Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• January 1st - The opening of the Manchester ship canal
• January - Georges du Maurier causes a sensation with his book "Trilby"
• March 3rd - Gladstone resigned, Lord Roseberry took over as Prime Minister
• July 25th - China attacked by Japan
• September 16th - Japanese capture of Ping-Yang
• October 15th - Captain Dreyfuss (Papillon) arrested for treason in France
• Uganda becomes British Protectorate
• Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book is published
• Robert Louis Stevenson dies, aged 44

The population of the UK was 33.7 million

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May 5th

• Mr. Swinburne
  Mr. Swinburne "Astrophel"
  Pastels At The Imperial Institute
  The House of Commons. by The Mace
  The Two Directors Sir Frederick Burton and Mr. E. J. Poynter, R.A. (2 illustrations)
  Volunteers And Regulars In Middlesex Training For Outpost Duty (5 great illustrations)
  The Royal College of Music
  The Bird's Nest by Marcella Walker (beautiful full page illustration)
  Pastels by John Russell, R.A. (5 great illstrations)
  ad for United kingdom Tea Company
  ad of Mappin & Webb's Fitted Travelling Bags
  Player's Navy Cut Tobacco ad
  The Faulkner Diamond ad
  ad for Brooke's Soap

May 12th

Vol.CIV-No.2873
Great cover illustration of Opening Of The Antwerp International Exhibition, May 5th - Count De Pret Reading The Address To The king by W. H. Overend

Articles Include:

• The Royal Academy
• The Antwerp Exhibition.
  Royal Academy Banquet
  Pictures From The Royal Academy (photo seen Below) 16-pages with 60 Beautiful illustrations
  A Magazine Causerie
  Nonsense About Shakspear by Andrew Lang
  The Palace Hotel Hastings
  Full-page 4 different ads for Elliman's Universdal Embrocation (photo seen below)
  Mazawattee Tea 1/2 page ad
  Fry's Pure Concentrated Cocoa 1/2 page ad (photo seen below)
  Lipton's Delicious Teas World's Fair, Chicago 1/2 page ad (seen in photo below)
  Sir John Bennett, Ltd 1/3 page ad 5 watches in ad (photo seen below)
  Floriline for the Teeth and Breath ad (seen below in photo)
  Lifebuoy Royal Disinfectant Soap 1/2 page ad (photo seen below)

June 9th

• Vol.CIV-No.2877
  A Touch Of Old Sea Life: H.M.S. "Active" and H.M.S. "Volage" Going Out of Portsmouth Harbour Under Sail Only. The British Commissioner Mr. H. H. Johnston In Central Africa
  The Royal Military Tournment
  Atlas Assurance Company's Offices
  Our American Naval Vistors On Board The united States Cruiser "Chicago"- photos of Captain Alfred T. Mahan, Admiral Henry Erben, Gun Drill and Deck Drill )
  Mr. Conway In The Himalayas by A. J. Butler
  The Missionary Conference
  The Debutante by Lucien Davis, R.I.- Centerfold Illustration
  Golf In The Low Countries In The Sixteenth Century
  Volunteer CoastDefence Railway Artillery
  Mazawattee Tea 1/2 page ad
  Lipton's Teas 1/2 page ad

16th June

Vol.CIV-No.2878

• Lord Rosebery Leading In Ladas After The Race For The Derby
• The Late Bishop Of Bath and Wells
• The Skinner's Company's Almshouses
• A Victim Of Good Luck by W. E. Norris illustrated by A. Forestier
• Dr.Stirling's Geological Discoveries In South Australia
• Battles Of The British Army, No.VIL-Waterloo
  

Summer Number 1,

• Great cover illustration Violetes by Prescott Davis and other illustrations .
• Stories with illustrations:
  His Good Fairy by M. E. Braddon (illustrated by Forestier)
  The House Of Nightingales by Max Pemberton. (illustrated by R. Caton Woodville)
  The Eternal Feminine by Izangwill. (illustrated by A. Birkenruth)
  

30th June

No.2880-Vol.CIV

• The Late M. Sadi Carnot, President Of The French Republic, Assassinated At Lyons, Sunday June 24th. (great illustration)
• Great Colliery Disaster In South Wales
• The Late Lord Forester.
• Opening Of The Tower Bridge. ( full page illustration and 8 other illustrations)
• The Great Fire In Taberanacle Street, Finsbury. (full-page illustration)
• Full-page advert for Brooke's Soap-Monkey Brand.
• Illustrated advert for John Brinsmead & Sons' Pianos.
  

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