DATE
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UNITED KINGDOM
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REST OF THE WORLD
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DUDLEY
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AGE
OF
ST JOHN’S
CHURCH
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ST JOHN’S CHURCH
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1907
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· Edward Elgar writes Pomp and Circumstance
· United Methodist Church established
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· First take off by a manned helicopter, France
· First photocopying machine, USA
· First long distance car rally, Beijing to Paris
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67 years old
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1908
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· Robert Baden -Powell founds the Scouts
· Harry Williams and Jack Judge write ‘It’s a Long Way to Tipperary’
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· Crete proclaims union with Greece
· Earthquake in Sicily, 75,000 killed
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68 years old
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1909
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· Old Age pensions introduced
· Anglo -American Harry Gordon Selfridge opens first Selfridges, Oxford Street
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· American Henry Ford begins production line of cheap motor cars
· First toaster, USA
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69 years old
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1910
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· George V King of England
· Labour Exchanges established
· First Woolworths store, nothing more than sixpence
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· Union of South Africa, becomes an independent domain within British Empire
· Japan annexes Korea
· First bathroom scales, German
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70 years old
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· Mothers Union started
· Exterior of church reconditioned
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1911
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· British MPs receive a salary for the first time
· Last horsedrawn bus taken out of service, London
· Encyclopedia Britannica published first time
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· Revolution in China, Manchu dynasty overthrown
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71 years old
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· Girls Friendly Society started
· Repairs and alerations carried out to the day school, cost £1700, of which £1000 found by the Parish
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1912
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· Titanic sinks, 1513 killed
· Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of RAF), formed
· Robert Falcon Scott begins second expedition to reach the South Pole
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· Chinese republic formed
· Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reaches South Pole
· SOS in Morse Code adopted as universal distress signal
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72years old
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1913
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· 50,000 women take part in pilgrimage in Hyde Park, London
· Invention of stainless steel, Sheffield
· Emily Davison, suffragette, runs in front of King’s horse, dies a few days later
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· First refrigerator, USA
· First crossword, USA
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73years old
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· Electric lighting installed
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1914
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· Start of World War I
· First currency notes for £1 and ten shillings
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· First regular airline, St Petersburg to Tampa, Florida, USA
· Japan declares war on Germany
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74 years old
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1915
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· German submarine blockade of Britain
· First Zeppelin air raids on London
· Women’s Institutes founded
· War costing Britain £2million a day
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· Swiss physicist Albert Einstein publishes his General Theory of Relativity
· Germans use chemical warfare (chlorine gas)
· Tetanus epidemic on the war fronts
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75years old
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1916
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· British Summer Time introduced to prolong daylight working hours
· Tanks used for the first time. Conscription introduced.
· Lord Kitchener drowns when the Hampshire is sunk by a mine
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· Easter Rising in Ireland
· First public demonstration of Karate, Japan
· Russian faith healer Rasputin murdered
· Battle of the Somme - more than 1 million killed
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76 years old
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· Baptistry Cross made, and given, by Mr A. Dudley Cheese
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