1. Incumbents

2. Events
    Undated 

3. Publications

4. Births

5. Deaths

6. See also

7. References

8. See also

Events from the year 1906 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Edward VII
• Prime Minister – Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Liberal)
• Parliament – 27th (until 8 January), 28th (starting 13 February)

Events

• 8 February – the Liberal Party led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman win the general election with a large majority.
• 10 February – {{HMS|Dreadnought|1906|6}} is launched and sparks the naval race between Britain and Germany.
• 15 February – representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in Parliament take the name Parliamentary Labour Party.
• 10 March – Bakerloo line of the London Underground opened.^[1]
• 15 March – Rolls-Royce Limited is registered.
• 22 March – first international rugby match. England defeats France 25–8.^[2]
• 21 April – Manchester United F.C., known as Newton Heath until four years ago, secure promotion to the Football League First Division.^[2]
• 15 May – Our Dumb Friends League opens its first animal hospital, in Victoria, London.^[3]
• 26 May – opening of Vauxhall Bridge in London.^[1]
• 30 May – Royal Navy battleship HMS Montagu runs aground on the island of Lundy and becomes a loss.^[4]
• 22 June – the present King's daughter Maud is crowned as queen consort of Norway.
• 27 June – Swansea earthquake causes considerable damage.^[5]
• 30 June – Salisbury rail crash: a London and South Western Railway express train suffers derailment and collision passing through Salisbury station at excessive speed; 24 passengers and 4 railwaymen are killed.^[6][7]
• 31 August – 3 September: Heat wave reaches its peak.^[8]
• 19 September – Grantham rail accident: a Great Northern Railway sleeping car train suffers derailment passing through Grantham station at excessive speed; 14 are killed.^[6]
• 30 September – the first Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning is held, starting in Paris; the winners, in the balloon United States, land in Fylingdales, Yorkshire.
• October – new City Hall, Cardiff, opens in Cathays Park.
• 8 October – German inventor and hairdresser Karl Nessler gives the first public demonstration of his permanent wave machine in London.^[1]
• 23 October – suffragettes disrupt the State Opening of Parliament.^[9]
• 2 December – HMS Dreadnought commissioned, the first all-big-gun warship.
• 10 December – J. J. Thomson wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases."^[10]
• 13 December
  • Trade Disputes Act legalises picketing.^[9]
  • Workmen's Compensation Act entitles workers to compensation for industrial injuries or disease.^[9]
• 15 December – Piccadilly line of the London Underground opened.^[1]
• 21 December – Education (Provision of Meals) Act allows local education authorities to provide free school meals to the poorest children.^[11]

Undated

• Hampstead Garden Suburb established in north London.
• Richard Oldham argues that the Earth has a molten interior.
• Anti-vivisection Brown Dog statue is erected in Battersea, provoking riots.
• Alice Perry becomes the first woman to graduate with a degree in civil engineering in the British Isles, at Queen's College, Galway, Ireland, and is appointed in December as an acting county surveyor.^[12]
• J. K. Farnell of London manufacture the first British teddy bear.

Publications

• Angela Brazil's schoolgirl story The Fortunes of Philippa.
• William De Morgan's novel Joseph Vance.^[13]
• The English Hymnal edited by Percy Dearmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
• Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler's book The King's English.
• John Galsworthy's first Forsyte Saga novel The Man of Property.
• Rudyard Kipling's historical fantasy Puck of Pook's Hill.
• William Le Queux and H. W. Wilson's invasion literature novel The Invasion of 1910 (originally serialised in the Daily Mai from 19 March).
• E. Nesbit's novel The Railway Children (in book form).
• J. M. Dent and Company commence publication of the Everyman's Library series with Boswell's Life of Johnson.

Births

• 22 January – Joe Gladwin, actor (died 1987)
• 10 February – Arthur Elton, pioneer documentary film maker (died 1973)
• 13 February – Edward Wright, mathematician (died 2005)
• 19 February – Grace Williams, Welsh composer (died 1977)
• 26 February – Madeleine Carroll, actress (died 1997)
• 3 March – Rose Hacker, activist (died 2008)
• 16 March – Henny Youngman, American-domiciled comedian (died 1998)
• 25 March – A. J. P. Taylor, historian (died 1990)
• 9 April – Hugh Gaitskell, Labour politician (died 1963)
• 21 April
  • Lillian Browse, art dealer (died 2005)
  • Stephen Tennant, eccentric socialite (died 1987)
• 29 May – T. H. White, Indian-born novelist (died 1964)
• 19 June – Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (died 1979)
• 20 June
  • Catherine Cookson, novelist (died 1998)
  • Robert Trent Jones, American-domiciled golf course designer (died 2000)
• 27 June – Vernon Watkins, Welsh poet (died 1967)
• 30 June – Ralph Allen, footballer (died 1981)
• 5 August – Joan Hickson, actress (died 1998)
• 28 August – John Betjeman, poet laureate (died 1984)
• 27 September – William Empson, poet and literary critic (died 1984)
• 1 November – Beryl Cooke, actress (died 2001)
• 4 November – Arnold Cooke, composer (died 2005)
• 18 November – Alec Issigonis, Ottoman-born car designer (died 1988)
• 19 November – Alan Bloom, horticulturalist (died 2005)
• 8 December – Richard Llewellyn, novelist (died 1983)
• 24 December – James Hadley Chase, novelist (died 1985)

Deaths

• 22 January – George Holyoake, secularist and proponent of the cooperative movement (born 1817)
• 8 March – Henry Baker Tristram, clergyman and ornithologist (born 1822)
• 19 April – Spencer Gore, tennis player and cricketer (born 1850)
• 20 June – John Clayton Adams, artist (born 1840)
• 9 November – Dorothea Beale, proponent of women's education (born 1831)
• 19 December – Frederic William Maitland, historian and jurist (born 1850)
• 30 December – Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist (born 1814)

See also

• List of British films before 1920

References

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