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1914
 
    
James Joyce's novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins serial publication in a London journal, The Egoist       
1914
 
    
Calouste Gulbenkian earns his nickname – Mr Five Percent – from the share he receives for negotiating oil deals in the Ottoman empire       
1914
 
    
Antoni Gaudí completes the fanciful Park Güell, a residential project north of Barcelona based on the English concept of the garden city       
1914
 
   
The first issue of the weekly journal The New Republic is published in the USA      
1914
 
   
More than 1000 die when the liner Empress of Ireland sinks after a collision in the St Lawrence river      
1914
 
    
After years of delay James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of short stories, is published       
1914
 
    
British golfer Harry Vardon wins his sixth Open, a record still unbroken       
1914
 
   
American-born poet Thomas Stearns Eliot crosses the Atlantic to England, making it his home for the rest of his life      
1914
 
     
The poem 'Mending Wall' features in Robert Frost's collection North of Boston        
1914
 
    
Marcel Duchamp exhibits his first pure 'readymade', a bottle rack bought in a department store and displayed without alteration