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| 1910 |
| | | UK prime minister Herbert Asquith plans to reduce the power of the House of Lords, but the upper house as yet is certain to block any such bill | |
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| 1910 May 6 |
| | | George V succeeds his father, Edward VII, on the British throne | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Winston Churchill becomes home secretary in Asquith's Liberal government | |
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| 1910 |
| | | The Liberals win another general election called on the House of Lords issue, becoming the first British political party since 1832 to win three successive victories | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The British chancellor, David Lloyd George, introduces the National Insurance Bill, providing workers with insurance in a few selected industries | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Asquith's Parliament Bill proposes to end the constitutional crisis in the UK by restricting the power of the House of Lords | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Confronted with the threat of 300 newly created peerages, the House of Lords narrowly passes Asquith's Parliament Bill (by 17 votes) | |
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| 1911 |
| | | Edward Carson tells a vast crowd in Northern Ireland that they must be ready to defend their Protestant province by force | |
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| 1912 |
| | | UK suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested, released and rearrested twelve times within the year | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Half a million Unionist men and women in Belfast commit themselves to civil disobedience if Home Rule government is established in Ireland | |
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