Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre in Paris

Max Beerbohm publishes his novel Zuleika Dobson, in which the beauty of his heroine causes havoc among the students at Oxford

Alfred Adler ends his association breaks with Sigmund Freud and forms his own school of psychology

The Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin is assassinated in a Kiev theatre

Edward Carson tells a vast crowd in Northern Ireland that they must be ready to defend their Protestant province by force

Bruno Walter conducts in Munich the first performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, a few months after the composer's death

French composer Henri Duparc publishes a complete edition of his songs

Austrian artist Gustav Klimt completes his designs for mosaics in the Palais Stoclet in Brussels

Walter Gropius builds the Fagus Factory at Alfeld an der Leine in Germany

Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky leave Russia for the west

The painters Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc and others form Der Blaue Reiter

The Italian premier, Giovanni Giolitti, introduces reformist legislation including a national insurance act

Coco Chanel opens a shop selling millinery in Deauville, in France

The Kaiser and his advisers decide to postpone a preventive war against France and Russia

UK suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested, released and rearrested twelve times within the year

Egon Schiele's highly explicit images of nudes land him briefly in gaol

Carl Nielsen's Third Symphony, first performed in Copenhagen, brings him international renown

Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 creates a stir

Georges Braque's Fruit-Dish and Glass adds papier collé (a type of collage) to the conventions of cubism

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

The 'Workers' Newspaper' Pravda (meaning 'Truth') publishes its first issue in St Petersburg

At a conference in Prague Lenin forms the Bolsheviks into a separate political party with himself as leader

Vaslav Nijinsky causes a sensation dancing in the first ballet choreographed by himself, L'Après-midi d'un faune

Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term Orphism for Robert Delaunay's distinctive style of abstraction

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