World Events
Anti-German riots in Alsace-Lorraine.- Third Irish Home Rule Bill is rejected by House of Lords; threat of civil war in Ireland, formation of private Protestant army (Ulster Volunteers) to oppose Home Rule.
- Suffragette demonstrations in London - Mrs Pankhurst is imprisoned.
- Geiger invents his counter to measure radioactivity.
- George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion is published.
- D H Lawrence writes Sons and Lovers.
