22 March – The first taxicabs with taximeters begin operating in London.
6 April – Horatio Phillips achieves the first, limited, powered heavier-than-air flight in the UK when his multiplane makes a 500 ft (150 m) hop.[4][5]
1 June – Colin Blythe of Kent takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded for a county cricket match (or for a single day's bowling), and not bettered in first-class cricket until almost half a century later in 1956.
6 July – Guardians of the Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.
13 July – The Edward Medal instituted to recognise acts of bravery by miners and quarrymen in endangering their lives to rescue fellow workers in accidents[8] (extended 1909 to cover other industries).
12 August – Troops open fire during rioting in Belfast, killing four Irish nationalists.[9]
27 August – Education (Administrative Provisions) Act extends powers of local education authorities in England and Wales in relation to scholarships for grammar schools (the 'free place' system), the provision of holiday activities and medical inspections of elementary school children.[10][11]
First organised British school meal service for all pupils, a dinner of scotch barley broth and fruit tart, served to pupils at Green Lane Primary School in Manningham, Bradford, by headmaster Jonathan Priestley.[14]
10 December – Rudyard Kipling wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author".[16]
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