reformer (died 2001)
21 December –
Anthony Powell , novelist (died 2000)
22 December –
Hugh Edward Richardson , diplomat and Tibetologist (died 2000)
25 December –
Lewis Allen , film and television director (died 2000)
31 December –
Jule Styne , songwriter (died 1994 in the United States)
Deaths
9 April –
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford , British general (born
1827 )
5 May –
Edwin Bibby , wrestler (born
1848 )
3 June –
Hudson Taylor , British missionary (born
1832 )
25 July –
Thomas Spencer , joint founder of retailer
Marks & Spencer (born 1851)
[21]
14 August –
Simeon Solomon , artist (born 1840)
18 September –
George MacDonald , Scottish author and poet, Christian minister (born 1824)
19 September –
Thomas John Barnardo , philanthropist (born 1845)
13 October –
Sir Henry Irving , stage actor (born 1838)
14 October –
John Thomas , Welsh photographer (born 1838)
6 November –
George Williams , founder of the
YMCA (born 1821)
10 November –
Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) , poet and archdruid (born 1823)
14 November –
Robert Whitehead , marine engineer (born 1823)
5 December –
Henry Eckford , British horticulturist (born
1823 )
9 December –
Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb , British scholar and politician (born
1841 )
17 December –
Robert Jones Derfel , poet and dramatist (born 1824)
See also
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^
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^ "Opening of Vauxhall Ironworks". The Luton Reporter . 30 March 1905. p. 5.
^
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