The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova publishes Evening, her first collection of poems

Benito Mussolini, an active revolutionary Socialist, becomes editor of the party newspaper in Italy

German scientist Alfred Wegener, impressed by the neat fit between the coasts of Africa and South America, proposes the theory of continental drift

Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya

The Social Democrats become the largest group in Germany's Reichstag

The first sea-going diesel-powered ship, the Selandia, is constructed and launched in Denmark

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

Carl Jung breaks with Freud and introduces the concept of the collective unconscious

Jacob Epstein causes a stir with his provocatively modern angel on the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Père Lachaise

Arnold Schoenberg sets Pierrot Lunaire for a solo voice, reciting the text to the accompaniment of a quintet

The Berlin Opera Ballet is founded to perform in the city's new opera house

Walter Gropius and other architects in Germany develop the International Modern style

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

An Albanian uprising against the Ottoman empire is so successful that the Albanians are able to capture Skopje in Macedonia

By a prearranged plan Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia together launch the First Balkan War against Turkey

The opera Ariadne auf Naxos, by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has its first premiere in Stuttgart

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

An armistice agreed between the Ottoman empire and three of the Balkan states ends the war in the Balkans

Giacomo Balla attempts to paint movement in his futurist Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash

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