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German biologists Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann discover the micro-organism Treponema pallidum which causes syphilis
Two thirds of the Russian fleet is sunk after being ambushed by Japanese warships in the Tsushima Strait
The largest diamond yet known is found in a South African mine belonging to Thomas Cullinan
Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, a letter of recrimination written in Reading Gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, is published posthumously
In his special theory of relativity Albert Einstein reconciles the apparent clash between relativity and electromagnetic theory
Henri Matisse completes his painting Luxe, Calme et Volupté
US photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen set up the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in New York
French psychologists Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon develop a scale by which to measure the 'mental age' of children
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and other Dresden students form the Expressionist group Die Brücke
Pablo Picasso's palette becomes warmer as Blue evolves into Rose
David Belasco's play Girl of the Golden West has its premiere in New York, where it is seen two years later by Giacomo Puccini
Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation, completing the 'prairie provinces'
Karol Szymanowski and other Polish composers form a group that soon becomes known as Young Poland
The Ulster Unionist Party is founded in Belfast to oppose Home Rule
The Russian composer Alexander Scriabin becomes influenced by the theosophy of Madame Blavatsky
Edith Wharton publishes the novel that brings her fame and fortune, The House of Mirth
Henri Matisse, in the south of France, paints The Open Window, Collioure, the first of his many works on this theme
The first boat to be powered by a combustion engine, the 125-ton vessel Venoga, is launched on Lake Geneva
A complaint about maggotty meat on the Russian battleship Potemkin leads to thousands of deaths after troops fire on a demonstration
English physiologists William Bayliss and Ernest Starling coin the word 'hormone' for glandular secretions into the bloodstream
The Maji-Maji rising results in alarming outbreaks of violence in German East Africa
Beatrix Potter buys Hill Top Farm, in Sawrey, where for nearly thirty years she breeds a local variety of sheep
The first German submarine, or U-boat, is constructed in a programme to catch up with Britain and France in this area
H.G. Wells publishes Kipps: the story of a simple soul, a comic novel about a bumbling draper's assistant
The German commander in east Africa uses famine as a means of ending the Maji-Maji rising
