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John, Augustus Edwin (1878–1961)

Welsh painter. He is known for his vivacious portraits, including The Smiling Woman (1910; Tate Gallery, London), portraying his second wife, Dorelia McNeill. His sitters included such literary figures as Thomas Hardy, Dylan Thomas, W B Yeats, T E Lawrence, and James Joyce.

John's portraits are outstanding in their combined certainty of drawing and temperamental handling of paint. His sense of colour and a modified post‐Impressionism appear in their most assured in his landscapes of the south of France and his flower pieces. He produced beautiful drawings of the figure at every stage of his career, and also some etchings.

His sister was the artist Gwen John.

Born in Tenby, South Wales, he studied at the Slade School of Art, and taught at the University College, Liverpool, from 1901 to 1902. He began to exhibit at the New English Art Club in 1903. From 1910 to 1919 John led a nomadic existence in Ireland, Dorset, and Wales, producing many poetic small oil paintings of figures in landscape. His cartoon for a mural decoration, Galway (1916; Tate Gallery), shows an inclination for large‐scale work which was never fully realized. During World War I he was an official artist to the Canadian Corps. Elected to the Royal Academy in 1928, he resigned in 1938 because of the Academy's rejection of a sculpture by Epstein, but accepted re‐election in 1940. He received the Order of Merit in 1942.

His autobiography appeared in two parts:Chiaroscuro (1952) and Finishing Touches (1964).

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3 January 1962
Pope John XXIII excommunicates the Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

5 January 1900

Irish Nationalist leader John Edward Redmond advocates a revolt against British home rule.

7 January 1785
Travelling in an air balloon, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries become the first ever people to cross the English Channel by air.

12 January 2006

In Italy, Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II, is released from prison. He served nearly 20 years in jail.

13 January 1968

Johnny Cash records the album ‘At Folsom Prison’ live at Folsom State Prison, USA.

16 January 2006
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is inaugurated as Liberia's new president. She is the first elected female Head of State in Africa.

19 January 1764

In Britain, the radical journalist, John Wilkes is expelled from the House of Commons for seditious libel.

20 January 1961

In America, John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States. Kennedy is to be both the youngest ever President and the first Roman Catholic to hold the office.

25 January 1998

Pope John Paul II calls for reform in Cuba. The Pope urged for the release of political prisoners, but also condemned American attempts to isolate the country.

2 February 962
Otto I is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John XII.

3 February 1986
Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India.

7 February 1991
British Prime Minister John Major and senior Cabinet Ministers escape unhurt as the IRA fires three mortar shells at 10 Downing Street from a van parked several streets away in the centre of London.

9 February 1965
The Vietnam War: President Johnson sends the first US combat troops to fight in South Vietnam.

11 February 1976
Figure skater John Curry wins Britain's first Olympic gold in the sport.

13 February 1965

The Vietnam War: President Johnson decides to undertake the sustained bombing of North Vietnam, known as Operation Rolling Thunder.

16 February 1987

In Israel, John Demjanjuk, who was accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed ‘Ivan the Terrible’ in the Treblinka extermination camp, goes on trail in Jerusalem.

20 February 1962

John Glenn becomes the first American astronaut to orbit the earth.

24 February 1868

Andrew Johnson becomes the first American president to be impeached.

28 February 1844

A gun on the boat USS Princeton explodes while it is cruising down the Potomac River. Two US Cabinet members are killed, but President John Tyler is unhurt.

1 March 1961
American President, John Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.

5 March 1993
Disgraced Olympic sprinter, Ben Johnson, is banned from athletics for life after failing his second drugs test.

9 March 2004
A Virginia Court sentences John Allen Muhammad to death and Lee Boyd Malvo to life in prison for the Beltway sniper attacks in America.

11 March 1996
In Australia, John Howard takes office as prime minister.

13 March 1868
The impeachment trial of American president Andrew Johnson begins.

18 March 2005
Private Johnson Gideon Beharry, of the 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, becomes the first recipient of the Victoria Cross since a posthumous award to Sgt Ian McKay, in 1982.

20 March 1969
John Lennon and Yoko Ono get married in Gibraltar.

22 March 1963
In Britain, the Secretary of State for War, John Profumo denies any impropriety with the model, Christine Keeler.

23 March 1848
After setting out from England, the ship John Wickliffe, arrives at Port Chalmers, Dunedin in New Zealand carrying the first settlers.

25 March 1969
John Lennon and Yoko Ono celebrate their honeymoon by beginning their bed-in for peace, inviting the worlds press to spend a week observing them talk and sing about peace.

26 March 2000
Whilst on a visit to Jerusalem, Israel Pope John Paul II prays for forgiveness of the sins of those involved in the Holocaust.

30 March 1992
During the British general election Prime Minister John Major famously mounts his “soap box” whilst out electioneering in Cheltenham.

