The first volume of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf is published in Germany.

Dmitry Shostakovich composes his first symphony.

Sergey Eisenstein's movie Potemkin (The Battleship Potemkin) is produced.

Franz Kafka's Der Prozess (The Trial) is published posthumously.

Albertine disparue (The Sweet Cheat Gone), a section of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past), is published posthumously in France.

7 Jan.

Germany elects a socialist, Paul Loebe, president of the Reichstag.

24 Feb.

Kurdish rebels, under Sheik Said, launch a revolt against the Turkish government but are put down, and Said executed, within two months.

28 Feb.

Friedrich Ebert, president of Germany, dies.

12 Mar.

Sun Yat-sen, leader of China's Kuomintang party and president of the southern republic of China, dies at age fifty-nine.

15 Apr.

Bolshevik agrarians in Bulgaria, backed by Soviet agents, attempt to assassinate the Bulgarian czar, Boris III. The following day they blow up the Cathedral of Sveti...