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New Mexico becomes the 47th state of the United States of America
Robert Falcon Scott and his companions reach the South Pole a month after Amundsen - and die on the return journey
US aeroplane designer Glenn Curtis demonstrates the potential of the first successful flying boat, The Flying Fish
Coco Chanel opens a shop selling millinery in Deauville, in France
The abdication of the child emperor Puyi brings to an end the Qing dynasty
Arizona becomes the 48th state of the United States of America
The Kaiser and his advisers decide to postpone a preventive war against France and Russia
Former president Theodore Roosevelt campaigns against President Taft for the Republican nomination
UK suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested, released and rearrested twelve times within the year
A national uprising against Turkish rule in Albania launches a full-scale Balkan war
Lillian and Dorothy Gish make their screen debut with the Biograph Company
Egon Schiele's highly explicit images of nudes land him briefly in gaol
Carl Nielsen's Third Symphony, first performed in Copenhagen, brings him international renown
Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 creates a stir
Georges Braque's Fruit-Dish and Glass adds papier collé (a type of collage) to the conventions of cubism
The White Star liner Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, drowning 1513 passengers and crew
The 'Workers' Newspaper' Pravda (meaning 'Truth') publishes its first issue in St Petersburg
Rabindranath Tagore publishes a collection of his Bengali poems in Gitanjali
William Morris opens a factory at Cowley, near Oxford, to produce motor cars
At a conference in Prague Lenin forms the Bolsheviks into a separate political party with himself as leader
Vaslav Nijinsky causes a sensation dancing in the first ballet choreographed by himself, L'Après-midi d'un faune
Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term Orphism for Robert Delaunay's distinctive style of abstraction
Charles Dawson claims to have found the fossilized skull of an early man (named in his honour Eoanthropus dawsoni in a gravel pit at Piltdown
The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova publishes Evening, her first collection of poems
Benito Mussolini, an active revolutionary Socialist, becomes editor of the party newspaper in Italy
