• Robert Menzies' third year at Wesley was more successful:

"Though as a man Menzies was to enjoy following football and cricket, observing each as an art rather than a mere game, he was at Wesley not very interested in and certainly incompetent at sport. Probably because of this, Adamson [headmaster] never made him a prefect. Preparing himself for examinations was Menzies' overriding consideration.
In his first two years at Wesley he did not particularly shine, but his third year of work was more successful: at the end of it Menzies won one of the twenty-five exhibitions, each worth £40, awarded by the State for university study, as well as the highest honours in English and History."
A W Martin, Robert Menzies: A Life. Vol 1 1894-1943, 1993 p 19.

• Menzies excells in the humanities and is awarded the C L Andrews Prize for Poetry.
• Throughout his life, Menzies remains loyal to his old school and acknowledging, in particular, his master, Harold Stewart for (in his words) "teaching him to think with discipline".

• Maternity allowance is introduced for Europeans. Aboriginal women are not considered citizens.
• The Commonwealth Savings Bank opens.
• American Walter Burley Griffin wins an international competition for the design of the national capital, Canberra.
• Mina Wylie and Fanny Durack become the first women swimmers to represent Australia at an Olympic Games. Durack wins gold at the Stockholm Games and Wylie silver.

• Titanic sinks crossing the Atlantic on her maiden voyage with the loss of 1513 lives.
• Republic is declared in China after 1911 revolution against the Manchu Dynasty led by Sun Yat-sen.
• Captain Scott and his team die in their attempt to be first at the South Pole - beaten by Amundsen 1911.