Events
- British fears grow as the German navy expands its fleet
- A Royal Commission on the poor laws in Britain condemns workhouses.
- The British Prime Minister Lloyd George introduces a Budget to raise taxes and fund pensions - the move meets with Tory fury and sparks a constitutional crisis.
- The Union of South Africa is proclaimed, uniting the British Cape Colony and Natal and the Boer Transvaal and Orange River colonies.
- Suffragettes on hunger strike in Birmingham are subjected to force feeding.
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Glasgow School of Art.
- An earthquake hits Messina in southern Italy, killing around 200,000 people.
- British explorer Ernest Shackleton almost reaches the South Pole.
- The prohibition movement closes many saloon bars in the United States.
- Robert E. Peary of the US reaches the North Pole, amid controversial claims by Dr Frederick Cook that he had reached the pole earlier.
- Young Turks topple Sultan Abdul Hamid in Constantinople.
- Louis Bleriot flies the English Channel for the first time.
- Georges Clemenceau and Bernhard von Bulow end their tenures as head of the French and German governments.
- 12-year-old Prince Sultan Ahmed Mirza of Persia replaces his ousted brother, Mohammad, as Shah.
- Paris is rocked by riots as a mob protest outside the Spanish embassy against a Spanish anarchist's execution in Barcelona.
- Guglielmo Marconi wins a Nobel prize for his contributions to radio.
- Filippo Marinetti publishes the "Futurist Manifesto of Poetry" in Le Figaro.
- Indian nationalists adopt terror tactics in a spate of killings.
- Japanese statesman Prince Ito Hirobumi, known as the "Japanese Bismarck", is assassinated by a Korean nationalist.
- The Ballets Russes, presented by Sergei Diaghilev, debuts in Paris.
Deaths
Sources:
Chronicle of Britain, Chronicle Communications Ltd, 1992
Chronicle of The World, Chronicle Communications Ltd, 1989
20th Century Day by Day, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2000
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