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US philosopher George Santayana publishes the first of the five volumes of his Life of Reason
President Thedore Roosevelt mediates a peace treaty in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, between Russia and Japan
Hitler moves to Vienna, hoping to be a painter, but is twice rejected as a student by the Academy of Fine Arts
Thomas Dixon's popular novel The Clansman presents the Ku Klux Klan in heroic terms
Aristide Maillol has his first major success with a large sculpture at the Salon d'Automne in Paris
The Treaty of Portsmouth gives Japan control of Port Arthur and much of the Liaotung Peninsula
Claude Debussy completes the three symphonic sketches forming La Mer
Albert Einstein relates mass and energy in the equation e = mc2
Matisse, Derain and others, exhibiting in Paris their shockingly colourful new works, are dubbed fauves ("wild beasts") by a critic
The first soviet ("council") of workers is set up in St Petersburg, introducing a word of great significance in Russian Communist history
The Dutch dancer Gertrud Zelle begins a career in Paris, using the stage name Mata Hari
Tsar Nicholas II reluctantly signs the October Manifesto, authorizing an elected duma or legislature
Percival Lowell predicts the existence of an unknown planet, almost exactly where Pluto is discovered 25 years later
Gustav Mahler's cycle of five songs, Kindertotenlieder, hs its first performance in Vienna
The monk Grigory Rasputin exercises a powerful influence over the Russian empress Alexandra
Bernard Shaw has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman
The designer Edward Gordon Craig publishes a theatrical manifesto, The Art of the Theatre
Joseph Stapley dies at 92, after living for 12 years in the Richmond Workhouse
Conservative prime minister Balfour resigns and Henry Campbell-Bannerman forms an interim Liberal government in Britain
Richard Strauss's Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play, has wide success in spite of censorship difficulties
Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow opens in Vienna at the start of an immensely successful run
Sir Percy Blakeney rescues aristocrats from the guillotine in Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel
Henry Campbell-Bannerman leads the Liberals to a massive election victory in the UK on a promised programme of reform
Britain's Labour Party achieves its first electoral success, winning twenty-nine seats at Westminster
Britain launches HMS Dreadnought, the first of a massive new class of battleship
