10,000 British troops are sent to Natal, South Africa, signalling the start of the Boer War.
1900
17 May
Town of Mafeking relieved by British forces, the most important symbolic event of the Boer War.
1901
22 January
Death of Queen Victoria, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, having ascended the throne in 1837
1902
31 May
Boer War formally ends following the signing of an armistice at Vereeniging.
9 August
Coronation of King Edward VII
19 December
Actor Ralph Richardson born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (d. 1982)
1904
14 April
Actor John Gielgud born in London (d. 2000)
1907
12 December
Actress Jean Anderson born Mary Jean Heriot Anderson in Eastbourne, Sussex (d. 2001).
22 December
Actress Peggy Ashcroft born in Croydon, Surrey (d. 1991)
1908
25 May
Actor Robert Morley born in Semley, Wiltshire (d. 1992)
21 June
Greatest suffragette rally in Hyde Park.
18 December
Actress Celia Johnson born in Richmond, Surrey (d. 1982)
25 December
Writer and actor Quentin Crisp born Denis Pratt in Carshalton (d. 1999)
1910
10 February
Actress and comedienne Joyce Grenfell born Joyce Irene Phipps in London (d. 1979)
6 May
Death of King Edward VII
28 May
Actress Rachel Kempson born in Dartmouth, Kent, the wife of actor Michael Redgrave (1908-1985) and mother of actors Vanessa (b. 1937), Corin (b. 1939) and Lynn (b.1944) Redgrave
13 June
Campaigner Mary Whitehouse born (d. 2001)
6 August
Charles Crichton born in Wallasey, Cheshire (d. 1999)
Actor Ralph Richardson born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (d. 1982)
Actor John Gielgud born in London (d. 2000)
Campaigner Mary Whitehouse born (d. 2001)