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Events relating to england
Somerset Maugham publishes his semi-autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage
The English writer Virginia Woolf publishes her first novel, The Voyage Out
D.H. Lawrence's novel about the Brangwen family, The Rainbow, is seized by the police as an obscene work
Secret agent Richard Hannay makes his first appearance in John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps
Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published a few months after his death in Greece
A Zeppelin airship makes a night-time bombing raid on the English port of Great Yarmouth
The German battle cruiser Blücher is sunk by the British off the Dogger Bank
Two passenger liners are sunk by German U-boats
Winston Churchill is a firm supporter of a new invention, the tank, encouraging its initial development while still at the Admiralty
In a secret pact, signed in London, Italy is promised territorial gains if she joins the Allied side
The British passenger liner Lusitania is sunk by a U-boat, with the loss of 1000 civilian lives
A German Zeppelin airship makes the first bombing raid on London
from December - the 225-horsepower Eagle, the first of many Rolls-Royce aero-engines, is used to power British bombers
Wartime income tax soars in Britain to an unprecedented 30%
New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies sets up a plastic surgery unit at Aldershot, a British military base
Max Aitken, later Lord Beaverbook, buys a controlling share in the British newspaper the Daily Express
Britain and France sign the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement, dividing up spheres of influence in the Middle East
"If You Were the Only Girl in the World" features in the London musical The Bing Boys are Here
Hubert Parry sets profoundly evocative verses by William Blake and gives his composition the title Jerusalem
Gustav Holst completes his orchestral suite c, not performed in its entirety until 1920
Robert Graves publishes his first book of poems, Over the Brazier
The musical Chu Chin Chow opens at His Majesty's Theatre in London and runs for a record 2235 performances
Manchester dramatist Harold Brighouse has a major success when his play Hobson's Choice is performed in London
The author H.H. Munro ('Saki') is killed by a sniper's bullet on a battlefield in France
Lloyd George splits his own Liberal party when he forms a coalition government with the Conservatives
