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Events from the year 1910 in the United Kingdom.
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- 6 May - George V becomes King upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
- June - Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
- 1 June - Terra Nova Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on an expedition with the purpose of undertaking scientific research and exploration along the coast and interior of Antarctica.
- 2 June - Charles Rolls becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.[1]
- 28 June - Consecration of the Roman Catholic Westminster Cathedral in London.[1]
- 31 July - Dr Crippen arrested on board the SS Montrose after a telegraph is sent to the ship's Captain.[1]
- 18 October - Dr Crippen put on trial for murder at the Old Bailey.[1]
- 22 October - Dr Crippen found guilty of murder and sentenced to death.[1]
- 18 November - Black Friday: 300 suffragettes clash with police outside Parliament over the failure of the Conciliation Bill.[3]
- 23 November - Dr Crippen hanged.[1]
- December - A second general election is held in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the House of Lords (Liberals, 272; Labour, 42; Irish Nationalists, 84; Unionists, 272 — making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish Home Rule).
- 16 December - In Houndsditch, London, four (Latvian) anarchists shoot three policemen in botched raid on a jewellers — three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January 1911) cornered in the 'siege of Sidney Street'.
- 26 December - London Palladium music hall opens.[2]
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[edit] Births
- 10 February - Joyce Grenfell, actress, comedian and singer-songwriter (died 1979)
- 13 February - William Shockley, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
- 21 February - Douglas Bader, World War II fighter pilot (died 1982)
- 1 March - Archer John Porter Martin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)
- 22 March - Nicholas Monsarrat, novelist (died 1979)
- 12 May - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
- 4 June - Christopher Cockerell, inventor (died 1999)
- 12 June - Bill Naughton, playwright (died 1992)
- 13 June - Mary Whitehouse, TV campaigner (died 2001)
- 22 June - Peter Pears, tenor (died 1986)
- 14 July - Vincent Brome, biographer and novelist (died 2004)
- 8 November - Denis Mahon, art historian and collector
- 14 November - Eric Malpass, novelist (died 1996)
- 19 November - Griffith Jones, actor (died 2007)
- 1 December - Alicia Markova, ballerina (died 2004)
- 29 December - Ronald Coase, economist Nobel Prize laureate
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1910 in the United Kingdom: 
England | 
Scotland
