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The Firebird brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Golovine and Bakst (sets and costumes)
Antoni Gaudí completes an apartment block, the Casa Milá, in Barcelona
Winston Churchill becomes home secretary in Asquith's Liberal government
John Buchan publishes Prester John, the first of his adventure stories
Charles Stewart Rolls dies in a flying accident shortly after his record cross-Channel flight
Alexander Scriabin completes Prometheus, the Poem of Fire, first performed in Moscow in 1911
Telegraph messages lead to the arrest of Dr Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve in mid-Atlantic
Three French colonies south of the Sahara are consolidated as French Equatorial Africa
Henri Matisse completes two large paintings, La Danse and La Musique, for the staircase of Sergei Shchukin's house in Moscow
A republican revolution in Portugal deposes Manuel II, bringing to an end the Braganza dynasty and the Portuguese monarchy
H.G. Wells publishes The History of Mr Polly, a novel about an escape from drab everyday existence
Rudyard Kipling publishes If, which rapidly becomes his most popular poem among the British
Wassily Kandinsky's paintings entitled Compositions are the first examples of purely abstract art
The Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, wandering from home in midwinter, dies of pneumonia in the stationmaster's house at Astapovo
The Liberals win another general election called on the House of Lords issue, becoming the first British political party since 1832 to win three successive victories
E.M. Forster publishes Howard's End, his novel about the Schlegel sisters and the Wilcox family
The part-time English painter L.S. Lowry begins a lifetime career in a Manchester property company
Charles Wilson, using his cloud chamber to detect the passage of charged particles, obtains his first photographs of alpha and beta rays
Ernest Rutherford proposes the concept of the nucleus as a positively charged mass at the centre of an atom
Ethel Smyth's The March of Women has its premiere at a suffragette event in London's Albert Hall
D.H. Lawrence's career as a writer is launched with the publication of his first novel, The White Peacock
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova settles in London and forms her own touring company
Rupert Brooke publishes Poems, the only collection to appear before his early death in World War I
Le Spectre de la Rose, with choreography by Fokine, music by Weber and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo
G.K. Chesterton's clerical detective makes his first appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown
