The Illustrated London News 1894
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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