NATIONAL AND IMPERIAL EVENTS OF NOTABLE REIGN

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 100, 22 January 1936, Page 11

NATIONAL AND IMPERIAL EVENTS OF NOTABLE REIGN

Services of King George V and Royal Family to the Empire

i»i CALENDAR of the prinicpal gsAfcg events in the life of the late J/Yy, King George V reveals the JSta.oV arduous character of his momentous reign and illustrious service for the Empire. Principal years and events are these:—

1865. —Born June 3, at Marlborough House; christened at Windsor, July 7. 1867.—Career as world’s most-travelled monarch begins with trip to Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. 1871.—Tutorial education begun at Sandringham. 1877. —Entered Britannia as naval cadet. 1878. —First voyage to the West Indies. 1880. —Voyage to South America, Australia, South Africa, Japan, and China; visit to Egypt and the Holy Land; confirmed in Whippingham Church in the presence of Queen Victoria. 1881. —Residence in Switzerland and at Heidelberg, learning foreign languages.

1883. —Appointed to HALS. Canada ; gains first-class pass in seamanship. 1886.—Appointed to HALS. Thunderer on the Mediterranean station; represented Queen Victoria at marriage of the Crown Prince of Portugal; command of torpedo boat 70; appointed commander di firstclass gunboat, Thrush; another visit to West Indies, omening Industrial Exhibition at Jamaica. 1801. —Stationed in Home waters. 1802. —Enters line of succession to the Ihrone following the death of his elder brother, the Duke of Clarence; takes seal in House of Lords as Duke of York. Earl of Inverness, Barou Killarney.

1893. —Visit with his mother to Rome and the Riviera; on July 6, marriage of Duke and Princess Mary at the Chapel Royal. 189-I.—Prince of Wales born, June 23. at White Lodge. 1895, —Held his first levee at St. James’s Palace on behalf of Queen Victoria, with full escort of Life Guards. 1897. —Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria ; on April 25, Princess Mary born; Duke and Duchess visit Ireland. 1898. —Commander of HALS. Crescent for summer naVal manoeuvres; in October, Duke and Duchess visit Denmark and are present at the death of the Queen of Denmark. 1899. —Outbreak of Boer War. 1900. —Prince Henry born, March 31. 1901. —Death of Queen Victoria, January 22; King Edward VII. proclaimed; Duke and Duchess of York embark on tour of Dominions visiting Malta, Aden, Colombo, Singapore, Eastern Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, South Australia, West Australia, Mauritius, South Africa. Canada and Newfoundland. 1902. —An eventful year; Coronation of King Edward ; end of Boer War; death of Cecil Rhodes; birth of Prince George on December 20; Duke launches the battleships Prince of Wales and Devonshire at Chatham; Duke and Duchess formally created Prince and Princess of Wales; at the Guildhall, Prince makes his famous “Wake-up England!" speech. 1904. —Brilliant social year with foreign monarchs visiting England. 1905. —Ou July 12, Prince John born

at Sandringham; later in the year Prince and Princess of Wales, tour India. 1910. —Death of King Edward on May 6; George V. proclaimed; his heir at sixteen years of age created Prince of Wales; Union of South Africa inaugurated; General Botha first Premier: Captain Scott leaves for Antaactic. 1911. —Coronation of King George and Queen Mary on June 22; Durbar at Delh where the King-Emperor and the QueenEmpress enjoy magnificent receptions and demonstrations of Indian loyalty ; King George opens his first Parliament on February 6. 1912. —Prince of Wales goes into residence at Magdolen College, Oxford. 1914. -King and Queen visit Paris in April; on July 31 Germany declared war on Russia and delivers ultimatum to France; on August 2 German troops invade Luxembourg; on August 3 Belgium refuses Germany's demand for occupation and assisted passage of troops; on August 4 the British Empire declares war on Germany; on August 9 British Expeditionary Force lands at Boulogne; the King contributes £5060 to the Prince of Wales’s Fund; November 29. King makes his first visit to the front. 1915. In October King George again visits France; suffers accident through his horse falling in the mud of battlefields. 1016.—Lord Kitchener drowned in the sinking of a cruiser on the way to Russia; his Majesty again visits the front unknown to the nation at the time: “God knows, I can do little enough, he said, “but I can do”more, if my time is not wasted by ceremonial.’’ *

