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Events from the year 1910 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Edward VII of the United Kingdom (until 6 May), George V of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - H. H. Asquith, Liberal

Events

• 15 January - A general election held in response to the House of Lords' rejection of the 1909 budget results in a reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the Conservative Party), 273).
• 31 January - Dr Crippen poisons his wife and buries her body in the cellar.¹
• 1 February - first labour exchanges open in the UK.¹
• 4 April - Bill to abolish the legislative veto of the House of Lords introduced in the Commons, starting a prolonged clash between the two Houses of Parliament.²
• 27 April - House of Commons passes David Lloyd George's (1909) 'People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords on 28 April.

6 May: King George V

• 6 May - George V becomes King upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
• June - Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
• 1 June - Terra Nova Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on an expedition with the purpose of undertaking scientific research and exploration along the coast and interior of Antarctica.
• 2 June - Charles Rolls becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.¹
• 28 June - Consecration of the Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral in London.¹
• 31 July - Dr Crippen arrested on board the SS Montrose after a telegraph is sent to the ship's Captain.¹
• 18 October - Dr Crippen put on trial for murder at the Old Bailey.¹
• 22 October - Dr Crippen found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.¹
• 18 November - Black Friday: 300 suffragettes clash with police outside Parliament over the failure of the Conciliation Bill.³
• 23 November - Dr Crippen hanged.¹
• December - A second general election is held in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the House of Lords (Liberals, 272; Labour, 42; Irish Nationalists, 84; Unionists, 272 — making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish Home Rule).
• 16 December - In Houndsditch, London, four (Latvian) anarchists shoot three policemen in botched raid on a jewellers — three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January 1911) cornered in the 'siege of Sidney Street'.
• 26 December - London Palladium music hall opens.²

Undated

• Girl Guides' Association founded.³
• Admiralty Arch completed.²

Publications

• Arnold Bennett's novel Clayhanger, first in The Clayhanger Family series of novels.
• John Buchan's novel Prester John.
• E. M. Forster's novel Howards End.
• H. G. Wells' novel The History of Mr Polly.

Births

• 10 February - Joyce Grenfell, actress, comedian and singer-songwriter (died 1979)
• 13 February - William Shockley, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
• 21 February - Douglas Bader, World War II fighter pilot (died 1982)
• 1 March - Archer John Porter Martin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)
• 22 March - Nicholas Monsarrat, novelist (died 1979)
• 12 May - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
• 4 June - Christopher Cockerell, inventor (died 1999)
• 12 June - Bill Naughton, playwright (died 1992)
• 13 June - Mary Whitehouse, TV campaigner (died 2001)
• 22 June - Peter Pears, tenor (died 1986)
• 14 July - Vincent Brome, biographer and novelist (died 2004)
• 8 November - Denis Mahon, art historian and collector
• 14 November - Eric Malpass, novelist (died 1996)
• 19 November - Griffith Jones, actor (died 2007)
• 1 December - Alicia Markova, ballerina (died 2004)
• 29 December - Ronald Coase, economist Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

• 27 January - Thomas Crapper, inventor (born 1836)
• 3 May - Elizabeth Blackwell, abolitionist and women's rights activist (born 1821)
• 6 May - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (born 1841)
• 12 July - Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator and automobile manufacturer (born 1877)
• 13 August - Florence Nightingale, nurse (born 1820)
• 12 September - Cuthbert A. Brereton, civil engineer (born 1850)

References

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