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Patrick Pearse and his fellow Irish rebel James Connolly are executed by firing squad
Manuel de Falla completes his piece for piano and orchestra, Nights in the Gardens of Spain
"If You Were the Only Girl in the World" features in the London musical The Bing Boys are Here
In his Course in General Linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure provides the basis for the broader development of structuralism
Three members of the Russian imperial family assassinate the influential charlatan Grigory Rasputin
Ottorino Respighi completes his symphonic poem for orchestra Fountains of Rome, first performed in Rome the following year
Hubert Parry sets profoundly evocative verses by William Blake and gives his composition the title Jerusalem
Maxim Gorky publishes My Apprenticeship, the second volume of his autobiography
Gustav Holst completes his orchestral suite c, not performed in its entirety until 1920
Robert Graves publishes his first book of poems, Over the Brazier
Hitler is wounded in the leg at the Battle of the Somme
Claude Monet begins the great cyclorama of water-lilies, Nympheas, that he donates to the French nation
The author H.H. Munro ('Saki') is killed by a sniper's bullet on a battlefield in France
Lloyd George splits his own Liberal party when he forms a coalition government with the Conservatives
British and French forces win full control of the German colonies of Togoland and Cameroon
A German thrust against the French begins the year-long battle of Verdun
Feb 26 - a French troopship La Provence is torpedoed by a U-boat off Cape Matapan and sinks with the loss of nearly 1000 lives
Conscription is introduced in Britain for men aged between 18 and 40
A German U-boat sinks the Channel steamer Sussex, with the loss of many civilian lives
The German and British fleets clash off Jutland, in a hard-fought but inconclusive encounter
Aleksei Brusilov leads a surprise Russian offensive against Germany and Austria-Hungary
Belgian troops from the Congo occupy the German colony of Ruanda-Urundi
An Allied advance in the valley of the Somme launches a four-month battle with very heavy casualties
Greece joins the Allies by declaring war on Bulgaria
A brief success in the front line against Austria prompts Italy to declare war on Germany
