3 January 1913D'Arcy Concession Government ReviewCharles Greenway
The Foreign Office reviews the history and strategic significance of D'Arcy's Persian petroleum concession.
Historical records for Great Britain in 1913, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
The Foreign Office reviews the history and strategic significance of D'Arcy's Persian petroleum concession.
Death of James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn
Helps close the Cape Evans hut before departure.
Returns in Terra Nova for the expedition's final relief.
Evans oversees the final departure from Cape Evans as Terra Nova takes the remaining expedition members north from Antarctica.
The world was informed of the tragedy when Terra Nova reached Oamaru, New Zealand.
Jackson opens Britain's first purpose-built repertory theatre in Birmingham.
Permits union political funds while allowing members to opt out.
Helps Labour benefit from lawful political levies with individual opt-outs.
Welcomes restoration of trade-union political fund powers.
Secures Royal Assent for the Trade Union Act.
Strengthens Labour financing after the Osborne judgment restrictions.
Secures Royal Assent for the Trade Union Act.
Supports legislation restoring trade-union political funding rights.
Permits trade union political funds while allowing members to opt out.
Proposes an Anglo-German "naval holiday" to reduce expenditure on armaments
Birth of Walter Winterbottom
Imprisoned for inciting people to place explosives outside Lloyd George's house
Is sentenced for inciting the bombing of Lloyd George's house.
Begins hunger striking after receiving a three-year sentence.
Directs the weekly magazine from its first issue.
Becomes founding editor of the New Statesman.
Co-founds the New Statesman with Sidney Webb.
Creates a weekly review of politics, society and literature.
Keeps a clean sheet as Aston Villa defeat Sunderland.
Barber scores the decisive goal in the 1913 FA Cup final.
Introduces temporary release for hunger-striking prisoners in poor health.
Allows recovered prisoners to be returned to complete their sentences.
Helps Sunderland win the Football League championship.
Manages Sunderland to the Football League championship.
Contributes important goals during the club's title-winning campaign.
Guides the club close to a league and cup double.
Birth of Sid James, born Solomon Joel Cohen
Hosts renewed peace negotiations between the Balkan allies and the Ottoman Empire.
The new Naval Law is passed by the Reichstag in order to expand the German navy
Peter Cushing is born in Kenley, Surrey.
The future British film and television actor is born.
Warns the delegations that they must sign the prepared settlement or leave London.
Uses London diplomacy to manage disputes among the Balkan states.
Helps end the First Balkan War through Great Power mediation.
Hosts negotiations ending the First Balkan War.
Presides over the diplomatic process in London that brings the Balkan belligerents to a formal peace treaty.
Hosts the London negotiations and presses the Balkan allies and Ottoman representatives toward the settlement ending the First Balkan War.
Oversees the signing of the treaty ending the First Balkan War.
Steps out in front of the King's horse, Anmer, as it rounded Tattenham Corner in the Derby, with Davison carrying the banner of the WSPU
Herbert Jones, the jockey who was riding the King's horse, suffers a mild concussion in the incident, but is "haunted by that womans face" much longer
Dies four days after she was struck by King George Vs horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913
Exonerated of illegally dealing in Marconi shares by a debate in the House of Commons
The Cabinet accepts in principle that the government should acquire control over dependable oil supplies.
Presents a Cabinet memorandum arguing that the Royal Navy needs secure, controlled sources of fuel oil.
Brings Terra Nova back to Cardiff after the Antarctic expedition.
The House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Bill, rejected by the Lords
The Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Bill before Lords rejection.
The House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Bill, rejected by the Lords
The House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Bill, rejected by the Lords
Sentenced to 3 months for inciting suffragettes to bomb Lloyd George's Surrey home
Uses property destruction to protest women's political exclusion.
Sentenced to 3 months for inciting suffragettes to bomb Lloyd George's Surrey home
The Commons passes a Bill to disestablish the Church in Wales, rejected by the Lords
Claims responsibility for burning Lord Leverhulme's empty bungalow.
The Commons passes the Welsh disestablishment bill before Lords rejection.
Appointed Poet Laureate
Birth of Michael Mackintosh Foot
Michael Foot is born to Eva Mackintosh Foot, whose family name becomes his middle name.
Michael Foot is born into the political household of Isaac Foot, later Liberal MP for Bodmin.
Joseph Grimond is born in St Andrews.
The future leader of the British Liberal Party is born.
Creates administrative arrangements for institutional supervision and care.
Oversees enactment of the Mental Deficiency Act.
Draws up detailed plans to create a War Fleet of 79 battleships by 1920
Coordinates Foreign Office diplomacy during the Second Balkan War.
Works to limit wider conflict among the European powers.
Scores Arsenal's first goal at Highbury in the 2-1 victory over Leicester Fosse.
Scores the winning goal as Arsenal open Highbury with a 2-1 victory over Leicester Fosse.
Falstaff receives its first performance at the Leeds Festival.
Elgar conducts the premiere of his symphonic study.
