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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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