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February 14 – Augustus Octavius Bacon, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1895 to 1914 (born 1839) February 23 – Henry M. Teller , U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1882 and from 1885 to 1909 (born 1830 )
1914 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1914th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 914th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1914 ...
First Battle of Albert (1914) September 28 – October 10 Western: Siege of Antwerp (1914). The Germans besiege and capture Antwerp, Belgium. September 29–30 Asian and Pacific: Japan occupies the Marshall Islands. September 29 – October 31 Eastern: Battle of the Vistula River, also known as Battle of Warsaw. October 1914 – July 11, 1915
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
1914 – Mother's Day established as a national holiday; 1914 – Federal Trade Commission created; 1914 – Clayton Antitrust Act; 1914 – ABC Powers; 1914 – World War I begins when Austria–Hungary declares war on Serbia; 1915 – The Birth of a Nation opens; 1915 – RMS Lusitania sunk; 1915 – First transcontinental telephone is hooked up
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead after a wrong turn by two gun shots [10] in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak) co-ordinated by Danilo Ilić, a Bosnian Serb and a member ...
One of the first land offensives in the Pacific theatre was the invasion of German Samoa on 29–30 August 1914 by New Zealand forces. The campaign to take Samoa ended without bloodshed after over 1,000 New Zealanders landed on the German colony, supported by an Australian and French naval squadron.
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).