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| 1913 |
| | | Leonardo's Mona Lisa is recovered two years after its theft when the thief, Vincenzo Perugia, tries to sell it to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence | |
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| 1913 |
| | | A young American architect, Walter B. Griffin, wins the competition to design Canberra | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The march Colonel Bogey is written and published by a Royal Marine bandleader under the pseudonym Kenneth Alford | |
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| 1913 |
| | | An underground railway opens in Buenos Aires, the first subway in Latin America | |
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| 1913 |
| | | The New York World publishes the first crossword puzzle, devised by English-born journalist Arthur Wynne | |
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| 1913 |
| | | D.H. Lawrence publishes a semi-autobiographical novel about the Morel family, Sons and Lovers | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Construction begins on the government buildings in New Delhi, designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert 1Baker | |
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| 1914 |
| | | J.B.M. Hertzog founds the National Party in South Africa to represent Afrikaner interests | |
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| 1914 |
| | | George Ruth acquires the nickname Babe when he joins the baseball team the Baltimore Orioles | |
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| 1914 |
| | | British rule is consolidated in Nigeria by the merging of north and south as a single colony | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral makes her name with her first collection, Sonetos de la muerte | |
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| 1914 |
| | | A suffragette slashes the Rokeby Venus by Velázquez in London's National Gallery | |
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| 1914 |
| | | A building by Walter Gropius for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Cologne brings him international attention | |
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| 1914 |
| | | British officers stationed at the Curragh in Dublin say they would resign if ordered to quell Protestant resistance in Ulster | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Wyndham Lewis and others launch Vorticism with a new magazine, Blast | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Tarzan makes his first appearance in Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Royal-Dutch Shell begins to pump oil in Venezuela, launching the country as a major oil producer | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Vaughan Williams writes a romance for violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending, inspired by George Meredith's poem of the same name | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The tenor Beniamino Gigli wins an international singing competition in Parma, and makes his operatic debut later in the same year | |
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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 | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Calouste Gulbenkian earns his nickname – Mr Five Percent – from the share he receives for negotiating oil deals in the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Antoni Gaudí completes the fanciful Park Güell, a residential project north of Barcelona based on the English concept of the garden city | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The first issue of the weekly journal The New Republic is published in the USA | |
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| 1914 |
| | | More than 1000 die when the liner Empress of Ireland sinks after a collision in the St Lawrence river | |
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| 1914 |
| | | After years of delay James Joyce's Dubliners, a collection of short stories, is published | |
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| 1914 |
| | | British golfer Harry Vardon wins his sixth Open, a record still unbroken | |
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| 1914 |
| | | American-born poet Thomas Stearns Eliot crosses the Atlantic to England, making it his home for the rest of his life | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The poem 'Mending Wall' features in Robert Frost's collection North of Boston | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp exhibits his first pure 'readymade', a bottle rack bought in a department store and displayed without alteration | |
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