What major sporting, cultural or political events that had been arranged for late 1914 or into 1915 had to be cancelled because of the outbreak of WWI?

by seadaddy86

So many events happen these days, such as the Olympics, the World Cup, G7/G8/ Political Summits etc, that I was wondering if any of that sort of high level, high profile event got cancelled 100 years ago?

Ersatz_Okapi

Wimbledon was suspended from 1915-1918 for World War I.

NMW

The war occasioned some disruption of the scheduled awarding of the various Nobel Prizes. Take a look at the table below -- some of the names (the Red Cross, Woodrow Wilson) very heavily demonstrate the war's impact on the course of events, while others (especially Fritz Haber) seem almost unthinkable in light of what the war brought about. Note, too, that many of the categories were simply curtailed during certain years.

YEAR Chemistry Literature Peace Physics Physiology or Medicine
1913 Alfred Werner Rabindranath Tagore Henri La Fontaine Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Charles Richet
1914 Theodore William Richards NONE NONE Max von Laue Robert Bárány
1915 Richard Willstätter Romain Rolland NONE William Henry Bragg & William Lawrence Bragg NONE
1916 NONE Verner von Heidenstam NONE NONE NONE
1917 NONE Karl Adolph Gjellerup & Henrik Pontoppidan International Committee of the Red Cross Charles Glover Barkla NONE
1918 Fritz Haber NONE NONE Max Planck NONE
1919 NONE Carl Spitteler Woodrow Wilson Johannes Stark Jules Bordet