The world in 1901

General

• †  Queen Victoria dies at Osborne House and is succeeded by her son who becomes Edward VII.
• †  The formation of the Commonwealth of Australia. Its colonies are: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.
• †  Britain’s first cinema opens in Islington, London.

Census

• †  The 1901 census was taken on 31 March 1901 and gave the population as 32,527,843.

The Arts

• †  RenFranis-Admand Sully Prudhomme is awarded the first Nobel Prize for Literature.
• †  Louis Armstrong, Clark Gable and Walt Disney are born.
• †  Rudyard Kipling’s Kim is published.

Sport

• †  Tottenham Hotspur are the first non-league football team to win the FA Cup.
• †  In boxing James J Jeffries is the reigning Heavyweight Champion of the World.

Political and Military

• †  Marquess of Salisbury Prime Minister.
• †  Winston Churchill enters the House of Commons.
• †  Theodore Roosevelt succeeds William McKinley as American President.
• †  The Second Boer War in South Africa rages on.

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