History of Watchmaking

1907: Ultrathin: LeCoultre created the world’s thinnest pocket watch movement, at 1.38 mm.

World history

Taking turns at the commands, the Wright brothers Orville and Wilbur made four flights over a few dozen metres along Kill Devil Beach in North Carolina.

Art and Culture

Rabindranath Tagore established a traditional Indian education system in reaction against British schooling.
Creation of the Académie Goncourt.