1914

1914 في التقاويم الأخرى
التقويم الگريگوري	1914; MCMXIV
آب أوربه كونديتا	2667
التقويم الأرمني	1363; ԹՎ ՌՅԿԳ
التقويم الآشوري	6664
التقويم البهائي	70–71
التقويم البنغالي	1321
التقويم الأمازيغي	2864
سنة العهد البريطاني	3 جو. 5 – 4 جو. 5
التقويم البوذي	2458
التقويم البورمي	1276
التقويم البيزنطي	7422–7423
التقويم الصيني	癸丑年 (الماء الثور); 4610 أو 4550; — إلى —; 甲寅年 (الخشب النمر); 4611 أو 4551
التقويم القبطي	1630–1631
التقويم الديسكوردي	3080
التقويم الإثيوپي	1906–1907
التقويم العبري	5674–5675
التقاويم الهندوسية
- ڤيكرام سامڤات	1970–1971
- شاكا سامڤات	1836–1837
- كالي يوگا	5015–5016
تقويم الهولوسين	11914
تقويم الإگبو	914–915
التقويم الإيراني	1292–1293
التقويم الهجري	1332–1333
التقويم الياباني	Taishō 3; (大正３年)
تقويم جوچى	3
التقويم اليوليوسي	الگريگوري ناقص 13 يوم
التقويم الكوري	4247
تقويم مينگوو	جمهورية الصين 3; 民國3年
التقويم الشمسي التايلندي	2457
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	1914 حسب الموضوع:
	الموضوع
	علم الآثار; العمارة; الفن; الطيران; جوائز; القصص المصورة; السينما; ; الأدب (الشعر); الأرصاد الجوية; الموسيقى; النقل بالسكك الحديدية; الراديو; العلوم; ; ; الرياضة; التلفزيون; ;
	حسب البلد
	مصر; سوريا; العراق; فلسطين; السعودية; اليمن; الجزائر; المغرب; تونس; تركيا; إيران; إثيوپيا; أستراليا; كندا; الصين; ; الإكوادور; فرنسا; ألمانيا; اليونان; الهند; أيرلندا; ; إيطاليا; اليابان; ; الملايو; ; المكسيك; نيوزيلندا; النرويج; سوريا العثمانية; ; ; ; الفلپين; روسيا; سنغافورة; جنوب أفريقيا; ; المملكة المتحدة; الولايات المتحدة; ;
	القادة
	الدول السيادية; قادة الدول; قادة دينيون; القانون;
	تصنيفات المواليد والوفيات
	مواليد; وفيات;
	تصنيفات تأسيسات وانحلالات
	تأسيسات; انحلالات;
	تصنيفات أعمال وأطروحات
	أعمال; أطروحات;
	v; t; e;

الألفية:	الألفية 2
القرون:	القرن 19 - القرن 20 - القرن 21
العقود:	عقد 1880 عقد 1890 عقد 1900 - عقد 1910 - عقد 1920 عقد 1930 عقد 1940
السنوات:	1911 1912 1913 - 1914 - 1915 1916 1917

► | قرن 19 | << قرن 20 >> | قرن 21 | ◄
► | عقد 1880 | عقد 1890 | عقد 1900 | << عقد 1910 >> | عقد 1920 | عقد 1930 | عقد 1940 | ◄
► | ► | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | << 1914 >> | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | ◄ | ◄

تحويل 1-1-1914م الى هجري ^{(وصلة خارجية)} | تحويل 31-12-1914م الى هجري ^{(وصلة خارجية)} | ابحث في الموسوعة عن مواضيع متعلقة بسنة 1914

1914 يناير فبراير مارس أبريل مايو يونيو يوليو أغسطس سبتمبر أكتوبر نوفمبر ديسمبر

اقرأ اقتباسات ذات علاقة ب1914، في معرفة الاقتباس.

