Europe timeline
Vaslav Nijinsky marries a Hungarian ballerina and is dismissed from the Ballets Russes by a jealous Diaghilev
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
The Russian poet Osip Mandelstam publishes his first collection, Stone
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
Marcel Proust publishes at his own expense Swann's Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past
Leonardo's Mona Lisa is recovered two years after its theft when the thief, Vincenzo Perugia, tries to sell it to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence
The march Colonel Bogey is written and published by a Royal Marine bandleader under the pseudonym Kenneth Alford
D.H. Lawrence publishes a semi-autobiographical novel about the Morel family, Sons and Lovers
A suffragette slashes the Rokeby Venus by Velázquez in London's National Gallery
A building by Walter Gropius for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Cologne brings him international attention
British officers stationed at the Curragh in Dublin say they would resign if ordered to quell Protestant resistance in Ulster
Wyndham Lewis and others launch Vorticism with a new magazine, Blast
Vaughan Williams writes a romance for violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending, inspired by George Meredith's poem of the same name
The tenor Beniamino Gigli wins an international singing competition in Parma, and makes his operatic debut later in the same year
James Joyce's novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins serial publication in a London journal, The Egoist
Calouste Gulbenkian earns his nickname – Mr Five Percent – from the share he receives for negotiating oil deals in the Ottoman empire
Antoni Gaudí completes the fanciful Park Güell, a residential project north of Barcelona based on the English concept of the garden city
After years of delay James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of short stories, is published
British golfer Harry Vardon wins his sixth Open, a record still unbroken
American-born poet Thomas Stearns Eliot crosses the Atlantic to England, making it his home for the rest of his life
Marcel Duchamp exhibits his first pure 'readymade', a bottle rack bought in a department store and displayed without alteration
The Times Literary Supplement is published in London as an independent paper, separate from The Times
Vaughan Williams' London Symphony, including picturesque sounds of the city's street life, is first performed