Alfred Dreyfus is awarded the Légion d'Honneur ten days after his conviction has been annulled

A large retrospective exhibition in Paris gives Paul Gauguin a growing posthumous reputation

Sergei Diaghilev mounts a major exhibition of Russian art at the Petit Palais in Paris.

Michel Fokine creates the ballet Les Sylphides (originally called Chopiniana) to music by Chopin

An Entente signed between Britain and Russia follows on from the 1904 Entente Cordiale with France to establish a new Triple Entente

Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev presents five concerts of Russian music in Paris

Gertrude Stein meets Alice B. Toklas, who becomes her secretary and lifelong companion

Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a violent transition into cubism, is a turning point in western art

Anna Pavlova dances The Dying Swan, choreographed for her by Michel Fokine to music by Saint-Saëns

Anatole France casts a satirical eye on human society in his novel L'Île des pingouins ("Penguin Island")

Sergei Diaghilev presents Fyodor Chaliapin in Boris Godunov at the Paris Opera

Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque introduces analytic Cubism

Claude Debussy completes Children's Corner, pieces for piano which include 'Golliwog's Cake Walk'

The French critic Louis Vauxcelles describes Braque's latest landscapes as being composed of cubes, resulting in the term cubism

Michel Fokine becomes the choreographer for the ballet company that Sergei Diaghilev is taking to Paris

Alexandre Benois becomes the first artistic director of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

French biologist Charles Nicolle discovers that epidemic typhus is transmitted by the body louse

André Gide publishes La Porte étroite ('Strait is the Gate')

René Lalique, originally known for his jewellery, sets up his own glass-making factory at Combes-la-Ville

Diaghilev presents the first season of Ballets Russes in Paris, with Pavlova and Nijinsky in the company

Fokine's 1907 ballet Chopiniana is revised and given a new name, Les Sylphides

Louis Blériot is the first to fly across the English Channel, winning the £1000 prize offered by the Daily Mail

Set-designer Leon Bakst begins a long association with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes

Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguett perform together at the Folies-Bergère

Schéhérazade, with choreography by Fokine, music by Rimsky-Korsakov and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Paris