January 21 – Joseph Conrad achieves his first popular success as the New York Herald begins serializing his novel Chance. He broke off with it in 1906, but sold the rights to the unfinished work in June 1911. Conrad continues to work on the book, while the first chapters appear weekly in the Herald. He completes it on March 26.[1]
May – Following the death of Lie Kim Hok from typhus in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, aged 58, Lauw Giok Lan takes on the work of completing his translations from the Dutch of Hugo Hartmann's Dolores, de Verkochte Vrouw into Sundanese as Prampoean jang Terdjoewal and of Geneviève de Vadans as De Juffrouw van Gezelschap.
June – Under the name I. G. Ofir, the Romanian poet Benjamin Fondane makes his publishing debut in the Iași magazine Floare Albastră, put out by A. L. Zissu.[4]
October 12 – Arthur Schnitzler's play La Ronde (Reigen, 1900) is first performed (without the author's consent), in Budapest. It is also first translated into French this year.
^Sandqvist, Tom (2006). Dada East. The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: MIT Press. pp. 72–73. ISBN0-262-19507-0.
^Khlebnikov, Velimir; Schmidt, Paul; Douglas, Charlotte (1987). Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov: Letters and Theoretical Writings. Vol. 1. Cambridge etc.: Harvard University Press. pp. 17, 73. ISBN0-262-19507-0.
^Lawton, Anna; Eagle, Herbert (1988). Russian Futurism Through Its Manifestos, 1912–1928. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press. pp. 51, 305–306. ISBN0-8014-1883-6.