Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• March 20th - First London to Paris telephone link opened
• May 1st - Mass demonstartions in Hyde Park for an 8 hour working day
• October 6th - Death of distinguished Irish MP Charles Stewart Parnell
• The Factory Act prohibits the employment of children under 11 years of age
• Construction of the Trans Siberian Railway is begun
• Construction of the Blackwall tunnel started
• Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles was published

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April 11th

• The Conflict & expedition to Manipur in INDIA, front page illustrations of the Native Officers and soldiers of the 42nd Goorkhas ( or Gurka's ) engaged in the recent conflict in Munipur & one of the MANIPUR types, on it's way to the front .
• Russian Criminals on a march in Siberia (legs/ankles shackled in iron chains),
• an account of antiquarian discoveries in Egypt,
• a great full page illustration of a 21 ton Armstrong cannon gun hauled up to fire at Fort Valdiva, Valparaiso in Chile.,
• great illustrated adverts at rear inc the Czar taking his Beecham's pills from his pocket
• illustration of Barnard, Bishop & Barnards fireplace and carved wood mantepeice.

December 12th

• An article from the series "The Jew A Home" by Joseph Pennell on Jews in "Austrian Poland".
• Betrothal of The Duke Of Clarence and Avondale
• Marriage of Princess Henry of Pless
• The Earthquake In Japan
• The Disturbances In China, Great Wall Of China : Nankow Pass
• The Mozart Centenary By G.Bernard Shaw

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