20th Century (1900-1959)
1903 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Barnsley
1904 - South Yorkshire Brass Band contest in Barnsley
1906 - Herbert Smith, President of Yorkshire Miners
1907 - Yorkshire Agricultural Show in Barnsley
1908 - Francis Chandler awarded first Edward Medal (later George Cross) for act of bravery at Hoyland Silkstone Colliery
1911 - Keir Hardie in Barnsley
1912 - Barnsley win FA Cup replay at Bramall Lane.
National coalfield minimum wage strike. King George V and Queen Mary in Barnsley
1913 - Barnsley changes to County Borough status
1915 - Barnsley Pals' respond to Kitchener's call to arms.
Oaks Monument to rescue workers' bravery unveiled on Kendray Hill
1926 - Miners' strike: great distress & poverty in Barnsley & neighbourhood. Barnsley War Memorial unveiled
1929 - Beatson Clark take over old Rylands glassworks at Stairfoot. Pioneer radiotelegraphy engineer, Darfield-born Sir Henry Bradwardine, who worked with Marconi, dies
1932 - Barnsley Mining & Technical College opens
1933 - Barnsley Town Hall opened by Edward, Prince of Wales
1935 - North Gawber pit disaster, 19 killed
1936 - Wharncliffe Woodmoor pit disaster, 58 killed. Oswald Mosley speaks in Barnsley. Widespread unemployment; 'Wicked Thirties'. George Orwell lives in Barnsley & visits pits.
Clement Atlee speaks in Barnsley. Jarrow Crusade.
1938 - Death in Barnsley of great miners' leader Herbert Smith
1943 - Bevin Boys in Barnsley pits
1947 - National Coal Board formed
1953 - Ex-miner Roy Mason becomes Barnsley's youngest ever MP. Barnsley Canal abandoned. Barnsley FC transfer Tommy Taylor to Manchester United for c.£30,000
1957 - Cannon Hall opens as a country house museum
1958 - Harold Wilson in Barnsley Munich air crash: death of Tommy Taylor and Wombwell-born Mark Jones
National/International Events:
1901 - Death of Queen Victoria
1903 - Women's suffrage
1910 - Edward VII dies
1914 - Great War starts
1918 - End of Great War
1926 - John Logie Baird's first television picture
1939 - Outbreak of Second World War
1956 - Suez Crisis
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