Uses a major Bedford speech to promote rural social reform.
Launches a campaign advocating reform of land ownership and taxation.
Oversees the naval programme as HMS Queen Elizabeth is launched.
Pygmalion receives its world premiere in a German translation.
Advances construction of a new oil-fired battleship class.
Introduces Shaw's drama concerning language, class and Eliza Doolittle.
Becomes Attorney General in the Liberal government.
Assumes responsibility as the government's senior legal adviser.
Vivien Leigh is born as Vivian Mary Hartley in Darjeeling.
The future British stage and film actress is born in India.
Birth of Benjamin Britten
Arranges the recovered notebooks into Scotts Last Expedition.
Edits Scott's expedition journals for posthumous publication.
A Royal Proclamation bans the import of arms into Ulster
A Royal Proclamation bans the import of arms into Ulster.
Britain & France jointly oppose the German-Turkish military convention
Britain and France jointly oppose the German-Turkish military convention.
Chaplin reports to work at Keystone Studios to launch a legendary film career
Names the venture the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Announces plans to cross Antarctica from sea to sea.
Seeks to contain Great Power tension after the wars.
Completes the first version of A London Symphony.
Offers Germany a "naval holiday" & to halt naval armament, the Germans refuse
Establishes atomic number, placing uranium at 92.
Birth of Jo Grimmond
Publishes the novel Chance in book form.
Uses multiple narrators to recount Flora de Barral's troubled life.
Creates imaginative poems that become classics of children's literature.
Builds a farce around kidnapping schemes at an English school.
Provisional Collection of Taxes Act makes the Budget law after read in Parliament
Works with his son to establish practical X-ray crystallography.
Killed after jumping under the King's horse at the Derby as a Suffragette protest
Supports workers affected by the Dublin industrial dispute.
Develops suffrage organization among working women in East London.
Ends a distinguished academic career researching gases and chemical elements.
Refines plans for deploying British forces to continental Europe.
Appointed Field Marshal
Extends the formal logical system developed with Bertrand Russell.
The complex becomes the administrative headquarters of the South African government.
Negotiates with British officials over state investment that could preserve Anglo-Persian's independence and finance expansion.
Adapts Bennett's novel Buried Alive into a successful comedy.
Publication of "Labour and the Empire"
Promotes labour solidarity during the prolonged lockout.
Provisional Collection of Taxes Act makes the Budget law after read in Parliament
Legislation allows a political levy & gives trade union members a voluntary opt-out
Appointed Lecturer in social science at the London School of Economics
Begins lecturing in social science at the London School of Economics.
Publishes the collection Love Poems and Others.
Establishes a permanent Kensington headquarters for British geographical work.
Completes their major attempt to derive mathematics from formal logic.
Carden oversees Malta's dockyard readiness and support functions during the final pre-war year.
Maps routes and ancient sites across the Negev region.
Finds evidence that neon atoms occur with different masses.
Helps found the New Statesman
Examines romantic passion across successive periods of one man's life.
Creates one of his best-known pastoral orchestral works.
Directs WSPU strategy from exile in Paris.
Publishes the poetry collection Peacock Pie.
Collects verse originally appearing throughout his prose works.
Explores intimacy, desire and personal conflict through early poetry.
Uses positive rays to reveal the element's isotopic composition.
Publishes the third volume of Principia Mathematica with Whitehead.
Co-publishes the third volume of Principia Mathematica.
Publication of "Principia Mathmatica"
Describes humanity threatened by a mysterious atmospheric phenomenon.
Provisional Collection of Taxes Act makes the Budget law after read in Parliament
Legislation allows a political levy & gives trade union members a voluntary opt-out
Oversees the Society's move into Lowther Lodge.
Scott's diaries are published posthumously.
Creates an orchestral portrait of London before its 1914 premiere.
Works with archaeological and survey teams in Sinai and the Negev, experience later useful for military intelligence.
Combines academic teaching with social work and Labour politics.
Determines the arrangement of atoms within sodium chloride crystals.
Publishes the collection Songs from Books.
Publication of "Sons and Lovers"
Composes, "St Pauls Suite"
Publication of "The Social Unrest". Publication of "The Awakening of India"
Composes the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow.
Publishes the novel The Dark Flower.
The Great Adventure receives a London stage production.
Publishes the comic novel The Little Nugget.
Publication of "The Passionate Friends"
Publishes the Professor Challenger novel The Poison Belt.
Publication of "The Social Unrest". Publication of "The Awakening of India"
Completes the Union Buildings overlooking Pretoria.
Retires from his professorship at University College London.
Coordinates War Office preparations with French military planners.
Surveys the Wilderness of Zin with Thomas Edward Lawrence.
Builds the group that becomes the East London Federation.
Plants a bomb at Lloyd George's newly built house in Surrey, damaging it severely
Maintains communication with British militants while avoiding arrest.
Applies X-ray diffraction to reveal a crystal's internal structure.
Develops instruments for measuring X-ray diffraction from crystals.
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