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The annual Prix Goncourt is established in France, in accordance with the will of Edmond de Goncourt
Radnor House and grounds are opened to the public.
Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet in a historic encounter in Manchester and launch their first car, the Rolls-Royde 10 hp, later in this same year.
Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard, is staged by Stanislavsky just a few months before the author's death
Leos Janacek's opera Jenufa, based on a play by Gabriela Preissová, has its premiere in Brno
Finnish architect Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen wins the competition to build Helsinki's railway station
J.M. Synge's play Riders to the Sea has its premiere at the Molesworth Hall in Dublin
A violent uprising by Herrero warriors in South West Africa targets male Germans of military age
Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly falls victim at La Scala to claques paid for by rivals
A surprise Japanese attack on Russian warships in Port Arthur launches the Russo-Japanese War for influence in the Far East
John Christian Watson becomes Australia's first Labor prime minister, leading a minority government that survives for only four months
Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Nostromo, about a revolution in South America and a fatal horde of silver
A new nave, chancel and north aisle, designed by Charles Innes, are added to St Mary's
France and Britain sign an Entente Cordiale, resolving several colonial disputes and laying the foundation for a new alliance
Wisley, in Surrey, is developed as the garden of Britain's Royal Horticultural Society
Helen Keller overcomes deafness and blindness to graduate cum laude at Radcliffe College in the USA
The German general Lothar von Trotha drives 8000 Herrero people to slow death in the Kalahari desert
Henry James publishes his last completed novel, The Golden Bowl
An observatory with a 100-inch reflecting telescope is set up by George Ellery Hale on Mount Wilson in California
Constantine Cavafy prints fourteen of his poems in a pamphlet for private distribution
The US consul in Mexico, Edward Herbert Thompson, begins a very profitable excavation at the Mayan site of Chichén Itzá
Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud publishes The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Hughie Cannon writes the music and words for the song originally titled "He Done Me Wrong" in the US musical Frankie and Johnny
British troops under Francis Younghusband enter Tibet's holy city of Lhasa
The publisher Walter Blackie moves into Hill House at Helensburgh, designed for him by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
