The epic seventy-year immigration of millions of Europeans to the Americas largely comes to an end. Between 1845 and 1914 approximately fortyone million immigrants have settled in North and South America, thirtythree million of them in the United States alone. Despite this exodus the population of Europe has risen by two hundred million during the same time period.

Irish novelist and short-story writer James Joyce publishes Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

13 Apr.

British playwright Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion premieres in London.

21 Apr.

U.S. Marines occupy the Mexican port city of Veracruz after officials there refused to order a twenty-one-gun salute to the American flag. U.S. ships have been enforcing a naval blockade of Mexico in order to force the ouster of Mexican dictator Victoriano Huerta, who resigns on 15 July and is replaced in August by Venustiano Carranza.

Yuan Shih-k'ai establishes himself as virtual dictator...