The White Star liner Titanic sinks on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, drowning 1513 passengers and crew

Charles Dawson claims to have found the fossilized skull of an early man (named in his honour Eoanthropus dawsoni in a gravel pit at Piltdown

Tommy Sopwith founds the aviation company that will produce the Pup and the Camel

Ludwig Wittgenstein moves to Cambridge to study philosophy under Bertrand Russell

Half a million Unionist men and women in Belfast commit themselves to civil disobedience if Home Rule government is established in Ireland

Walter De la Mare establishes his reputation with the title poem of his collection The Listeners

Ethel Smyth, in Holloway jail, conducts her fellow prisoners in a suffragette anthem composed by herself

A conference of great powers in London accepts Albanian independence but within altered boundaries

Under pressure from Russia, the London conference allots the ethnically Albanian region of Kosovo to Serbia

Unionists in Ulster aim to raise a Volunteer Force of 100,000 men, and begin drilling with dummy wooden rifles

Walter Sickert paints Ennui, depicting a difficult or dreary moment in a marriage

The Vickers Fighting Biplane No 1 is unveiled in London at the Olympia Aero Show as the world's first purpose-built fighter plane

The first issue of the New Statesman is published by Beatrice and Sidney Webb

English geologist Arthur Holmes publishes The Age of the Earth, offering evidence that the planet is at least 1.6 billion years old

Lawrence Bragg and his father, William, together develop X-ray crystallography, based on the diffraction patterns of crystals

Compton Mackenzie publishes the first volume of his autobiographial novel Sinister Street

The Treaty of London, ending the First Balkan War, allows Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia to divide up much of European Turkey

Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell complete a work of mathematical logic, Principia Mathematica

Frederick Soddy uses the term 'isotope' (Greek for 'same place') to describe observed anomalies in the periodic table

A suffragette, Emily Davison, dies after throwing herself under the king's horse in the Derby at Epsom

The so-called Cat and Mouse Act is the British government's response to hunger strikes by suffragettes

Frederick Delius completes On Hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring, first performed this same year in Leipzig

John Ireland sets Masefield's poem Sea Fever to music

English physicist Henry Moseley proposes that the atomic number of an element is a physical reality, thus laying the basis for the modern periodic table

The Irish National Volunteers are formed in Dublin, in response to the Protestant equivalent in Ulster