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Coffee replaces sugar as Brazil's main crop, accounting for more than 50% of exports in 1908
Lucy Maud Montgomery's first novel, Anne of Green Gables, brings her instant fame and fortune
George McJunkin, near Folsom in New Mexico, sees the bones of an extinct giant bison, partially exposed after a flash flood, with an ancient spear point embedded in the skeleton
Modernist architect Adolf Loos attacks architectural ornament in Ornament and Crime
Arnold Schoenberg abandons tonality in his String Quartet No. 2
Alexander Scriabin's orchestral work, Poem of Ecstasy, has its first performance in New York
The first Model T Ford rolls off the production line at the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria declares his country's independence from Ottoman rule and calls himself Tsar Ferdinand I
The last Manchu emperor, Puyi, is placed on the throne at the age of two on the death of his uncle, the Guanxu emperor
The Empress Dowager Cixi dies the day after selecting the infant Puyi for the Chinese throne
Gideons International place their first bible in a hotel bedroom, in Montana, USA
Europe's worst earthquake, centred on the Strait of Messina, kills up to 200,000 people in Sicily and southern Italy.
William Howard Taft, the Republican candidate, is elected to follow Roosevelt as president
The French critic Louis Vauxcelles describes Braque's latest landscapes as being composed of cubes, resulting in the term cubism
US boxer Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight champion when he knocks out Tommy Burns in Australia
G.H. Hardy and Wilhelm Weinberg independently develop a basic theme of population genetics, known now as the Hardy-Weinberg principle
The Welsh poet W.H. Davies has a success with The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, his account of life on the road and in dosshouses
All Saints is completed, and for thirty years is used for worship as a satellite of St Peter’s, but it is not consecrated
Bernard Leach moves to Japan to study oriental traditions in the graphic arts
The opera Elektra, the first collaboration between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has its premiere in Dresden
Michel Fokine becomes the choreographer for the ballet company that Sergei Diaghilev is taking to Paris
Ralph Vaughan Williams sets poems by Housman in On Wenlock Edge
Italian educational pioneer Maria Montessori publishes The Montessori Method
Rugby Union acquires new headquarters and a state-of-the-art stadium at Twickenham
Alexandre Benois becomes the first artistic director of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
