7 January 1925Conference of AlliesWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Tries to reduce Germany's war debts to France & France's war debts to the US. Attends the Allied Financial Conference
Historical records for Great Britain in 1925, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Tries to reduce Germany's war debts to France & France's war debts to the US. Attends the Allied Financial Conference
Birth of Harry "H" Corbett
Speaks on the Agricultural Rates Continuance Bill and its effect on public finance.
Raises matters concerning the General Medical Council in the Commons.
Contributes to debate on continuing rent and mortgage interest restrictions.
Takes command of a company of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and introduces a structured six-month training programme.
Addresses apprenticeship and labour supply in the building industry.
Churchill presents his first budget and announces the Government's intention to restore sterling's gold parity.
The budget announces sterling's return at the pre-war rate of approximately 4.86 United States dollars per pound.
Churchill's budget combines the gold-standard announcement with reductions in the standard rate of income tax.
Churchill announces restoration of sterling's pre-war gold parity.
Organizes the printing of a Government newspaper, the "British Gazette". Advocates "no surrender" to the strikers
Death of Alfred Milner, of sleeping sickness soon after returning from South Africa, his viscountcy, lacking suitable heirs, dies with him
The Bank of England is required to sell gold bullion at the statutory pre-war price.
Baldwin's Government enacts the statutory return of sterling to gold bullion convertibility.
The Gold Standard Act receives royal assent and restores convertibility of sterling into gold bullion.
Debates proposals concerning the charges and supply of building materials.
Praised by the Daily Mail for his handling of the General Strike
Praised by the Daily Mail for his handling of the General Strike
Death of John Denton Pinkstone French
Death of John French, Earl of Ypres.
Is appointed Arsenal manager and begins the period that transforms the club into a major English force.
Takes part in debate on the Contributory Pensions Bill and social insurance provision.
Continues scrutiny of the Contributory Pensions Bill during its Commons stages.
Prince Arthur opens Birmingham's memorial to residents killed in the First World War.
Addresses provisions intended to prevent overlapping pension payments.
Debates proposed disqualifications under the contributory pensions legislation.
Speaks on unemployment insurance legislation during the summer session.
Returns to the contributory pensions legislation during its later Commons stages.
Takes part in debate on silk and import duties.
Birth of Margaret Thatcher, daughter of a grocer
Article Eight establishes a League Council procedure governing any eventual termination of the pact.
Birth of Angela Brigid Lansbury
Britain agrees that an unmistakable act of aggression in the demilitarized zone can trigger assistance before a final League ruling.
Chamberlain commits Britain to guarantee the western frontier settlement negotiated between Germany, France and Belgium.
Chamberlain accepts the League Council's role in determining whether a treaty breach has occurred.
Chamberlain supports the Locarno settlement as a means of strengthening European security and League diplomacy.
Chamberlain supports judicial, conciliation and League procedures for disputes not resolved by ordinary diplomacy.
Chamberlain initials the final protocol linking the seven Locarno agreements into a single diplomatic settlement.
Chamberlain supports the arbitration conventions and treaties that accompany the main Rhineland Pact.
Other disputes can be submitted to conciliation, with unresolved questions then going to the League Council.
Article Nine states that British dominions and India are not bound unless their governments accept the treaty.
The pact preserves action taken under Article 16 of the League Covenant as an exception to the non-aggression undertaking.
Baldwin's government approves Britain's role as guarantor of the western security pact.
Chamberlain avoids extending Britain's automatic guarantee to Germany's eastern borders with Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Chamberlain mediates between French demands for security and German demands for restored diplomatic equality.
Chamberlain accepts that Britain should guarantee the Franco-German and Belgian-German frontier settlement.
Chamberlain mediates between French security demands and German revisionist aims during the Locarno negotiations.
Chamberlain's mediation at Locarno becomes a major reason for his award of the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize.
The delegates choose London for the formal signing, reflecting Chamberlain's central mediating role.
Supports League mediation in the Greek-Bulgarian conflict.
Challenges issues surrounding the disallowance of unemployment benefit.
Contributes to Commons discussion of conditions in the iron and steel industry.
Baldwin supports the formal London signing that completes the agreements negotiated at Locarno.
Chamberlain signs in London as Britain's plenipotentiary, formally binding the government to the western guarantee.
Chamberlain attends the formal London signing ceremony for the agreements negotiated at Locarno.
Responds in the Commons to the Prime Minister’s statement at the end of the parliamentary year.
Becomes vice-chairman and gains greater responsibility for Anglo-Persian strategy and organization.
Rejoins the Conservative Party after 21 years absence
Loses his father after illness linked to mining work.
Returns to the Conservatives because the Liberal Party had supported Ramsay MacDonald
The preponderance of hydrogen in the Sun is confirmed
Is created an Earl and becomes a Knight of the Garter.
Appointed Chairman of the Committee for the Wembley Exhibition
Facilitates Germany's membership into the League of Nations
Norman supports restoration of sterling's pre-war gold parity despite concerns about competitiveness.
Appointed Governor General of Australia
Appointed Governor General of Ceylon
"No British Government will risk the bones of a British grenadier"
The Council of the League is required to rule on alleged breaches of the Treaty and Britain and Italy are, as guarantors, only obliged to intervene without awaiting such a decision in the event of a flagrant contravention
Appointed Lord President of the Council, the "elder statesman" of Baldwins Cabinet
Appointed Head of the Lords Opposition
Publication of "Mrs Dalloway"
Enters New College, Oxford, to study classical subjects and philosophy.
Created Earl & Knight of the Garter
Created Earl Jellicoe, 1st
Created Baron Irwin
Publication of "Politicians & the Press". Publication of " Politicians the Press"
Publication of "Politicians & the Press". Publication of " Politicians the Press"
"The moral is obvious: it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war"
Rejoins the Royal Air Force after service in the Royal Tank Corps.
Appointed Secretary for the Dominions
Maiden Speech, supports the budget introducing contributory pensions & reduced inc tax
A subsidy of 10M is agreed by the Cabinet for 9 months to prepare for a coal strike
Publication of "The ABC of Relativity"
Publication of "Those Barren Leaves"
The Council of the League is required to rule on alleged breaches of the Treaty & Britain & Italy are, as guarantors, only obliged to intervene without awaiting such a decision in the event of a flagrant contravention
Appointed Viceroy of India
Appointed Whip of the Labour Party, 3rd term
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