French automobile pioneer Leon Serpollet sets a new land speed record, driving a steam car at 75 mph along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice

A.E. Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside independently see the link between the atmosphere and the behaviour of radio waves

The play Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism

Charles Pathé develops film facilities capable of mass production, in Vincennes near Paris

Irish politician Arthur Griffith launches Sinn Fein, as an organization campaigning for a strong and independent Ireland

'Land of Hope and Glory' features in its lasting form as the finale of Elgar's Coronation Ode for Edward VII

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is published commercially, a year after being first printed by Beatrix Potter at her own expense

The sculptor Aristide Maillol has his first one-man exhibition, at the Galerie Vollard in Paris

Augustus John meets his favourite subject Dorothy McNeill, to whom he gives the Gypsy name Dorelia

John Masefield's poem 'Sea Fever' is published in Salt-Water Ballads

Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths is performed at the Moscow Art Theatre

Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles begins publication in serial form

W.B. Yeats heads a group of writers and directors in establishing the Irish National Theatre Society

Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande has its premiere in Paris

Henry James publishes the first of his three last novels, The Wings of the Dove

French film pioneer Georges Méliès uses trick effects for his film Journey to the Moon

Gustav Mahler marries Alma, daughter of the artist Emil Jakob Schindler

The tenor Enrico Caruso cuts his first phonograph records in Milan, beginning an immensely successful recording career

William K. Vanderbilt drives the first internal-combustion car to win the land speed record, at 76 mph at Ablis in France

Joseph Conrad publishes a collection of stories including Heart of Darkness, a sinister tale based partly on his own journey up the Congo

Lenin's supporters become known as the Bolsheviks ('majority') as opposed to the Mensheviks ('minority') after a split at the party's Second Congress

German surgeon Georg Clemens Perthes discovers, in Leipzig, that X-rays can inhibit cancer

Sibelius writes Valse Triste as incidental music to a play, Kuolema, by his brother-in-law Arvid Järnefelt

Gertrude Stein leaves the USA to share with her brother an apartment in Paris that soon becomes a literary and artistic salon

Emmeline Pankhurst founds the Women's Social and Political Union to fight for women's political rights in the UK