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Roger Casement travels to Germany to persuade Irish prisoners of war to change sides and invade Ireland
Manuel de Falla's ballet El Amor Brujo, including the 'Ritual Fire Dance', is performed in Paris
Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag, by George Asaf and Felix Powell, rapidly becomes one of the most popular songs of the day
Somerset Maugham publishes his semi-autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage
Canadian army surgeon John McCrae writes 'In Flanders Fields' after a friend is killed in the trenches
Radiotelephone messages are transmitted from Arlington in Virginia to the Eiffel Tower in Paris
Kasimir Malevich exhibits his painting Black Square in Petrograd, in the final Futurist exhibition
The Irish painter Jack Yeats develops a romantic Expressionist style, with a new interest in Celtic myth
The English writer Virginia Woolf publishes her first novel, The Voyage Out
D.H. Lawrence's novel about the Brangwen family, The Rainbow, is seized by the police as an obscene work
The Russian poet and dramatist Vladimir Mayakovsky publishes his first major long poem, A Cloud in Trousers
Secret agent Richard Hannay makes his first appearance in John Buchan's Thirty-Nine Steps
Rupert Brooke's 1914 and Other Poems is published a few months after his death in Greece
Petrograd buzzes with rumours about Rasputin's dissolute life, including salacious hints that he is the lover of the empress Alexandra
Germans make an experimental but ineffective use of chlorine gas against the Russians in Poland
A Zeppelin airship makes a night-time bombing raid on the English port of Great Yarmouth
The German battle cruiser Blücher is sunk by the British off the Dogger Bank
Two passenger liners are sunk by German U-boats
February - British and French forces invade and capture the German colony of Cameroon
Winston Churchill is a firm supporter of a new invention, the tank, encouraging its initial development while still at the Admiralty
A typhus epidemic sweeps through Serbia, severely weakening the nation's armed forces
Two German Zeppelin airships bomb Paris, causing 23 deaths
In a secret pact, signed in London, Italy is promised territorial gains if she joins the Allied side
The French aviator Roland Garros fires a machine gun through the propeller in his fighter plane, using metal plates to deflect any bullets that hit the propeller
The Germans attempt an advance on the western front, launching the second battle of Ypres
