Alexander Graham Bell develops the telephone.

 

 

The second Married Women's Property Act is passed allowing women to own property after divorce.

 

Benz and Daimler invent the motorcar in Germany.

 

 

The National Trust founded by Miss Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley who was a friend of Beatrix Potter's family.

 

Queen Victoria dies. Edward VII becomes King.

 

 

Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) founded by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia.

 

Henry Campbell-Bannerman becomes Prime Minister, first to be officially known under that title (previously called The First Lord of the Treasury).

 

Women's Sunday March in Hyde Park attended by 250,000 people shouting, "Votes for Women".

 

Edward VII dies. George V becomes King.

 

 

Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage. 1,503 passengers and crew are lost.

 

 

Emily Wilding Davison, the only suffragette to die for the cause, became a martyr when she throws herself under the King's horse at the Derby racecourse and is killed.

 

World War One.

 

 

Women allowed to vote if they are over 30 and either own property or rent for at least £5/year, or are the wife of someone who did. As a result, 8.5 million women become entitled to vote in the General Election of 1918, including Beatrix Potter.

 

 

 

John Logie Baird creates the first televised pictures of objects in motion.

 

All women over the age of 21 eligible to vote.

 

 

George V dies. Edward VIII abdicates. George VI becomes King.

 

 

World War Two.

 

 

Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister.

 

 

The National Trust is bequeathed 4000 acres of land in Beatrix Potter's will.

 

The National Trust opens Beatrix Potter's Hill Top to the public.