Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• March 10th - First Hollywood film released; Griffith's In Old California
• May 6th - Death of Edward VII and is succeeded by George V
• May - Halley's Comet
• July 31st - Dr Crippen arrested at sea for murder
• Mount Etna erupted,
• Cholera epidemic in Russia
• Liberals win general election in Britain
• South Africa becomes a dominion - Louis Botha becomes premier
• Post impressionist exhibition in London
• Florence Nightingale dies, aged 90
• Author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina Count Leo Tolstoy died aged 82
• 344 miners died in a coal mining disaster at Hulton Lancashire and 136 at Wellington pit Whitehaven ,

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March 19th 1910

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