January 30th – Scott’s Discovery Expedition reaches the Great Ice Barrier in Antarctica
March 6th – Real Madrid F.C. are founded
April 5th – The Ibrox Stadium stands collapse during an England-Scotland match – 25 are killed, 517 are injured
April 11th – The South African Army fights a last, disastrous battle against the British
May 8th РMount Pel̩e erupts
July 14th — St Mark’s Campanile, the bell tower of St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, collapses.
August 9th – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Queen consort Alexandra are crowned at Westminster Abbey
October 13th – Ernest Rutherford sends the first wireless signal to a moving train
November 11th – King Edward VII and his nephew Kaiser Wilhelm II agree to a British and German blockade of Venezuela
November 16th – The Hanoi World’s Fair opens in French Indochina