31 March 1968
President Lyndon B. Johnson announces a halt to American bombing in Vietnam in an attempt to start peace talks with the North Vietnamese. He also declares that he will not seek re-election as President.

2 April 2005
Pope John Paull II dies ages 84.

5 April 1614
In America, Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indian confederacy, marries English tobacco planter John Rolfe.

7 April 1976
Labour MP John Stonehouse quits the Labour Party leaving James Callaghan’s government with a majority of one.

8 April 2005
In Italy, the funeral of Pope John Paul II takes place.

12 April 1997
A bomb plot to kill Pope John Paul II fails as police in Sarajevo find mines under a bridge just hours before his arrival.

15 April 1755
Samuel Johnson's, A Dictionary of the English Language, is published in London, England.

17 April 1986
British TV journalist, John McCarthy is kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon.

18 April 1988
In Israel, Ukraine-born John Demjanjuk is convicted of Nazi War crimes. Demjanjuk who was supposedly “Ivan the terrible” later had his sentence quashed by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1993.

21 April 2005
John Negroponte is sworn as the first United States Director of National Intelligence.

25 April 1964
President Johnson announces that General William Westmoreland will replace General Paul Harkins as head of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam.

26 April 1865
President Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is shot dead.

28 April 1965
22,000 U.S. troops land in the Dominican Republic in order to prevent, what President Johnson calls, a “communist dictatorship” taking over the country.

4 May 1415
The Council of Constance held by the Catholic Church condemns religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus as heretics.

6 May 1940
John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

7 May 2001
Pope John Paul II makes an historic visit to Syria.

11 May 1812

British Prime Minister Spencer Percival is assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons by bankrupt broker John Bellingham.

12 May 1994
In Britain, the leader of the Labour Party John Smith dies from a heart attack.

13 May 1607
Captain John Smith lands on the coast of Virginia and begins the first permanent English settlement in the New World calling it Jamestown.

16 May 2001
During the general election campaign in Britain, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, on a visit to Wales, punches a member of the public who had thrown an egg at in.

22 May 1964
In a speech at the University of Michigan, American President Lyndon Johnson, announces the goals of his “Great Society”.

24 May 1930
Air pioneer Amy Johnson lands her Gypsy Moth plane at Darwin in Australia having completed the first solo flight from England by a woman.

25 May 1997
In Sierra Leone President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah is deposed in a military coup by Major Johnny Paul Koromah.

26 May 1969
Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono stage a public “bed in” for world peace - staying in bed for a week in a hotel in Montreal.

31 May 1889
In America, over 2,200 people are killed as dam breaks flooding Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

2 June 1979
Polish-born Pope John Paul II arrives in Poland - the first visit by a Pope to a Communist country.

4 June 1961
American President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agree to support a neutral and independent Laos.

8 June 1968
In America, Senator Robert Kennedy is buried in Arlington National Cemetery near his brother President John Kennedy.

10 June 2001
Saint Rafqa is canonised by Pope John Paul II.

11 June 1962
John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Lee Morris attempt to escape from Alcatraz federal prison. Whilst they do escape from “the Rock”, it is thought that they drowned in the surrounding water.

12 June 1944
The Second World War: Lieutenant John F. Kennedy receives the American Navy’s highest honour for gallantry for his heroic actions in saving the lives of his gunboat crew. The future president also receives a Purple Heart for wounds received during battle.

13 June 1967
America President, Lyndon Johnson, appoints Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court. Marshall is the first African-American Judge to receive such a position.

14 June 1919
Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten-Brown, flying a Vickers Vimy, take off from Newfoundland, Canada at the beginning of the first non-stop transatlantic flight to Galway in Ireland.

15 June 1919
English air pioneers John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland, Canada to Ireland.

20 June 1990
British Prime Minister John Major proposes the “hard Ecu”, a parallel European currency to circulate alongside existing national currencies.

21 June 1982
John W. Hinckley Jr, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in March 1981, is found not guilty of attempted murder on grounds of insanity.

22 June 1981
In New York, Mark Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon.

23 June 1992
In America, New York Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole.

25 June 1953
In England, John Christie is found guilty of murdering his wife and burying her body under the floor boards of his house. The court sentences Christie to death by hanging.

26 June 1963
Addressing the West German people, U.S. President John F Kennedy famously declares, “Ich bin ein Berliner”.

27 June 1963
In Ireland, U.S. President John F. Kennedy receives a warm welcome as he visits his ancestral homeland.

2 July 1964
American President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Bill.

4 July 1995
Prime Minister John Major retains the leadership of the Conservative Party after winning a ballot of Conservative M.P.s designed to put an end to attempts to destabilise Major’s leadership of the party.

8 July 1663
John Clarke is granted a Royal Charter to Rhode Island by Charles II of England.

9 July 1922
18 year old American swimmer Johnny Weismuller becomes the first person to cover 100 metres in less than a minute in a new world record time of 58.6 seconds.

