The last majority Liberal Government in Britain was elected in 1906.

" When the Liberal party in Britain came to power in 1906 he was removed.

* 1906 – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet ( which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill ) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.

The militia was transformed into the Special Reserve by the military reforms of Haldane in the reforming post 1906 Liberal government.

The conservatives merged with the Liberal and Democratic Union ( formed in 1906 ) to become the Liberal Union in 1910.

The Solkan Bridge, built in 1906 After the Ljubljana earthquake of 1895, the city experienced a rapid modernization under the charismatic Liberal nationalist mayors Ivan Hribar and Ivan Tavčar.

In 1906 Lloyd George entered the new Liberal Cabinet of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as President of the Board of Trade.

The Liberal manifesto at the 1906 general elections included a commitment to reduce military expenditure.

He also ventured into politics, unsuccessfully standing in the 1906 General Election as the Liberal Unionist Party's candidate for Dundee.

The Lords passed the Trade Disputes Act, the Workmens Compensation Act and the Eight Hours Act, but rejected the Education Bill of 1906 and the Licensing Bill of 1908, both of the latter being important measures in the eyes of Liberal nonconformist voters.

After Lloyd George ceased to be Prime Minister in late 1922, the two Liberal factions enjoyed an uneasy truce, which was deepened in late 1923 when Stanley Baldwin called an election on the issue of tariffs, which had been a major cause of the Liberal landslide of 1906.

With the Unionists divided and out of favour with many of their former supporters, the Liberal Party won the 1906 general election by a landslide, with the Unionists reduced to just 157 seats in the House of Commons.

In the 1906 General Election, the Liberal Unionists ( both Free Traders and Tariff Reformers ) shared the same fate as their Conservative allies, with a big reduction in their parliamentary strength.

The writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal Unionist parliamentary candidate in 1900 and 1906, in the Scottish seats of Edinburgh Central and Hawick Boroughs respectively.

Also standing in 1906 as a Liberal Unionist was the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton for one of the two-member Dundee seats.

After the disaster of 1906 Balfour remained party leader, his position strengthened by Joseph Chamberlain's removal from active politics after his stroke in July 1906, but he was unable to make much headway against the huge Liberal majority in the House of Commons.

The Liberal split made the Unionists ( the Liberal Unionists sat in coalition with the Conservatives after 1895 and would eventually merge with them ) the dominant force in British politics until 1906, with strong support in Lancashire, Liverpool & Manchester, Birmingham ( the fiefdom of its former mayor Joseph Chamberlain who as recently as 1885 had been a furious enemy of the Conservatives ) and the House of Lords where many Whigs sat ( a second Home Rule Bill would pass the Commons in 1893 only to be overwhelmingly defeated in the Lords ).

He held the constituency for the Conservative Party until the 1906 general election, when he won the election for Manchester North West as a Liberal MP.

Following a general election defeat in 1900, Campbell-Bannerman went on to lead the Liberal Party to a landslide victory over the Conservative Party at the 1906 general election, also the last election in which the Liberals gained an overall majority in the House of Commons.

Lord Steel praised his predecessor as Liberal Leader as an " overlooked radical " whose 1906 landslide victory had paved the way for a succession of reforming governments.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

The party split over the issue of Irish Home Rule, but returned to power in 1906 through a landslide victory.

The strike increased support for the Social Democrats substantially ; in 1906, as a proportion of the population, the party was the most powerful socialist movement in the world.

Taft's efforts in stumping for the party in the 1906 mid-term elections made him aware of his deficiencies as an effective campaigner.

In 1906, 7 members of the Oregon House were also elected as candidates of the People's party and either the Democratic or Republican parties.

His actions alienated the French Section of the Workers ' International ( SFIO ) socialist party, from which he definitively broke in his notable reply in the Chamber to Jean Jaurès, leader of the SFIO, in June 1906.

The party won a landslide victory in the 1906 general election.

Indeed, for a short period in early 1906, Chamberlain was the de facto leader of the Unionist alliance in the House of Commons, as the Conservative party leader, and former Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour had lost his seat in the election ( though he soon managed to return to parliament after a conveniently-arranged by-election ).

He joined the newly founded Agrarian Union ( a farmers ' party ) in 1906 and became one of its prominent leaders.

Continuing to promote the Boer cause, he helped form the Oranje Unie party in May 1906 and became its chairman ; the party won the majority of seats in the colony's first elections that were held in November 1907.

In November 1906 a small party of Transvaal Boers, who had been employed by the Germans against the Hottentots, entered the colony under the leadership of a man named Ferreira, and began raiding farms and forcibly enrolling recruits.

