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| 1913 |
| | | Compton Mackenzie publishes the first volume of his autobiographial novel Sinister Street | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion has its first performance – in a German version in Vienna | |
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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 | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky provoke uproar in Paris with The Rite of Spring for Ballets Russes | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Italian Futurist sculptor Umberto Boccioni suggests human movement in his Unique Forms of Continuity in Space | |
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| 1913 |
| | | US poet Robert Frost publishes his first book of poems, A Boy's Will | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The Treaty of London, ending the First Balkan War, allows Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia to divide up much of European Turkey | |
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| c. 1913 |
| | | The cubist movement enters its second phase, deriving from the use of collage and known as Synthetic cubism | |
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| 1913 |
| | | French physicists Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson discover the ozone layer in the stratosphere | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The Danish physicist Niels Bohr uses quantum theory as a key to understanding the structure of the atom | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell complete a work of mathematical logic, Principia Mathematica | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Frederick Soddy uses the term 'isotope' (Greek for 'same place') to describe observed anomalies in the periodic table | |
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| 1913 |
| | | 18-year-old Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad makes her debut in Oslo | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Maxim Gorky publishes Childhood, the first volume of his autobiographical trilogy | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Henry Ford pioneers the moving assembly line in the manufacture of cars at his company's Michigan plant | |
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| 1913 |
| | | A suffragette, Emily Davison, dies after throwing herself under the king's horse in the Derby at Epsom | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Bulgaria launches the Second Balkan War, in the end to the great detriment of Bulgarian interests | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Albert Schweitzer and his wife become missionaries at Lambaréné in west Africa | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The so-called Cat and Mouse Act is the British government's response to hunger strikes by suffragettes | |
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| 1913 |
| | | German author Thomas Mann publishes the novella Death in Venice | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The Balkan states and the Ottoman empire agree an armistice in Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The Treaty of Bucharest assigns to Greece nearly all the Greek-speaking regions in the Balkans and Mediterranean | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The Brillo Manufacturing Company markets the first Brillo pads in the USA | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Alain-Fournier completes his semi-autobiographical novel Le Grand Meaulnes | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Vaslav Nijinsky marries a Hungarian ballerina and is dismissed from the Ballets Russes by a jealous Diaghilev | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The foxtrot, possibly introduced by US performer Harry Fox, becomes an immensely popular ballroom dance | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Frederick Delius completes On Hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring, first performed this same year in Leipzig | |
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| 1913 |
| | | John Ireland sets Masefield's poem Sea Fever to music | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The Russian poet Osip Mandelstam publishes his first collection, Stone | |
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| 1913 |
| | | English physicist Henry Moseley proposes that the atomic number of an element is a physical reality, thus laying the basis for the modern periodic table | |
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| 1913 |
| | | A coup led by Enver Pasha brings the Young Turks to power in Istanbul | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Edith Wharton's novel The Custom of the Country begins publication in serial form | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The Irish National Volunteers are formed in Dublin, in response to the Protestant equivalent in Ulster | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Marcel Proust publishes at his own expense Swann's Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Yuan Shikai outlaws the Guomindang party in the republic of China, to give himself unchallenged power as president | |
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