—At Olympia, Kensington, Georges Carpentier (France) defeated "Gunboat" Smith (America) in the fight for the White Heavy Weight Championship of the world in the sixth round, on a foul.
—At Christie's, a pair of Chinese vases of the Koang-Ho period realised 3,800 guineas.
18. Home Rule Conference arranged. (See Eng. Hist., Chap. IV.)
18-20. Naval display at Portsmouth. (See Eng. Hist., Chap. IV.)
20. At Fort Grange military air station, near Gosport, Lieut. L. C. Hordern, Lancashire Fusiliers, was fatally, and Sergeant Campbell seriously, injured in an aeroplane accident.
—At the Pont d'Empalot near Toulouse, an express from Bayonne ran into a stationary train; seven persons killed, over thirty injured.
21. The Shah of Persia crowned at Teheran.
22. Mr. George Smith, M.A. Oxon, Headmaster of Merchiston Castle Grammar School, Edinburgh, appointed Headmaster of Dulwich College, vice Mr. A. H. Gilkes, M.A. Oxon, resigned.
24. Failure of the Home Rule Conference.
—Tercentenary celebrated of the publication by John Napier of Merchistoun of his discovery of logarithms.