1914 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1914?
- January 9, 1914 – Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded.
- January 26, 1914 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- April 9, 1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world’s first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
- May 17, 1914 – The Protocol of Corfu is signed recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
- May 29, 1914 – Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
- June 23, 1914 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
- August 4, 1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.
- August 20, 1914 – World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
- August 24, 1914 – World War I: German troops capture Namur.
- 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.
- September 1, 1914 – St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
- September 3, 1914 – William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
- September 18, 1914 – World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
- November 1, 1914 – World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
- November 7, 1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
- November 28, 1914 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
- December 15, 1914 – A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyūshū, Japan, kills 687.
- December 16, 1914 – World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
- December 24, 1914 – World War I: The “Christmas truce” begins.
- December 25, 1914 – World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.
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