Agnes Baden-Powell establishes the Girl Guides, an organization for girls equivalent to the Scouts

Edward Carson, previously a prominent Conservative politician at Westminster, becomes leader of the Ulster Unionist party

Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is first performed in Gloucester

Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguett perform together at the Folies-Bergère

UK prime minister Herbert Asquith plans to reduce the power of the House of Lords, but the upper house as yet is certain to block any such bill

In his poem Cargoes John Masefield compares a 'dirty British coaster' with two romantic boats from the past

Fritz Kreisler is the soloist in the first performance of Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto

Alban Berg and Anton Webern follow Schoenberg in developing atonal music

Gustav Mahler conducts in Munich the first performance of his Eighth Symphony, subsequently known as the 'Symphony of a Thousand'

Constantine Cavafy prints a few more of his poems to add to the fourteen privately printed in 1904

J.M. Synge's last and unfinished play, Deirdre of the Sorrows, is performed in Dublin shortly after his death

Charles Stewart Rolls becomes the first man to fly non-stop across the English Channel and back

Robert Falcon Scott sails south in the Terra Nova on his second voyage towards the South Pole

The Firebird brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Golovine and Bakst (sets and costumes)

Antoni Gaudí completes an apartment block, the Casa Milá, in Barcelona

Winston Churchill becomes home secretary in Asquith's Liberal government

John Buchan publishes Prester John, the first of his adventure stories

Charles Stewart Rolls dies in a flying accident shortly after his record cross-Channel flight

Alexander Scriabin completes Prometheus, the Poem of Fire, first performed in Moscow in 1911

The Snowman, a pantomime opera by the 11-year-old Erich Korngold, is a huge succes in Vienna

Telegraph messages lead to the arrest of Dr Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve in mid-Atlantic

Henri Matisse completes two large paintings, La Danse and La Musique, for the staircase of Sergei Shchukin's house in Moscow

A republican revolution in Portugal deposes Manuel II, bringing to an end the Braganza dynasty and the Portuguese monarchy

H.G. Wells publishes The History of Mr Polly, a novel about an escape from drab everyday existence

Rudyard Kipling publishes If, which rapidly becomes his most popular poem among the British