Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• January - Earthquake in Jamaica
• January - A bill proposed reduction in the power of the House of Lords
• March - assasination of premier Petkov of Bulgaria
• March 22nd - Gandhi began civil disobedience campaign in South Africa over restrictions imposed on asians by the Transvaal government
• April 3rd - Worst famine on record reported in Russia
• July - Major-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell formed the Boy Scout movement
• October 11th - fastest ever Atlantic crossing made by Cunard's Lusitania 4 days 19 hours 52 mins
• A meeting of 44 nations at the Hague proposed an International court of Justice
• Britain, France and Spain form a Triple Alliance and in response the Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy was renewed
• The German Kaiser was cheered by huge crowds on a visit to London
• The King and Queen opened the new Central Criminal Courts at the Old Bailey
• RudyardKipling became the first briton to win the Nobel Prize for literature
• The first Cubist exhibition in Paris
• Piccaso shocked the art world with his painting Demoiselles d'Avignon
• New Zealand becomes a Dominion

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