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1911 - 19201911 Census: Pop. E&W 36M, Scot 4.6M, NI 1.25M December 14: National Insurance in Britain 1911-1912 Strikes by seamen, dock and transport workers 1912 April 14: The 'unsinkable' Titanic sinks on maiden voyage Captain Scott's last expedition 1913 Panama Canal opened 1914-1918 First World War (the "Great War") 1914 The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Serbia sparks the First World War Aug 4: war declared 1915 May 7: Lusitania
sunk by German submarine off coast of Ireland – 1,198 died 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland – after the leaders are executed, public
opinion backs independence 1917 First use of massed tanks (Cambrai) George V adopts Windsor as surname March 12: USA enters the war On March 8,
(or
February 23 by the Julian calendar), a street demonstration in Petrograd (now St
Petersburg) turned into a riot, as Russians rose up against their autocratic Tsarist
government and the depredations of World War I. With its troops mutinying, the government
fell, and Tsar Nicholas II, last of the Romanov line, abdicated. Russia became a republic. 1918 Vote for women over 30, men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons) 11th November at the 11th Hour the Armistice
comes into effect and the First World War ends. 1919 First woman in House of Commons (Viscountess Astor) Alcock and Brown fly Atlantic Sir Ernest Rutherford publishes account of splitting the atom 1920 Regular cross-channel air service starts
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