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The Firebird brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Golovine and Bakst (sets and costumes)
Henri Matisse completes two large paintings, La Danse and La Musique, for the staircase of Sergei Shchukin's house in Moscow
Le Spectre de la Rose, with choreography by Fokine, music by Weber and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo
The ballet Petrushka brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Benois (sets and costumes)
Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes The Secret Garden, which becomes a classic of children's literature
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre in Paris
French composer Henri Duparc publishes a complete edition of his songs
Coco Chanel opens a shop selling millinery in Deauville, in France
The Kaiser and his advisers decide to postpone a preventive war against France and Russia
Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 creates a stir
Georges Braque's Fruit-Dish and Glass adds papier collé (a type of collage) to the conventions of cubism
Vaslav Nijinsky causes a sensation dancing in the first ballet choreographed by himself, L'Après-midi d'un faune
Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term Orphism for Robert Delaunay's distinctive style of abstraction
Daphnis and Chloe, with choreography by Fokine, music by Ravel and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Paris
France and Spain agree that Spain shall become the colonial power in the north of Morocco and France in the south
Jacob Epstein causes a stir with his provocatively modern angel on the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Père Lachaise
Marcel Duchamp creates Bicycle Wheel, his first 'assisted readymade', consisting of the wheel screwed upside down on a painted wooden stool
Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky provoke uproar in Paris with The Rite of Spring for Ballets Russes
The cubist movement enters its second phase, deriving from the use of collage and known as Synthetic cubism
French physicists Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson discover the ozone layer in the stratosphere
Alain-Fournier completes his semi-autobiographical novel Le Grand Meaulnes
Vaslav Nijinsky marries a Hungarian ballerina and is dismissed from the Ballets Russes by a jealous Diaghilev
Marcel Proust publishes at his own expense Swann's Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past
Leonardo's Mona Lisa is recovered two years after its theft when the thief, Vincenzo Perugia, tries to sell it to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence
Marcel Duchamp exhibits his first pure 'readymade', a bottle rack bought in a department store and displayed without alteration
