All Events
The All-India Muslim League is set up at a meeting of the Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka
York House is bought by Sir Ratan Tata, an Indian industrialist, who makes some alterations to the house and many to the grounds, including the sunken garden, the stone bridge and the lavish waterfall with marble statuary.
John Galsworthy publishes The Man of Property, the first of his novels chronicling the family of Soames Forsyte
Hitler's mother Klara, to whom he was devoted, dies at the age of forty-seven
US inventor Lee De Forest patents the Audion, a sensitive vacuum-tube radio receiver
J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World provokes violent reactions at its Dublin premiere
Frederick Delius's Walk to the Paradise Garden is added to his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet to cover a scene change during the Berlin premiere
Michel Fokine creates the ballet Les Sylphides (originally called Chopiniana) to music by Chopin
Maria Montessori establishes her first Casa dei Bambini in the deprived San Lorenzo district of Rome
Russian author Maxim Gorky completes his novel Mat ("The Mother"), written mainly during a visit to the USA
President Roosevelt sends marines to protect US property during political unrest in Honduras
Edmund Gosse publishes Father and Son, an account of his difficult relationship with his fundamentalist father, Philip Gosse
Dutch and British companies (Royal Dutch Oil, Shell Transport and Trading) merge to form Royal Dutch Shell Oil
An Entente signed between Britain and Russia follows on from the 1904 Entente Cordiale with France to establish a new Triple Entente
US philosopher William James publishes Pragmatism: a New Name for Old Ways of Thinking
Charles Stewart Rolls and Henry Royce build their most famous car, the Silver Ghost, in the factory they have set up in Derby
Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev presents five concerts of Russian music in Paris
Gertrude Stein meets Alice B. Toklas, who becomes her secretary and lifelong companion
A separatist party in Spain, Solidaridad Catalana, makes electoral gains in Catalonia
Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a violent transition into cubism, is a turning point in western art
Henkel & Cie launches in Düsseldorf the first domestic washing powder, Persil
Austrian scientist Clemens von Pirquet discovers a diagnostic test to identify tuberculosis in a patient
James Joyce completes the eight short stories eventually published in 1914 as Dubliners
A fossilized human jaw, probably at least 500,000 years old, is found near Heidelberg in Germany
Collapse of trust companies causes panic and financial crisis in USA