Ernest Rutherford proposes the concept of the nucleus as a positively charged mass at the centre of an atom

Ethel Smyth's The March of Women has its premiere at a suffragette event in London's Albert Hall

D.H. Lawrence's career as a writer is launched with the publication of his first novel, The White Peacock

Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova settles in London and forms her own touring company

Rupert Brooke publishes Poems, the only collection to appear before his early death in World War I

G.K. Chesterton's clerical detective makes his first appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown

The Titanic is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast

Walter Sickert and other painters, sharing his preference for everyday subjects, adopt the name Camden Town Group

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)

Max Beerbohm publishes his novel Zuleika Dobson, in which the beauty of his heroine causes havoc among the students at Oxford

Edward Carson tells a vast crowd in Northern Ireland that they must be ready to defend their Protestant province by force

A ship tank, 150 metres long, is opened at the National Physical Laboratory for marine testing

A footbridge, designed by François Hennibique, is built just south of Kew Gardens station with narrow deck and high walls to protect users' clothing from the smoke of trains.

UK suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested, released and rearrested twelve times within the year

The White Star liner Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, drowning 1513 passengers and crew

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

Tommy Sopwith founds the aviation company that will produce the Pup and the Camel

Ludwig Wittgenstein moves to Cambridge to study philosophy under Bertrand Russell

Half a million Unionist men and women in Belfast commit themselves to civil disobedience if Home Rule government is established in Ireland

Walter De la Mare establishes his reputation with the title poem of his collection The Listeners

Ethel Smyth, in Holloway jail, conducts her fellow prisoners in a suffragette anthem composed by herself

A conference of great powers in London accepts Albanian independence but within altered boundaries

Under pressure from Russia, the London conference allots the ethnically Albanian region of Kosovo to Serbia

Kingston Bridge is widened and the carriageway increased from 25 to 55 feet with a new facade of Portland Stone to replicate features of the original