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Events relating to england
Fritz Kreisler is the soloist in the first performance of Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto
George V succeeds his father, Edward VII, on the British throne
Charles Stewart Rolls becomes the first man to fly non-stop across the English Channel and back
Winston Churchill becomes home secretary in Asquith's Liberal government
John Buchan publishes Prester John, the first of his adventure stories
Charles Stewart Rolls dies in a flying accident shortly after his record cross-Channel flight
The critic Roger Fry presents in London's Grafton Galleries an influential exhibition of Post-Impressionist art
Telegraph messages lead to the arrest of Dr Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve in mid-Atlantic
H.G. Wells publishes The History of Mr Polly, a novel about an escape from drab everyday existence
Rudyard Kipling publishes If, which rapidly becomes his most popular poem among the British
Thomas Beecham sponsors and conducts his own season of opera at Covent Garden
The Liberals win another general election called on the House of Lords issue, becoming the first British political party since 1832 to win three successive victories
E.M. Forster publishes Howard's End, his novel about the Schlegel sisters and the Wilcox family
The part-time English painter L.S. Lowry begins a lifetime career in a Manchester property company
Charles Wilson, using his cloud chamber to detect the passage of charged particles, obtains his first photographs of alpha and beta rays
Ernest Rutherford proposes the concept of the nucleus as a positively charged mass at the centre of an atom
Ethel Smyth's The March of Women has its premiere at a suffragette event in London's Albert Hall
D.H. Lawrence's career as a writer is launched with the publication of his first novel, The White Peacock
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova settles in London and forms her own touring company
Rupert Brooke publishes Poems, the only collection to appear before his early death in World War I
G.K. Chesterton's clerical detective makes his first appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown
The British chancellor, David Lloyd George, introduces the National Insurance Bill, providing workers with insurance in a few selected industries
The Titanic is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast
Walter Sickert and other painters, sharing his preference for everyday subjects, adopt the name Camden Town Group
Asquith's Parliament Bill proposes to end the constitutional crisis in the UK by restricting the power of the House of Lords
