Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• January 31st - Irish Home Rule Bill rejected by the Lords
• February 17th - Modern and abstract art intoduced in the USA at Armory Show
• April 14th - Typhus vaccine discovered
• May 30th - Peace declared between Turkey and the Balkan league
• June 4th - Miss Emily Davison died after she threw herself under the Kings horse at the Derby
• July 1st - 2nd Balkan War declared on Bulgaria by Greece and Serbia and ends with The Treaty of Bucharest
• October 10th - Panama Canal effectively opened by blowing up of Gamboa
• Emmeline Pankhurst was sentenced to 3 years after planting a bomb that destroyed Lloyd George's golfing villa in Surrey
• In New York the Grand Central Station opened and a couple were arrested for kissing in the street
• In Germany the Kaiser banned soldiers and sailors from dancing the Tango
• In Paris the premiere of Stravinky's The Rite of Spring caused a riot
• Albert Schweitzer opens Lambaréné Hospital (Gabon)
• More than 400 miners died in a Colliery fire in the Aber Valley
• Anglo Turkish treaty gave Britain the sole rights to oil exploration in Arabia, Mesopotamia and Syria

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February 15th

• Scott and the Antarctic Tragedy

February 22nd

• Suffragettes 1 page report of bomb attack carried out on Lloyd George's house by Emily Wilding Davison
  

Septenber 6th

40 pages

main news items

• The dreadful train crash at Aisgill (front page illustration),
• Unrest in Ireland,
• Airships (and how they work as a weapon of war),
• Flying aeroplanes (feats & disasters),
• England's old wooden Navy

October 4th

• The cover shows the last dynamiting for the Panama Canal which flooded the the lake from the pacific ocean.
• Inside: The upside down flying of Pegoud, athe anti-home force in Ulster,
• Putting Holland behind dikes for more usable land,
• Viswakama Buddhist Temple,
• Female elephants. Elephants in their native haunts of the Congo,
• George Moore's autobiography, Saturn.

October 11th

• The cover shows women in the new donkey's ear hats. inside:
• Nelson's Wireless: optical signalling before Marconigrams.
• Mountain fighting in Switzerland,
• Radium to cure Cancer and rheumatism.
• Italian Islands of the Aegean,
• Athletes train in France for the Olympics,
• Hard hat diving for pearls.
• The Black Watch-highlanders on the march.
• Aquaplaning is shown here. A form of surfing.
• The build up of the Austro-Hungarian Army.

October 25th

• Inside: covering the sea with a film of oil to make it smoother navigation,
• Micronesian natives in full fighting gear,
• How Trafalgar was fought,
• Golf on the High Seas is the artwork shown,
• The mystery painting of Charlotte Bronte is discovered.
• The Zeppelin L-2 burns and crashes in Berlin,
• Golconda the Fort in India, last weeks wedding gifts on show.
• Big game shot women and Deerstalker women shown,
• Sir Rufus Isaacs the New Lord Chief,
• Venus,
• Figures on Easter Island

November 1st

• The cover shows the drawing of a man found on a mammoth.
• Inside: Mexico's President Huerta,
• a tornado in South Wales,
• Wire haired fox terrier takes the prize,
• China's inauguration of her first president,
• suffragettes burn down the Bristol university Athletic facility,
• Desert cactus in Arizona,
• Scenes in China,
• the girl from Utah,
• sending a locomotive across the Rio Grande in New Mexico,
• Papua's headhunters,
• Jupiter,
• Dicken's Old Curiosity shop,
• Famous British fighting ship figureheads,
• The Romance of India,
• Centerfold of the dog show-mostly Terriers.

November 8th

• The cover U.S. Marines keeping watch at the Mexican Border.
• Inside: Railway wrecks,
• Panama Canal opened by dynamite,
• A Mexican hat store,
• Scotts last expedition to the Antarctic
• etchings of Edgar Chahine,
• Cinematography in Britain,
• Centerfold of the Argentine Tango,
• Mercury,
• Duchess of Brunswick.
• Full page Buchanan's advert,
• Full page Michelin Man advert sitting on the Olympia glass building

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