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Events relating to europe
Gertrude Stein leaves the USA to share with her brother an apartment in Paris that soon becomes a literary and artistic salon
Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union to fight for women's political rights in the UK
Erskine Childers has a best-seller in The Riddle of the Sands, a thriller about a planned German invasion of Britain
Alois Hitler, violent, feared and greatly disliked by his son Adolf, dies
King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia are murdered in their palace by army officers
In a paper to a congress in Madrid, on the 'psychology and psychopathology of animals', Ivan Pavlov announces his discovery of the conditioned reflex
Henry James publishes The Ambassadors, the second of his three last novels written in rapid succession
Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy identify the phenomenon of radioactive half-life
Edward VII, the first British monarch to travel to India, holds a great coronation durbar in Delhi
Roger Casement, British consul in the Congo Free State, discovers appalling abuses by Belgian companies
Giuseppe Sarto is elected pope and takes the name Pius X
British philosopher G.E. Moore publishes Principia Ethica, an attempt to apply logic to ethics
Maurice Ravel sets to music romantic oriental poems by Tristan Klingsor in his song-cycle Shéhérazade
Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the galvanometer, or electrocardiograph, for recording the electrical impulses within the heart muscle
Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow for Miss Cranston
Work begins on England's first garden city, at Letchworth, based on the theories of Ebenezer Howard
The annual Prix Goncourt is established in France, in accordance with the will of Edmond de Goncourt
Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet in a historic encounter in Manchester and launch their first car, the Rolls-Royde 10 hp, later in this same year.
Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard, is staged by Stanislavsky just a few months before the author's death
Finnish architect Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen wins the competition to build Helsinki's railway station
J.M. Synge's play Riders to the Sea has its premiere at the Molesworth Hall in Dublin
A violent uprising by Herrero warriors in South West Africa targets male Germans of military age
Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly falls victim at La Scala to claques paid for by rivals
Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Nostromo, about a revolution in South America and a fatal horde of silver
France and Britain sign an Entente Cordiale, resolving several colonial disputes and laying the foundation for a new alliance
