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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
Tristan Tzara and other artists in Zurich call their new movement Dada (the French for 'hobby-horse', selected at random from a dictionary)
Gustav Holst completes his orchestral suite c, not performed in its entirety until 1920
In his ground-breaking film Intolerance D.W. Griffith intercuts four parallel stories from different historical periods
Robert Graves publishes his first book of poems, Over the Brazier
The musical Chu Chin Chow opens at His Majesty's Theatre in London and runs for a record 2235 performances
Hitler is wounded in the leg at the Battle of the Somme
The Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) publishes her first collection, Sea Garden
Claude Monet begins the great cyclorama of water-lilies, Nympheas, that he donates to the French nation
Margaret Sanger opens the first US birth control clinic, in a poor district of Brooklyn, and is gaoled for thirty days
Manchester dramatist Harold Brighouse has a major success when his play Hobson's Choice is performed in London
After an 800-mile journey in an open boat Ernest Shackleton returns to rescue his stranded colleagues in the South Shetlands
The Federal-Aid Highway Act sets up the first national road system in the US
The author H.H. Munro ('Saki') is killed by a sniper's bullet on a battlefield in France
Dogs are trained in Germany, by Dr Gerhard Stalling, to guide soldiers blinded in the war
Lloyd George splits his own Liberal party when he forms a coalition government with the Conservatives
Captain Peter Nissen, a Canadian mining engineer, designs the Nissen Hut for the Allied armies
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 British garrison at Kut, on the Tigris, surrenders to the Turks after a five-month siege
The German and British fleets clash off Jutland, in a hard-fought but inconclusive encounter
