In September 1916, following an attack on St Albans, the German Airship SL 11 became the first airship to be brought down over England.

The Peakes were given leave to visit England just before World War I in 1914 and returned to China in 1916.

Hector Hugh Munro ( 1870 – 1916 ), also known by his pen name of Saki, wrote satirical short stories about Edwardian England.

Whitehead's Presidential address in 1916 to the Mathematical Association of England The Aims of Education in the book of the same title ( 1929a ) pointedly criticized the formalistic approach of modern British teachers who do not care about culture and self-education of their disciples: " Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling.

She and her children were made Counts de Torby, her younger daughter, Countess Nada ( 1896 – 1963 ) marrying, in 1916 Prince George of Battenberg, future Marquess of Milford Haven and scion of the House of Battenberg, a morganatic branch of the grandducal House of Hesse which had settled in England and inter-married with descendants of Queen Victoria.

Concomitantly, the resulting trade in munitions with England and France carried the United States from a depression in 1914 to boom years in 1915 and 1916.

Wilson was born at 4 Warneford Road, Huddersfield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England on 11 March 1916, an almost exact contemporary of his rival, Edward Heath ( 9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005 ).

Borrowing an idea developed in England in 1916, cards were placed on holders along the range and scaled models of the missile fired through them.

The institution was founded in 1916 as the School of Oriental Studies at 2 Finsbury Circus, London, England, the then premises of the London Institution.

Maude Knight married Chester Rodney England in 1916.

In September 1916 Huxley returned to England from Texas to assist in the war effort, working in the British Army Intelligence Corps, first in Sussex, and then in northern Italy.

Suchet was born in London, the son of Joan Patricia ( née Jarché ; 1916 – 1992 ), an actress, and Jack Suchet, who emigrated to England from South Africa in 1932, and trained to be a doctor at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1933.

He was one of the few King's Counsel to provided legal services to members of Sinn Féin in various legal proceedings in both Ireland and England post the 1916 Rising.

The poll resulted in candidates including Guy Fawkes, who was executed for trying to blow up the Parliament of England ; Oliver Cromwell who created a republican England ; Richard III, suspected of murdering his nephews ; James Connolly, an Irish nationalist and socialist who was executed by the Crown in 1916 ; and a surprisingly high ranking of 17th for the former Some Mothers Do ' Ave ' Em star Michael Crawford.

In at least 1916 browncoal bricks were embossed with the motto " Gott Strafe England " and sold in the Netherlands.

Beginning in 1916, he was also one of the first composers to conduct his own music for recording, producing full recordings of Merrie England and Theme and Six Diversions.

French returned to England to be appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Home Forces in December 1915, and in January 1916, he was created Viscount French of Ypres and of High Lake in the County of Roscommon.

In England and Wales, the term fraudulent conversion was applicable to the offences under the Larceny Act 1901 and under sections 20 and 21 of the Larceny Act 1916.

* Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 2, edited by William Carey-Jones, Bancroft – Whitney, San Francisco, 1916 ( Books 3 & 4 )

He embarked towards home in 1916 ; but since his country was now in the enemy hands, he went to England instead.

In London, professor Pavle Popović, a literary historian and critic, was in charge of Serbian schoolboys and undergraduates who, after Serbia was overrun by the enemy, were brought to England in the summer of 1916 through the generosity of the British people and the enterprise of the Serbian Relief Fund, founded by Lady Paget, the wife of Sir Ralph Paget.

They were married in the Catholic Church of St. Mary Immaculate in Warwick, England, on Wednesday 22 March 1916.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

An anthem is a form of church music, particularly in the service of the Church of England, in which it is appointed by the rubrics to follow the third collect at both morning and evening prayer.

The waltz with its modern hold took root in England in about 1812 ; in 1819 Carl Maria von Weber wrote Invitation to the Dance, which marked the adoption of the waltz form into the sphere of absolute music.

By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.

There were also underground discotheques in Nazi Germany patronized by anti-Nazi youth called the swing kids .. Jimmy Saville played records of big band music in dance halls in Leeds, England, during World War Two.

In 1771 Mozart's copy was procured and published in England by the famous traveler and music historian Dr. Burney.

The galliard was a favourite dance of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and although it is a relatively vigorous dance, in 1589 when the Queen was aged in her mid fifties, John Stanhope of the Privy Chamber reported, " the Queen is so well as I assure you, six or seven galliards in a morning, besides music and singing, is her ordinary exercise.

The number of pianos manufactured in England doubled between 1870 and 1890 as more people began to play parlour music at home and more theatres and concert halls opened.

His publication of Psalms, The Book of Psalmes: Englished both in Prose and Metre with Annotations ( Amsterdam, 1612 ), which includes thirty-nine separate monophonic psalm tunes, constituted the Ainsworth Psalter, the only book of music brought to New England in 1620 by the Pilgrim settlers.

Composers who wrote solo harpsichord music were numerous during the whole Baroque era in European countries including Italy, Germany, England and France.

At the end of the 17th century opera flourished in England under Henry Purcell, and in France under Lully, who with the collaboration of Molière also greatly raised the status of the entertainments known as ballets, interspersed with instrumental and vocal music.

" Grove Music Online also states that "... in the early 1960s term ‘ pop music ’ competed terminologically with Beat music England, while in the USA its coverage overlapped ( as it still does ) with that of ‘ rock and roll ’.

Reels are popular in the folk music of South West England.

The Tristan Song Project is an ongoing collaboration between St Mary's School and amateur composers in England, led by music teacher Tony Triggs.

Christine was born in the small village of Bouth in the Lake District of England and grew up in the Bearwood area of Smethwick near Birmingham, where her father, Cyril P. A. Perfect, was a concert violinist and music lecturer at St Peter's College of Education, Saltley, Birmingham.

It was first performed in England on 24 May 1856 in Italian at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where it was considered morally questionable, and " the heads of the Church did their best to put an injunction upon performance ; the Queen refrained from visiting the theatre during the performances, though the music, words and all, were not unheard at the palace ".

* January 21 – * Queen Elizabeth I of England grants a monopoly on producing printed sheet music to Thomas Tallis and William Byrd

The Synclavier System was an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation, manufactured by New England Digital Corporation, Norwich, VT.

Haydn became more interested in choral music near the end of his life following his visits to England in the 1790s, when he heard various Handel oratorios performed by large forces ; he wrote a series of masses beginning in 1797 and his two great oratorios The Creation and The Seasons.

* Purcell School, a specialist music school in Hertfordshire, England

He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard ( the so-called Virginalist school ) and consort music.

Although Byrd had a major reputation in England during his lifetime, his music was in many respects curiously uninfluential.

The Encyclopædia Britannica maintains that " The long reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1603, was England's Golden Age ...' Merry England ,' in love with life, expressed itself in music and literature, in architecture, and in adventurous seafaring.