1901 in the United Kingdom
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1901 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903

Sport

1901 English cricket season

Football England | Scotland

Events from the year 1901 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria of the United Kingdom (until 22 January), Edward VII of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Conservative

Events

• 1 January
  • The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia.¹ Edmund Barton becomes first Prime Minister.
  • Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
• 22 January - Queen Victoria dies at Osborne House.² Her eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales becomes King, reigning as Edward VII. His son, Prince George, Duke of York becomes Duke of Cornwall.
• 2 February - Funeral of Queen Victoria takes place at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
• 18 May - Alexandra Palace opened to the public.²
• 12 July - Maidenhead enters the UK Weather Records with the Highest 60-min total rainfall at 92 mm. As of July 2006 this record remains.
• 22 July - The House of Lords rules in the Taff Vale case that trade unions can be held liable for damages caused by members.³
• 5 August - Britain's first cinema opens in Islington.²
• 6 August - Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica.
• 30 August - Engineer Hubert Cecil Booth patents the electrically-powered vacuum cleaner.²
• 7 September - The United Kingdom is amongst the signatories of the Boxer Protocol ending the Boxer Rebellion in China.²
• October - first performance of Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in Liverpool.³
• 2 October - Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, launched at Barrow.
• 9 November - Prince George, Duke of Cornwall becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
• 18 November - The United Kingdom and United States sign the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty allowing the US to build a canal through Panama.³

Undated

• Winston Churchill enters the House of Commons.
• Imperial Tobacco founded by William Henry Wills.³
• Electric trams introduced in London, Glasgow, and Portsmouth.⁴

Ongoing events

• Second Boer War (1899–1902)

Publications

• Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim.
• H. G. Wells' novel The First Men in the Moon.

Births

• 13 February - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, writer (died 1935)
• 12 June - Norman Hartnell, fashion designer (died 1979)
• 9 July - Barbara Cartland, novelist (died 2000)
• 15 September - Donald Bailey, engineer (died 1985)
• 17 September - Francis Chichester, aviator and sailor (died 1972)
• 28 November - Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (died 1960)
• 25 December - Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (died 2004)

Deaths

• 22 January - Queen Victoria (born 1819)
• 3 April - Richard D'Oyly Carte, theatrical impresario (born 1844)
• 5 August - Victoria, Empress of Germany, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria (born 1840)
• 6 November - Kate Greenaway, children's book illustrator and writer (born 1846)
• 30 November - Edward John Eyre, explorer (born 1815)
• 1 December - George Lohmann, English cricketer (tuberculosis) (born 1865)
• John Jabez Edwin Mayall, photographer (born 1813)

References

See also