Knut Hamsun publishes Markens groede (Growth of the Soil)
The second (and final) stage of the Russian Revolution occurs in October, with a violent uprising in which the Bolsheviks assume power with V. I. Lenin as leader
The Commonwealth Film Censorship Board is established in Australia, introducing a rating system on films to protect children
The United States enters World War I on the side of the Allies
The Pulitzer Prize is expanded to include journalism and letters
The Trans-Siberian Railroad is completed
Jesse Lynch Williams’s Why Marry? is first performed
Juan Ramón Jiménez publishes Platero y yo (Platero and I: An Andalusian Elegy)
H. L. Mencken publishes A Book of Prefaces
Paul Valéry publishes Le Jeune Parque
Russia and Germany sign an armistice ending hostilities on the Eastern Front
Horacio Quiroga publishes Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte
