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Great Britain · Government / Liberal Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

13Records
1908–1914Date range
3Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1908

Henry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1st1908

Government / Liberal Party Government

Appoints a committee of Lloyd George, Churchill & Harcourt for War Office estimates

1909

Henry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1st1909

Government / Liberal Party Government

Agrees to the construction of 4 new battleships

1912

Ernest Cassel31 January 1912

Government / Liberal Party Government

Cassel warns Churchill & Lloyd George about German naval expansion

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill31 January 1912

Government / Liberal Party Government

Cassel warns Churchill & Lloyd George about German naval expansion

Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillJanuary 1912

Government / Liberal Party Government

Learns plans to deepen the Kiel Canal, Britain will need 40 battleships within 24 hrs

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill14 February 1912

Government / Liberal Party Government

Circulates the new German Navy Law to the Cabinet

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill18 March 1912

Government / Liberal Party Government

Announces in the Commons that for every German battleship built Britain should build 2

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill9 May 1912

Weymouth · Government / Liberal Party Government

Present for the King's inspection of the Fleet

1913

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill21 May 1913

Government / Liberal Party Government

The new Naval Law is passed by the Reichstag in order to expand the German navy

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill28 August 1913

Government / Liberal Party Government

Draws up detailed plans to create a War Fleet of 79 battleships by 1920

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill1913

Government / Liberal Party Government

Offers Germany a "naval holiday" & to halt naval armament, the Germans refuse

1914

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill22 January 1914

Government / Liberal Party Government

Churchills proposals to increase Naval expenditure split the cabinet

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill10 February 1914

Government / Liberal Party Government

Churchills proposals in cabinet to increase Naval expenditure are accepted

Names involved

Ernest CasselHenry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1stWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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