Illustrated London News 1907

The Characteristic salutation of the Todas: A curious tribe of Nilgiri Hills in Southern India

Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

January - Earthquake in Jamaica
January - A bill proposed reduction in the power of the House of Lords
March - assasination of premier Petkov of Bulgaria
March 22nd - Gandhi began civil disobedience campaign in South Africa over restrictions imposed on asians by the Transvaal government
April 3rd - Worst famine on record reported in Russia
July - Major-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell formed the Boy Scout movement
October 11th - fastest ever Atlantic crossing made by Cunard's Lusitania 4 days 19 hours 52 mins
A meeting of 44 nations at the Hague proposed an International court of Justice
Britain, France and Spain form a Triple Alliance and in response the Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy was renewed
The German Kaiser was cheered by huge crowds on a visit to London
The King and Queen opened the new Central Criminal Courts at the Old Bailey
RudyardKipling became the first briton to win the Nobel Prize for literature
The first Cubist exhibition in Paris
Piccaso shocked the art world with his painting Demoiselles d'Avignon
New Zealand becomes a Dominion