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Events relating to england
John Ireland sets Masefield's poem Sea Fever to music
English physicist Henry Moseley proposes that the atomic number of an element is a physical reality, thus laying the basis for the modern periodic table
The march Colonel Bogey is written and published by a Royal Marine bandleader under the pseudonym Kenneth Alford
D.H. Lawrence publishes a semi-autobiographical novel about the Morel family, Sons and Lovers
A suffragette slashes the Rokeby Venus by Velázquez in London's National Gallery
Wyndham Lewis and others launch Vorticism with a new magazine, Blast
Vaughan Williams writes a romance for violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending, inspired by George Meredith's poem of the same name
James Joyce's novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins serial publication in a London journal, The Egoist
British golfer Harry Vardon wins his sixth Open, a record still unbroken
American-born poet Thomas Stearns Eliot crosses the Atlantic to England, making it his home for the rest of his life
The Times Literary Supplement is published in London as an independent paper, separate from The Times
Vaughan Williams' London Symphony, including picturesque sounds of the city's street life, is first performed
Jacob Epstein completes his sculpture The Rock Drill, the outstanding work of the Vorticist movement
Stanley Spencer joins the Royal Army Medical Corps, with whom he finds a wealth of subject matter
Ivor Novello has a great success with his topical song Keep the Home Fires Burning (with lyrics by Lena Ford)
Bound by treaty to defend Belgium, Britain declares war on Germany
A small British Expeditionary Force is rushed across the Channel to Boulogne
Britain declares war on the empire of Austria-Hungary
British planes, taking off from Dunkirk, bomb Cologne railway station and destroy Germany's latest Zeppelin in its great shed at Düsseldorf
British troops are driven to the western front in London Transport double-deckers
H.G. Wells publishes The War that will end War, offering an optimistic prediction of the present conflict leading to a future world state
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman empire
German planes cross the Channel and bomb Dover
An employee of the Metropolitan Railway coins the term Metro-land when promoting the company's services in London's suburbs
Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag, by George Asaf and Felix Powell, rapidly becomes one of the most popular songs of the day
