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George V succeeds his father, Edward VII, on the British throne
Gustav Mahler conducts in Munich the first performance of his Eighth Symphony, subsequently known as the 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Constantine Cavafy prints a few more of his poems to add to the fourteen privately printed in 1904
J.M. Synge's last and unfinished play, Deirdre of the Sorrows, is performed in Dublin shortly after his death
Charles Stewart Rolls becomes the first man to fly non-stop across the English Channel and back
Robert Falcon Scott sails south in the Terra Nova on his second voyage towards the South Pole
Schéhérazade, with choreography by Fokine, music by Rimsky-Korsakov and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Paris
The Firebird brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Golovine and Bakst (sets and costumes)
Antoni Gaudí completes an apartment block, the Casa Milá, in Barcelona
The US Congress passes the Mann White Slave Traffic Act, an attempt to control prostitution
Winston Churchill becomes home secretary in Asquith's Liberal government
John Buchan publishes Prester John, the first of his adventure stories
A revolution begins in Mexico that will last ten years before being resolved
Charles Stewart Rolls dies in a flying accident shortly after his record cross-Channel flight
Alexander Scriabin completes Prometheus, the Poem of Fire, first performed in Moscow in 1911
The Snowman, a pantomime opera by the 11-year-old Erich Korngold, is a huge succes in Vienna
The critic Roger Fry presents in London's Grafton Galleries an influential exhibition of Post-Impressionist art
Telegraph messages lead to the arrest of Dr Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve in mid-Atlantic
Three French colonies south of the Sahara are consolidated as French Equatorial Africa
Henri Matisse completes two large paintings, La Danse and La Musique, for the staircase of Sergei Shchukin's house in Moscow
The Gimbel family open their flagship department store in Manhattan
Sun Yatsen and others merge several smaller Chinese political groups into the Guomindang, or Nationalist Party
Japan annexes Korea as a colony, to be controlled by a Japanese governor-general
A republican revolution in Portugal deposes Manuel II, bringing to an end the Braganza dynasty and the Portuguese monarchy
H.G. Wells publishes The History of Mr Polly, a novel about an escape from drab everyday existence
