- 1912 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1912 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George V of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -H. H. Asquith , LiberalEvents
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17 January - British polar explorerRobert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach theSouth Pole .cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*1 March -Suffragette s smash shop windows in the West End of London.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 346-347|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*16 March -Lawrence Oates , ill member of Scott'sSouth Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
*19 March -Minimum wage introduced for miners after strike threats.
*29 March - the remaining members of Scott's expedition die.
*11 April -Irish Home Rule Bill introduced in the House of Commons, but fails to receive the support of the House of Lords.
* 14/15 April - Sinking of the RMS "Titanic".
*2 May - British Board of Trade inquiry into the sinking of "Titanic" begins.
*5 May –22 July - Great Britain and Ireland compete at the1912 Summer Olympics inStockholm and win 10 gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze medals.
*13 May - theRoyal Flying Corps (forerunner of theRoyal Air Force ) is established.
*15 July - theNational Insurance Act 1911 comes into force introducingNational Insurance payments.
* August - Cabinet ministers accused of corruption in theMarconi scandal .
*5 November - Establishments of the British Board of Film Censors.
*12 November - the bodies of Captain Scott and his team found in the Antarctic.
*18 December -Piltdown Man , thought to be the fossilized remains of a hitherto unknown form of early human, presented to theGeological Society of London . It was revealed to be a hoax in 1953.Publications
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Arthur Conan Doyle 's novel "The Lost World".Births
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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
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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 theRMS 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)References
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