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The Treaty of Bucharest assigns to Greece nearly all the Greek-speaking regions in the Balkans and Mediterranean
Alain-Fournier completes his semi-autobiographical novel Le Grand Meaulnes
Vaslav Nijinsky marries a Hungarian ballerina and is dismissed from the Ballets Russes by a jealous Diaghilev
Frederick Delius completes On Hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring, first performed this same year in Leipzig
John Ireland sets Masefield's poem Sea Fever to music
The Russian poet Osip Mandelstam publishes his first collection, Stone
English physicist Henry Moseley proposes that the atomic number of an element is a physical reality, thus laying the basis for the modern periodic table
The Irish National Volunteers are formed in Dublin, in response to the Protestant equivalent in Ulster
Marcel Proust publishes at his own expense Swann's Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past
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
The march Colonel Bogey is written and published by a Royal Marine bandleader under the pseudonym Kenneth Alford
D.H. Lawrence publishes a semi-autobiographical novel about the Morel family, Sons and Lovers
Summoned to Austria for military service, Hitler is rejected as being physically unfit
On the outbreak of war, Hitler applies to join the German army and is enlisted in the Sixteenth Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment
In action as a front-line HQ runner Hitler is awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class, for bravery
President Woodrow Wilson proclaims US neutrality in the European war
British rule is consolidated in Nigeria by the merging of north and south as a single colony
A suffragette slashes the Rokeby Venus by Velázquez in London's National Gallery
British officers stationed at the Curragh in Dublin say they would resign if ordered to quell Protestant resistance in Ulster
Wyndham Lewis and others launch Vorticism with a new magazine, Blast
Vaughan Williams writes a romance for violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending, inspired by George Meredith's poem of the same name
The tenor Beniamino Gigli wins an international singing competition in Parma, and makes his operatic debut later in the same year
James Joyce's novel Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins serial publication in a London journal, The Egoist
Calouste Gulbenkian earns his nickname – Mr Five Percent – from the share he receives for negotiating oil deals in the Ottoman empire
Antoni Gaudí completes the fanciful Park Güell, a residential project north of Barcelona based on the English concept of the garden city
