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This article is about the year 1914. For the board game, earthquake on January 13. The lava ows cause
see 1914 (game). For the German drama lm, see the island which it forms to be linked to the sumi
1914 (lm). For the sonnet by Wilfred Owen, see 1914 Peninsula.
(poem).
January 1 The St. PetersburgTampa Airboat Line February 12 In Washington, D.C., the rst stone
in the United States starts services between St. Pe- of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
tersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the rst air-
line to provide scheduled regular commercial pas- February 13 Copyright: In New York City the
senger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with American Society of Composers, Authors and Pub-
Tony Jannus (the rst federally-licensed pilot) con- lishers is established to protect the copyrighted mu-
veying passengers in a Benoist XIV ying boat. sical compositions of its members.
Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the rst
airline passenger and over 3,000 people witness the February 17 Karl Staa steps down as Prime Min-
rst departure. ister of Sweden in the aftermath of the Courtyard
January 5 Ford Motor Company announces an Crisis. He is replaced by the public ocial Hjalmar
eight-hour workday and a daily wage of $5. Hammarskjld, father of Dag Hammarskjld.
January 8 A railway strike is declared in the February 26 The ocean liner that will become
Transvaal and Orange Free State. HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is
launched at the Harland and Wol shipyards in
January 9 The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded
Belfast.
by African American students at Howard University
in Washington, D.C.
February 28 Autonomous Republic of Northern
January 11 The Sakurajima volcano in Japan be- Epirus proclaimed by ethnic Greeks in Northern
gins to erupt, becoming eusive after a very large Epirus.
1
2 1 EVENTS
April 4September 27 Komagata Maru inci- May 1November 1 Exposition Internationale held
dent: Voyage of the Komagata Maru from India to at Lyon (France).
Canada. Due to Canadian regulations designed to
exclude Asian immigrants the boat is not allowed to May 5November 11 Jubilee Exhibition (Ju-
dock in Vancouver and is forced to return to Calcutta bilumsutstillingen) held at Kristiania (Norway) to
with all its passengers. mark the centennial of the countrys Constitution.
April 9 Tampico Aair, involving United States May 9 J. T. Hearne becomes the rst bowler to
Navy sailors in Mexico. take 3,000 rst-class wickets.
April 11 May 14 Woodrow Wilson signs a Mothers Day
proclamation.
Canadian Margaret C. MacDonald is ap-
pointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian May 17 Protocol of Corfu provides for the
Nursing service band and becomes the rst provinces of Kor and Gjirokastr, constituting
woman in the British Empire to reach the rank Northern Epirus, to be granted autonomy under the
of major. nominal sovereignty of Albania.
1.7 July 3
1.6 June
Main article: June 1914 This picture is usually associated with the arrest of Gavrilo Prin-
cip, although some[6][7] believe it depicts Ferdinand Behr, a by-
stander.
Commander-in-Chief; the Council lasts from 11.30 July 25 Austria-Hungary severs diplomatic ties
a.m. to 6.15 p.m. with Serbia and begins to mobilize its own forces.
Radomir Putnik, Chief of the Serbian General Sta,
July 9 The Emperor of Austria-Hungary receives is arrested in Budapest but subsequently allowed to
the report of Austro-Hungarian investigation into return to Serbia.
the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
Austria at Sarajevo. The Times publishes an account July 26 Kings Own Scottish Borderers of the
of the Austro-Hungarian press campaign against the British Army re on Dubliners on Bachelors Walk,
Serbians (who are described as pestilent rats). killing 3 and injuring 38.
July 11
July 12 Supreme Court of the United States justice July 27 Brother Felix Ysagun Manalo registers
Horace H. Lurton succumbs to a heart attack at age the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) with the
70. government of the Philippines.
July 13 Reports surface of a projected Ser- 0 500 KM
RUSSIA
Ukrainians
OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente
August 5
Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia. August 1524 World War I: Battle of Cer: Serbian
First engagement between ships (light cruis- troops defeat the Austro-Hungarian army, marking
ers) of the British Royal Navy and the Imperial the rst Entente victory of the War.