سنة 1914 (MCMXIV) كانت سنة بسيطة تبدأ يوم الخميس (الرابط يعرض التقويم كاملاً) التقويم الگريگوري، السنة 1914 بعد الميلاد (م)، السنة 914 في الألفية 2، السنة 14 في القرن 20، والسنة 5 في عقد 1910 بين 1583 و 1929 ومع فارق 1914 is 13 يوم عن التقويم اليوليوسي، والذين ظلوا مستخدمين حتى التحول الكامل إلى التقويم الگريگوري في 1929. This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after an heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. It also saw the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line.

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أحداث

January

1 يناير – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the United States starts services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Tony Jannus (the first federally-licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the first departure.
January 5 – Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday, and a daily wage of $5.
January 8 – A railway strike is declared in the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
9 يناير – The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African American students at Howard University, in Washington, D.C.
January 11 – The Sakurajima volcano in Japan begins to erupt, becoming effusive after a very large earthquake on January 13. The lava flow causes the island which it forms to be linked to the Ōsumi Peninsula.

February

February 2 – Charlie Chaplin makes his film début, in the comedy short Making a Living.
February 7 – Charlie Chaplin's second film, the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice, is released, in which his character of The Tramp is introduced to audiences (although first filmed in Mabel's Strange Predicament, released two days later).^[1]^[2]^[3]
February 8 – The Luxembourg national football team has its first victory, beating France 5–4 in a friendly match, for the first and only time in football history.
February 10 – The film Hearts Adrift is released; the name of Mary Pickford, the star, is displayed above the title on movie marquees.
February 12 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
February 13 – 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 17 – Karl Staaff steps down as Prime Minister of Sweden, in the aftermath of the Courtyard Crisis. He is replaced by Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, father of Dag Hammarskjöld.
February 26 – The ocean liner that will become HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast.
February 28 &ndah; The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed by ethnic Greeks, in Northern Epirus.

March

March 1 – The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
March 6 – FK Vojvodina football club is founded in Novi Sad (Serbia).
March 7 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania, to begin his reign.
March 8 – Aircraft are first transferred to Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base.
March 10 – Suffragette Mary Richardson damages Velázquez' painting Rokeby Venus in London's National Gallery, with a meat chopper.
March 16 – Henriette Caillaux, wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux, murders Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro, fearing publication of letters showing she and Caillaux were romantically involved during his first marriage (she is acquitted on July 28).
March 17 (Saint Patrick's Day) – Green beer is invented by Dr. Thomas H. Curtin, and displayed at the Schnorrer Club of Morrisania in the Bronx, New York.^[4]
March 27 – Belgian surgeon Albert Hustin makes the first successful non-direct blood transfusion, using anticoagulants.
March 29 &ndah; Katherine Routledge and her husband arrive in Easter Island, to make the first true study of it (they depart in August 1915).

April

April 4–September 27 Komagata Maru incident: The Komagata Maru sails from India to Canada. Due to Canadian regulations designed to exclude Asian immigrants, the boat is not permitted to dock in Vancouver, and is forced to return to Calcutta with all its passengers.
April 9 – Tampico Affair: A misunderstanding involving United States Navy sailors in Mexico, and army troops loyal to Mexican dictator Victoriano Huerta, leads to a breakdown in diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico.
April 11
- Canadian Margaret C. MacDonald is appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing service band, and becomes the first woman in the British Empire to reach the rank of major.
- Alpha Rho Chi, a professional architecture fraternity, is founded in the Hotel Sherman in Chicago, Illinois.
April 14–18 – The first International Criminal Police Congress is held in Monaco; 24 countries are represented, including some from Asia, Europe, and the Americas; the Dean of the Paris Law School is president.
April 20
- Colorado Coalfield War – Ludlow Massacre: The Colorado National Guard attacks a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, killing 24 people.
- President Woodrow Wilson asks the United States Congress to use military force in Mexico, in reaction to the Tampico Affair.
April 21 – United States occupation of Veracruz: 2,300 U.S. Navy sailors and Marines from the South Atlantic fleet land in the port city of Veracruz, Mexico, which they will occupy for over six months. The Ypiranga incident occurs when they attempt to enforce an arms embargo against Mexico, by preventing the German cargo steamer إس‌إس Ypiranga from unloading arms for the Mexican government in the port.
April 22 – Mexico ends diplomatic relations with the United States for the time being.
April 23 – The Afrikaans language receives official recognition, when Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven addresses the English caucus of the Cape Provincial Council.

