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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 |
| | | Royal-Dutch Shell begins to pump oil in Venezuela, launching the country as a major oil producer | |
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| 1914 November 1 |
| | | Maximilian von Spee sinks two British cruisers off Coronel, on the Pacific coast of south America | |
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| 1914 December 7 |
| | | Maximilian von Spee's squadron of cruisers is sunk by the British off the Falkland Islands | |
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| 1915 |
| | | William Joseph Simmons, a suspended Methodist preacher in Georgia, wins a big racist following in the south with his revival of the defunct Ku Klux Klan | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The election of Hipolito Irigoyen as president begins sixteen years of radical government in Argentina | |
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| 1916 |
| | | After an 800-mile journey in an open boat Ernest Shackleton returns to rescue his stranded colleagues in the South Shetlands | |
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| 1920 |
| | | A Chilean poet, Ricardo Reyes, adopts the pen name Pablo Neruda | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges publishes his first collection of poems, Fervor de Buenos Aires ('Fervour of Buenos Aires') | |
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| 1924 |
| | | 20-year-old Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes one of his best-known collections, Twenty Love Poems | |
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