1903 in the United Kingdom
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1903 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

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Sport

1903 English cricket season

Football England | Scotland

Events from the year 1903 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Edward VII of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Arthur Balfour, Conservative

Events

• 1 January - Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India.
• 19 January - First transatlantic radio broadcast between United States and Britain.
• 3 March - British admiralty announces plans to build naval base at Rosyth.
• 14 April - Aberdeen Football Club was formed.
• 29 May - Bradford City Football Club is established.
• 7 July - British take over the Fulani empire.
• 14 September - Joseph Chamberlain resigns as Colonial Secretary.
• 10 October - Foundation of the Women's Social and Political Union.¹
• 31 October - Opening of Hampden Park football ground in Glasgow in Scotland.¹
• 2 November - Daily Mirror newspaper published for the first time.¹

Undated

• William Randal Cremer wins the Nobel Peace Prize.²
• Randall Davidson enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.

Publications

• Samuel Butler's novel The Way of All Flesh (posthumous).

Births

• 22 February - Frank P. Ramsey, mathematician (died 1930)
• 4 March - Dorothy Mackaill, British-born American actress (died 1990)
• 24 March - Malcolm Muggeridge, journalist, author and media personality (died 1990)
• 31 March - H. J. Blackham, humanist and author
• 15 April - John Williams, actor (died 1983)
• 20 May - Barbara Hepworth, sculptor (died 1975)
• 29 May - Bob Hope, British-born comedian (died 2003)
• 19 June - Wally Hammond, cricketer (died 1965)
• 25 June - George Orwell, author (died 1950)
• 29 June - Alan Blumlein, electronics engineer (died 1942)
• 1 July - Amy Johnson, aviator (died 1941)
• 2 July - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister (died 1995)
• 10 July - John Wyndham, author (died 1969)
• 13 July - Kenneth Clark, art historian (died 1983)
• 7 August - Louis Leakey, archaeologist (died 1972)
• 23 August - William Primrose, violist (died 1982)
• 24 August - Graham Sutherland, artist (died 1980)
• 9 September - Edward Upward, author
• 28 October - Evelyn Waugh, writer (died 1966)
• 1 November - Max Adrian, actor (died 1973)
• 5 December - Cecil Frank Powell, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1969)
• 10 December - Mary Norton, children's author (died 1992)
• 12 December - A. L. Rowse, historian (died 1997)

Deaths

• 17 January - Quintin Hogg, philanthropist (born 1845)
• 1 February - Sir George Gabriel Stokes, mathematician and physicist (born 1819)
• 7 February - James Glaisher, meteorologist and aeronaut (born 1809)
• 4 March - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, novelist (born 1834)
• 13 March - George Granville Bradley, vicar and scholar (born 1821)
• 19 June - Herbert Vaughan, Catholic cardinal and archbishop (born 1832)
• 11 July - William Ernest Henley, poet, critic, and editor (born 1849)
• 5 August - Phil May, artist (born 1864)
• 22 August - Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1830)
• 18 September - Alexander Bain, philosopher (born 1818)
• 8 December - Herbert Spencer, philosopher (born 1820)
• 28 December - George Gissing, novelist (born 1857)

References

See also