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May

May 1 – November 1 – The Exposition Internationale is held at Lyon, France.
May 5 – November 11 – The Jubilee Exhibition (Jubilæumsutstillingen) is held at Kristiania, Norway, to mark the centennial of the country's Constitution.
May 9 – J. T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3,000 first-class wickets.
May 14 – Woodrow Wilson signs a Mother's Day proclamation.
May 17 – The Protocol of Corfu provides for the provinces of Korçë and Gjirokastër, constituting Northern Epirus, to be granted autonomy under the nominal sovereignty of Albania.
May 25 – In the U.K., the House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Act.
May 29 – The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,012 lives are lost.
May 30 – The ocean liner RMS Aquitania makes her maiden voyage.

June

June 1 – Woodrow Wilson's envoy, Edward Mandell House, meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II.
June 8 – The Brazilian Football Confederation is founded, with Álvaro Zamith as its first president. The Brazilian Olympic Committee is founded on the same day.
June 9 – Pittsburgh Pirate Honus Wagner becomes the first baseball player in the twentieth century with 3,000 career hits.
June 12 – Greek genocide: Ottoman Greeks in Phocaea are massacred by Turkish irregular troops.^[5]
June 18 – Mexican Revolution: The Constitutionals take San Luis Potosí; Venustiano Carranza demands Victoriano Huerta's surrender.
June 23 – After it had been closed so that it could be deepened, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal is reopened by the Kaiser; the British Fleet under Sir George Warrender visits; the Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought HMS King George V.
June 24 – In Manchester, New Hampshire, a downtown fire causes $400,000 worth of damage and injures 19 firemen.

This picture is usually associated with the arrest of Gavrilo Princip, although some^[6]^[7] believe it depicts Ferdinand Behr, a bystander.

June 28 – Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria: Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, 19, assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Duchess Sophie, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, triggering the July Crisis and World War I. Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo and Zagreb break out.
June 29
- The Secretary of the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Belgrade sends a dispatch to Vienna, suggesting Serbian complicity in the crime of Sarajevo. Anti-Serb riots continue throughout Bosnia.
- Khioniya Guseva attempts and fails to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his hometown in Siberia.
- The International Exhibition opens at the "White City", Ashton Gate, Bristol, England, U.K. It closes on August 15, and the site is used as a military depot.^[8]
June 30 – Among those addressing the Parliament of the United Kingdom, on the murdered Archduke, are Lords Crewe and Lansdowne in the House of Lords, and Messrs Asquith and Law in the Commons.

