Events
- August - The literature of World War I makes its first appearance.
- November 7 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
- December 31 - T. S. Eliot writes to Conrad Aiken from Oxford, saying: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead."
- George Moore (novelist) publishes the final of his 3-volume Hail and Farewell (first in 1911).
- Thomas Hardy married Florence Dugdale.
- Hilaire Belloc becomes editor of Land and Water.
- Charles Taze Russell founder of the Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses) predicts October 2 as the date for the end of the world with statements such as in Studies In the Scriptures Series II - The Time Is At Hand (1889ed.) pp. 99, 101 "True, it is expecting great things to claim, as we do, that within the coming twenty-six years all present governments will be overthrown and dissolved …. In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the Kingdom of God, will be accomplished at the end of A. D. 1914…."
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