Events
- January - Francis Picabia produces the first issue of the Dada periodical 391 in Barcelona.
- June 4 - The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
- July - Siegfried Sassoon issues his "Soldier's Declaration" and is sent by the military authorities to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where on August 17 Wilfred Owen introduces himself.
- December 25 - Why Marry?, first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize, opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City.
- The Hogarth Press is founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
- J.R.R. Tolkien begins writing The Book of Lost Tales (the first version of The Silmarillion); thus Middle-earth is first chronicled.
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