| Pre-Raphaelite Events | Year | Other Events |
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 Hunt dies; buried in St Paul's Cathedral
|  | Edward VII dies, succeeded by George V
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| | Tango is all the rage
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| | National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People founded by W. E. B. DuBois
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| |  | Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole
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| | Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre (found in Italy 1913)
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| | Marie Curie receives Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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| |  | Extension to Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery opened
|
| | S. S. Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
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| | First parachute jump
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| | Royal Flying Corps (later R. A. F.) founded in Britain
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| | London has 400 cinemas; 5 million filmgoers daily in USA
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| |  | Suffragette demonstrations in London
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| | The Armory Show introduces Post-Impressionism and Cubism to USA
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| | Henry Ford pioneers the assembly line
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| |  | World War I begins; Britain declares war on Germany, Austria and Turkey
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| | 10.5 million emigrants enter USA from southern and eastern Europe (1905 - 1914)
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Webb and Hughes die
|  | German blockade of England begins; English and French troops land at Gallipoli; first Zeppelin attack on London
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| | Marcel Duchamp creates first Dada-styled paintings
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| | First transcontinental phone call (between New York & San Fransisco)
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Wallis dies
|  | Battle of the Somme; British first use tanks on Western Front
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| | Harold Wilson & Edward Heath born
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| | Dadaist cult arises in Zurich
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| |  | USA declares war on Germany, Hungary & Austria
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| | John F. Kennedy born
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| | Jazz sweeps USA from Chicago
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| |  | Allied offensive on Western Front ends World War I; approximately 8.5 million dead
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| | Air mail postage introduced - Chicago to New York |
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Murray and William Michael Rossetti die
|  | First League of Nations meeting in Paris |
| | Bauhaus founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar
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| | First non-stop flight across the Atlantic (Newfoundland to Ireland)
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1910s 
