3 January 1912Final Polar PartyHenry Robertson Bowers
Is added to Scott's final polar party.
Historical records for Great Britain in 1912, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Is added to Scott's final polar party.
Continues south with Scott's final party.
Continues with Scott toward the South Pole.
Chooses a five-man party for the final polar march.
Continues south with Scott's final polar party.
Scott adds Bowers to the final group of five continuing toward the South Pole.
Scott announces his decision: five men (Scott, Edward Wilson, H. R. Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans) would go forward to the South Pole.
Scott announces his decision: five men (Scott, Edward Wilson, H. R. Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans) would go forward to the South Pole.
Scott announces his decision: five men (Scott, Edward Wilson, H. R. Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans) would go forward to the South Pole.
Scott announces his decision: five men (Scott, Edward Wilson, H. R. Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans) would go forward to the South Pole.
Begins the return journey with Evans and Lashly.
Turns back with Crean and Lashly from 87 degrees south.
Begins the difficult return with Evans and Crean.
Evans leads Crean and Lashly north after Scott orders the final supporting party to turn back.
Lashly starts the long return journey with Edward Evans and Crean after the final polar party is selected.
Evans starts the return journey with Lashly and Crean after the last supporting party is dismissed from the southbound expedition.
Evans, Lashly and Crean turn north on 4 January, about 160 miles from the Pole, while Bowers remains with Scott's final party.
Scott orders Evans and the Last Supporting Party to turn back. Evans is physically exhausted after hauling a loaded sledge for much of the southward journey.
William Lashly joins Edward Evans and Tom Crean in the last supporting party ordered to turn back before Scott's final advance to the Pole.
Turns north with Crean and Lashly as the last supporting party.
Campbell's Northern Party leaves Cape Adare aboard Terra Nova for a second season of geological work farther south.
The three begin a difficult return journey toward Hut Point.
Improves centralized planning for intelligence, operations and mobilization.
Campbell establishes the Northern Party at Evans Coves for a planned six-week programme of geological and glaciological exploration.
Establishes a Naval War Staff within the Admiralty.
Bowers spots a dark marker ahead, leading the party to discover clear evidence that Amundsen has preceded them.
The party discovers that Amundsen's Norwegian team arrived first.
Reaches the South Pole and finds that Amundsen's Norwegian party has arrived first
Stands with Scott, Oates, Bowers and Evans at the South Pole after the Norwegian party has already departed
Bowers reaches the South Pole as a member of Scott's five-man polar party.
Edgar Evans reaches the South Pole with Scott's five-man party after the Norwegian expedition.
Oates reaches the South Pole with Scott's party and learns that Amundsen has won the race.
Reaches the South Pole after Amundsen's party.
Wilson reaches the South Pole with Scott, Bowers, Oates and Edgar Evans after the Norwegians have already arrived.
Scott's five-man party reaches the South Pole on 17 January 1912 and discovers that Roald Amundsen's Norwegian party has arrived first.
Reaches the South Pole with Wilson, Bowers, Oates and Edgar Evans.
Scott examines Amundsen's tent and the records left by the Norwegian polar party before turning north.
The British team confirms the Norwegian expedition's earlier arrival.
Finds Amundsen's tent and evidence of Norwegian success.
Examines evidence left by Amundsen's party at the South Pole.
The Polar Party begins the roughly 800-mile return journey from the South Pole on 18 January.
Bowers photographs Scott's party and the polar camp before the five men begin their return journey.
Wilson sketches at the South Pole while the party records evidence of the Norwegian expedition.
The five men face worsening weather and declining health.
Begins the return journey north with Scott's polar party.
Evans suffers worsening frostbite to his hands and nose during the return across the polar plateau.
Wilson strains a tendon during the return journey but continues travelling with the polar party.
Cassel warns Churchill & Lloyd George about German naval expansion
Cassel warns Churchill & Lloyd George about German naval expansion
Learns plans to deepen the Kiel Canal, Britain will need 40 battleships within 24 hrs
Levick combines medical duties with biological observations while Campbell's party works from its temporary Evans Coves camp.
