The world population surpasses 1.5 billion people. Of that million live in Asia.

Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky and German painter Franz publish Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in Munich, Germany, and a name, to one of the most influential movements in Postimpressionist Western art. Kandinsky and Paul Klee emerge as the movement's figures.

Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead publish the their Principia Mathematica (1910-1913), a major work on logic.

Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi completes one of his best- buildings, Casa Mila, in Barcelona.

Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, who started in 1908, founds the Girl Guides.

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French Equatorial Africa is created when the French colonies of Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, and Ubangi-Shari are brought together as a single administrative unit. Brazzaville is made the capital of the new colony.

The British Parliament adopts the so-called People's Budget, a major step in the creation of a welfare state in...