German Navy when HMS Bristol pursues the August 16 World War I:
SMS Karlsruhe (which escapes) in the West
Indies. German warships SMS Goeben and Breslau
(both commissioned in 1912), which reached
August 7 World War I: Constantinople on August 10, are transferred
to the Ottoman Navy, Goeben becoming its
Battle of Mulhouse: France launches its rst agship, Yavuz Sultan Selim.
attack of the war in an ultimately unsuccessful
attempt to recover the province of Alsace from Lake Nyasa is the scene of a brief naval battle
Germany, beginning the Battle of the Fron- when Captain Edmund Rhoades, commander
tiers. of the British steamship SS Gwendolen, hears
that World War I has broken out, and he re-
British colonial troops of the British Gold ceives orders from the British high command
Coast Regiment entering the German West to sink, burn, or destroy the German Em-
African colony of Togoland encounter the pires only ship on the lake, the Hermann von
German-led police force at a factory in Nuatja, Wissmann, commanded by a Captain Berndt.
near Lom, and the police open re on the Rhoadess crew nd the Hermann von Wiss-
patrol.[13] Alhaji Grunshi returns re,[14] the mann in a bay near Sphinxhaven, in Ger-
rst soldier in British service to re a shot in man East African territorial waters. Gwen-
the war.[13] dolen disables the German vessel with a single
cannon shot from a range of about 1,800 me-
August 8
tres (2,000 yd). This very brief engagement is
German colonial forces execute Martin-Paul hailed by The Times in England as the British
Samba for high treason. Empires rst naval victory of World War I.
Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans- August 17September 2 World War I: The Battle
Antarctic Expedition sets sail on the of Tannenberg begins between German and Russian
Endurance from England in an attempt forces.
to cross Antarctica.
August 20 World War I: German forces occupy
August 9 World War I: British Royal Navy light Brussels.
cruiser HMS Birmingham rams and sinks German
August 22 World War I: Battle of Rossignol: Ger-
submarine U-15 o Fair Isle, the rst U-boat lost in
man forces decisively defeat the French.
action.[15]
August 23 World War I:
August 12 World War I:
Battle of Mons: In its rst major action, the
Battle of Haelen: Belgian troops repulse the British Expeditionary Force holds the German
Germans. forces but then begins a month-long ghting
Formal declaration of war by the United King- Great Retreat to the Marne.
dom on Austria-Hungary. Japan declares war on Germany.
August 13 Treaties of Teoloyucan(Spanish) are August 26
signed in the State of Mexico.
The German West African colony of Togoland
August 15 (now Togo from 1960) surrenders to Britain
and France.
The Panama Canal is inaugurated with the pas-
Battle of Ro de Oro: British Royal Navy
sage of the SS Ancon.
protected cruiser HMS Highyer forces the
Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza's SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, sailing as an
troops under general lvaro Obregn enter auxiliary cruiser, to scuttle.
Mexico City.
August 2627 Battle of Le Cateau: British, French
A dismissed servant kills seven people at and Belgian forces make a successful tactical retreat
American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's stu- from the German advance.
dio and home, Taliesin in Wisconsin (includ-
ing his mistress, Mamah Borthwick), and sets August 2630 The Russian Second Army is sur-
it on re. rounded and defeated in the Battle of Tannenberg.
1.9 September 7
Unocial temporary Christmas truce between January 5 George Reeves, American actor (Super-
British and German soldiers on the Western man) (d. 1959)
Front begins.
January 7 Edwin La Dell, British artist (d. 1970)
German air raid on Dover, England.
January 12 Albrecht von Goertz, German car de-
December 25 World War I: Cuxhaven Raid: signer (d. 2006)
British aircraft launched from warships attack the
German port of Cuxhaven with submarine support, January 13 Ted Willis, British television dramatist
although little damage is caused. and author (d. 1992)
10 2 BIRTHS
2.2 February
February 3
George Nissen, American gymnast and inven-
tor of the trampoline (d. 2010)
Mary Carlisle, American actress, singer and
dancer (or 1912)
February 4 Alfred Andersch, German writer (d.