Dickason contributes seaman's skills and sledging labour to Campbell's isolated Northern Party during its coastal exploration.
Browning supports the Northern Party's field programme, hauling equipment and supplies between the coastal camp and survey areas.
Priestley studies local geology and glaciers during the Northern Party's summer field programme around Evans Coves.
Abbott undertakes sledging and camp work during the Northern Party's survey season on the Victoria Land coast.
Flies the prototype BE2 at Farnborough.
Develops an aircraft type adopted for reconnaissance and training.
Evans suffers another fall during the difficult descent toward the Beardmore Glacier.
Scott falls into a crevasse while descending toward the Beardmore Glacier and continues after being recovered.
Discusses naval competition and possible political understandings.
Visits Berlin seeking improved relations with Germany.
Visits Berlin to seek a reduction of tension between Britain & Germany
Collapses with scurvy near One Ton Depot.
Circulates the new German Navy Law to the Cabinet
Edgar Evans collapses near the lower Beardmore Glacier and dies after a prolonged decline during the return journey.
Dies during Scott's return from the South Pole.
Dies near the lower Beardmore Glacier during the return journey.
Campbell returns to the pickup area, but heavy sea ice prevents Terra Nova from reaching the stranded six-man party.
He is the first member of the polar party to die.
Stays with Edward Evans while Crean seeks help.
Walks alone to Hut Point to seek help for Evans.
The ship brings supplies and additional transport animals.
Terra Nova returns to Cape Evans during the expedition's second season.
Depicts family conflict within a controlling industrial household.
Evans reaches safety after severe scurvy and is later evacuated from Antarctica aboard Terra Nova for medical recovery.
Atkinson organizes a dog-team rescue after Crean reaches Hut Point with news that Edward Evans is dangerously ill.
Lashly helps pull the scurvy-stricken Edward Evans toward Hut Point during the supporting party's return.
Lashly helps place the seriously weakened Edward Evans on a sledge when scurvy leaves him unable to continue walking.
Cares for Edward Evans after severe scurvy develops.
Lashly and Crean help bring their commander back alive.
Becomes stranded when Terra Nova cannot return through heavy ice.
Rutherford and Son receives its London premiere.
Campbell's six men face an unexpected Antarctic winter.
Is arrested during renewed militant action for women's voting rights.
Leads a coordinated window-smashing protest in central London.
He waits six days hoping to meet Scott's returning party.
Reaches One Ton Depot with a dog team and supplies.
Oates's frostbitten feet worsen severely as the polar party struggles north across the Barrier.
Campbell's men begin converting a snowdrift into a cramped winter shelter after accepting that ship relief will not arrive.
Leaves Scott's tent during the return from the South Pole, sacrificing himself as the party struggles northward
Oates, whose condition was aggravated by an old war-wound to the extent that he was barely able to walk, voluntarily left the tent and walked to his death.
Scott wrote that Oates last words were, "I am just going outside and may be some time.". Oates, whose condition was aggravated by an old war-wound to the extent that he was barely able to walk, voluntarily left the tent and walked to his death
Leaves the tent during a blizzard while critically ill.
Scott records Oates leaving the tent during a blizzard after weeks of worsening frostbite and exhaustion.
His sacrifice is intended to improve his companions' survival chances.
Scott records Oates's farewell before Oates, badly weakened and scarcely able to walk, leaves the tent during a blizzard and walks to his death.
Leaves the tent and dies during the return journey.
Announces in the Commons that for every German battleship built Britain should build 2
Proposes a "Naval holiday", a suspension of naval construction by Britain & Germany
Scott records serious frostbite in his right foot as the three survivors approach One Ton Depot.
After walking a further 20 miles, the three remaining men made their final camp on 19 March, 11 miles (18 km) short of One Ton Depot, but 24 miles (38 km) beyond the original intended location of the depot.
Bowers reaches the final camp with Scott and Wilson while a worsening blizzard prevents further progress.
Wilson reaches the final camp with Scott and Bowers approximately eleven miles short of One Ton Depot.
Birth of Wilfrid Brambell
Secures passage of the Coal Mines Minimum Wage Act.
