page_title: Timeline of Oxford
section_title: 1900s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Oxford / 1900s
caption_attribution_description: This is the official 10,000th port meadow sunset picture on flickr.
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city, University and colleges of Oxford, England.
context_section_description: 1900 – 6 July: Tirah Memorial unveiled.
  1901 – 18 June: New building for Radcliffe Science Library, designed by T. G. Jackson, opened adjacent to University Museum.
  1902
  Rhodes Scholarship established for certain overseas students in the University with effect from 1 July 1903.
  St Mary Hall closed, last of the medieval academic halls in the University, and reincorporated into Oriel College.
  1903
  June: Severe flooding. 141.8 mm of rain falls in Oxford this month.
  19 September: South African War Memorial unveiled at The Plain in St Clement's to commemorate the 33 men killed in action and 109 who died of disease serving with the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry in the Second Boer War, 1899–1902.
  1904
  Spring: Severe flooding. 81.7 mm of rain falls in Oxford in May.
  Approximate date: Logic Lane covered bridge built for University College.
  1905 – Order of Friars Minor Capuchin establish a friary, St Anselm's.
  1906 – 24 March: Oxford City F.C. win the FA Amateur Cup.
  1907
  27 June–3 July: Historical Pageant staged in grounds of Magdalen College School by Frank Lascelles.
  1 November: First woman city councillor elected (Sophia Merivale).
  North Oxford Golf Club founded.
  1908
  26 April: Heavy snowfall.
  20 May: Iffley Mill destroyed by fire.
  The first intelligence quotient test in England is administered to Oxford schoolchildren by Cyril Burt (based on the Binet system).
  1909
  March: Marxist students at Ruskin College, members of the Plebs' League, begin a strike in support of the dismissed Principal, Dennis Hird.
  13 March: An Amateur International Association football match between England and Germany is played at Oxford City's White House Ground: England (with Oxford City and University players in the front row) win 9–0.
  11 December: "Poulton's Match": In the 37th annual Varsity Match (rugby union) played in London, Oxford-born Ronnie Poulton scores a record five tries, securing the game for Oxford University RFC.
  1910
  26 November: First permanent cinema in Oxford, the Oxford Electric Theatre in Castle Street, opens.
  Women's halls formally recognised by the University.
  Oxford Poetry founded as a literary magazine by publisher Basil Blackwell.
  1911
  24 February: First purpose-built cinema in Oxford, the Oxford Picture Palace off the Cowley Road, opens. (On 25 March, the first purpose-built cinema in central Oxford, the Electra Palace in Queen Street, opens.)
  14 June: A Farnham pusher biplane lands on Port Meadow, the first aeroplane to land in Oxfordshire.
  July: 1911 United Kingdom heat wave: Sunniest month on record in Oxford, 310.45 hours of sunshine.
  15 July: Roman Catholic parish church of St Edmund & St Frideswide (Greyfriars) opens in Iffley Road.
  26 October: Max Beerbohm's satirical novel Zuleika Dobson is published.
  1912
  Summer Olympics in Stockholm: New College Boat Club represent Great Britain in rowing, winning silver.
  10 September: Two Royal Flying Corps officers are killed when their Bristol Coanda monoplane crashes at Wolvercote. First aviation meeting held on Port Meadow on 24 October.
  27 November: An underground bookstore for the Bodleian Library beneath Radcliffe Square (begun late 1909) is completed, linked with both the old library and the Radcliffe Camera. The world's largest such store at this date, it incorporates innovative mobile shelving supposedly proposed by W. E. Gladstone, designed and manufactured by W. Lucy & Co. at the Eagle Ironworks.
  C. Violet Butler publishes Social Conditions in Oxford.
  1913
  February: Ruskin College opens its new premises in Walton Street.
  28 March: William Morris's Morris Oxford 2-seater car, assembled in Cowley, goes on sale.
  c. October: Mansfield College admits its first woman student (Constance Todd). The first admitted on the same terms as men are in October 1979.
  5 December: William Morris and Frank Gray begin the city's first regular service of motor buses.
  1914
  14 January: Hertford College's "Bridge of Sighs" opened.
  6 June: Barnett House established for the study of contemporary social problems.
  14 August (probable date): City of Oxford Tramways Company runs its la
caption: Port Meadow
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