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1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
18 February – The Australian sport of motorcycle speedway is competitively demonstrated for the first time in the UK with a meet at High Beach in Epping Forest. 12 March – Malta becomes a British dominion. 1 April – Cinematograph Films Act 1927 comes into force, setting a minimum quota for British films to be shown in UK cinemas.
One Day in History was a single-day initiative by several UK heritage organisations that aimed to provide a historical record of the everyday life of the British public in the early 21st century. Described as the "world's biggest blog ", [ 1 ] it encouraged UK citizens to write diary entries of 100–650 words of what they had done on 17 ...
Events from the year 1927 in the United Kingdom.. This year saw the renaming of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, recognising in name the Irish Free State's independence, it having come into existence with the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922.
25 February – UK première of the historical film Fire Over England, providing the first pairing of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. 8 March – Prince Edward, the former King Edward VIII, is created Duke of Windsor. 19 March – Regency Act 1937 provides for the minority, incapacity or absence abroad of any future monarch.
1 April – the Provisional Government of Ireland establishes customs posts on the land border with the UK in Northern Ireland. [2] 21 April – the first of a series of innovative modern dress productions of Shakespeare plays, Cymbeline, directed by H. K. Ayliff, opens at Barry Jackson's Birmingham Repertory Theatre. [3]
January–June – The United Kingdom holds the presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time.; January – The Ford Fiesta car goes on sale in the UK.; 3 January – Roy Jenkins, the Home Secretary, announces he is leaving the House of Commons to become President of the European Commission.
11 April – The Stone of Scone is located at Arbroath Abbey, having been stolen from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalists on Christmas Day 1950. [7] 17 April The submarine HMS Affray sinks, killing all 75 crew members. [8] Seven unofficial dockers' leaders are acquitted of offences under a wartime regulation intended to prevent ...