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Jeeves and Bertie Wooster make their first appearance in P.G. Wodehouse's The Man with Two Left Feet
John Ireland's Second Violin Concerto meets with immediate approval
Silent film comedian Harold Lloyd adopts the glasses and the straw hat that become his familiar props
Wounded at the front on the Somme, the poet Wilfred Owen is invalided home to Britain
Amedeo Modigliani's first Paris exhibition is immediately closed by the police because it contains paintings of nudes
Parade brings together Massine (choreography), Satie (music), Cocteau (libretto) and Picasso (sets and costumes)
Piet Mondrian and other Dutch artists establish the movement known as De Stijl, together with a magazine of the same name
Eamon de Valera, newly released from prison, is elected to lead Sinn Fein
Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat is produced by Diaghilev with choreography by Massine and designs by Picasso
Comedian Buster Keaton makes his first appearance in a film, The Butcher Boy
The first annual prizes are awarded, under the terms of Joseph Pulitzer's will, for the best new US novel, play, history and biography
Australia Felix is the first in Henry Handel Richardson's trilogy of novels about her father
Race riots against migrant southern blacks in East St Louis, Missouri, leave forty-eight dead
Foreign Secretary A.J. Balfour declares Britain's conditional support for a homeland in Palestine for the Jews
Chequers, in the Chilterns, is privately donated to the nation to become the British prime minister's country residence
Otto Klemperer starts a seven-year spell as music director of Cologne opera, and begins to acquire an international reputation
Paul Valéry wins praise for his long symbolic poem La Jeune Parque
A massive explosion devastates Halifax, in Canada, after a collision involving a French munitions ship
The US Congress passes the Eighteenth Amendment, legislating for the introduction of Prohibition
Anti-German feeling causes the British royal family to adopt the name Windsor instead of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha
German troops on the western front begin withdrawal to the recently constructed defences of the Hindenburg Line
A deciphered telegram, from the German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann, inflames US public opinion by promising Texas and more to Mexico
A mutiny by soldiers, in support of Petrograd demonstrators, proves a turning point in Russia's February revolution
The British commander Stanley Maude captures Baghdad from the Turks
Crowds demonstrating in Petrograd are fired on after tsar Nicholas II sanctions the use of force
