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Rupert Brooke publishes Poems, the only collection to appear before his early death in World War I
Le Spectre de la Rose, with choreography by Fokine, music by Weber and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo
G.K. Chesterton's clerical detective makes his first appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown
The British chancellor, David Lloyd George, introduces the National Insurance Bill, providing workers with insurance in a few selected industries
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company of New Jersey is broken up by US antitrust legislation
In a German Pension is New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield's first collection of stories
US inventor Isaac Newton Lewis patents a lighter version of the machine gun
US driver Ray Harroun wins the first Indianapolis 500 motor race
The Titanic is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Taliesin, as his own home and studio, near Bear Run in Wisconsin
Spanish composer Enrique Granados completes his Goyescas, seven pieces for piano
Scott Joplin completes a ragtime opera, Treemonisha
Italy finds a reason to invade Libya, a province of the Turkish empire.
The ballet Petrushka brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Benois (sets and costumes)
President Taft sends US marines to Honduras to protect American banana interests during a spell of political turmoil
Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes The Secret Garden, which becomes a classic of children's literature
Walter Sickert and other painters, sharing his preference for everyday subjects, adopt the name Camden Town Group
The Nestor Film Company opens the first film studio in Hollywood, on Sunset Boulevard
Germany causes international alarm by sending a warship to Agadir, a port in French-controlled Morocco
Hugo von Hofmannsthal adapts the English medieval morality play Everyman ('Jedermann') for performance in Salzburg
Asquith's Parliament Bill proposes to end the constitutional crisis in the UK by restricting the power of the House of Lords
Confronted with the threat of 300 newly created peerages, the House of Lords narrowly passes Asquith's Parliament Bill (by 17 votes)
Emiliano Zapata leads peasant groups in the Mexican revolution, under the slogan 'Land and Liberty'
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre in Paris
Max Beerbohm publishes his novel Zuleika Dobson, in which the beauty of his heroine causes havoc among the students at Oxford
