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1913
 
    
Compton Mackenzie publishes the first volume of his autobiographial novel Sinister Street       
1913
 
    
Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion has its first performance – in a German version in Vienna       
Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle, 1914
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1913
 
    
Marcel Duchamp creates Bicycle Wheel, his first 'assisted readymade', consisting of the wheel screwed upside down on a painted wooden stool       
1913
 
     
Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky provoke uproar in Paris with The Rite of Spring for Ballets Russes        
1913
 
     
Italian Futurist sculptor Umberto Boccioni suggests human movement in his Unique Forms of Continuity in Space        
1913
 
    
US poet Robert Frost publishes his first book of poems, A Boy's Will       
1913
 
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The Treaty of London, ending the First Balkan War, allows Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia to divide up much of European Turkey      
c. 1913
 
    
The cubist movement enters its second phase, deriving from the use of collage and known as Synthetic cubism       
1913
 
     
French physicists Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson discover the ozone layer in the stratosphere        
1913
 
    
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr uses quantum theory as a key to understanding the structure of the atom