12 January 1906Bakhtiari Agreement ChallengedWilliam Knox D'Arcy
Faces Persian government refusal to recognize the syndicate's separate agreement with Bakhtiari chiefs.
Historical records for Great Britain in 1906, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Faces Persian government refusal to recognize the syndicate's separate agreement with Bakhtiari chiefs.
First day of polling during the general election
Elected Member of Parliament for Manchester North West, majority of 1,200
Birth of Frank Launder
Nominated to the post of chief assistant to the Astronomer Royal at the Royal Greenwich Observatory
The LRC ins 29 seats, helped by a secret Gladstone¿MacDonald pact in 1903 between Ramsay MacDonald and Liberal Chief Whip Herbert Gladstone to avoid splitting the opposition vote between Labour and Liberal candidates
HMS Dreadnought is launched, rapidly transforming international battleship design and naval competition.
Final day of polling of the general election
Birth of George Henry Sanders
HMS Dreadnought enters commission after an exceptionally rapid construction programme.
Birmingham City opens Saint Andrew's as its new permanent football ground.
Goes on hunger strike in Strangeways Prison and is force-fed. Arrested and imprisoned for various offences, including a violent attack on a man she mistook for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George
Birth of John Betjeman
Appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party
Appointed Chairman of the TUC
The Conservatives are divided over the Empire & free trade
The Liberal Party win 49.4% of the vote & 399 MPs
Stands for the new Labour Party in the general election and is elected to Parliament for Manchester North East
Appointed First Secretary of the Labour Party, 2nd term
Appointed Flag-captain to Rear-Admiral George Egerton on HMS Victorious
Creates the General Staff to controls military expenditure & general mobilization
Laurel began his career in the Glasgow Britannia Theatre of Varieties and Alhambra Theatre Glasgow at the age of 16
From 1906 to 1909 Attlee works as a manager of Haileybury House, a charitable club for working-class boys
Appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party
Appointed to serve in the India Office
joined the Indian Meteorological Service as an Imperial Meteorologist at their headquarters in Simla and inspected many of the meteorological stations in India and Burma
The LRC ins 29 seats, helped by a secret Gladstone¿MacDonald pact in 1903 between Ramsay MacDonald and Liberal Chief Whip Herbert Gladstone to avoid splitting the opposition vote between Labour and Liberal candidates
Leads Liverpool to another league championship.
Leaves the Conservatives & joins the Liberal Party
Publlication of, "Lord Randolph Churchill", official biography of his father
Elected Member of Parliament for City of London
Stands for the new Labour Party in the general election and is elected to Parliament for Manchester North East
Elected Member of Parliament for Leicester
Elected Member of Parliament for Chesterton in 1906, a seat he held until 1918,
Elected Member of Parliament, 1st time
Fisher's fleet reforms expand nucleus-crew arrangements so reserve ships can be maintained with reduced peacetime manning.
Appointed Party Leader of the Labour Party, 1st term
Created a Baronet
Publication of "Poems"
Appointed Quartermaster General
Publication of "Sir Nigel"
Continues tariff reform campaigning from his Birmingham political base.
Publication of "The Man of Property"
Publication of "The Railway Children"
Joins the Womens Social and Political Union (WSPU)
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