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The Titanic is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast
Spanish composer Enrique Granados completes his Goyescas, seven pieces for piano
Italy finds a reason to invade Libya, a province of the Turkish empire.
The ballet Petrushka brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Benois (sets and costumes)
Walter Sickert and other painters, sharing his preference for everyday subjects, adopt the name Camden Town Group
Germany causes international alarm by sending a warship to Agadir, a port in French-controlled Morocco
Asquith's Parliament Bill proposes to end the constitutional crisis in the UK by restricting the power of the House of Lords
Confronted with the threat of 300 newly created peerages, the House of Lords narrowly passes Asquith's Parliament Bill (by 17 votes)
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre in Paris
Max Beerbohm publishes his novel Zuleika Dobson, in which the beauty of his heroine causes havoc among the students at Oxford
The Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin is assassinated in a Kiev theatre
Edward Carson tells a vast crowd in Northern Ireland that they must be ready to defend their Protestant province by force
Copper mining begins in Katanga, soon to be followed by the extraction of even more profitable diamonds
French composer Henri Duparc publishes a complete edition of his songs
Austrian artist Gustav Klimt completes his designs for mosaics in the Palais Stoclet in Brussels
The British monarch George V holds a great durbar in Delhi to celebrate his coronation as emperor of India
Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky leave Russia for the west
The Italian premier, Giovanni Giolitti, introduces reformist legislation including a national insurance act
Coco Chanel opens a shop selling millinery in Deauville, in France
The Kaiser and his advisers decide to postpone a preventive war against France and Russia
UK suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested, released and rearrested twelve times within the year
A national uprising against Turkish rule in Albania launches a full-scale Balkan war
Carl Nielsen's Third Symphony, first performed in Copenhagen, brings him international renown
Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 creates a stir
Georges Braque's Fruit-Dish and Glass adds papier collé (a type of collage) to the conventions of cubism
