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1914
 
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British rule is consolidated in Nigeria by the merging of north and south as a single colony      
1914
 
    
The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral makes her name with her first collection, Sonetos de la muerte        
1914
 
    
A suffragette slashes the Rokeby Venus by Velázquez in London's National Gallery       
1914
 
    
A building by Walter Gropius for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Cologne brings him international attention       
1914
 
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British officers stationed at the Curragh in Dublin say they would resign if ordered to quell Protestant resistance in Ulster      
1914
 
    
Wyndham Lewis and others launch Vorticism with a new magazine, Blast       
1914
 
    
Tarzan makes his first appearance in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes       
1914
 
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Royal-Dutch Shell begins to pump oil in Venezuela, launching the country as a major oil producer      
1914
 
     
Vaughan Williams writes a romance for violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending, inspired by George Meredith's poem of the same name        
1914
 
   
The tenor Beniamino Gigli wins an international singing competition in Parma, and makes his operatic debut later in the same year