Secures passage of the Coal Mines Minimum Wage Act.
Creates district boards to set minimum underground wage rates.
Dies with Scott and Bowers in the final camp.
Dies with Scott and Wilson during the return journey.
Dies with Scott and Wilson in their final camp during the return from the South Pole
Dies with Wilson and Bowers near One Ton Depot.
Scott writes his final diary entry while the surviving polar party remains trapped by a blizzard near One Ton Depot.
Writes his final diary entry near One Ton Depot.
Creates district boards to establish minimum underground wage rates.
Scott, Wilson and Bowers die in their tent soon afterward.
Takes command at Cape Evans after Evans is invalided home.
Attempts to meet Scott's returning party with dog teams.
Directs suffrage strategy from France through clandestine communications.
Escapes to Paris to avoid arrest for militant conspiracy.
Northern Party winters in a snow cave after ship pickup fails.
Endures the Northern Party's winter at Inexpressible Island.
Survives the Northern Party's snow-cave winter.
Milestones receives its first London production.
Supports coordinated action across Britain's principal coalfields.
Presses Parliament for statutory protection of minimum wages.
Helps lead the national miners' strike over minimum wages.
Supports miners during the national coal strike.
Levick provides medical oversight while the Northern Party endures an unexpected winter on Inexpressible Island.
Priestley helps the stranded Northern Party survive the Antarctic winter in an ice cave on Inexpressible Island.
Campbell commands the stranded Northern Party as the men prepare an improvised winter shelter on Inexpressible Island.
Cherry-Garrard travels south with dog teams to One Ton Depot in an attempt to meet the returning Polar Party.
Traces changing family attitudes across several generations.
Inspects starboard lifeboats and their equipment with Sixth Officer Moody before the maiden voyage.
White Star Line accepts Titanic after successful sea trials and completion at Belfast.
Travels aboard Titanic on the delivery voyage from Belfast to Southampton.
Inspects port-side lifeboats and their equipment before Titanic enters passenger service.
Joins Titanic's officers for sea trials before the ship leaves Belfast for Southampton.
Pledges Conservative-Unionist support for Ulster resistance to Home Rule proposals
Pledges Conservative-Unionist support for Ulster resistance to Home Rule proposals
Commands Titanic as she leaves Southampton on 10 April 1912 for her maiden voyage to New York.
Boards Titanic at Southampton as a first-class passenger for the maiden voyage.
Joins Titanic at Southampton as a pianist, having previously worked as a professional shipboard musician.
Boards Titanic at Southampton as an English bass player in the ship's orchestra.
Boards Titanic at Southampton as bandmaster and violinist for the ship's orchestra.
Boards Titanic at Southampton as a Scottish violinist in the ship's orchestra.
Embarks at Southampton as one of Titanic's pianists for the transatlantic maiden voyage.
Joins the maiden voyage at Southampton as a cellist in Titanic's contracted orchestra.
Commands Titanic during the first scheduled stop of her maiden voyage at Cherbourg.
Home Rule Bill, The Irish Home Rule Bill is introduced in the House of Commons
Home Rule Bill, The Irish Home Rule Bill is introduced in the House of Commons. Asquith renews Liberal efforts to establish Irish Home Rule
Home Rule Bill, The Irish Home Rule Bill is introduced in the House of Commons. Asquith renews Liberal efforts to establish Irish Home Rule
Home Rule Bill, The Irish Home Rule Bill is introduced in the House of Commons. Asquith renews Liberal efforts to establish Irish Home Rule
Introduces the Irish Home Rule Bill in the House of Commons.
Home Rule Bill, The Irish Home Rule Bill is introduced in the House of Commons
Commands Titanic as she leaves Queenstown for the open Atlantic and New York.
Is on duty in boiler room 6 when seawater enters rapidly after Titanic strikes the iceberg.
Hands the evening bridge watch to First Officer Murdoch at 10 p.m. before retiring to his cabin.
Sends Titanic a wireless message warning that Californian is stopped among ice.
Stops Californian for the night after encountering a field of ice in the North Atlantic.
Carries out the helm order during the attempted avoidance manoeuvre.
