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Establishments - Disestablishments - Awards

Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents:

1. Events of 1914
   • -  Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April
   • -  May ^. June ^. July  ^.  Aug.
   • -  Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^.  Dec.
   • -  Undated ^. Ongoing ^.
2. Births
3. Deaths
4. Nobel Prizes
5. See also -  Notes -  External links

Events of 1914

January-February

• January 5 - The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
• January 9 - The Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
• January 10 - Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa's troops take Ojinaga in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
• February 2 - Charles Chaplin makes his film debut in the comedy short Making a Living.
• February 13 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
• February 26 - The HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff Shipyards in Belfast.

March-April

• March 1 - The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
• March 7 - Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
• March 10 - Suffragette Mary Richardson damages Velázquez' painting Rokeby Venus in London's National Gallery with a meat chopper.
• March 16 - The wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmette, the editor of Le Figaro, because he threatened to publish Caillaux's love letters to her during his previous marriage (she is later acquitted).
• March 25 - The Greek sports club Aris Thessaloniki is founded.
• March 27 - Belgian surgeon Albert Hustin makes the first successful non-direct blood transfusion, using anticoagulants.
• March 29 - Katherine Routledge and her husband arrive in Easter Island to make the first true study of it (they depart August 1915)
• April 9 - The Tampico Affair results in the occupation of the Mexican port city of Veracruz for over 6 months.
• April 11 - Alpha Rho Chi, a professional architecture fraternity, is founded in the Hotel Sherman in Chicago.
• 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.
• April 14 - The city of Irving, Texas is incorporated.
• April 20 - Colorado coalfield Massacre or Ludlow Massacre: The Colorado National Guard attacks a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners in Ludlow, killing 24 people.
• April 21 - 3,000 U.S. Marines land in Vera Cruz, Mexico.
• The American Radio Relay League is founded.

May-June

• 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 25 - The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule.
• May 29 - The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,012 lives are lost.
• June 1 - Woodrow Wilson's envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II.
• June 18 - Mexican Revolution: The Constitutionals take San Luis Potosí; Venustiano Carranza demands Victoriano Huerta's surrender.
• June 23 - The Kiel Canal is reopened (having been deepened) by the Kaiser; the British Fleet under Sir G. Warrender visits; the Kaiser inspects the dreadnought HMS King George VTemplate:WP Ships HMS instances.
• June 28 - Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Duchess Sophie in Sarajevo.
• June 29
  • Austria-Hungary: The Secretary of the Legation at Belgrade sends a dispatch to Vienna suggesting Serbian complicity in the crime of Sarajevo. Anti-Serb riots erupt in Sarajevo and throughout Bosnia generally.
  • Chionya Gusyeva attempts and fails to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
• June 30 - In Great Britain, addresses in Parliament on the murdered Archduke include Lords Crewe & Lansdowne in the House of Lords, and Messrs. Asquith & Law in the House of Commons.

July

• 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 (50 miles west of Vienna), Austria-Hungary.
• July 5 - A council is held at Potsdam.
• July 6 - The German Kaiser leaves Kiel for a cruise in northern German waters.
• 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 a.m. to 6.15 p.m.
• July 9
  • The House of Lords completes the recasting of the Amendment Bill.
  • The Emperor of Austria-Hungary receives the report of Austro-Hungarian investigation into the Sarajevo crime. The Times publishes an account of the Austro-Hungarian press campaign against the Serbians (who are described as "pestilent rats").
• July 10 - Mr. Hartwig, Russian Minister to Serbia, dies suddenly at the Austrian Legation in Belgrade.
• July 11 - Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Red Sox.
• July 12 - Demonstrations in Ulster suggest civil war.
• July 13 - Reports surface of a projected Serbian attack upon the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Belgrade.
• July 14 - The Government of Ireland Amending Bill is passed by the British House of Lords.
• July 15
  • Mexican Revolution: Victoriano Huerta resigns and leaves for Colón.
  • Count Tisza makes a statement in the Hungarian chamber regarding relations with Serbia:

"They must be cleared up."