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The following lists events that happened in 1914 in El Salvador. Incumbents. President: Carlos Meléndez Ramírez (until 29 August), ...
The call for the convention was issued on 1 October 1914 by Venustiano Carranza, head of the Constitutional Army, who described it as the Gran Convención de Jefes militares con mando de fuerzas y gobernadores de los Estados ("Great Convention of Commanding Military Chiefs and State Governors") and seen as "the last attempt to create unity ...
In April 1914 U.S. opposition to Huerta culminated in the seizure and occupation of the port of Veracruz by U.S. Marines and sailors. Initially intended to prevent a German merchant vessel from delivering a shipment of arms to the Huerta regime, the muddled operation evolved into a seven-month stalemate resulting in the death of 193 Mexican ...
June 23 – Battle of Zacatecas (1914) [1] July – Rural Guard is disbanded; July 14 – Victoriano Huerta resigns from the Presidency of Mexico; August – Venustiano Carranza and the Constitutionalist Army enter Mexico City
The Battle of Veracruz [12] was a military conflict between the United States and Mexico that took place in the Mexican port city of Veracruz between April 21 to November 23, 1914. The incident occurred in the midst of poor diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States related to the ongoing Mexican Revolution .
The Battle of Ojinaga, also known as the Taking of Ojinaga, was one of the battles of the Mexican Revolution and was fought on January 11, 1914. The conflict put an end to the last stronghold of the Federal Army in Northern Mexico.
The following events occurred in August 1914: Headline from newspaper Le Soir , 4 August 1914, declaring Germany had violated Belgium's neutrality. An imagined depiction of the massacre during the Battle of Dinant by the American artist George W. Bellows (1918)
On April 9, 1914, nine sailors had come ashore to secure supplies and were detained by Mexican forces. Commanding Admiral Henry Mayo demanded that the US sailors be released, and that Mexico issue an apology, raise and salute the US flag, and perform a 21-gun salute. [1] Mexico refused the demand.