French author Marcel Proust publishes Du Cote de chez Swann (Swann's Way), the first volume of his seven-volume modernist novel sequence A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance of Things Past).

British novelist D. H. Lawrence publishes Sons and Lovers, a novel whose open treatment of sexual themes creates a storm of controversy.

John Henry Mears, a reporter for the New York Evening Sun, sets a new round-the-world record of thirty-five days, twenty-one hours.

23 Jan.

A coup by the nationalist Young Turks ousts Kiamil Pasha and replaces him with Mahmud Shevket Pasha as grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire.

23 Feb.

Francisco Madero, who had been deposed as president of Mexico the week before in a coup led by Victoriano Huerta, is executed, presumably at the behest of Huerta.

6 Mar.

Hostilities flare up again in the Balkans when Greek forces capture Janina and take thirty-two thousand Turks prisoner.

20 Mar.

King...