Parliament

Mother of the Salvation ArmyCatherine Booth delivered at Exeter Hall a speech, later published as a pamphlet, called The Iniquity of State Regulated Vice.

Following his appointment as Chief Secretary, Arthur Balfour undertook a policy towards Ireland popularly characterized as killing Home Rule with kindness.

Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur Thomson published their anti-feminist treatiseThe Evolution of Sex.

The parliamentary Select Committee on Theatres and Places of Entertainment produced its report.

The British East Africa Company 's territory (Zanzibar, Kenya, and Uganda) was transferred to the British Government .

The Combined Sub-Committee was established to promote suffrage in Parliament ; it was an alliance of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage , the Central National Society for Women's Suffrage ...

During a demonstration at the opening of Parliament , eleven Women's Social and Political Union supporters were for the first time arrested and imprisoned: for two months in Holloway .

Parliament reconvened and the Government refused to guarantee that they would take up consideration of the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) in that parliamentary session.

Women's Social and Political Union supporter Emily Wilding Davison threw herself in front of the king 's horse at the Epsom Derby; she died from her injuries several days later.

The British Government created Queen Mary's Needlework Guild as an answer to increased women's unemployment during the war.

The British Parliament took the unpopular decision to institute conscription for the armed forces (which had been standard practice in other European countries but not in the UK); the Military Service Act followed.

Sinn Féin , reorganized by Cathal Brugha and Michael Collins , adopted a constitution. Based on its principles, Sinn Féin became a national movement on a platform of Irish national independence and the withdrawal of...

George V opened the Northern Ireland parliament with a conciliatory speech as the British government initiated negotiations on the relations between Ireland proper and Ulster (the Six Counties in the North).

The British Government cancelled the amount still owed by China on the Boxer indemnity.

The British Government in Palestine gave Transjordan rights to autonomous administration.