1914 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1914?
- January 5, 1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
- January 26, 1914 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 13, 1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
- February 28, 1914 – The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
- March 1, 1914 – The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
- March 7, 1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
- May 29, 1914 – Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
- August 15, 1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
- August 22, 1914 – World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
- August 30, 1914 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg
- September 9, 1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
- September 13, 1914 – World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
- September 26, 1914 – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
- 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 German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
- November 28, 1914 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
- December 5, 1914 – The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
- December 24, 1914 – World War I: The “Christmas truce” begins.
- 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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