Bakhtiari Agreement Challenged
Faces Persian government refusal to recognize the syndicate's separate agreement with Bakhtiari chiefs.
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1906 in Great Britain
Explore 58 historical events and records for Great Britain in 1906.
Historical records for Great Britain in 1906
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January
Election
First day of polling during the general election
Member of Parliament
Elected Member of Parliament for Manchester North West, majority of 1,200
Birth of Frank Launder
Birth of Frank Launder
Royal Greenwich Observatory
Nominated to the post of chief assistant to the Astronomer Royal at the Royal Greenwich Observatory
February
Election
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 Launched
HMS Dreadnought is launched, rapidly transforming international battleship design and naval competition.
April
Election
Final day of polling of the general election
July
Birth of George Henry Sanders
Birth of George Henry Sanders
December
HMS Dreadnought Commissioned
HMS Dreadnought enters commission after an exceptionally rapid construction programme.
Saint Andrew's Stadium
Birmingham City opens Saint Andrew's as its new permanent football ground.
Nobel Prize for Gas Conduction
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for investigations of electrical conduction through gases.
Other events (month unknown)
Arrest of Emily Wilding Davison
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
Begins Literary Reviewing
Strachey developed his career as a reviewer and essayist for periodicals.
Birth of John Betjeman
Birth of John Betjeman
Chairman
Appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party
Chairman of TUC
Appointed Chairman of the TUC
Eddington Joins Greenwich Scientific Staff
Arthur Stanley Eddington joined as chief assistant and worked on astronomical research. The work improved the repeatability of observational methods.
Election
The Conservatives are divided over the Empire & free trade
Election
The Liberal Party win 49.4% of the vote & 399 MPs
Election
Stands for the new Labour Party in the general election and is elected to Parliament for Manchester North East
First FA Cup Victory
Sandy Young scores the decisive goal against Newcastle United as Everton win the FA Cup for the first time.
First Secretary
Appointed First Secretary of the Labour Party, 2nd term
Flag-Captain
Appointed Flag-captain to Rear-Admiral George Egerton on HMS Victorious
General Staff
Creates the General Staff to controls military expenditure & general mobilization
Glasgow Britannia Theatre
Laurel began his career in the Glasgow Britannia Theatre of Varieties and Alhambra Theatre Glasgow at the age of 16
Haileybury House
From 1906 to 1909 Attlee works as a manager of Haileybury House, a charitable club for working-class boys
In the Days of the Comet
Wells published In the Days of the Comet, a speculative novel about social transformation.
Independent Labour Party (ILP)
Appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party
India Office
Appointed to serve in the India Office
Indian Meteorological Service
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
Labour Representation Committee (LRC)
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
Law Loses Glasgow Seat
Bonar Law loses his parliamentary seat in the Liberal landslide general election.
Law Returns for Dulwich
A by election returns Bonar Law to Parliament as the Conservative member for Dulwich.
Leading Attack in Second League Triumph
Joe Hewitt contributed goals in the 1905–06 campaign as Liverpool claimed the second league championship in their history.
League Championship
Leads Liverpool to another league championship.
Liberal Government Reform Agenda
Hansard recorded the new Liberal government's programme and parliamentary disputes after its decisive general election victory.
Liberal Party
Leaves the Conservatives & joins the Liberal Party
Lord Randolph Churchill
Publlication of, "Lord Randolph Churchill", official biography of his father
Member of Parliament
Elected Member of Parliament for City of London
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