Orders an emergency change of course and engine action when the iceberg is reported directly ahead.
Rings the warning bell and telephones the bridge.
Observes a nearby passenger vessel while Californian is stopped for ice and tries to signal it by Morse lamp.
Receives the lookout's telephone warning from the crow's nest and passes the danger to the bridge watch.
Strikes three bells from the crow's nest immediately after sighting the iceberg ahead.
Telephones the bridge after sighting the iceberg ahead of Titanic.
Takes charge of Titanic's bridge watch at 10 p.m. on the night of the collision.
Directs emergency manoeuvring after the lookout reports the iceberg ahead.
Returns to the bridge and takes charge after Titanic strikes the iceberg.
Has charge of Titanic's bridge watch when the iceberg is sighted.
Shares the crow's nest watch with Frederick Fleet shortly before Titanic strikes the iceberg.
Stands at Titanic's wheel while the bridge attempts to avoid the iceberg.
Receives information that ice has been reported ahead on Titanic's North Atlantic route.
Sights the iceberg directly ahead of Titanic.
Keeps lookout from Titanic's crow's nest with Reginald Lee on the night of the collision.
Retreats through the engineering spaces as flooding spreads and the boiler-room situation becomes untenable.
Takes the midnight watch aboard Californian while the ship is stopped among ice.
Brings Carpathia to the disaster area and begins recovering people from Titanic's lifeboats.
Responds after Carpathia receives Titanic's wireless distress message.
Orders Carpathia prepared to receive large numbers of survivors while the ship races toward Titanic's reported position.
Is later recovered after supporting evacuation efforts.
Survives on overturned collapsible lifeboat B after Titanic disappears beneath the water.
Supervises work around collapsible C during the final stages of the starboard evacuation.
Helps supervise collapsible D during the final lifeboat operations on Titanic's port side.
Supervises loading of collapsible D during the final minutes of Titanic's evacuation.
Continues wireless work until electrical power fails.
Dies when Titanic sinks after playing with the ship's musicians during the emergency.
Dies in the sinking after continuing his duties as a musician during the evacuation.
Dies in the sinking after leading the musicians during the evacuation.
Perishes in the sinking after the young Scottish violinist continues performing during the ship's final evacuation.
Dies when Titanic founders after performing with the musicians during the emergency.
Dies in the disaster after playing with Titanic's orchestra during the evacuation.
Dies during Titanic's sinking after directing the evacuation and distress response.
Dies with the ship after remaining below with members of Titanic's engineering department.
Assists officers with emergency signalling from the after part of Titanic during the distress response.
Takes charge of emergency lifeboat 1 after it is lowered from Titanic.
Escapes with his wife in emergency lifeboat 1, which is lowered with only twelve occupants.
Escapes Titanic with her husband in emergency lifeboat 1.
Helps supervise emergency lifeboat 1 as it is lowered from the starboard side.
Escapes in emergency lifeboat 1 with other crew members and first-class passengers.
Escapes in emergency lifeboat 1 and helps crew the lightly loaded boat.
Commands a lifeboat and later signals the approaching Carpathia.
Assists with lifeboat 8 on the port side during the evacuation.
Oversees the port-side departure of lifeboat 8, one of the earlier boats lowered during the evacuation.
Escapes in lifeboat 8 and assists with steering and rowing after the boat leaves Titanic.
Assists with lifeboat 11 as passengers are moved toward the starboard boats.
Assists with lifeboat 15 during the evacuation from Titanic's starboard side.
Escapes in lifeboat 15 after assisting third-class passengers toward the boat deck.
Helps supervise the loading and lowering of lifeboat 5 on Titanic's starboard side.
Supervises preparations for lifeboat 4 and directs women and children into the boat.
Assists Fifth Officer Lowe with preparations around lifeboat 14.
Helps prepare and load lifeboat 9 during the evacuation.
Supervises the starboard evacuation and helps send lifeboat 7 away, the first boat lowered from that side.
Escapes Titanic in lifeboat 7 after earlier serving as a lookout.
Survives Titanic in lifeboat 6 during the port-side evacuation.