The party was struck a blow in July 1906, when two days after a celebration of his seventieth birthday, Joseph Chamberlain suffered a stroke and was forced to retire from politics.

The Swedish Party ( 1870 – 1906 ), a parliamentary elite party based on members in the Diet of Finland, is the historical predecessor of the Swedish People's Party of Finland.

The Swedish People's Party of Finland was founded in the 1906 party congress of the Swedish Party, making it one of the oldest parties in Finland.

Facing a resurgent Liberal opposition and the threat of an internal party split, Balfour eventually took the Unionists into opposition in December 1905, and in the ensuing rout in the election of 1906, Austen Chamberlain found himself one of the few surviving Liberal Unionists in the House of Commons.

The party was founded in 1906 as a movement of citizens in the Finnish countryside.

At first all political groups were able to work together, but towards 1906 the civil guards of large towns had become divided along party lines.

The first violent clash between Red and White Guards occurred in July 1906 in Helsinki, but after the return of Finnish autonomy the moderate Social Democrats and the whole constitutional party withdrew from military activities.

Although the party officially boycotted the first State Duma in 1906, 34 SRs were elected, while 37 were elected to the second Duma in 1907 ; the party boycotted both the third and fourth Dumas in 1907 – 1917.

The White Sox were a strong team during their first two decades, winning the 1906 World Series with a defense-oriented team dubbed " the Hitless Wonders ", and the 1917 World Series led by Eddie Cicotte, Eddie Collins, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

This was the first thermionic valve, or vacuum tube, invented in 1906, which led to the generation and amplification of electrical signals, radio broadcasting, and electronic computation, amongst other things.

The American situation led to a worldwide boom in the production and exhibition of films from 1906 onwards.

Pentecostalism achieved worldwide attention in 1906 through the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles led by William Joseph Seymour.

The largest colonial enterprises were in Africa, where the harsh treatment of the Nama and Herero in what is now Namibia in 1906 – 07 led to charges of genocide against the Germans.

A depiction of a young Hel ( center ) being led to the assignment of her realm, while her brother Fenrir is led forward ( left ) and Jörmungandr ( right ) is about to be cast by Odin ( 1906 ) by Lorenz Frølich.

Heinz led a successful lobbying effort in favor of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.

German attempts to counter this growing influence led to the First Moroccan Crisis of 1905 – 1906 and the Second Moroccan Crisis ( 1911.

* A lodge called Mystica Aeterna within the Masonic Order of Memphis and Mizraim, which Steiner led from 1906 until around 1914.

Lee De Forest's 1906 " audion " was also developed as a radio detector, and soon led to the development of the triode tube.

In 1906, President Roosevelt sent troops to restore order in Cuba during the revolt led by General Enrique Loynaz del Castillo, and Taft temporarily became the Civil Governor of Cuba, personally negotiating with Castillo for a peaceful end to the revolt.

It led to the establishment of limited constitutional monarchy, the State Duma of the Russian Empire, the multi-party system, and the Russian Constitution of 1906.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

This led to a long and thriving tradition of road racing, including events like Sicily's Targa Florio ( from 1906 ) and Giro di Sicilia ( Tour of Sicily, 1914 ), which went right round the island, both of which continued on and off until after World War II.

On August 15, 1906, the Niagara Movement led by author and scholar W. E. B.

This led directly to an investigation commissioned directly by the President, and to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which established the Food and Drug Administration.

Both David Sweetman and John Richardson point to the Gauguin sculpture called Oviri ( literally meaning ' savage '), the gruesome phallic figure of the Tahitian goddess of life and death that was intended for Gauguin's grave, exhibited in the 1906 retrospective exhibition that even more directly led to Les Demoiselles.

In 1906 Robert Peary led an expedition in northern Ellesmere Island, from Cape Sheridan along the coast to the western side of Nansen Sound ( 93 ° W ).

His testimony led to passage of the Hepburn Act of 1906 which eased railroad fares for western shippers.

Worrall led the club to its first three VFL premierships, won consecutively, in 1906, 1907 and 1908.

The committee of 15 ( three women and 12 men ) was led by John Wolfenden ( 1906 – 1985 ) who had previously been headmaster of Uppingham and Shrewsbury and in 1950 became Vice Chancellor of the University of Reading.

Chamberlain could, perhaps, have led the Unionists despite these drawbacks, but in July 1906 he suffered a stroke, which left him physically crippled.

This led to the 1906 trials of pistols from six firearms manufacturing companies ( namely, Colt, Bergmann, Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken ( DWM ), Savage Arms Company, Knoble, Webley, and White-Merril.