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July Crisis 1914. v. t. e. The July Crisis[b] was a series of interrelated diplomatic and military escalations among the major powers of Europe in the summer of 1914, which led to the outbreak of World War I. The crisis began on 28 June 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir ...
t. e. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand[a] was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip.
June 2, 1914 (Tuesday) A major fire swept through Creagerstown, Maryland destroying about 30 buildings including the town hall, and causing somewhere between $60,000 and $70,000 worth of damages. A spark accidentally set off in the town's local creamery ignited the roof, and strong winds fanned the flames across the street and from roof to roof ...
The literature of World War I makes its first appearance. John Masefield writes the poem "August, 1914" (published in the September 1 issue of The English Review), the last he will produce before the peace. Stanley Unwin purchases a controlling interest in the London publisher George Allen. At about this date Loughborough (England) publishers ...
The history of journalism in the United Kingdom includes the gathering and transmitting of news, spans the growth of technology and trade, marked by the advent of specialised techniques for gathering and disseminating information on a regular basis. In the analysis of historians, it involves the steady increase of the scope of news available to ...
14 April 1914: 2: 12: Burntisland, Fife. [126] Edinburgh-to-Aberdeen train collided with the Dundee goods train. 17 June 1914: 1: 9: Reading, Berkshire: Train passed signal at danger leading to collision with a second train. [127] 18 June 1914: 5: 10: Carrbridge rail crash, Scottish Highlands: Bridge collapsed whilst a train was passing over it ...
Clive Bell's formalist study Art.; Laurence Binyon's poem For the Fallen, containing his Ode of Remembrance, first published in The Times 21 September.; James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man commences serialization in The Egoist (2 February) and his collection of short stories Dubliners is published (June).
T. Tango with Cows. Tender Buttons (book) The Myths and Legends of the North American Indians. Categories: 1914 works. Books by year. 1910s books. 1914 in literature.