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| 1905 |
| | | Richard Strauss's Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play, has wide success in spite of censorship difficulties | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow opens in Vienna at the start of an immensely successful run | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Sir Percy Blakeney rescues aristocrats from the guillotine in Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Henry Campbell-Bannerman leads the Liberals to a massive election victory in the UK on a promised programme of reform | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Britain's Labour Party achieves its first electoral success, winning twenty-nine seats at Westminster | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Britain launches HMS Dreadnought, the first of a massive new class of battleship | |
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| 1906 |
| | | The first part of the Post Office Savings Bank in Vienna is completed, to the designs of Otto Wagner | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a hard-hitting novel about the Chicago meat-packing industry | |
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| 1906 |
| | | More than 1200 French miners die in an underground explosion in the district of Calais | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Cardiff's new Civic Centre is launched with the completion of the City Hall and Law Courts, designed by Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards | |
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