Date | Answer |
This playwright's controversial play Mrs. Warren's Profession is performed for the first time at a private club in London. | |
This national newspaper's Literary Supplement is first published. | |
A stand at this Scottish football stadium collapses, killing 25 people and injuring 517. | |
This current Premier League club is formed in a name change from Newton Heath. | |
This future Russian leader begins a year's stay in London, during which he edits the newspaper Iskra. | |
The signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging brings to an end this war. | |
This man succeeds Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister. | |
This king's coronation takes place at Westminster Abbey. | |
Harry Jackson becomes the first man convicted on the basis of this type of evidence. | |
This Scottish poet, widely considered to be one of the worst British poets ever, with works including The Tay Bridge Disaster, dies. | |
This Beatrix Potter work about a mischievous bunny is published. | |
This youth detention centre is founded in Kent, the first of its kind and named after the village it was founded in. | |
British and German forces seize the navy of this South American country in a dispute over compensation. | |
Ronald Ross wins the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on this parasitically transmitted tropical disease. | |
Whilst on the Discovery expedition, Scott, Wilson and this explorer reach the furthest southern point reached thus far by man, south of 82°S. | |
This yeast extract based spread is first produced in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. | |
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