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This article covers the history of the English city of London through the early 20th century, from 1900 to the outbreak of World War II in 1939. London entered the 20th century at the height of its influence as the capital of the largest empire in history, but the new century was to bring many challenges.
The world powers in 1939, before the start of World War II. January 25 A uranium atom is split for the first time at Columbia University in the United States. [49] January 27 Hitler orders Plan Z, a 5-year naval expansion programme intended to provide for a huge German fleet capable of defeating the British Royal Navy by 1944.
6 April: The 1580 Dover Straits earthquake causes some damage and the death of 2 children in London. 6 July: New buildings are prohibited on less than 4 acres (16,000 m 2) of ground within 3 miles of the City. [76] 1581 4 April: Francis Drake is knighted by order of Queen Elizabeth I [50] aboard the Golden Hind in Deptford.
27 October–2 November: 2,200 deaths in London over this period due to the "Spanish flu". [9] 11 November: The Armistice: World War I ends at 11.00. From 1919, a minute's silence on this date commemorates the lives lost; this is increased to 2 minutes after World War II. The British Antique Dealers' Association is headquartered in London. [46]
Timelines of War: A Chronology of Warfare from 100,000 BC to the Present (1996), Global coverage. Cannon, John, ed. The Oxford Companion to British History (2003) Carlton, Charles. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 (Yale UP; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near unceasing war from the individual to the national levels.
The Making of a World City: London 1991 to 2021 (John Wiley & Sons, 2014) Emerson, Charles. 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War (2013) compares London to 20 major world cities on the eve of World War I; pp 15 to 36, 431–49. Inwood, Stephen. A History of London (1998) ISBN 0-333-67153-8; Inwood, Stephen.
This is a Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II covering Britain 1939–45. For a narrative history and bibliography of the home front see United Kingdom home front during World War II, as well as history of Scotland § Second World War 1939–45 and history of Northern Ireland § Second World War. [1]
The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom for eight months from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941 during the Second World War. [4]The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 (a battle for daylight air superiority between the Luftwaffe and the Royal ...