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| 1908 |
| | | Europe's worst earthquake, centred on the Strait of Messina, kills up to 200,000 people in Sicily and southern Italy. | |
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| 1908 |
| | | William Howard Taft, the Republican candidate, is elected to follow Roosevelt as president | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The French critic Louis Vauxcelles describes Braque's latest landscapes as being composed of cubes, resulting in the term cubism | |
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| 1908 |
| | | US boxer Jack Johnson becomes the first black heavyweight champion when he knocks out Tommy Burns in Australia | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The Welsh poet W.H. Davies has a success with The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, his account of life on the road and in dosshouses | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Bernard Leach moves to Japan to study oriental traditions in the graphic arts | |
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| 1909 |
| | | The opera Elektra, the first collaboration between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has its premiere in Dresden | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Michel Fokine becomes the choreographer for the ballet company that Sergei Diaghilev is taking to Paris | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Ralph Vaughan Williams sets poems by Housman in On Wenlock Edge | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Italian educational pioneer Maria Montessori publishes The Montessori Method | |
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