January HP produces musical adaptation of Pilgrim's Progress in Pulborough & Horsham 

 January 1 First opera broadcast by wireless from New York Met with Caruso 

 May 21 Edward VII dies

 August 20 Florence Nightingale dies

 November 21 Writer Leo Tolstoy dies

 November 23 Dr Crippen hanged at Pentonville prison  

 January 3 Sidney Street siege

 June 23 Coronation of George V

 August 22 Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre

 December 14 Amundsen beats Scott to South Pole

 April 15 Titanic sinks

 September 5 Composer John Cage born

 October 11 Leopold Stokowski conducts first concert with Philadelphia orchestra

 February 10 Capt. Robert Scott  & his party found dead

 June 8 Suffragette Emily Davison is killed under the King's horse at the Derby

 September 29 Engine inventor Rudolf Diesel dies

 December 31 Stolen Mona Lisa returns to the Louvre

 August 2 HP in Paris at outbreak of Great War

 April 2 Actor Alec Guinness born

 June 28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated

 August 4 War declared on Germany

  March 20 Pianist Sviatoslav Richter born

 May 8 Sinking of the Lusitania

 July 1 'Brides in the Bath' murderer George Joseph Smith sentenced to death

 December 20 Retreat from Gallipoli

 April Mr & Mrs E. Cooper move into Rectory Cottage at Borley

 April 25 Easter uprising in Dublin

 June 7 Lord Kitchener lost at sea

 July 3 Somme campaign opens

 December 30 Rasputin the 'Mad Monk' is murdered

 HP makes munitions in own workshop in Pulborough as part of war effort.

 HP becomes manager of munitions factory in Tottenham

  January 10 Wild West legend Buffalo Bill dies

 March 16 Russian monarchy falls in Bolshevik revolution

 April 6 America enters the War

 August 6 Actor Robert Mitchum born

 April 22 Red Baron shot down in flames

 July 16 Czar Nicholas II and family massacred

 November 11 Armistice signed

 January 3 Rutherford spilts the atom

 June 15 Alcock & Brown cross Atlantic

 June 8 Versailles Treaty signed

 December 3 Artist Auguste Renoir dies