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1913
 
    
Albert Einstein formulates the law of photochemical equivalence, a fundamental principle of chemical reactions induced by light       
1913
 
     
The first issue of the New Statesman is published by Beatrice and Sidney Webb        
1913
 
    
English geologist Arthur Holmes publishes The Age of the Earth, offering evidence that the planet is at least 1.6 billion years old       
1913
 
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The Spanish government grants a degree of administrative autonomy to four provinces of Catalonia      
1913
 
    
The Woolworth Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, a distinction it retains until 1930       
1913
 
     
Lawrence Bragg and his father, William, together develop X-ray crystallography, based on the diffraction patterns of crystals        
1913
 
   
The Morris company launches the Morris Oxford, later known as the Bullnose Morris from the shape of its radiator      
1913
 
    
The Canadian Arctic Expedition, led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, sets off to the north       
1913
 
    
Compton Mackenzie publishes the first volume of his autobiographial novel Sinister Street       
1913
 
   
Hitler moves to Munich to begin a new life, and in an attempt to avoid Austrian military service