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1905
 
     
Matisse, Derain and others, exhibiting in Paris their shockingly colourful new works, are dubbed fauves ("wild beasts") by a critic        
1905
 
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The first soviet ("council") of workers is set up in St Petersburg, introducing a word of great significance in Russian Communist history      
1905
 
   
The Dutch dancer Gertrud Zelle begins a career in Paris, using the stage name Mata Hari      
1905
 
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Tsar Nicholas II reluctantly signs the October Manifesto, authorizing an elected duma or legislature        
1905
 
    
Percival Lowell predicts the existence of an unknown planet, almost exactly where Pluto is discovered 25 years later       
1905
 
    
Gustav Mahler's cycle of five songs, Kindertotenlieder, hs its first performance in Vienna       
1905
 
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The monk Grigory Rasputin exercises a powerful influence over the Russian empress Alexandra       
1905
 
    
Bernard Shaw has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman       
1905
 
    
The designer Edward Gordon Craig publishes a theatrical manifesto, The Art of the Theatre       
1905
 
    
Conservative prime minister Balfour resigns and Henry Campbell-Bannerman forms an interim Liberal government in Britain       
1905
 
     
Richard Strauss's Salome, based on Oscar Wilde's play, has wide success in spite of censorship difficulties        
1905
 
    
Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow opens in Vienna at the start of an immensely successful run       
1905
 
    
Sir Percy Blakeney rescues aristocrats from the guillotine in Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel       
1906
 
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Henry Campbell-Bannerman leads the Liberals to a massive election victory in the UK on a promised programme of reform      
1906
 
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Britain's Labour Party achieves its first electoral success, winning twenty-nine seats at Westminster      
1906
 
   
Britain launches HMS Dreadnought, the first of a massive new class of battleship      
1906
 
   
The first part of the Post Office Savings Bank in Vienna is completed, to the designs of Otto Wagner      
1906
 
    
Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a hard-hitting novel about the Chicago meat-packing industry       
1906
 
  
More than 1200 French miners die in an underground explosion in the district of Calais     
1906
 
   
Cardiff's new Civic Centre is launched with the completion of the City Hall and Law Courts, designed by Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards      
1906
 
    
English biologist William Bateson uses the word 'genetics' to describe the phenomenon of heredity and variation       
1906
 
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An international conference at Algeciras effectively gives France informal control of Morocco      
1906
 
   
The Grain Growers' Grain Company is established, soon becoming an important element in Canada's grain market      
1906
 
    
Frederick Soddy observes his first examples of chemically identical elements with differing atomic weights, to which he later gives the name isotopes       
1906
 
  
Fire destroys much of San Francisco following the most violent earthquake in the city's history     
1906
 
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The Liberals win a majority in election for Russia's new duma and press ahead with proposals for land reform      
1906
 
    
Antoni Gaudí completes his radical rebuilding of the Casa Batlló in Barcelona       
1906
 
   
Istanbul cedes the Sinai Peninsula to British-controlled Egypt      
1906
 
    
17-year-old Charlie Chaplin joins the Fred Karno company, touring slapstick comedy       
1906
 
   
Tsar Nicholas II issues a Fundamental Law emphasizing his own autocratic power      
1906
 
    
In Charles Ives' composition The Unanswered Question the trumpet repeatedly asks 'the perennial question of existence'       
1906
 
    
German immunologist August von Wasserman develops a diagnostic test to reveal the presence of the syphilis spirochaete in the blood