What happens in January 1914?
1 January
Arthur Hoffmann is elected President of the Federal Council of Switzerland.
14 January
Cosima, widow of Richard Wagner, lifts the embargo on performances of his final great masterpiece Parsifal outside Bayreuth. By August, the opera has been performed by fifty European opera houses.
17 January
Gerhart Hauptmann's play, Der Bogen der Odysseus, premiers in Berlin.