July

July 1 – The Royal Naval Air Service, a forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established.^[9]
July 2 – The German Kaiser announces that he will not attend the Archduke's funeral.
July 4
- The Archduke's funeral takes place at Artstetten Castle, 50 miles west of Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
- Lexington Avenue bombing: Four people are killed in New York City, when an anarchist bomb intended to kill John D. Rockefeller explodes prematurely, in the conspirator's apartment.
July 5 – A council is held at Potsdam, powerful leaders within Austria-Hungary and Germany meet to discuss the possibilities of war with Serbia, Russia, and France.
July 7 – Austria-Hungary convenes a Council of Ministers, including Ministers for Foreign Affairs and War, the Chief of the General Staff and Naval Commander-in-Chief; the Council lasts from 11:30 am until 6:15 pm.
July 9 – The Emperor of Austria-Hungary receives the report of the Austro-Hungarian investigation, into the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo. The Times publishes an account of the Austro-Hungarian press campaign against the Serbians (who are described as "pestilent rats").
July 10 – Nicholas Hartwig, Russian Minister to Serbia, dies suddenly while visiting Austrian minister Wladimir Giesl von Gieslingen, at the Austrian Legation in Belgrade.
July 11
- Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut, with the Boston Red Sox.
- يوإس‌إس Nevada, the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought" battleship, is launched.
- Over 5,000 people attend a rally in Union Square, Manhattan, called by the Anti-Militarist League to commemorate the anarchists killed in the July 4th Lexington Avenue bombing.^[10]
July 13 – Reports surface of a projected Serbian attack upon the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Belgrade.
July 14 – The Government of Ireland Bill completes its passage through the House of Lords in the U.K. It allows Ulster counties to vote on whether or not they wish to participate in Home Rule from Dublin.
July 15 – Mexican Revolution: Victoriano Huerta resigns from the presidency of Mexico, and leaves for Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz.
July 18
- The Signal Corps of the United States Army is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.
- The British Fleet is reviewed at Spithead, by George V.
- Mahatma Gandhi leaves South Africa for the last time, sailing out of Cape Town for England, on board the S.S. Kinfauns Castle.
July 19 – George V summons a conference to discuss the Irish Home Rule problem. It meets from July 21–[July 24|24]], without reaching consensus.
July 23 – July Ultimatum: Austria-Hungary presents Serbia with an unconditional ultimatum.
July 25 – Austria-Hungary severs diplomatic ties with Serbia, and begins to mobilise its own forces. Radomir Putnik, Chief of the Serbian General Staff, is arrested in Budapest, but subsequently allowed to return to Serbia.
July 26 – Bachelor's Walk massacre: The King's Own Scottish Borderers of the British Army fire on Dubliners at Bachelor's Walk, killing 3, and injuring 38 people.

The central temple of the Iglesia ni Cristo

July 27 – Brother Felix Ysagun Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) with the government of the Philippines.

Map of European alliances in 1914

July 28
- World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia by telegram. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia orders a partial mobilisation against Austria-Hungary.
- Henriette Caillaux, wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux, is acquitted of murder by reason of crime passionnel.
July 28–August 10 – World War I: Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau: British and French naval forces fail to prevent the ships of the Imperial German Navy Mediterranean Division from reaching the Dardanelles.
July 29
- World War I: Austro-Hungarian Navy river monitor إس‌إم‌إس Bodrog fires the first shots of the war, opening the bombardment of the defences of Belgrade, Serbia's capital.
- In Massachusetts, the new Cape Cod Canal opens; it shortens the trip between New York and Boston by 66 miles, but also turns Cape Cod into an island.
July 31
- Russia orders full mobilisation.
- French anti-war socialist leader Jean Jaurès is assassinated by a nationalist in Paris.

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August

Mobilization in Germany.

