Scouting began with an experimental camp that Robert Baden-Powell, a British army officer who had become famous for the defence of Mafeking, held on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, England. He took about twenty boys from different social backgrounds and taught them camping, observation and woodcraft, drawing on his military experience. His handbook Scouting for Boys appeared the following year and led to the spontaneous formation of troops across Britain. The movement spread rapidly around the world, a parallel Girl Guides movement followed in 1910, and Scouting and Guiding now involve tens of millions of young people in almost every country.
Before and after
- 1907Rise of cubism
- 1907Founding of Fenerbahçe Istanbul
- 1907Construction of Great Mosque of Djenné
- from 1907 to 1909Harden–Eulenburg affair
- 1907Rise of scouting
- 1907Founding of Real Betis Balompié
- 20 January 1907Death of Dmitri Mendeleev
- 22 March 1907Establishment of Etosha National Park
- 12 May 1907Birth of Katharine Hepburn
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The era
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