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Edgar Lee Masters makes his name as a poet with the publication of Spoon River Anthology
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
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
Einstein submits a paper, The field equations of gravitation, containing the sums required to explain the general theory of relativity
Petrograd buzzes with rumours about Rasputin's dissolute life, including salacious hints that he is the lover of the empress Alexandra
Winston Churchill is heavily involved in a bold plan to secure Allied access through the Dardanelles to the Black Sea
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
British and French battleships are sunk by mines in the Dardanelles, with the loss of 620 French sailors on one of them
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
The Germans gain ground at Ypres after the first significant use of chlorine gas
British and French troops, together with the Australian and New Zealander Army Corps (ANZAC), land in Gallipoli
Italy revokes the Triple Alliance of 1882 that aligned her with Germany and Austria-Hungary
The British passenger liner Lusitania is sunk by a U-boat, with the loss of 1000 civilian lives
Italy declares war against Austria-Hungary, but not as yet against Germany
A German Zeppelin airship makes the first bombing raid on London
