Stands A and B are built and the South Terrace is started at Twickenham Rugby ground .

Edward VII dies in London, after just nine years on the throne

The wife of Harvey Crippen, an American doctor working in north London, vanishes mysteriously

The critic Roger Fry presents in London's Grafton Galleries an influential exhibition of Post-Impressionist art

Whitton Park estate is bought for housing and the house is demolished.

Ethel Smyth's The March of Women has its premiere at a suffragette event in London's Albert Hall

Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova settles in London and forms her own touring company

A ship tank, 150 metres long, is opened at the National Physical Laboratory for marine testing

A footbridge, designed by François Hennibique, is built just south of Kew Gardens station with narrow deck and high walls to protect users' clothing from the smoke of trains.

A conference of great powers in London accepts Albanian independence but within altered boundaries

Under pressure from Russia, the London conference allots the ethnically Albanian region of Kosovo to Serbia

Kingston Bridge is widened and the carriageway increased from 25 to 55 feet with a new facade of Portland Stone to replicate features of the original

The Vickers Fighting Biplane No 1 is unveiled in London at the Olympia Aero Show as the world's first purpose-built fighter plane

The Treaty of London, ending the First Balkan War, allows Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia to divide up much of European Turkey

The Rugby Football Union acquires an additional 1.6 acres of land for Twickenham Rugby ground

Leonard and Virginia Woolf move to Richmond, taking rooms at 17 The Green (now also called Richmond House)

A suffragette slashes the Rokeby Venus by Velázquez in London's National Gallery

James Joyce's novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins serial publication in a London journal, The Egoist

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

British troops are driven to the western front in London Transport double-deckers

Leonard and Virginia Woolf move to Hogarth House, in Paradise Road, which remains their home for ten years

An employee of the Metropolitan Railway coins the term Metro-land when promoting the company's services in London's suburbs

The Metropolitan Water Board Light Railway, with a two foot guage, is constructed to connect the coal wharf and pumping stations in Hampton Waterworks and the Kempton Park pumping station

After years of slow decline, the Star and Garter is bought by the Auctioneers and Estate Agents Institute and presented to Queen Mary to become a hospital for disabled servicemen