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Events relating to england
H.G. Wells publishes Kipps: the story of a simple soul, a comic novel about a bumbling draper's assistant
Bernard Shaw has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman
The designer Edward Gordon Craig publishes a theatrical manifesto, The Art of the Theatre
Conservative prime minister Balfour resigns and Henry Campbell-Bannerman forms an interim Liberal government in Britain
Sir Percy Blakeney rescues aristocrats from the guillotine in Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel
Henry Campbell-Bannerman leads the Liberals to a massive election victory in the UK on a promised programme of reform
Britain's Labour Party achieves its first electoral success, winning twenty-nine seats at Westminster
Britain launches HMS Dreadnought, the first of a massive new class of battleship
English biologist William Bateson uses the word 'genetics' to describe the phenomenon of heredity and variation
Frederick Soddy observes his first examples of chemically identical elements with differing atomic weights, to which he later gives the name isotopes
17-year-old Charlie Chaplin joins the Fred Karno company, touring slapstick comedy
The first volume of the inexpensive Everyman's Library is issued by Joseph Dent, a London publisher
E. Nesbit publishes The Railway Children, the most successful of her books featuring the Bastable family
The Cunard company launches the Lusitania on the Clyde as a sister ship to the Mauretania
Ethel Smyth's most successful opera, The Wreckers, is premiered in Leipzig
John Galsworthy publishes The Man of Property, the first of his novels chronicling the family of Soames Forsyte
Frederick Delius's Walk to the Paradise Garden is added to his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet to cover a scene change during the Berlin premiere
Edmund Gosse publishes Father and Son, an account of his difficult relationship with his fundamentalist father, Philip Gosse
Dutch and British companies (Royal Dutch Oil, Shell Transport and Trading) merge to form Royal Dutch Shell Oil
An Entente signed between Britain and Russia follows on from the 1904 Entente Cordiale with France to establish a new Triple Entente
Charles Stewart Rolls and Henry Royce build their most famous car, the Silver Ghost, in the factory they have set up in Derby
The world's first custom-built motor-racing track opens at Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey
Frederick Delius completes Brigg Fair, an 'English Rhapsody' for orchestra, first performed in Liverpool in 1908
Samuel Simon, working in Manchester, takes out a patent for the use of silk to support a stencil
The first International Horse Show takes place in London's Olympia stadium