August 1
- The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire, following Russia's military mobilization in support of Serbia; Germany also begins mobilisation.
- France orders general mobilisation.
- The New York Stock Exchange is closed due to war in Europe, whereas nearly all stock exchanges were already closed.
- Marcus Garvey founds the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica.
August 2
- German troops occupy Luxembourg, in accordance with the Schlieffen Plan.
- A secret treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Germany secures Ottoman neutrality.
- At 7:00 pm (local time) Germany issues a 12-hour ultimatum to neutral Belgium, to allow German passage into France.
August 3
- Germany declares war on Russia's ally, France.
- At 7:00 am (local time) Belgium declines to accept Germany's ultimatum of August 2.
August 4
- German troops invade Belgium at 8:02 am (local time). Great Britain declares war on Germany, for this violation of Belgian neutrality. This effectively means a declaration of war by the whole British Empire against the German Empire, beginning World War I from the British perspective. The United States declares neutrality.
- Imperial German Navy Rear-Admiral Wilhelm Souchon bombards the French Algerian ports of Bône and Philippeville from battlecruiser Goeben and light cruiser Breslau.^[11]
- Gandhi is in the English Channel (en route from South Africa) when he learns that war has been declared. Later this day he arrives in London.
August 5
- Germany declares war on Belgium.
- The Kingdom of Montenegro declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer إس‌إس 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.^[12]
- SS Königin Luise, taken over two days earlier by the Imperial German Navy as a minelayer, lays mines 40 miles (64 km) off the east coast of England. She is intercepted and sunk by the British Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Amphion, the first German naval loss of the war. The following day, Amphion strikes mines laid by the Königin Luise and is sunk with some loss of life, in the first British casualties of the war.
- German zeppelins drop bombs on Liège, Belgium, killing 9 civilians.
- The first electric traffic light is installed between Euclid Avenue and East 105 Street, in Cleveland, Ohio.
August 5–16 – Battle of Liège: The German Army overruns and defeats the Belgians with the first operational use of Big Bertha (howitzer).
August 6 – World War I:
- Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.
- The first engagement between ships (light cruisers) of the British Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy occurs, when HMS Bristol pursues the إس‌إم‌إس Karlsruhe (which escapes) in the West Indies.
August 7 – World War I:
- Battle of Mulhouse: France launches its first attack of the war, in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the province of Alsace from Germany, beginning the Battle of the Frontiers.
- British colonial troops of the British Gold Coast Regiment, entering the German West African colony of Togoland, encounter the German-led police force at a factory in Nuatja, near Lomé, and the police open fire on the patrol.^[13] Alhaji Grunshi returns fire,^[14] the first soldier in British service to fire a shot in the war.^[13]
August 8
- German colonial forces execute Martin-Paul Samba, for high treason.
- Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition sets sail on the Endurance from England, in an attempt to cross Antarctica.
August 9 – World War I: British Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Birmingham rams and sinks German submarine U-15 off Fair Isle, the first U-boat lost in action.^[15]
August 12 – World War I:
- Battle of Haelen: Belgian troops repulse the Germans.
- The United Kingdom formally declares war on Austria-Hungary.
August 13 – The Teoloyucan Treaties are signed in the State of Mexico.
August 15
- The Panama Canal is inaugurated with the passage of the إس‌إس Ancon.
- Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza's troops under general Álvaro Obregón enter Mexico City.
- A dismissed servant kills 7 people at American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's studio and home, Taliesin in Wisconsin (including his mistress, Mamah Borthwick), and sets it on fire.
August 15–24 – World War I: Battle of Cer: Serbian troops defeat the Austro-Hungarian army, marking the first Entente victory of the War.
August 16 – World War I:
- German warships إس‌إم‌إس Goeben and Breslau (both commissioned in 1912), which reached Constantinople on August 10, are transferred to the Ottoman Navy, Goeben becoming its flagship, Yavuz Sultan Selim.
- Lake Nyasa is the scene of a brief naval battle, when Captain Edmund Rhoades, commander of the British steamship SS Gwendolen, hears that war has broken out, and he receives orders from the British high command to "sink, burn, or destroy" the German Empire's only ship on the lake, the Hermann von Wissmann, commanded by a Captain Berndt. Rhoades's crew find the Hermann von Wissmann in a bay near "Sphinxhaven", in German East African territorial waters. Gwendolen disables the German vessel with a single cannon shot from a range of about 1,800 metres (2,000 yards). This very brief engagement is hailed by The Times in England, as the British Empire's first naval victory of World War I.
August 17–September 2 – World War I: The Battle of Tannenberg begins between German and Russian forces.
August 20 – World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
August 22 – World War I – Battle of Rossignol: German forces decisively defeat the French.
August 23 – World War I:
- Battle of Mons: In its first major action, the British Expeditionary Force holds the German forces, but then begins a month-long fighting Great Retreat to the Marne.
- Japan declares war on Germany.
August 26 – World War I:
- The Togoland Campaign ends, when the German West African colony of Togoland (Togo from 1960) surrenders to Britain and France.
- Battle of Río de Oro: British Royal Navy protected cruiser HMS Highflyer forces the إس‌إس Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, sailing as an auxiliary cruiser, to scuttle.
August 26–27 – Battle of Le Cateau: British, French and Belgian forces make a successful tactical retreat from the German advance.
August 26–30 – Battle of Tannenberg: The Russian Second Army is surrounded and defeated.
August 28 – Battle of Heligoland Bight: British cruisers under Admiral Beatty sink three German cruisers.
August 29–30 – The Battle of St. Quentin: French forces hold back the German advance.

