Timeline: Caroline HOWELL: Some New Hampshire Jamesons

1901 - 1902 (1 year)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1901	1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded 1901: Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner 22 Jan 1901: Queen Victoria dies â€“ Edward VII king 2 Feb 1901: Queen Victoria's funeral â€“ interred beside Prince Albert in the Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor Great Park Jun 1901: Denunciation of use of concentration camps by British in Boer War 2 Oct 1901: Britain's first submarine launched 12 Dec 1901: First successful radio transmission across the Atlantic, by Marconi â€“ Morse code from Cornwall to Newfoundland
2	1902	1902: Balfour's Education Act provides for secondary education 1902: Cremation Act â€“ cremation can only take place at officially recognised establishments, and with two death certificates issued 1902: Marie Curie discovers radioactivity 24 May 1902: Empire Day (later Commonwealth Day) first celebrated 31 May 1902: Treaty of Vereeniging ends Second Boer War 9 Aug 1902: Coronation of Edward VII