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Claude Debussy completes Children's Corner, pieces for piano which include 'Golliwog's Cake Walk'
International outrage at Congo atrocities forces Belgium to annexe King Leopold's private colony
Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird is performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in a production by Stanislavsky
Bronislava Nijinska joins her brother Vaslav in the Maryinsky company in St Petersburg
Alexander Scriabin's orchestral work, Poem of Ecstasy, has its first performance in New York
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria declares his country's independence from Ottoman rule and calls himself Tsar Ferdinand I
Europe's worst earthquake, centred on the Strait of Messina, kills up to 200,000 people in Sicily and southern Italy.
The French critic Louis Vauxcelles describes Braque's latest landscapes as being composed of cubes, resulting in the term cubism
The Welsh poet W.H. Davies has a success with The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, his account of life on the road and in dosshouses
Bernard Leach moves to Japan to study oriental traditions in the graphic arts
Michel Fokine becomes the choreographer for the ballet company that Sergei Diaghilev is taking to Paris
Ralph Vaughan Williams sets poems by Housman in On Wenlock Edge
Italian educational pioneer Maria Montessori publishes The Montessori Method
Rugby Union acquires new headquarters and a state-of-the-art stadium at Twickenham
Alexandre Benois becomes the first artistic director of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
National delegates from the four provincial parliaments draw up a draft constitution for a South African union
French biologist Charles Nicolle discovers that epidemic typhus is transmitted by the body louse
André Gide publishes La Porte étroite ('Strait is the Gate')
Isaac Albéniz completes his series of 12 piano pieces published under the title Iberia.
René Lalique, originally known for his jewellery, sets up his own glass-making factory at Combes-la-Ville
15-year-old Andrés Segovia gives his first public performance as a guitarist in Granada
Vaughan Williams first symphony, which he names A Sea Symphony, is first performed at the Leeds Festival
Diaghilev presents the first season of Ballets Russes in Paris, with Pavlova and Nijinsky in the company
Fokine's 1907 ballet Chopiniana is revised and given a new name, Les Sylphides
The heroine of H.G. Wells' novel Ann Veronica is a determined example of the New Woman
