1914
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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
- 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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