Historical Events

1529 English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested on charges of treason

1839 The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain

1890 Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate

1890 Prince of Wales opens first underground station at Stockwell, South London

1893 British South Africa Company troops under Dr Jamesons occupy Bulawayo, Matabeleland

Tutankhamun's Burial Chamber Found

1922 Howard Carter discovers the intact tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt

PM Stanley Baldwin

1924 Stanley Baldwin becomes Britain's Prime Minister for a second time after a landslide victory over Ramsay MacDonald 's Labour Party

T. S. Eliot Wins Nobel

1948 American-born British poet T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for litera

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