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Tsar Nicholas II issues a Fundamental Law emphasizing his own autocratic power
Charles Pathé opens the first purpose-built luxury cinema, the Omnia-Pathé, in Paris
E. Nesbit publishes The Railway Children, the most successful of her books featuring the Bastable family
The Simplon rail tunnel, the longest in the world (20 km), is opened between Switzerland and Italy
Tsar Nicholas II appoints as prime minister the reformist aristocrat Pyotr Stolypin
The first Grand Prix of motor-racing is held near Le Mans over a 64-mile course
Pablo Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein prefigures cubism in its mask-like treatment of her face
Alfred Dreyfus is reinstated in the army after the French supreme court overturns his conviction for treason
Belgian physiologists Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou identify Bacillus pertussis, the bacterium causing whooping cough
Tsar Nicholas II summarily dismisses Russia's new duma when it has been sitting for only three months
Alfred Dreyfus is awarded the Légion d'Honneur ten days after his conviction has been annulled
The Cunard company launches the Lusitania on the Clyde as a sister ship to the Mauretania
A large retrospective exhibition in Paris gives Paul Gauguin a growing posthumous reputation
Sergei Diaghilev mounts a major exhibition of Russian art at the Petit Palais in Paris.
Ethel Smyth's most successful opera, The Wreckers, is premiered in Leipzig
The Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin introduces land reform
Transvaal is given the self-governing status promised in the treaty ending the Boer War
John Galsworthy publishes The Man of Property, the first of his novels chronicling the family of Soames Forsyte
Hitler's mother Klara, to whom he was devoted, dies at the age of forty-seven
J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World provokes violent reactions at its Dublin premiere
Frederick Delius's Walk to the Paradise Garden is added to his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet to cover a scene change during the Berlin premiere
Michel Fokine creates the ballet Les Sylphides (originally called Chopiniana) to music by Chopin
Maria Montessori establishes her first Casa dei Bambini in the deprived San Lorenzo district of Rome
Russian author Maxim Gorky completes his novel Mat ("The Mother"), written mainly during a visit to the USA
Edmund Gosse publishes Father and Son, an account of his difficult relationship with his fundamentalist father, Philip Gosse
