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Germany passes the first of four Fleet Acts, reflecting the determination of Alfred von Tirpitz to build a navy equal to that of Britain
The Cunard family, then living close by at Orleans House, buy the Marble Hill estate for £36,000 with the intention of creating a housing estate.
Joshua Slocum reaches Newport, Rhode Island, after sailing 46,000 miles to achieve the first solo voyage round the world
H.G. Wells publishes his science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds, in which Martians arrive in a rocket to invade earth
Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in transmitting a wireless telegraph message across the English Channel
The Boer War breaks out, ostensibly over the rights of British settlers in the Transvaal
Puerto Ricans are granted limited democracy in a bill of rigfhts introduced after two years of US military occupation
Joshua Slocum publishes Sailing Alone Around the World, an account of his famous 1895-8 circumnavigation
Ransome Eli Olds manufactures the Curved Dash Oldsmobile on assembly line principles in Detroit
Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the interior of Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow
Guglielmo Marconi transmits a radio message in Morse code 2100 miles, from Poldhu in Cornwall to St John's in Newfoundland
French automobile pioneer Leon Serpollet sets a new land speed record, driving a steam car at 75 mph along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice
After the defeat of neighbouring Transvaal in the Boer War, the British take sole control of Swaziland
William K. Vanderbilt drives the first internal-combustion car to win the land speed record, at 76 mph at Ablis in France
Alois Hitler, violent, feared and greatly disliked by his son Adolf, dies
Giuseppe Sarto is elected pope and takes the name Pius X
William Harley and three Davidson brothers begin the commercial production in Milwaukee of motorcycles, but complete only three by the end of the year
Britain's first national motor show is organized at the Crystal Palace, moving two years later to Olympia
Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow for Miss Cranston
A violent uprising by Herrero warriors in South West Africa targets male Germans of military age
Britain's Automobile Association is founded, with patrol-men on bicycles to assist drivers
Transvaal politician Louis Botha forms Het Volk ('The People'), a party committed to Afrikaner self-government
More than 360,000 Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden, with only 184 against
The Japanese defeat a larger force of Russians at Mukden in the final land battle of the Russo-Japanese War
Karol Szymanowski and other Polish composers form a group that soon becomes known as Young Poland