September

Pope Benedict XV, the new pope

September 1
- Saint Petersburg in Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
- The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in the Cincinnati Zoo from old age.
September 2 – World War I: The French village of Moronvilliers is occupied by the Germans.
September 3
- Pope Benedict XV (Giacomo della Chiesa) succeeds Pope Pius X, as the 258th pope.
- William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months, due to opposition to his rule.
September 5 – World War I:
- London Agreement: No member of the Triple Entente (Britain, France, or Russia) may seek a separate peace with the Central Powers.
- The First Battle of the Marne begins: Situated north-east of Paris, the French 6th Army under General Maunoury attacks German forces near to Paris. Over 2,000,000 fight (500,000 are killed/wounded) in the Allied victory. A French and British counterattack at the Marne ends the German advance on Paris.
- British Royal Navy scout cruiser HMS Pathfinder is sunk by German submarine U-21 in the Firth of Forth (Scotland), the first ship ever to be sunk by a locomotive torpedo fired from a submarine.
September 7 – World War I: تركيا declares war on Belgium.
September 8 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for deserting during the war.
September 10 – World War I: South Africa declares war on Germany.
September 13 – World War I:
- The conclusion of the Battle of Grand Couronné ends the Battle of the Frontiers, with the north-east segment of the Western Front stabilising.
- South African troops open hostilities in German South-West Africa (modern-day Namibia), with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
September 14 &ndah; Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS AE1 vanishes while on combat patrol near Papua New Guinea, beginning one of Australia's longest naval mysteries; the sunken vessel will not be discovered for another 103 years.
September 15
- The Maritz Rebellion of disaffected Boers against the government of the Union of South Africa begins.
- General Koos de la Rey, a Boer general during the Boer War, is shot dead after his driver fails to stop at a police roadblock.
September 17
- World War I: The Race to the Sea, by opposing forces on the Western Front, begins.
- Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
September 21 – World War I: British Imperial police forces capture Schuckmannsburg, in the Caprivi Strip of German South-West Africa.
September 22 – World War I:
- Action of 22 September 1914: German submarine U-9 torpedoes three British Royal Navy armoured cruisers, إتش‌إم‌إس Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue, with the death of more than 1,400 men, in the North Sea.
- Bombardment of Papeete; German naval forces bombard Papeete, French Polynesia.
- German light cruiser SMS Emden bombards Madras, the only Indian city to be attacked by the Central Powers in the War.^[16]
September 25 – World War I: The first Battle of Albert begins as part of the Race to the Sea.
September 26 – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established, by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
September 28 – World War I: The First Battle of the Aisne ends indecisively.
September 30 – The Flying Squadron of America is established, to promote the temperance movement.

October

October 3 – World War I: 25,000 Canadian troops depart for Europe.
October 4
- The 1914 Burdur earthquake occurs in تركيا.
- The Manifesto of the Ninety-Three is signed, supporting the early German war effort.
October 9 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp (Belgium) falls to German troops.
October 14 – World War I: The Canadian Expeditionary Force arrives on 32 ocean liners, in Plymouth Sound.
October 16–31– World War I: Battle of the Yser: The Belgian army halts the German advance, but with heavy losses.
October 19 – World War I:
- The First Battle of Ypres begins.
- The Race to the Sea effectively ends, with the Western Front reaching the Belgian coast.
October 27 – World War I:
- British super-dreadnought battleship إتش‌إم‌إس Audacious (23,400 tons) is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
- The Greek army occupies Northern Epirus with the approval of the Allies.
October 28 – World War I:
- Battle of Penang, Malaya: German cruiser Emden sinks a Russian cruiser and French destroyer, before escaping.
- Participants in the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria are sentenced at Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princip, being under 20 years of age at the time of the assassination, cannot be given the death penalty, and is given a 20-year prison sentence instead.
October 29 – World War I: Ottoman warships shell Russian Black Sea ports; Russia, France, and Britain declare war on November 1–November 5.^[17]
October 31 &ndah; World War I: Battle of the Vistula River concludes in Russian victory over German and Austro-Hungarian forces around Warsaw.