Directs women into lifeboat 6 and sends the under-manned boat away from Titanic's port side.
Escapes Titanic in lifeboat 6 after completing lookout duties on the night of the collision.
Helps supervise lifeboat 16 during the port-side evacuation.
Escapes Titanic in lifeboat 13 after leaving the engineering spaces.
Escapes Titanic in lifeboat 13 after men are permitted to fill remaining places on the starboard side.
Helps oversee lifeboat 13 during the crowded starboard evacuation.
Escapes in lifeboat 13 and helps manage the heavily loaded boat after it reaches the water.
Attempts to contact the nearby vessel from Californian by Morse lamp but receives no reply.
Survives after reaching an overturned collapsible boat.
Receives reports from the bridge that white rockets are being seen in the direction of a nearby vessel.
Rows back toward the wreckage after Titanic sinks to search for people still alive.
Reports to Captain Lord that eight white rockets have been observed and that the nearby ship has disappeared from view.
Titanic founders at about 2:20 a.m. on 15 April after striking an iceberg; Smith dies with the ship.
After the iceberg collision, Smith ordered lifeboats uncovered and passengers mustered; Titanic sank at about 02:20 on 15 April 1912.
Guides a group of third-class women and children toward lifeboat 15 during the evacuation.
Survives the sinking after leaving Titanic in collapsible lifeboat C.
Transmits CQD distress calls from Titanic's wireless room after the collision.
Assists Phillips in transmitting Titanic's distress calls.
Receives Titanic's distress traffic and alerts Carpathia's bridge so the ship can turn toward the reported position.
Orders Titanic's wireless operators to call for assistance after the collision.
Helps send distress rockets from Titanic to attract the attention of nearby vessels.
Leads Titanic's engineering department as the crew works to maintain power and pumping after the collision.
Helps other officers prepare and launch lifeboats during the evacuation.
Survives after entering the freezing sea during Titanic's final sinking.
Leaves Titanic in lifeboat number 5 while assisting the evacuation.
Takes command of lifeboat number 14 during Titanic's evacuation.
Supervises loading and lowering lifeboats on Titanic's port side.
Helps organize lifeboat preparation and evacuation after the collision.
Helps supply lifeboats with bread while passengers and crew prepare to abandon ship.
Survives Titanic's sinking aboard lifeboat number 6.
Survives the disaster after taking charge of lifeboat number 2.
Transfers passengers between boats so he can organize a return toward the wreckage.
Learns by wireless that Titanic has sunk after resuming duty aboard Californian in the morning.
Works out Titanic's position for distress messages and communication with responding ships.
Completes recovery of Titanic survivors before Carpathia turns toward New York.
Observes a series of white rockets in the direction of the nearby vessel and reports them to Captain Lord.
Uses the newer SOS distress signal while continuing to seek assistance.
Recovers several people from the water during the post-sinking search.
Survives the sinking after remaining at the wireless set late into the evacuation.
Fires warning shots while controlling a crowd near lifeboat 14 during the evacuation.
Survives aboard the overturned collapsible lifeboat.
Disembarks from Carpathia in New York after surviving Titanic in lifeboat 13.
Brings Titanic survivors to New York aboard Carpathia.
Gives evidence on the opening day of the United States Senate investigation into the disaster.
Requests appointment of a Wreck Commissioner to investigate the loss of Titanic.
Is appointed Wreck Commissioner to conduct the British formal investigation into Titanic's loss.
Renews the Liberal programme for Welsh religious reform.
Introduces legislation to disestablish the Church in Wales.
Introduces legislation to disestablish the Church in Wales.
Appoints Lord Mersey as Wreck Commissioner to investigate the loss of Titanic.
Nominates five assessors to assist Lord Mersey during the formal investigation into Titanic's loss.
The Board of Trade formally orders an investigation under the Merchant Shipping Act into Titanic's loss.
Places maritime safety and lifeboat regulation under public examination.
Describes Carpathia's response and rescue work to the United States Senate inquiry.
Addresses Unionist supporters against the Home Rule Bill.
Uses parliamentary and public advocacy to defend the Ulster position.
