1912 in the United Kingdom

1912 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1912 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - H. H. Asquith, Liberal

Events

• 17 January - British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the South Pole.^[1]
• 1 March - Suffragettes smash shop windows in the West End of London.^[2]
• 16 March - Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott's South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."^[1]
• 19 March - Minimum wage introduced for miners after strike threats.^[2]
• 29 March - the remaining members of Scott's expedition die.^[1]
• 11 April - Irish Home Rule Bill introduced in the House of Commons, but fails to receive the support of the House of Lords.^[2]
• 14/15 April - Sinking of the RMS Titanic.^[1]
• 2 May - British Board of Trade inquiry into the sinking of Titanic begins.
• 5 May–22 July - Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm and win 10 gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze medals.
• 13 May - the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) is established.
• 15 July - the National Insurance Act 1911 comes into force introducing National Insurance payments.^[1]
• August - Cabinet ministers accused of corruption in the Marconi scandal.^[2]
• 5 November - Establishments of the British Board of Film Censors.^[1]
• 12 November - the bodies of Captain Scott and his team found in the Antarctic.^[1]
• 18 December - Piltdown Man, thought to be the fossilized remains of a hitherto unknown form of early human, presented to the Geological Society of London. It was revealed to be a hoax in 1953.^[1]

Publications

• Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World.

Births

• 1 January - Kim Philby, spy (died 1988)
• 11 February - Roy Fuller, poet and novelist (died 1991)
• 27 February - Lawrence Durrell, writer (died 1990)
• 4 March - Judith Furse, character actress (died 1974)
• 5 March - David Astor, newspaper publisher (died 2001)
• 23 March - Betty Astell, actress (died 2005)
• 27 March - James Callaghan, Prime Minister (died 2005)
• 5 April - John Le Mesurier, actor (died 1983)
• 22 April - Kathleen Ferrier, contralto (died 1953)
• 22 May - Herbert C. Brown, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
• 31 May - Alfred Deller, countertenor (died 1979)
• 23 June - Alan Turing, mathematician (died 1954)
• 24 June
  • Brian Johnston, BBC cricket commentator (died 1994)
  • Mary Wesley, novelist (died 2002)
• 16 August - Ted Drake, footballer (died 1995)
• 16 August - Wendy Hiller, actress (died 2003)
• 28 September - Peter Finch, actor (died 1977)
• 25 November - Francis Durbridge, playwright and author (died 1998)
• 27 December - Conroy Maddox, painter (died 2005)

Deaths

• 10 February - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (born 1827)
• 21 February - Osborne Reynolds, physicist (born 1842)
• 1 March - George Grossmith, actor and comic writer (born 1847)
• 17 February - Edgar Evans, naval officer (born 1876), member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole
• 17 March - Lawrence Oates, army officer (born 1880), member of the Scott Expedition
• 29 March - Remaining members of the Scott Expedition:
  • Henry Robertson Bowers (born 1883)
  • Robert Falcon Scott, explorer (born 1868)
  • Edward Adrian Wilson, physician and naturalist (born 1872)
• 15 April - Some victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic:
  • Thomas Andrews, Jr., shipbuilder (born 1873)
  • Father Thomas R. D. Byles, Catholic priest (born 1870)
  • Edward Smith, ship's captain (born 1850)
  • William Thomas Stead, journalist (born 1849)
• 20 April - Bram Stoker, writer (born 1847)
• 21 May - Julius Wernher, art collector (born 1850)
• 2 July - Tom Richardson, cricketer (born 1870)
• 13 August - Octavia Hill, social reformer (born 1838)
• 20 August - William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army (born 1829)
• 1 September - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer (born 1875)

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