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English physiologists William Bayliss and Ernest Starling coin the word 'hormone' for glandular secretions into the bloodstream
The Maji-Maji rising results in alarming outbreaks of violence in German East Africa
H.G. Wells publishes Kipps: the story of a simple soul, a comic novel about a bumbling draper's assistant
The German commander in east Africa uses famine as a means of ending the Maji-Maji rising
Hitler moves to Vienna, hoping to be a painter, but is twice rejected as a student by the Academy of Fine Arts
Aristide Maillol has his first major success with a large sculpture at the Salon d'Automne in Paris
Claude Debussy completes the three symphonic sketches forming La Mer
Matisse, Derain and others, exhibiting in Paris their shockingly colourful new works, are dubbed fauves ("wild beasts") by a critic
The first soviet ("council") of workers is set up in St Petersburg, introducing a word of great significance in Russian Communist history
The Dutch dancer Gertrud Zelle begins a career in Paris, using the stage name Mata Hari
Tsar Nicholas II reluctantly signs the October Manifesto, authorizing an elected duma or legislature
The monk Grigory Rasputin exercises a powerful influence over the Russian empress Alexandra
Bernard Shaw has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman
The designer Edward Gordon Craig publishes a theatrical manifesto, The Art of the Theatre
Sir Percy Blakeney rescues aristocrats from the guillotine in Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel
Britain's Labour Party achieves its first electoral success, winning twenty-nine seats at Westminster
Britain launches HMS Dreadnought, the first of a massive new class of battleship
More than 1200 French miners die in an underground explosion in the district of Calais
English biologist William Bateson uses the word 'genetics' to describe the phenomenon of heredity and variation
An international conference at Algeciras effectively gives France informal control of Morocco
Frederick Soddy observes his first examples of chemically identical elements with differing atomic weights, to which he later gives the name isotopes
The Liberals win a majority in election for Russia's new duma and press ahead with proposals for land reform
Antoni Gaudí completes his radical rebuilding of the Casa Batlló in Barcelona
Istanbul cedes the Sinai Peninsula to British-controlled Egypt
17-year-old Charlie Chaplin joins the Fred Karno company, touring slapstick comedy
