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1913
• The Ulster Volunteers, a loyalist militia, formed in northern Ireland to resist Irish independence. They fear that the Protestant majority in the north will suffer if ruled by the Catholic majority of the south. • Sun Yat-sen loses power and is exiled. • Geiger counter invented. • On 29 May, Russian composer Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring provokes uproar at its first performance in Paris. • French novelist Marcel Proust publishes the first volume of his epic novel cycle À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) (complete 1927). |
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