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The German general Lothar von Trotha drives 8000 Herrero people to slow death in the Kalahari desert
Henry James publishes his last completed novel, The Golden Bowl
Constantine Cavafy prints fourteen of his poems in a pamphlet for private distribution
The publisher Walter Blackie moves into Hill House at Helensburgh, designed for him by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
J.M Barrie's play for children Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up has its premiere in London
Alexander Scriabin completes his Third Symphony, The Divine Poem, which is given its first performance in Paris in 1905
Under the pseudonym Saki, H.H. Munro publishes Reginald, his first volume of short stories
Dublin's Abbey Theatre opens as a new home for the Irish National Theatre Society
Gwen John makes her home in Paris, where she becomes Rodin's model and mistress
Transvaal politician Louis Botha forms Het Volk ('The People'), a party committed to Afrikaner self-government
The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London
Troops fire on a demonstration in St Petersburg, in the event which becomes known as Bloody Sunday
The Bloomsbury Group gathers for informal evenings at the family home of Virginia and Vanessa Stephens (later Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell)
Strikes and riots sweep across Russia in the wake of St Petersburg's Bloody Sunday
More than 360,000 Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden, with only 184 against
Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain
Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, a letter of recrimination written in Reading Gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, is published posthumously
Henri Matisse completes his painting Luxe, Calme et Volupté
French psychologists Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon develop a scale by which to measure the 'mental age' of children
Pablo Picasso's palette becomes warmer as Blue evolves into Rose
Karol Szymanowski and other Polish composers form a group that soon becomes known as Young Poland
The Ulster Unionist Party is founded in Belfast to oppose Home Rule
The Russian composer Alexander Scriabin becomes influenced by the theosophy of Madame Blavatsky
Henri Matisse, in the south of France, paints The Open Window, Collioure, the first of his many works on this theme
A complaint about maggotty meat on the Russian battleship Potemkin leads to thousands of deaths after troops fire on a demonstration