November

November 1 – World War I: Battle of Coronel: A Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock is met in the eastern Pacific and defeated by superior German forces led by Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee, in the first British naval defeat of the war, resulting in the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
November 5 – World War I:
- Britain and France declare war on Turkey.^[17] The United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, which it controls until Cyprus' declaration of independence in 1960.
  - The Battle of Tanga ends, with the British Indian Expeditionary Force B failing to capture German East Africa defences.
- Alpha Phi Delta is founded as a Greek social fraternity at Syracuse University in the United States.
November 7 &ndah; Siege of Tsingtao: The Japanese and British seize Jiaozhou Bay in China, the base of the German East Asia Squadron.
November 9 – World War I: Battle of Cocos: The German cruiser Emden is sunk by the Australian cruiser Sydney.
November 16 – A year after being created by passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business.
November 21 – In New Haven, Connecticut, the new Yale Bowl officially opens; Harvard defeats Yale 36-0 in the first American football game held here.
November 23 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair; Venustiano Carranza's troops take over, and Carranza makes the town his headquarters.
November 24 – Benito Mussolini is expelled from the Italian Socialist Party.
November 28 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.

December

December 2 – Serbian Campaign (World War I): Austro-Hungarian forces occupy Belgrade, Serbia.
December 8 – World War I: Battle of the Falkland Islands: A superior British Royal Navy squadron under Doveton Sturdee defeats ships of the Imperial German Navy under Maximilian von Spee.
December 12 – The New York Stock Exchange re-opens, having been closed since August 1, except for bond trading.
December 15 – A gas explosion at the Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyūshū, Japan, kills 687 people (the worst coal mine disaster in Japanese history).
December 16 – World War I: Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby: Imperial German Navy battlecruisers attack English North Sea ports, resulting in 137 deaths.
December 17 – United States President Woodrow Wilson signs the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (initially introduced by Francis Burton Harrison).
December 18 – Egypt becomes a British protectorate.^[18]
December 19
- Serbian Campaign (World War I): The Battle of Kolubara ends, resulting in a decisive Serbian victory over Austria-Hungary.
- Mohandas Gandhi leaves England, sailing for India on this date (accompanied by his wife Kasturba). He begins to learn the Bengali language whilst on board.
December 24 – World War I:
- An unofficial, temporary Christmas truce begins, between British and German soldiers on the Western Front.
- German planes carry out an air raid on Dover, England.
December 25 – World War I: Cuxhaven Raid: British aircraft launched from warships attack the German port of Cuxhaven with submarine support, although little damage is caused.

مجهولة التاريخ

China declares its neutrality in World War I.
The capital of the Guangxi Province of China is moved from Guilin to Nanning.
Oxymorphone, a powerful narcotic analgesic closely related to morphine, is first developed in Germany.
The first everyday items made of stainless steel come into public circulation.
Blaise Diagne of Senegal becomes the first Black African representative in the French Parliament.
The Port of Orange, Texas, is dredged for the fabrication of vessels for the United States Navy.
The United States Power Squadrons is formed.
Phi Sigma, a local undergraduate classical club, is founded by a group of students in the Greek Department at the University of Chicago.
Fashion and perfumes company Puig is founded in Barcelona.
Woodman's of Essex, the famous family-owned clam shack on Boston's North Shore, is opened.