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.
- February 12, 1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
- 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.
- March 1, 1914 – The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
- April 20, 1914 – 19 men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner’s strike.
- May 29, 1914 – Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
- May 30, 1914 – The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
- June 23, 1914 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
- July 21, 1914 – The Crown council of Romania decides the country shall remain neutral in World War I
- July 28, 1914 – World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
- August 3, 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France.
- August 6, 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
- August 22, 1914 – World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
- October 19, 1914 – The First Battle of Ypres begins.
- November 7, 1914 – The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
- December 8, 1914 – A squadron of Britain’s Royal Navy defeats an inferior squadron of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
- December 14, 1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.
- December 15, 1914 – A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyūshū, Japan, kills 687.
- 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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