Gives evidence to the United States Senate investigation about Carpathia's response and rescue of Titanic survivors.
Chairs hearings examining navigation, construction and emergency procedures.
Gives evidence about his engineering duties and lifeboat 13 during the British investigation.
Opens the formal British inquiry into Titanic's loss.
Gives evidence about lookout duties and conditions aboard Titanic before the collision.
Begins giving evidence about boiler-room flooding, watertight doors and his escape from Titanic.
Gives evidence about the helm orders at the collision and his command of lifeboat 6.
Is buried at Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax after his body is recovered following the Titanic disaster.
Present for the King's inspection of the Fleet
Gives evidence about engineering conditions and the conduct of emergency lifeboat 1.
Gives evidence about engineering work, the evacuation and his escape from Titanic.
Creates the Royal Flying Corps
Organizes army aviation units, training and operational doctrine.
Brings naval aviation into a formal military organization.
Supports creation of the Royal Flying Corps naval wing.
Takes command of Number Two Squadron Royal Flying Corps.
Becomes commander of the Royal Flying Corps Military Wing.
Leads one of Britain's first organized military flying units.
Gives evidence about the rockets and conversations on Californian's bridge during Titanic's sinking.
Gives evidence about Californian's position, the nearby vessel and the rockets observed during Titanic's sinking.
Gives evidence about the rockets, Morse signalling and the nearby ship observed from Californian.
Gives evidence about the ship seen from Californian before the rockets are observed.
Gives evidence about Californian's wireless communications and the ice warning sent to Titanic.
Is convicted after the WSPU window-smashing campaign.
Is convicted with WSPU leaders over militant protest organization.
Receives imprisonment for conspiracy connected with militant suffrage action.
Serves imprisonment for conspiracy connected with property damage.
Gives evidence about the evacuation and instructions received during Titanic's final hours.
Gives evidence about guiding third-class passengers and the loading of lifeboat 15.
Gives evidence about emergency lifeboat 1 and events seen from the boat after Titanic sank.
Gives evidence about the evacuation and his escape in emergency lifeboat 1.
Gives evidence to the British inquiry about her experience aboard emergency lifeboat 1.
Begins evidence to the British inquiry about navigation, ice warnings, the collision and lifeboat loading.
Gives evidence to the British inquiry about bridge activity, distress signals and lifeboat operations.
Describes his officer duties, command of lifeboat 5 and the debate over returning toward people in the water.
Gives evidence to the British inquiry about lifeboats, ice information and his actions during the evacuation.
Gives evidence about receiving Titanic's distress call and Carpathia's wireless work during the rescue.
Gives evidence about deck activity, shipboard lights and the evacuation.
Gives evidence to the British inquiry about the lookout watch, iceberg sighting and absence of binoculars.
Gives evidence about provisioning lifeboats, Titanic's final plunge and his survival.
Gives evidence about lookout duties and his command of emergency lifeboat 1.
Describes the loading of emergency boat 2, its occupants and the decisions made after Titanic disappeared.
Gives evidence about Titanic's lookout organisation and the watch preceding Fleet and Lee.
Gives evidence about the crow's-nest watch, visibility and the iceberg sighting.
Gives evidence to the British inquiry about emergency lifeboat 1 and payments later made to its crew.
Gives evidence about lights seen from Titanic and signalling activity during the sinking.
Answers questions concerning speed, lifeboats and company policy.
Examines lifeboat provision, launching and evacuation procedures during the British investigation.
Examines evidence concerning Titanic's navigation, speed, ice warnings and collision.
Reviews wireless messages, distress calls and communications evidence during the inquiry.
Gives evidence about deck work, lifeboat operations and the final evacuation.
Gives evidence about Titanic's lifeboats and his experience during the sinking.
Gives evidence about passenger assistance, lifeboat loading and events after the collision.
Begins giving evidence before the British Wreck Commissioner's inquiry into Titanic's loss.
Gives evidence about White Star Line management and company instructions following Ismay's testimony.
Assumes the government's senior legal and judicial office.
Becomes Lord Chancellor after leaving the War Office.
