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1914
 
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A Home Rule Act is finally passed for Ireland, with its implementation postponed until after the war      
1914
 
    
The sculptor Constantin Brancusi has his first one-man exhibition, at Stieglitz's gallery in New York       
1914
 
   
The Swedish-American poet Carl Sandburg makes his name with 'Chicago', published in the magazine Poetry      
1914
 
     
Jacob Epstein completes his sculpture The Rock Drill, the outstanding work of the Vorticist movement        
1914
 
   
The Clayton Act strengthens many aspects of US antitrust legislation      
1914
 
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The Panama Canal opens to shipping on a neutral basis just two weeks after the start of World War I       
1914
 
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Tsar Nicholas II changes the name of his capital city to Petrograd, because St Petersburg sounds German     
1914
 
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Benito Mussolini, advocating Italian entry into the war on the side of the Allies, is expelled from the Socialist party      
1914
 
    
Stanley Spencer joins the Royal Army Medical Corps, with whom he finds a wealth of subject matter       
1914
 
    
Benito Mussolini founds a newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italia' ('The People of Italy'), to argue the case for Italy joining the war