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The White Star liner Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, drowning 1513 passengers and crew
The 'Workers' Newspaper' Pravda (meaning 'Truth') publishes its first issue in St Petersburg
Vaslav Nijinsky causes a sensation dancing in the first ballet choreographed by himself, L'Après-midi d'un faune
Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term Orphism for Robert Delaunay's distinctive style of abstraction
Charles Dawson claims to have found the fossilized skull of an early man (named in his honour Eoanthropus dawsoni in a gravel pit at Piltdown
The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova publishes Evening, her first collection of poems
Benito Mussolini, an active revolutionary Socialist, becomes editor of the party newspaper in Italy
Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya
The first sea-going diesel-powered ship, the Selandia, is constructed and launched in Denmark
By the treaty of Fès a French protectorate is formally established in Morocco
Daphnis and Chloe, with choreography by Fokine, music by Ravel and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Paris
Tommy Sopwith founds the aviation company that will produce the Pup and the Camel
Ludwig Wittgenstein moves to Cambridge to study philosophy under Bertrand Russell
France and Spain agree that Spain shall become the colonial power in the north of Morocco and France in the south
Jacob Epstein causes a stir with his provocatively modern angel on the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Père Lachaise
The South African National Native Congress (subsequently the ANC, African National Congress) is set up in Cape Province
Half a million Unionist men and women in Belfast commit themselves to civil disobedience if Home Rule government is established in Ireland
An Albanian uprising against the Ottoman empire is so successful that the Albanians are able to capture Skopje in Macedonia
By a prearranged plan Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia together launch the First Balkan War against Turkey
Walter De la Mare establishes his reputation with the title poem of his collection The Listeners
Ethel Smyth, in Holloway jail, conducts her fellow prisoners in a suffragette anthem composed by herself
An armistice agreed between the Ottoman empire and three of the Balkan states ends the war in the Balkans
Giacomo Balla attempts to paint movement in his futurist Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
A conference of great powers in London accepts Albanian independence but within altered boundaries
Under pressure from Russia, the London conference allots the ethnically Albanian region of Kosovo to Serbia