1980)
February 5
William S. Burroughs, American author (d. Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
1997)
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, re- February 6 Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice ac-
cipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or tor (d. 2005)
Medicine (d. 1998)
Silvius Magnago, Italian politician (d. 2010) February 9
2.3 March 11
February 21
February 22
Renato Dulbecco
Renato Dulbecco, Italian-born virologist, re-
cipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine (d. 2012)
Karl Otto Gtz, German painter
2.3 March
March 1
March 2
March 26 William Westmoreland, American Viet- April 11 Robert Staneld, Premier of Nova Scotia
nam War general (d. 2005) (d. 2003)
May 22
Howard Lawson, English cricketer (d. 2006)
Vance Packard, American social critic and au-
thor (d. 1996)
Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
Edward Arthur Thompson, British historian
(d. 1994)
May 24
Arthur A. Link, American politician (d. 2010)
Lilli Palmer, German actress (d. 1986)
George Tabori, Hungarian writer and director
(d. 2007)
May 26 Frankie Manning, American choreogra-
pher and dancer (d. 2009)
May 28 W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World
War II pilot (d. 1996)
May 29
Charles Mozley, British artist (d. 1991)
Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese/Tibetan moun- E.G. Marshall
taineer (d. 1986)
May 31 Akira Ifukube, Japanese classical mu- Yuri Andropov, Soviet leader (d. 1984)
sic/lm composer (d. 2006) Louis Edwards, Manchester United chairman
1965-1980 (d. 1980)
Lena Kennedy, English author (d. 1986)
2.6 June
Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born cartoonist (d.
June 6 Zhang Jingfu, Chinese politician (d. 2015) 1999)
June 10 Trammell Crow, American developer (d. June 18 E. G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
2009)
June 19 Alan Cranston, U.S. Senator (d. 2000)
June 12 Go Seigen, Japanese Go player (d. 2014)
June 21 William Vickrey, Canadian economist,
June 15 Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
2.7 July 15
June 25 Mavis Pugh, English actress (d. 2006) John Feenan, Irish and Northern Irish foot-
baller
June 26
Christl Cranz, German alpine skier (d. 2004)
Kathryn Johnston, police elderly Atlanta,
Georgia (d. 2006) July 2
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (d. Dale DeArmond, American printmaker, and
2001) book illustrator (d. 2006)
Laurie Lee, English author (d. 1997) Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d.
Doc Williams, American musician (d. 2011) 2004)
Ethelreda Leopold, American lm actress (d.
June 27
1998)
Helena Benitez, Filipina academic and admin- Bob Allen, American Major League Baseball
istrator (d. 2016) pitcher (d. 2005)
Rose Cabat, American studio ceramicist (d. Erich Topp, German commander (d. 2005)
2015)
July 5
June 29
Yitzhak Rafael, Israeli politician (d. 1999)
Franz Joseph, American artist and writer (d.
1994) Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (d. 2009)
July 9
July 10
July 1 July 14
July 20 August 5
Dobri Dobrev, Bulgarian philanthropist Parley Baer, American actor (d. 2002)
Charilaos Florakis, Greek Communist leader David Brian, American actor (d. 1993)
(d. 2005)
Masa Niemi, Finnish actor (d. 1960) August 9
Ersilio Cardinal Tonini, Italian Roman Gordon Cullen, British architect (d. 1994)
Catholic prelate (d. 2013)
Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (d.
July 23 Virgil Finlay, American artist (d. 1971) 1963)
July 24 Tove Jansson, Finnish author (d. 2001)
Frances Oldham Kelsey, American Food and August 10
Drug Administration reviewer (d. 2015)
Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and phi- Ken Annakin, British lm director (d. 2009)
lanthropist (d. 2007) Je Corey, American actor and drama teacher
July 25 Lionel Van Deerlin, American politician (d. 2002)
(d. 2008) August 11 Hugh Martin, American composer (d.
July 27 Gusti Huber, Austrian actress (d. 1993) 2011)
2.9 September
Desmond Llewelyn
September 11 Serbian Patriarch Pavle, leader of Jack Cardi, British cinematographer, direc-
the Serbian Orthodox Church (d. 2009) tor, and photographer (d. 2009)
Harry Townes, American actor (d. 2001)
September 12
September 20
Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
Janusz urakowski, Polish-born pilot (d. Ken Hechler, American politician (d. 2016)
2004) Kenneth More, English actor (d. 1982)
18 2 BIRTHS
Anna Karen Morrow, American actress (d. Dan Eley, British chemist (d. 2015)
2009) Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer,
and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
September 21 Bob Lido, American singer and mu-
sician (d. 2000) October 2 Jack Parsons, American rocket engineer
and occultist (d. 1952)
September 22 Siegfried Lowitz, German television
actor (d. 1999) October 4 Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d.
