TIME LINE 1895-1899

While Winsham Parish Council was savouring its new influence and powers, the wider world was experiencing other things.....

1895-Jude the Obscure-Thomas Hardy

1895-'The Scream' by Munch

1896-Italy defeated by Ethiopia at Adua

1896-Japanese Tsunami kills 27,000 people

1897-Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

1898-Battle of Obdurman

1898-Spanish - American War

1898 Aubrey Beardsley dies age 26

1898-'Wessex poems''-Thomas Hardy

1899-Start of the Boer War

1899-Enigma Variations-Elgar

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