General
Population: 1.76 Billion*
- Entertainment: Music includes Strauss, Sibelius, Bartók, Stravinsky, Ravel, Joplin, Edward Elgar, Mahler, Wolf-Ferrari, Arnold Schonberg,
Lehar, Richard Wagner (posth), Irving Berlin composes ragtime
Popular songs include I Want to be in Dixie, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Bye Bye My Honey
Writers include Max Beerbohm, Rupert Brooke, Theodire Dreiser, DH Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Saki, Hugh Walpole, HG Wells, Edith Wharton,
GK Chesterton, Ezra Pound, JM Thompson, Poet Rabindranath Tagore wins Nobel Prize
Art includes Renoir, Georges Braque, Matisse, Paul Klee
Films include Anna Karenina, Spartacus, Pinocchio, Nick Carter, Enoch Arden, The Abyss
- Politics: US-Japanese and Anglo-Japanese commercial treaties signed
- Science: 1st Solvay Congress of physicists
Hess detects cosmic rays
Rutherford and Marsden discover structure of the atom
Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Marie Curie
Superconductivity discovered
- Technology: Kettering develops electronic self-starter for autos
- Transportation: First transcontinental plane flight
First presentation of Gordon-Bennet International Aviation Cup
- Deaths: Painter Joseph Israels, Sculptor Reinhold Begas, Kantian philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey, Librettist WS Gilbert,
Etcher Alphonse Legros, Mountaineer Edward Whymper, Physicist JH vant Hoff, Composer Gustav Mahler,
Jack Daniel (Yep that one) kicks his safe in frustration and injures toe – infection kills him
Africa
- Libya: Italy conquers Libya leading to Italian-Turkish War to 1912
Italy occupies Tripoli
- Morocco: German gunboat Panther creates international incident at Agadir - second Morocco crisis
Revolt at Fez (Morocco) leads to French occupation
Second Morocco Crisis
Americas
- General: US-Canada tariff deal
- Honduras: End of civil war
- Mexico: Mexican Revolution starts three-year period of instability
Pancho Villa overthrows Porfiro Diaz
Emiliano Zapata proposes Plan of Ayala
Armistice ends civil war
- Peru: Machu Picchu discovered
Asia
- China: Revolution overthrows Qing dynasty, start brief Manchu dynasty with Sun Yat-sen president
Chinese rebellion against Manchus
Flooding in Yangtze River China kills 100,000 then another 100,000 afterwards from starvation
WuChang Uprising
Pigtails abolished
Calendar reformed
- India: King George V attends coronation and Dubar in Delhi
- Japan: Complete independence
- Philippines: Eruption in Mt. Taal kills 1335 - twice eruption
Europe
- General: Agadir Crisis between France and Germany – Germany sends gunboat to Morocco but withdraws claims
- Austria-Hungary: Karl von Sturgkh named Austrian Prime Minister
- Denmark: Abolishment of death penalty
- France: Mona Lisa stolen
French ship explodes
Joseph Caillaux named Premier
Jacob Epstein creates tomb of Oscar Wilde in Paris
General Joseph Joffre becomes Chief of French General Staff
- Germany: German warship invades Moroccan port
Kaiser's Hamburg speech asserts Germany's "Place in the Sun"
Emile Jaques-Dalcroze founds institute for teaching of eurhythmics
First flight from Munich to Berlin reaches record height of 12,800 feet
- Great Britain: Parliament act ensures sovereignty of House of Commons
House of Lords forbidden from blocking legislation
Cambridge Medieval History appears
Scots v. Russ. Shootout in London
Ramsay MacDonald elected chair of British Labour Party
Winston S. Churchill appointed First Lord of the Admirality
National Insurance Act provides unemployment insurance
Three men in London hanged for murder of Sir Edmund Berry – hanged at Greenberry Hill – names were Green, Berry and Hill
British Official Secrets Act becomes law
Temperature in London reaches 100 degrees F – first
British ministers receive salaries for first time
- Italy: Turko-Italian War - Italy declares war on Turkey and annexes Tripoli and Cyrenacia
First use of aircraft for offensive measures
- Portugal: Liberal constitution promulgated
- Russia: Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin assassinated
Famine
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Turko-Italian War
Pacific
- Antarctica: Roald Amundsen Norwegian team reaches S Pole beating Scott's British team
- Australia: North Territory created
- New Zealand: Universal military training established