10 July 1925
In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called “Monkey Trial” begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.

13 July 1960
In America, John F Kennedy wins the Democratic Party’s nomination to run for the Presidency.

15 July 1953
Murderer John Christie, responsible for the deaths of at least six women in his home at 10, Rillington Place, London is hanged.

16 July 1999
In America, John F Kennedy Jr - son of assassinated President John Kennedy - his wife and her sister, are killed in a plane crash off the Massachusetts resort island of Martha's Vineyard.

22 July 1991
In Britain, Conservative Prime Minister John Major launches his ill fated Citizens Charter designed to improve public services.

25 July 1861
The American Civil War: Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution which declares that the war is being waged for the reunion of the states and not to interfere with the institutions of the South, namely slavery.

28 July 1965
The Vietnam War: President Johnson announces that America will send an additional 50,000 troops to Vietnam.

29 July 2004
U.S. Senator John F. Kerry accepts the Democratic nomination for President at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.

4 August 1964
The Vietnam War: The destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy, operating in the Gulf of Tonkin, are allegedly attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats. The U.S. responds with force and the incident is subsequently used by the Johnson administration to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gives Johnson the power to send U.S. forces to fight in Vietnam.

5 August 1538
English explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert founds the first English colony in North America at St John's in Newfoundland, Canada.

7 August 1964
The Vietnam War: in America, Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, effectively giving President Johnson the power to wage war on North Vietnam.

8 August 1991
Islamic Jihad terrorists release British journalist John McCarthy 5 years and 3 months after being kidnapped in Beirut. He had been held hostage since 17 April 1986, a total of 1,943 days.

14 August 1979
In Britain, former government Minister John Stonehouse, who faked his own death, is released from prison after serving three years for theft, fraud and deception.

16 August 1984
In Los Angeles, America former car maker John DeLorean is found not guilty of all charges against him at his drug trafficking trial.

20 August 1992
In Britain, the Daily Mirror newspaper publishes pictures of a topless Duchess of York swimming with Texan businessman John Bryan in the south of France.

22 August 1986
In England, John Stalker, the deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester police is cleared of misconduct after it was alleged that he was associating with criminals.

24 August 1985
In England, 5 year old boy John Shorthouse is shot dead by the police in a bungled raid on a house in Birmingham.

25 August 1945
John Birch, an American missionary to China before the war and a captain in the Army during the war, is killed by Chinese communists days after the surrender of Japan, for no apparent reason.

26 August 1978
In Rome, Cardinal Albino Luciani is elected Pope John Paul I. Within 33 days he dies of a heart attack.

10 September 1608
English adventurer John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America.

12 September 2003
Country music legend Johnny Cash dies aged 71.

14 September 1964
American author John Steinbeck is awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom.

22 September 2001
The British journalist John Simpson smuggles himself into Afghanistan and is the only journalist broadcasting from the country prior the American led attack to depose the Taliban regime.

24 September 1988
Canadian Ben Johnson wins the 100 metres gold medal at the Seoul Olympics. He is subsequently stripped of the title after he fails a drugs test.

26 September 2005

In Northern Ireland, General John de Chastelain, the head of the arms decommissioning body, announces that the IRA has put all of its weapons beyond use.

27 September 1988
Canadian Ben Johnson is officially stripped of his 100 metre gold medal at the Seoul Olympics after it is confirmed that his drug test proved positive.

28 September 2002
In Britain, former Conservative minister Edwina Currie reveals that she had an affair with former Prime Minister John Major.

29 September 1952
British and world water speed record holder John Cobb is killed on Loch Ness in Scotland when his craft Crusader breaks up after hitting waves at 240 mph.

2 October 1780
American Revolution: British Major John Andre is hanged as a spy by U.S. military forces in Tappan, New York.

6 October 1979
Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit the White House after meeting U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

13 October 1984
British darts player John Lowe achieves the first televised 9-dart 501 in a major event during the world match play championships in England.

16 October 1978
In the Vatican, Polish born Cardinal Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian Pope since 1542.

17 October 1968
During a medal ceremony for the 200 metres at the Mexico Olympics, American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, stage a silent protest against racial discrimination in the U.S. The two sprinters bowed their heads and raised one arm in the air with their hand, covered in a black glove, clenched in a fist.

19 October 1982
In America, automobile executive John DeLorean is arrested in a Los Angeles, California airport motel with a briefcase containing $24 million dollars worth of cocaine.

20 October 1968
The wife of assassinated U.S. President John Kennedy, 39 year old Jacqueline Kennedy, marries Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.

28 October 1958
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli becomes Pope John XXIII.

29 October 1998
Nearly four decades after he became the first American to orbit the Earth, Senator John Glenn Jr., returns to space on board the shuttle Discovery. At 77 years old, Glenn is the oldest human ever to travel in space.