1914
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1914 (MCMXIV) was the 5th year of the 1910s decade.
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip.
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Events
- July Crisis marks the start of World War I
- Suffragette Mary Richardson slashes the Rokeby Venus
- By 1914, Africa had only two independent nations, Liberia, a nation founded by free black Americans earlier in the nineteenth century, and the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia in East Africa.
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Visual art
- Glasarchitektur ("Glass Architecture") by Paul Scheerbart
- Centrale elettrica by Antonio Sant'Elia
- Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne
- The Box of 1914 by Marcel Duchamp
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Film
- Cabiria by Giovanni Pastrone
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Literature
- A Study of Thomas Hardy by D. H. Lawrence
- Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs is published as book
- "Grodek", a poem about World War I by Georg Trakl
- "Zang Tumb Tumb" by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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Births
- Asger Jorn, Danish member of the Situationist International, and a prolific artist and essayist. (d. 1973)
- Mario Bava (1914-1980)
- William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
- Julio Cortázar (1914 - 1984)
- Marguerite Duras (1914 - 1996)
- Henri Langlois (1914 - 1977)
- Norman McLaren (1914 - 1987)
- Sun Ra (1914 - 1993)
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Deaths
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914)
- Theodor Kittelsen (1857 – 1914)
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