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Date	Event
January 1, 1914	The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.
January 5, 1914	The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
January 9, 1914	The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
January 11, 1914	The Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, sank after being crushed by ice.
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 26, 1914	HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
March 1, 1914	China joins the Universal Postal Union.
March 7, 1914	Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
March 25, 1914	The Greek multi-sport club Aris Thessaloniki is founded in Thessaloniki.
April 20, 1914	Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.
April 21, 1914	Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
April 23, 1914	First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
April 24, 1914	The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
May 17, 1914	The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
May 25, 1914	The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland.
May 29, 1914	The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
May 30, 1914	The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
June 12, 1914	Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
June 23, 1914	Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
June 27, 1914	The Illinois Monument is dedicated at Cheatham Hill in what is now the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.
June 28, 1914	Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
July 4, 1914	The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
July 11, 1914	Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
July 11, 1914	USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched.
July 18, 1914	The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
July 23, 1914	Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
July 28, 1914	In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.
July 29, 1914	The Cape Cod Canal opened.
August 1, 1914	The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
August 2, 1914	The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
August 3, 1914	World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
August 4, 1914	World War I: In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
August 5, 1914	World War I: The German minelayer SS Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64 km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion.
August 5, 1914	World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SS Pfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
August 5, 1914	In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
August 6, 1914	World War I: U-boat campaign: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
August 6, 1914	World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
August 12, 1914	World War I: The United Kingdom and the British Empire declare war on Austria-Hungary.
August 12, 1914	World War I: The Battle of Halen a.k.a. Battle of the Silver Helmets a clash between large Belgian and German cavalry formations at Halen, Belgium.
August 14, 1914	World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive.
August 15, 1914	A servant of American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, and murders seven people there.
August 15, 1914	The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
August 15, 1914	World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
August 15, 1914	World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
August 17, 1914	World War I: Battle of Stallupönen: The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
August 20, 1914	World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
August 21, 1914	World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre that pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
August 23, 1914	World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
August 23, 1914	World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
August 24, 1914	World War I: German troops capture Namur.
August 24, 1914	World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
August 25, 1914	World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
August 25, 1914	World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
August 26, 1914	World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
August 26, 1914	World War I: During the retreat from Mons, the British II Corps commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien fights a vigorous and successful defensive action at Le Cateau.
August 27, 1914	World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
August 27, 1914	World War I: Siege of Tsingtao: A Japanese fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Sadakichi Kato imposes a blockade along the whole coastline of German Tsingtao, initiating the Siege of Tsingtao.
August 28, 1914	World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
August 29, 1914	World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
August 30, 1914	World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
September 3, 1914	William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
September 3, 1914	French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.
September 3, 1914	World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
September 5, 1914	World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
September 6, 1914	World War I: The First Battle of the Marne, which would halt the Imperial German Army's advance into France, begins.
September 8, 1914	World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
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 11, 1914	World War I: Australia invades German New Guinea, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
September 11, 1914	The Second Period of Russification: The teaching of the Russian language and Russian history in Finnish schools is ordered to be considerably increased as part of the forced Russification program in Finland run by Tsar Nicholas II.
September 13, 1914	World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
September 14, 1914	HMAS AE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
September 16, 1914	World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
September 17, 1914	Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
September 17, 1914	World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
September 18, 1914	The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
September 22, 1914	A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
September 26, 1914	The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
October 5, 1914	World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire for the first time.
October 9, 1914	World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
October 18, 1914	The Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement is founded in Germany.
October 19, 1914	World War I: The First Battle of Ypres begins.
October 27, 1914	World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
October 29, 1914	Ottoman entry into World War I.
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 1, 1914	World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
November 2, 1914	World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles is subsequently closed.
November 5, 1914	World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
November 7, 1914	The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
November 9, 1914	SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
November 13, 1914	Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
November 14, 1914	The Joensuu City Hall, designed by Eliel Saarinen, was inaugurated in Joensuu, Finland.
November 16, 1914	The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
November 23, 1914	Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
November 26, 1914	HMS Bulwark is destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness.
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 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition began in an attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica.
December 8, 1914	World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron 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, Argentina.
December 15, 1914	World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.
December 15, 1914	A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
December 16, 1914	World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
December 23, 1914	World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
December 23, 1914	World War I: During the Battle of Sarikamish, Ottoman forces mistook one another for Russian troops. The following friendly fire incident leave 2,000 Ottomans dead and many more wounded.
December 24, 1914	World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.
December 25, 1914	A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.