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| 1911 |
| | | Sergei Diaghilev and Vaslav Nijinsky leave Russia for the west | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Turkey, beset by troubles elsewhere, cedes to Italy her north African province of Libya | |
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| 1912 |
| | | An armistice agreed between the Ottoman empire and three of the Balkan states ends the war in the Balkans | |
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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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| 1914 September 13 |
| | | The Germans adopt a defensive position at the river Aisne in northern France, in the first sign of the trench warfare that will characterize the entire war in the west | |
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| 1914 November 2 |
| | | Russia declares war on the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1914 November 5 |
| | | Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Britain and France sign the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement, dividing up spheres of influence in the Middle East | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Foreign Secretary A.J. Balfour declares Britain's conditional support for a homeland in Palestine for the Jews | |
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| 1918 |
| | | Rebecca West publishes her first novel, The Return of the Soldier | |
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