Birth of Alan Mathison Turing
Challenges conventional attitudes toward women, work and sexual independence.
Begins producing aircraft for sporting and military use.
Explains Titanic's structure, flooding calculations and damage assumptions to the British inquiry.
Uses technical calculations to explain how flooding across multiple compartments caused Titanic to founder.
Campaigns for improved wages and conditions across dock employment.
Hindle Wakes opens at the Aldwych Theatre.
Leads the Northern Party through winter in a snow cave.
Gives evidence on Board of Trade ship-survey standards and the regulations governing lifesaving appliances.
Helps organize workers during the London transport strike.
Gives evidence about emigration inspection and passenger certification requirements applying to Titanic.
Cherry-Garrard presents another issue of the South Polar Times during the subdued second winter at Cape Evans.
The men survive largely on seals and penguins.
Establishes the Sopwith Aviation Company.
Gives evidence about survey work carried out on Titanic at Belfast before she entered service.
Hears technical evidence about Titanic's structure, watertight subdivision and damage.
Gives technical evidence concerning Board of Trade engineering surveys and Titanic's machinery arrangements.
Gives extensive evidence about Board of Trade marine administration, lifeboat rules and bulkhead regulation.
Gives evidence about Board of Trade surveys conducted during Titanic's construction and certification.
Gives evidence about White Star Line operating practice, equipment and Titanic's preparation for service.
Receives congressional recognition for leading Carpathia's prompt rescue response to the Titanic disaster.
Completes the King Edward VII railway bridge across the Tyne.
Creates a major rail connection into Newcastle Central Station.
Brings national health insurance contributions into operation.
Extends contributory medical and sickness benefits to insured workers.
Promises Conservative support for Ulster opposition to Home Rule.
Intensifies Unionist resistance to the government's Irish legislation.
Concludes the British formal investigation and delivers the Wreck Commissioner's report on Titanic's loss.
Death of William Booth
Carden assumes responsibility for dockyard administration, repair capacity and naval support facilities at Malta.
Carden becomes Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in August 1912.
Leaves an influential body of choral, orchestral and chamber music.
Dies in Croydon at the age of thirty-seven.
Birth of Ian Kinloch MacGregor
Leads mass Unionist resistance to the proposed Dublin parliament.
Signs the Ulster Covenant opposing Irish Home Rule.
Campbell leads the weakened Northern Party away from Inexpressible Island on the long journey back toward Cape Evans.
Campbell leads the Northern Party away from its winter cave and south toward Cape Evans.
Priestley leaves Inexpressible Island with the Northern Party for the long sledge journey back to Cape Evans.
Leads the search for Scott's missing polar party.
Priestley and his companions find a previously laid food cache, improving the party's prospects during the final stage of their return.
Browning's condition improves after the returning party reaches cached food that provides a welcome change from its winter diet.
Atkinson leads the spring search south to determine the fate of Scott and the missing Polar Party.
Campbell brings the complete Northern Party safely back to Cape Evans after its unexpected second winter.
Campbell brings all six members of the Northern Party safely to Cape Evans after their second Antarctic winter and overland return.
Priestley reaches Cape Evans with the Northern Party after the difficult coastal return journey.
Northern Party reaches Cape Evans after surviving winter.
The searchers recover records and build a snow cairn over the tent.
Their final camp became their tomb; a high cairn of snow was erected over it, topped by a roughly fashioned cross. The bodies of Scott and his companions were discovered by a search party on 12 November 1912 and their records retrieved
Searchers find the tent containing Scott, Wilson and Bowers.
Atkinson's search party recovers diaries, letters and expedition records from the tent before building a cairn over the dead.
Joins the search party that finds the polar party's final tent.
The bodies of Scott and his companions were discovered by a search party on 12 November 1912 and their records retrieved.
Atkinson's search party finds the final camp containing Scott, Wilson and Bowers and recovers their records.
Hooper is among the search party that discovers the tent containing Scott, Wilson and Bowers.
Uses skis from the search party to mark the burial cairn.
Joins the search party that finds Scott's last camp.
Helps find the final camp of Scott's party.
