1914

1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar)

Years: 1911 1912 1913 - 1914 - 1915 1916 1917
Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Contents

1 Events

1.1 Unknown dates
1.2 Ongoing events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel Prizes

Events

January 4 - 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador.
January 5 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
February 13 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
March 10 - Suffragette Mary Richardson damages Velasquez painting Rokeby Venus in London’s national gallery with a meat chopper.
March 16 - Wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmet , the editor of Le Figaro because he threatened to publish Caillaux's love letters to her during his previous marriage. (She is later acquitted.)
March 27 - Belgian surgeon A. Hustin makes the first successful blood transfusion, using anticoagulants.
April 14 - The city of Irving, Texas is incorporated.
April 21 - 3000 US marines land in Vera Cruz, Mexico.
The American Radio Relay League is founded.
May 9 - J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets.
May 14 - Woodrow Wilson signs Mother's Day proclamation.
May 14 - The Hellenic Holocaust begins in the Ottoman Empire.
May 25 - The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule.
May 29 - The ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.
June 1 - Woodrow Wilson's envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II.
June 28 - The assassination in Sarajevo: Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, the Archduchess Sophie are killed by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
July 18 - The Signal Corps of the United States Army is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.
July 28 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it fails to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the Sarajevo assassination.
July 31 - French pacifist Jean Jaures is assassinated.
August 1 - Germany declares war on Russia, following Russia's military mobilization in support of Serbia.
August 2 - German troops occupy Luxembourg.
August 2 - Secret treaty between Turkey and Germany to secure Turkish neutrality
August 3 - Germany declares war on Russia's ally France.
August 4 - German troops invade neutral Belgium. Britain declares war on Germany after the latter fails to respect Belgian neutrality. The United States declares neutrality.
August 5 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
August 15 - The Panama Canal opens to traffic.
August 20 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
August 23 - Japan declares war on Germany.
September 1 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
September 5 - London Agreement - no member of Triple Entente (Britain, France, or Russia) may seek a separate peace with Central Powers.
September 5 - World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins - Northeast of Paris, the French 6th Army under General Michel-Joseph Maunoury attack German forces who are advancing on the capital. Over 2 million troops will fight in the battle and 100,000 will be killed or wounded in this significant Allied victory.
September 6 - French and British counterattack at Marne ends German advance on Paris.
September 17 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
September 26 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
October 9 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
October 29 - World War I: Ottoman warships shell Russian Black Sea ports: Russia, France, and Britain declare war on November 1-5.
November 1 - World War I: Battle of Coronel fought - A Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock is met and defeated by the superior German forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee. This is the first British naval defeat of the war.
November 4 - Britain and France declares war on Turkey
November 5 - The United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire
November 16 - A year after being created by passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 , the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business.
November 28 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.