Erskine Childers has a best-seller in The Riddle of the Sands, a thriller about a planned German invasion of Britain

King Alexander and Queen Draga of Serbia are murdered in their palace by army officers

In a paper to a congress in Madrid, on the 'psychology and psychopathology of animals', Ivan Pavlov announces his discovery of the conditioned reflex

Henry James publishes The Ambassadors, the second of his three last novels written in rapid succession

Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy identify the phenomenon of radioactive half-life

Giuseppe Sarto is elected pope and takes the name Pius X

British philosopher G.E. Moore publishes Principia Ethica, an attempt to apply logic to ethics

Maurice Ravel sets to music romantic oriental poems by Tristan Klingsor in his song-cycle Shéhérazade

Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invents the galvanometer, or electrocardiograph, for recording the electrical impulses within the heart muscle

Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow for Miss Cranston

Work begins on England's first garden city, at Letchworth, based on the theories of Ebenezer Howard

The annual Prix Goncourt is established in France, in accordance with the will of Edmond de Goncourt

Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet in a historic encounter in Manchester and launch their first car, the Rolls-Royde 10 hp, later in this same year.

Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard, is staged by Stanislavsky just a few months before the author's death

Leos Janacek's opera Jenufa, based on a play by Gabriela Preissová, has its premiere in Brno

Finnish architect Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen wins the competition to build Helsinki's railway station

J.M. Synge's play Riders to the Sea has its premiere at the Molesworth Hall in Dublin

Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly falls victim at La Scala to claques paid for by rivals

Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Nostromo, about a revolution in South America and a fatal horde of silver

France and Britain sign an Entente Cordiale, resolving several colonial disputes and laying the foundation for a new alliance

Henry James publishes his last completed novel, The Golden Bowl

Constantine Cavafy prints fourteen of his poems in a pamphlet for private distribution

Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud publishes The Psychopathology of Everyday Life

The publisher Walter Blackie moves into Hill House at Helensburgh, designed for him by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

J.M Barrie's play for children Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up has its premiere in London