1917. —King and Queen and Royal Family experience the national compulsory rationing of meat and butter; strictest economy in the Palace, wines prohibited; Russian revolution aud abdication of the Tsar; the United States of America joins the Allies against Germany; on June 13, a Zeppelin makes a daylight raid on London; a few weeks later the King Anglicises the monarchy, assuming the name and title of the House and Family of Windsor; King and Queen visit the front. 1918. —Silver wedding of their Majesties celebrated quietly in July; King and Queen of Belgium fly to England—the first Royal trip by air to Great Britain; on November 11. Armistice, declared; meeting of Imperial War Cabinet to consider terms of peace setlement. 1919. —Death of Prince John, who always had been delicate; on June 28, peace treaty signed at Versailles; on July 5, the King takes the salute at the Victory March; in August, Prince of Wales leaves for Canada; the King inaugurates the Two Minutes’ Silence, on the first anniversary of the Armistice. 1920. —Prince of Wales tours Australia, New Zealand and Canada; King and Queen hold first Court/ffinco 1914. 1921. —King George visits Ireland; Prince of Wales tours Lidia; King and Queen of BGelgium make State visit to Great Britain. 1922. —'Princess Mary marries Viscount Lascelles on February 28; in Mny the King visits the war graves in France. 1923. On February 7, son bom to Princess Mary (Viscountess Lascelles) . on April 26 Duke of York aud ndy

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married; in MayKing suffers from bronchitis and is “ordered south"; visit with Queen to Naples and other cities on the Mediterranean ; his Majesty decorating Signor Mussolini; on November 20, death of the QueenMother, Alexandra; on September 5 Prince of Wales sails on visit to Canada. 1924. —King and Queen open Wembley Exhibition; King’s speech broadcast for the first time; special message circles the world back to his Majesty in eighty seconds; birth of second son on August 21 to Princess Mary. 1925. —On March 19, King and Queen leave for cruise in Mediterranean. 1926. —On April 21 birth of Princess Elizabeth; on November IS, Ninth Imperial Conference repor trecognises Dominions as autonomous members of British Commonwealth of Nations. 1927. —Duke and Duchess of York, on January 6, leave England for Australia and New Zealand. 1928. —Grave illness of the King; Prince of Wales attends ceremony at Menin Gate on August 8; Prince of Wales visits Uganda, October 15; King’s bronchial attack causes anxiety on November 23, and his illness assumes a grave turn on December 1 and 2; Prince of Wales reaches London on December 11 after rapid journey from Africa, Princess Mary and her hueband tour Palestine. 1929. —lmprovement in King's healtn notified on January 1; the King’s health stated to be distinctly improved, and sea air recommended on January 22; the King, after 11 weeks’ illness, was able to. be moved to Craigwell House, Bognor,

on February 11; the King issues a touching message to his people on his convalescence on April 23; the Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace on May 9; the King leaves Bognor for Windsor on May 15; the King attends thanksgiving service at Westminster Abbey, July 7; the King returned to Sandringham after his long illness, August 23.

1930. —Prince ot Wales leaves London for East Africa, January 3; Prince of Wales returns from visit to East Africa, April 25; King and Queen attend reopening of St. Paul’s Cathedral, June 25; Duke and Duchess of York’s second daughter born, August 21; Imperial Conference delegates entertained at Buckingham Palace, October 3.

1930.—Prince of Wales and Prince George start for South America, January 16; Prince of Wales opens British Empire Trade Exhibition at Buenos Aires, March 14; the King intimates his wish .to accept £50,000 less from the Civil list during the national emergency. The Prince of Wales contributed £lo,ooo—September 8.

1931, —The King unveils memorial ot Queen Alexandra, June 8. Prince of Wales unveils the great memorial at Thiepval, August 1,

1932.—The Prince or Wales opens the Parliament House of Northern Ireland, November 16. The King broadcasts for the first time a Christmas message to the Empire, December 25.

1933.—The King opens the World Economic Conference at Kensington, London, on June 12.

1934.—Prince of Wales attends . the funeral of King Albert of the Belgians, February 22; Prince George's betrothal to Princess Marina of Greece announced, August 29; Duke of Gloucester left England for Australia and New Zealand, September 3; Royal assent given at Privy Council to Prince George’s marriage.

1935. —King George's jubilee celebrations in London in May; Duke of Gloucester married to Lady Alice Montague Douglas-Scott, November <>•