The Balkan states and the Ottoman empire agree an armistice in Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War

The Treaty of Bucharest assigns to Greece nearly all the Greek-speaking regions in the Balkans and Mediterranean

The Brillo Manufacturing Company markets the first Brillo pads in the USA

Alain-Fournier completes his semi-autobiographical novel Le Grand Meaulnes

Vaslav Nijinsky marries a Hungarian ballerina and is dismissed from the Ballets Russes by a jealous Diaghilev

The foxtrot, possibly introduced by US performer Harry Fox, becomes an immensely popular ballroom dance

Frederick Delius completes On Hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring, first performed this same year in Leipzig

John Ireland sets Masefield's poem Sea Fever to music

The Russian poet Osip Mandelstam publishes his first collection, Stone

English physicist Henry Moseley proposes that the atomic number of an element is a physical reality, thus laying the basis for the modern periodic table

A coup led by Enver Pasha brings the Young Turks to power in Istanbul

Edith Wharton's novel The Custom of the Country begins publication in serial form

The Irish National Volunteers are formed in Dublin, in response to the Protestant equivalent in Ulster

Marcel Proust publishes at his own expense Swann's Way, the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past

Yuan Shikai outlaws the Guomindang party in the republic of China, to give himself unchallenged power as president

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is recovered two years after its theft when the thief, Vincenzo Perugia, tries to sell it to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence

A young American architect, Walter B. Griffin, wins the competition to design Canberra

The march Colonel Bogey is written and published by a Royal Marine bandleader under the pseudonym Kenneth Alford

An underground railway opens in Buenos Aires, the first subway in Latin America

The New York World publishes the first crossword puzzle, devised by English-born journalist Arthur Wynne

The Rugby Football Union acquires an additional 1.6 acres of land for Twickenham Rugby ground

D.H. Lawrence publishes a semi-autobiographical novel about the Morel family, Sons and Lovers

Construction begins on the government buildings in New Delhi, designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert 1Baker

Summoned to Austria for military service, Hitler is rejected as being physically unfit