Events from the year 1921 in the United Kingdom. [edit] Incumbents [edit] Events - 1 January - Car tax discs introduced.[1]
- 3 January - The airships R.36 and R.37 are completed.
- 8 January - Chequers becomes the official residence of the Prime Minister.[1]
- 14 January - Unemployment stands at 927,000.
- 20 January - The Royal Navy submarine K.5 sinks in the English Channel with the loss of 56 lives.
- 26 January - Seventeen people are killed when two passenger trains collide in Montgomeryshire.
- 12 February - Winston Churchill is appointed Colonial Secretary.
- 16 February - Unemployment now stands at over one million. The Government announces an increase in unemployment benefit.
- 11 March - Queen Mary becomes the first woman to be awarded an (honorary) degree by Oxford University.
- 16 March - The United Kingdom signs a trade agreement with the Russian SFSR.
- 17 March
- 21 March - Austen Chamberlain replaces Bonar Law as Conservative leader.
- 26 March - Shaun Spadah wins the Grand National.
- 31 March - A state of emergency is declared after another coal strike is called.
- 3 April - Coal rationing begins.
- 13 April - Lloyds Bank takes over Fox, Fowler and Co, the last provincial English bank to issue its own banknotes.
- 15 April - The national strike, due to be declared by the 'Triple Alliance', is called off.
- 23 April - Tottenham Hotspur beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 in the FA Cup Final.
- 26 April - Police patrol London on motorcycles for the first time.
- 4 May - The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill a former Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) inspector in Glasgow.
- 7 May - Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan arrives on an official visit.
- 10 May - Ivy Williams becomes the first woman to become a member of the English Bar.[2]
- 22 May - The USA beats the United Kingdom 9 rounds to 3 in the first golf international between the two countries.
- 24 May - In general elections for the new Northern Ireland Parliament, Ulster Unionists win 40 out of 52 seats. One-party rule will last for fifty years.
- 1 June - Humorist wins the Derby. For the first time the result is broadcast live by wireless.
- 6 June - King George V opens Southwark Bridge in London.
- 7 June - The new Northern Ireland Parliament assembles.
- 10 June - Unemployment reaches 2.2 million.
- 12 June - Sunday postal collection and delivery ends.[1]
- 15 June - Two million workers are currently involved in pay disputes.
- 22 June - King George V opens the first Northern Ireland Parliament.
- 24 June - The world's largest airship, the R.38, makes its maiden flight at Bedford.
- 25 June - Rainfall ends a 100-day drought.
- 28 June - The coal strike ends.
- 2 July - Bill Tilden and Suzanne Lenglen retain their Wimbledon titles.
- 7 July - General Jan Smuts meets King George V to discuss the Irish situation.
- 12 July - Sinn Féin representatives arrive in London for talks.
- 18 July - Ulster Unionist negotiators walk out of the truce talks in London.
- 19 August - Unemployment falls to 1,640,600.
- 24 August - The airship ZR II explodes at Hull, killing 43 people.
- 30 August - England beat Australia, for the first time this year, in the final Test Match.
- 9 September - Charlie Chaplin visits London and is met by thousands.
- 17 September - Shackleton-Rowett Expedition: Ernest Shackleton sets sail on his last expedition to Antarctica.[3]
- 23 September - The second female Member of Parliament enters Parliament.
- 8 October - The steamer Rowan sinks off the coast of Scotland. 36 people lose their lives.
- 11 October - The Irish Treaty Conference opens in London.[4]
- 11 November - the Royal British Legion holds the first official Poppy Day.[1]
- 21 November - Troops are sent to restore order after rioting breaks out in East Belfast.
- 22 November - At least ten people die in widespread shootings in Belfast.
- 30 November - Sir Basil Thomson retires after forty years as the head of the Metropolitan Police Special Branch.
- 7 December - British and Irish negotiators sign an agreement giving independence to the Irish Free State.
- 10 December - Frederick Soddy wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to our knowledge of the chemistry of radioactive substances, and his investigations into the origin and nature of isotopes".[5]
- 16 December - Parliament ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
[edit] Publications [edit] Births - 13 March - Cyril Poole, cricketer (died 1996)
- 28 March - Dirk Bogarde, actor and author (died 1999)
- 16 April - Peter Ustinov, actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur (died 2004)
- 23 May - Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician and broadcaster (died 2008)
- 14 July - Leon Garfield, writer (died 1996)
- 8 September - Harry Secombe, entertainer (died 2001)
- 30 September - Deborah Kerr, actress (died 2007)
- 2 October - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 2000)
- 11 November - Ron Greenwood, footballer and manager (died 2006)
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