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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       
1914
 
   
American-born poet Thomas Stearns Eliot crosses the Atlantic to England, making it his home for the rest of his life      
1915
 
  
Radiotelephone messages are transmitted from Arlington in Virginia to the Eiffel Tower in Paris     
1915 October 5
 
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French and British troops land at Salonika and push north to relieve Serbia     
1916
 
    
The opera Goyescas, by Spanish composer Enrique Granados, has its premiere in New York       
1916
 
    
Enrique Granados, on the last leg of his return from New York, is one of many civilians to die when the Sussex is torpedoed by a U-boat in the English Channel       
1917  April
 
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German U-boats sink 430 Allied and neutral merchant ships in this month alone      
1917  April 12
 
   
Canadian troops take Vimy Ridge, subsequently the site of Canada's most important war memorial      
1917 June
 
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The Allies frustrate the German U-boats by introducing the convoy system       
1918  May
 
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US troops are by now fighting in large numbers on the western front