Tagore wins the Nobel Prize for Gitanjali
First non-European laureate opens Indian letters to the West
In 1913 Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his collection Gitanjali. He was the first non-European to receive the literature prize, introducing Indian literature to Western readers.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 1 year later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 5 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 7 years later
Europe
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 8 years earlier
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 6 years later
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 15 years later
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 20 years later
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 23 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917 October Revolution — 4 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 4 years later
- 1917 February Revolution — 4 years later
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 16 years later
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — 23 years later
Middle East
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 5 years earlier
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 5 years earlier
- 1915 Armenian genocide — 2 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 3 years later
- 1916–1918 The Arab Revolt — 3 years later
Africa
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 16 years earlier
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 9 years earlier
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 9 years later
- 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — 22 years later
Americas
- 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution — 3 years earlier
- 1913 Ford's moving assembly line — same year
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 1 year later
- 1914 Death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon — 1 year later
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 16 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 20 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 20 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 2 years earlier
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 1 year earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 23 years later
Alive at the time
- Thomas Edison (aged 66)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 57)
- Marie Curie (aged 46)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 44)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 43)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 42)
- Winston Churchill (aged 39)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 35)
- Albert Einstein (aged 34)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 32)