Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

In Britain it was a freeezing winter with many dying from the cold. Things were made worse by coal,dock and transport strikes

• January 12th - Captain Robert Scott reached the South Pole, none of his party survived the return.
• March 1st - Window smashing rampage in Londons West end by Suffragettes
• April 15th - Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage, 1513 passengers and crew were drowned and 706 were saved after an SOS mesage was picked up by the Liner Carpathia
• September 28th - Ulster Loyalists determined to fight Home Rule by force
• October 1st - First Balkan war - Turkey invaded by Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro
• November 5th - Democrat Woodrow Wilson elected 28th president of the USA

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March 9th

• Suffragettes = glass smashing for votes-Suffragettes as window breakers

March 16th

• Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott - South Pole Expeditions

April 6th

• Titanic advert for Vinolia Otto toilet soap

April 20th

Titanic disaster number

April 27th

• The true meaning of the Titanic disaster

May 4th

• Pictures of the Titanic disaster

May 11th

• The Titanic Enquiry

May 18th

• A Special South Pole number - Amundsen's triumph

May 25th

• Titanic Enquiry

Christmas Number

• "Her Christmas Box" by Hal Hurst
• "Christmas By Injunction" by O. Henry illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo
• "The Giant Among the Pigmies:Gulliver in Lilliput" and "The Pigmies Among the Giants: Gulliver in Brobdingnag" illustrated by Andre Devambez
• "Unpublished Xmas Cards-Cruikshank,Nicholson,etc."
• "The Flying Ship" illustrated by W. Heath Robinson,
• "Tsuna and the Beautiful Lady" by Warwick Goble
• "Circe","Queen of Sheba","Salome",and "Scherazade" by Edmund Dulac
• "The Language of Beasts" and "The Crab and the Monkey" by Edward Detmold,etc.

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