Alban Berg and Anton Webern study composition with Arnold Schoenberg in Vienna

Alexander Scriabin completes his Third Symphony, The Divine Poem, which is given its first performance in Paris in 1905

Under the pseudonym Saki, H.H. Munro publishes Reginald, his first volume of short stories

Dublin's Abbey Theatre opens as a new home for the Irish National Theatre Society

Gwen John makes her home in Paris, where she becomes Rodin's model and mistress

The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London

Troops fire on a demonstration in St Petersburg, in the event which becomes known as Bloody Sunday

The Bloomsbury Group gathers for informal evenings at the family home of Virginia and Vanessa Stephens (later Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell)

Strikes and riots sweep across Russia in the wake of St Petersburg's Bloody Sunday

Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect as a flow of discreet particles (quanta) of electromagnetic radiation

More than 360,000 Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden, with only 184 against

German biologists Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann discover the micro-organism Treponema pallidum which causes syphilis

Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, a letter of recrimination written in Reading Gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, is published posthumously

In his special theory of relativity Albert Einstein reconciles the apparent clash between relativity and electromagnetic theory

Henri Matisse completes his painting Luxe, Calme et Volupté

French psychologists Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon develop a scale by which to measure the 'mental age' of children

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and other Dresden students form the Expressionist group Die Brücke

Pablo Picasso's palette becomes warmer as Blue evolves into Rose

Karol Szymanowski and other Polish composers form a group that soon becomes known as Young Poland

The Ulster Unionist Party is founded in Belfast to oppose Home Rule

The Russian composer Alexander Scriabin becomes influenced by the theosophy of Madame Blavatsky

Henri Matisse, in the south of France, paints The Open Window, Collioure, the first of his many works on this theme

The first boat to be powered by a combustion engine, the 125-ton vessel Venoga, is launched on Lake Geneva

A complaint about maggotty meat on the Russian battleship Potemkin leads to thousands of deaths after troops fire on a demonstration

English physiologists William Bayliss and Ernest Starling coin the word 'hormone' for glandular secretions into the bloodstream