2003)
September 23
October 6 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer
Bethsabe de Rothschild, English philan- (d. 2002)
thropist and patron of dance (d. 1999)
October 7 Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (d. 1974)
Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Sultan of Brunei (d.
1986) October 8 Henry C. Pearson, American abstract
and modernist painter (d. 2006)
September 24 Andrzej Panufnik, Polish-born
British musician and composer (d. 1991) October 10
September 25 Elena Lucena, Argentine lm ac- Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d.
tress (d. 2015) 2005)
Agostino Straulino, Italian sailor and sailboat
September 26 Jack LaLanne, American tness, racer (d. 2004)
exercise and nutritional expert (d. 2011)
October 14 Raymond Davis Jr., American physi-
September 27 Sophie Soor, Estonian actress and cist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
singer (d. 1996)
October 15 Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of
Afghanistan (d. 2007)
2.10 October October 17 Jerry Siegel, American comic book
author (d. 1996)
October 19 Juanita Moore, American actress (d.
2014)
October 21 Martin Gardner, American writer (d.
2010)
October 23 Dick Durrance, American skier (d.
2004)
October 25
John Berryman, American poet (d. 1972)
Maudie Prickett, American actress (d. 1976)
October 26 Jackie Coogan, American actor (d.
1984)
October 27 Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author
(d. 1953)
October 28
Glenn Robert Davis, American congressman
(d. 1988)
Jonas Salk, American medical scientist (d.
1995)
Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English
chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
October 29 Ben Gage, American actor, singer, and
Thor Heyerdahl radio announcer (d. 1978)
October 30 Anna Wing, English actress, better
October 1 known for her role in EastEnders (d. 2013)
2.12 December 19
November 6
November 8
November 13
November 23
2.12 December
December 2 Bill Erwin, American actor (d. 2010)
November 1 Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (d. December 7 Alberto Castillo, Argentine tango
2006) singer and actor (d. 2002)
20 3 DEATHS
December 13 Larry Parks, American actor (d. January 13 Valentin Zubiaurre, Spanish composer
1975) and professor of the Madrid Royal Conservatory (b.
1837)
December 14
January 16 Ito Sukeyuki, Japanese admiral (b.
Karl Carstens, German president (d. 1992) 1843)
Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsi- January 18 Georges Picquart, French general and
chordist (d. 2003) politician (b. 1854)
3.2 February 21
Eduard Suess
George Westinghouse
3.2 February
Christian Morgenstern
February 20 Federico Degetau, Puerto Rican
politician (b. 1862)
22 3 DEATHS
April 1 Rube Waddell, American baseball player July 2 Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b.
and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1876) 1836)
April 2 Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel July 17 Luis Uribe, Chilean naval hero (b. 1847)
Prize laureate (b. 1830)
July 31 Jean Jaurs, French pacist (assassinated)
April 7 Mohammad Ayyub Khan, former Emir of (b. 1859)
Afghanistan (b. 1855)
April 19 3.8 August
Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher
August 4 Hubertine Auclert, French feminist (b.
(b. 1839)
1848)
Empress Shken, empress-consort of the
Meiji Emperor (b. 1849) August 6 Ellen Axson Wilson, First Lady of the
United States (b. 1860)
April 26 Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist (b.
1831) August 8
Pope Pius X
August Macke
August 26 Achille Pierre Deontaines, French
general (died of wounds received in action) (b.
1858) September 28 Richard Warren Sears, American
founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company (b. 1863)
August 27 Eugen Bhm von Bawerk, Austrian
economist (b. 1851)
September 26 August Macke, German painter Christopher Cradock, British admiral (killed
(killed in action) (b. 1887) in action) (b. 1862)
24 5 REFERENCES
3.12 December
December 1 Alfred Thayer Mahan, United States
Navy admiral and American geostrategist and his-
torian (b. 1840)
4 Nobel Prizes
August Weismann
6 External links
European newspapers from 1914
1914 Coin Pictures
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