H.G. Wells publishes The Time Machine, a story about a Time Traveller whose first stop on his journey is the year 802701

Gwen John persuades a reluctant father to allow her to follow her younger brother to the Slade School of Art in London

A promenade concert, presented by Henry Wood in London's Queen's Hall, turns out to be the beginning of a very long tradition

The Dutch House is acquired by Kew Gardens and a few years later is opened to the public

English poet A.E. Housman publishes his first collection, A Shropshire Lad

22-year-old Guglielmo Marconi takes out a patent in Britain for the invention of radio

The Duc D'Orleans, who had been born at York House in 1869, buys the house and makes major alterations. These include a new east wing housing a museum and swimming pool, and walling the riverside grounds.

English physicist Joseph John Thomson, working at the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, discovers the existence of the electron

To accommodate the increasing number of children, the Queen’s School is rebuilt on three storeys

Diamond Jubilee bonfires and fireworks all round Briain celebrate Victoria's sixty years on the throne

Turbinia, powered by the newly invented Parsons steam turbine, breaks the speed record when Queen Victoria reviews her fleet

Somerset Maugham publishes his first novel, Liza of Lambeth, based on the London life he has observed as a medical student

English author Bram Stoker publishes Dracula, his gothic tale of vampirism in Transylvania

British physician Ronald Ross identifies the Anopheles mosquito as the carrier of malaria

Richmond Golf Club is established at Sudbrook Park

The Cunard family, then living close by at Orleans House, buy the Marble Hill estate for £36,000 with the intention of creating a housing estate.

British chemists William Ramsay and Morris Travers isolate the element c

Henry James moves from London to Lamb House in Rye, Sussex, which remains his home for the rest of his life

British chemists William Ramsay and Morris Travers isolate the element neon

British chemists William Ramsay and Morris Travers isolate the element xenon

H.G. Wells publishes his science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds, in which Martians arrive in a rocket to invade earth

Marconi launches a factory in Chelmsford, England, for the purpose of manufacturing radios ('wirelesses' in the language of the time)

English town-planner Ebenezer Howard puts forward a Utopian scheme in Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform

Henry James publishes The Turn of the Screw in a collection of short stories

John Kelly (1840-1904) designs All Saints, Petersham, in the style of a Romanesque basilica