Loses the Bow by-election when standing as an independent womens suffrage supporter
Resigns from the Labour Party
Loses the Bow by-election when standing as an independent womens suffrage supporter
Atkinson leads the search party south from Cape Evans to determine the fate of Scott's polar party.
Hooper hauls with the search party sent south from Cape Evans to investigate the disappearance of the Polar Party.
Reaches the end of the year with working capital effectively exhausted despite the major Persian oil discovery.
Opens the Abadan refinery with an initial annual capacity of about 120,000 tons.
Faces serious technical problems when an early refinery test fails and product quality proves poor.
Takes command of the army formation based at Aldershot.
Birth of John Enoch Powell
Formulates the mathematical law governing X-ray diffraction by crystals.
Appointed Brigadier General
Directs large-scale training before the First World War.
Supervises recording of architecture, sculpture and inscriptions.
Examines the lives and literary achievements of the Bronte sisters.
Atkinson assumes leadership at Cape Evans after Edward Evans is invalided home and Scott's Polar Party fails to return.
Directs continuing excavations at the ancient city of Carchemish.
French becomes CIGS before commanding near Ypres.
Appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff
Composes, "Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda"
Photographs tracks made by charged particles in a cloud chamber.
Combines romantic comedy with intrigue involving a fictional European principality.
Coordinates the party's parliamentary response to Liberal legislation.
Appointed Member of Army Council
Passes out from Dartmouth
Founds the Estimates Committee to assist the Public Accounts Committee. Founds the Estimates Committee
Founds the Estimates Committee to assist scrutiny of public expenditure.
Continues archaeological work at Carchemish before the First World War.
MacDonald oversees completion of the first major raising of the Aswan Low Dam.
Appointed Governor General of the Gold Coast
Publication of "Halcyone"
Supports Unionist organization resisting an Irish parliament.
Priestley preserves geological notes and observations despite the Northern Party's cramped shelter, restricted diet and severe winter conditions.
Makes invisible ionizing radiation paths directly observable.
Leads Labour members during major constitutional and industrial debates.
Takes libel action against Blackwoods magazine over his over his time as a prisoner in the Boer War
Appointed Lord Chancellor
Publishes the novel Manalive.
Marries Olave St Claire Soames
Publication of "Marriage"
Fisher strongly advocates oil fuel for warships because of its operational, design and tactical advantages.
Browning suffers prolonged dysentery during the second winter, leaving him dangerously weakened before the march back to base.
Levick helps supplement reduced expedition rations with locally obtained seal and penguin meat during the unplanned winter.
Abbott badly cuts his hand while butchering a seal, adding a serious injury to the Northern Party's winter difficulties.
Fisher becomes chairman of a royal commission examining oil fuel and naval engine questions.
Composes On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring.
Creates a short pastoral work for small orchestra.
Appointed Treasurer
Explores wonder, convention and renewal through the eccentric Innocent Smith.
Publishes a detailed survivor account describing Titanic's voyage, sinking, rescue and lessons for maritime safety.
Appointed Quartermaster General of the British Army
Appointed Rear Admiral 2nd Battle squadron
Founds the Estimates Committee
Signs a ten-year marketing arrangement with Royal Dutch Shell because Anglo-Persian lacks a large distribution network.
Satirizes Edwardian society through the career of Comus Bassington.
Purchases shares in Marconi after the Government agrees a contract with them
Writes an accessible orchestral work for St Pauls Girls School.
Appointed Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
Appointed Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
Examines public health, education, sexuality and social reform.
Joins the South Wales Miners Federation as a young miner.
Begins composing the St Pauls Suite for school musicians.
Publication of "Studies In Radioactivity"
Publication of "The Lost World"
Publishes the British edition of The Prince and Betty.
Publication of "The Problems of Philosophy"
Publishes The Task of Social Hygiene.
Publishes The Three Brontes.
Publishes The Unbearable Bassington under the name Saki.
Campaigns against the Third Home Rule Bill.
Publication of "What Scouts Can Do: More Yarns for Scouts"
Publication of "What Scouts Can Do: More Yarns for Scouts"
Connects diffraction angles with atomic plane spacing.
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