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Events relating to england
Confronted with the threat of 300 newly created peerages, the House of Lords narrowly passes Asquith's Parliament Bill (by 17 votes)
Max Beerbohm publishes his novel Zuleika Dobson, in which the beauty of his heroine causes havoc among the students at Oxford
UK suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested, released and rearrested twelve times within the year
The White Star liner Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, drowning 1513 passengers and crew
William Morris opens a factory at Cowley, near Oxford, to produce motor cars
Charles Dawson claims to have found the fossilized skull of an early man (named in his honour Eoanthropus dawsoni in a gravel pit at Piltdown
Tommy Sopwith founds the aviation company that will produce the Pup and the Camel
Ludwig Wittgenstein moves to Cambridge to study philosophy under Bertrand Russell
Walter De la Mare establishes his reputation with the title poem of his collection The Listeners
Ethel Smyth, in Holloway jail, conducts her fellow prisoners in a suffragette anthem composed by herself
A conference of great powers in London accepts Albanian independence but within altered boundaries
Under pressure from Russia, the London conference allots the ethnically Albanian region of Kosovo to Serbia
Walter Sickert paints Ennui, depicting a difficult or dreary moment in a marriage
The Vickers Fighting Biplane No 1 is unveiled in London at the Olympia Aero Show as the world's first purpose-built fighter plane
The first issue of the New Statesman is published by Beatrice and Sidney Webb
English geologist Arthur Holmes publishes The Age of the Earth, offering evidence that the planet is at least 1.6 billion years old
Lawrence Bragg and his father, William, together develop X-ray crystallography, based on the diffraction patterns of crystals
The Morris company launches the Morris Oxford, later known as the Bullnose Morris from the shape of its radiator
Compton Mackenzie publishes the first volume of his autobiographial novel Sinister Street
The Treaty of London, ending the First Balkan War, allows Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia to divide up much of European Turkey
Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell complete a work of mathematical logic, Principia Mathematica
Frederick Soddy uses the term 'isotope' (Greek for 'same place') to describe observed anomalies in the periodic table
A suffragette, Emily Davison, dies after throwing herself under the king's horse in the Derby at Epsom
The so-called Cat and Mouse Act is the British government's response to hunger strikes by suffragettes
Frederick Delius completes On Hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring, first performed this same year in Leipzig
