1919 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1919 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - David Lloyd George, coalition

Events

• 1 January - In Scotland, HMS Iolaire sinks at rocks: 205 die.
• 31 January - 1919 Battle of George Square: The Army is called in to deal with riots and protests against high rents in Glasgow.
• 13 April - Amritsar Massacre: British and Gurkha troops in India kill 400 and injure more than 1200 people in a massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar.
• May - Beginning of the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
• 29 May - Observations made by Arthur Eddington during a solar eclipse confirmed part of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.
• 15 June - Aviators John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown complete the first non-stop transatlantic plane flight.^[1]
• 28 June - Treaty of Versailles signed.
• 6 July - The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.^[1]
• 18 July - the Cenotaph in London, as designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled to commemorate the dead of World War I.^[1]
• 19 July - Victory parades across Britain celebrate the end of World War I.^[2]
• 31 July - Strike of policemen in London and Liverpool for recognition of the National Union of Police and Prison Officers. Over 2,000 strikers are dismissed.
• 8 August - Treaty of Rawalpindi ends the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
• 19 August - Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• 27 September - Last British troops leave Archangel, Russia and leave fighting to the Russians.
• 1 December - Nancy Astor becomes the first woman MP to take her seat in the Houses of Parliament.
• 25 December - The opening of Cliftonhill stadium in Coatbridge the home of Albion Rovers F.C. The match saw them lose 2 - 0 to St. Mirren.
• 30 December - Lincoln's Inn, in London admits its first female bar student.

Undated

• Britain comes off the Gold standard.^[3]
• Creation of the "Mobile Patrol Experiment", the forerunner of the Metropolitan Police Service's Flying Squad.

Publications

• W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence.
• P. G. Wodehouse's short story collection My Man Jeeves.

Births

• 23 January - Bob Paisley, football player and manager (died 1996)
• 24 February - Betty Marsden, comedy actress (died 1998)
• 18 May - Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer (died 1991)
• 17 June - Beryl Reid, actress (died 1996)
• 7 July - Jon Pertwee, actor (died 1996)
• 15 July - Iris Murdoch, novelist and philosopher (died 1999)
• 1 August - Stanley Middleton, novelist
• 28 August - Godfrey Hounsfield, electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (died 2004)
• 27 September - James H. Wilkinson, mathematician (died 1986)
• 5 October - Donald Pleasence, actor (died 1995)
• 22 October - Doris Lessing, writer

Deaths

• 18 January - Prince John of the United Kingdom (born 1905)
• 4 April - William Crookes, chemist and physicist (born 1832)
• 14 June - Weedon Grossmith, writer (born 1854)
• 30 June - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1842)
• 26 July - Edward Poynter, painter (born 1836)
• 11 August - Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American philanthropist (born 1835)
• 18 October - William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor, financier and statesman (born 1848)

Unknown dates

• Ernest Albert Waterlow, painter (born 1850)
• Charles Wyndham, actor (born 1837)

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