1914 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1914?
- January 26, 1914 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 1914 – The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
- March 20, 1914 – In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place.
- July 21, 1914 – The Crown council of Romania decides the country shall remain neutral in World War I
- August 22, 1914 – World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
- August 23, 1914 – World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal.
- August 25, 1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
- August 26, 1914 – World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
- September 13, 1914 – World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
- September 18, 1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
- September 24, 1914 – World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
- October 5, 1914 – World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality.
- October 18, 1914 – The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
- November 2, 1914 – Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- November 16, 1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
- December 23, 1914 – World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
- December 25, 1914 – World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.
- December 29, 1914 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist.
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