HMS Queen Elizabeth Launch
Oversees the naval programme as HMS Queen Elizabeth is launched.
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Explore 184 historical events and records for Great Britain in 1913.
Historical records for Great Britain in 1913
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October
Pygmalion World Premiere
Pygmalion receives its world premiere in a German translation.
Super-Dreadnought Programme
Advances construction of a new oil-fired battleship class.
Vienna Theatre Production
Introduces Shaw's drama concerning language, class and Eliza Doolittle.
Attorney General Appointment
Becomes Attorney General in the Liberal government.
Senior Government Law Officer
Assumes responsibility as the government's senior legal adviser.
November
Birth of Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh is born as Vivian Mary Hartley in Darjeeling.
British Actress Born
The future British stage and film actress is born in India.
Birth of Benjamin Britten
Birth of Benjamin Britten
Scott Journals Edited
Arranges the recovered notebooks into Scotts Last Expedition.
Scotts Last Expedition
Edits Scott's expedition journals for posthumous publication.
December
Reform of Trade
A Royal Proclamation bans the import of arms into Ulster
Ulster Arms Import Ban
A Royal Proclamation bans the import of arms into Ulster.
Britain & France jointly oppose the German-Turkish military convention
Britain & France jointly oppose the German-Turkish military convention
German Turkish Convention Opposition
Britain and France jointly oppose the German-Turkish military convention.
Film
Chaplin reports to work at Keystone Studios to launch a legendary film career
Antarctic Crossing Plan
Names the venture the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Announced
Announces plans to cross Antarctica from sea to sea.
Postwar Diplomacy
Seeks to contain Great Power tension after the wars.
Other events (month unknown)
A London Symphony Completed
Completes the first version of A London Symphony.
Academic Chairmanship
Ends a distinguished academic career researching gases and chemical elements.
Armament
Offers Germany a "naval holiday" & to halt naval armament, the Germans refuse
Atomic Number
Establishes atomic number, placing uranium at 92.
Atomic Number Ordering
Shows that elements should be ordered by atomic number rather than atomic weight, providing the physical basis of the modern periodic table.
Begins Relationship with H G Wells
West began a relationship with novelist H G Wells that influenced her personal life and writing.
Birth of Jo Grimmond
Birth of Jo Grimmond
Chance
Publishes the novel Chance in book form.
Chance Published in Book Form
Uses multiple narrators to recount Flora de Barral's troubled life.
Childrens Poetry Collection
Creates imaginative poems that become classics of children's literature.
Comic Novel Published
Builds a farce around kidnapping schemes at an English school.
Constitution of Great Britain
Provisional Collection of Taxes Act makes the Budget law after read in Parliament
Crystal Diffraction Research
Works with his son to establish practical X-ray crystallography.
Cup Winning Attack With Villa
Clem Stephenson featured in Aston Villa's 1913 FA Cup-winning squad, before subsequently becoming a prominent player and manager elsewhere.
Death of Emily Wilding
Killed after jumping under the King's horse at the Derby as a Suffragette protest
Dublin Lockout Support
Supports workers affected by the Dublin industrial dispute.
East London Federation
Develops suffrage organization among working women in East London.
Expeditionary Force Planning
Refines plans for deploying British forces to continental Europe.
Experiments with Biographical Style
Strachey developed a selective and ironic style for literary biography.
Field Marshal
Appointed Field Marshal
Foundations of Mathematics
Extends the formal logical system developed with Bertrand Russell.
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