The Firebird brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Golovine and Bakst (sets and costumes)

Henri Matisse completes two large paintings, La Danse and La Musique, for the staircase of Sergei Shchukin's house in Moscow

Le Spectre de la Rose, with choreography by Fokine, music by Weber and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo

The ballet Petrushka brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Benois (sets and costumes)

Frances Hodgson Burnett publishes The Secret Garden, which becomes a classic of children's literature

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre in Paris

French composer Henri Duparc publishes a complete edition of his songs

Coco Chanel opens a shop selling millinery in Deauville, in France

The Kaiser and his advisers decide to postpone a preventive war against France and Russia

Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2 creates a stir

Georges Braque's Fruit-Dish and Glass adds papier collé (a type of collage) to the conventions of cubism

Vaslav Nijinsky causes a sensation dancing in the first ballet choreographed by himself, L'Après-midi d'un faune

Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term Orphism for Robert Delaunay's distinctive style of abstraction

Daphnis and Chloe, with choreography by Fokine, music by Ravel and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Paris

France and Spain agree that Spain shall become the colonial power in the north of Morocco and France in the south

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

Marcel Duchamp creates Bicycle Wheel, his first 'assisted readymade', consisting of the wheel screwed upside down on a painted wooden stool

Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky provoke uproar in Paris with The Rite of Spring for Ballets Russes

The cubist movement enters its second phase, deriving from the use of collage and known as Synthetic cubism

French physicists Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson discover the ozone layer in the stratosphere

Alain-Fournier completes his semi-autobiographical novel Le Grand Meaulnes

Vaslav Nijinsky marries a Hungarian ballerina and is dismissed from the Ballets Russes by a jealous Diaghilev

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

Marcel Duchamp exhibits his first pure 'readymade', a bottle rack bought in a department store and displayed without alteration