May 1914 - Definition

1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar)

Years:
1911 1912 1913 - 1914 - 1915 1916 1917

Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s

Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1914 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music
Science and technology
Aviation - Rail transport - Science - Television
Other topics
Canada - Ireland - Sport

Lists of leaders:
State leaders - Religious leaders

Events

January

January 4 - 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador
January 5 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor

February

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.

March

March 10 - Suffragette Mary Richardson damages Velasquez painting Rokeby Venus in London’s national gallery with a meat chopper
March 16 - Wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmet, 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 27 - Belgian surgeon A. Hustin makes the first successful blood transfusion using anticoagulants

April

April 14 - The city of Irving, Texas was incorporated
April 21 - 3000 US marines land in Vera Cruz, Mexico

May

American Radio Relay League founded
May 14 - Woodrow Wilson signs Mother's Day proclamation
May 14 - The Hellenic Holocaust begins in the Ottoman Empire
May 25 - The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
May 29 - Ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost

June

June 1 - Woodrow Wilson's envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II
June 28 - The assassination in Sarajevo: Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria is killed by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia

July

July 18 - Within the United States Army the Signal Corps is formed giving definite status to its air service for the first time
July 28 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the Sarajevo assassination
July 31 - French pacifist Jean Jaures assassinated.

August

August 1 - Germany declares war on Russia following latter's military mobilization in support of Serbia
August 2 - German troops occupy Luxembourg
August 2 - Secret treaty between Turkey and Germany to secure Turkish neutrality
August 3 - Germany declares war on Russia's ally France
August 4 - German troops invade neutral Belgium in advance on France. Britain declares war on Germany after the latter fails to undertake to respect Belgian neutrality. The United States declares neutrality
August 5 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed
August 15 - Panama Canal opens to traffic
August 20 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels
August 23 - Japan declares war on Germany

September

September 1 - St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd
September 5 - London Agreement - no member of Triple Entente (Britain France or Russia) may seek separate peace with Central Powers.
September 5 - World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins - Northeast of Paris, the French 6th Army under General Michel-Joseph Maunoury attack German forces who are advancing on the capital. Over 2 million troops will fight in the battle and 100,000 will be killed or wounded in this significant Allied victory
September 6 - French and British counterattack at Marne ends German advance on Paris
September 26 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established by the Federal Trade Commission Act

October

October 9 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops
October 29 - World War I: Ottoman warships shell Russian Black Sea ports: Russia, France and Britain declare war on November 1-5

November

November 1 - World War I: Battle of Coronel fought - A Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock is met and defeated by the superior German forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee. This is the first British naval defeat of the war
November 4 - Britain and France declares war on Turkey
November 5 - The United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire
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 28 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading

Unknown Dates

Ludlow Massacre in Colorado - 33 dead
Marcus Garvey in Jamaica founds Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
First everyday items made of stainless steel come to public circulation
French buddhist Alexandra David-Neel visits Tibet in disguise as the first European woman
Prediction of Jehovah's Witnesses that the end of the Gentile Times had arrived
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returns to India from South Africa to spearhead the Indian independence movement.
W. H. Carrier patents design of air conditioner
The capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China moved from Guilin to Nanning

Ongoing events

World War I (1914-1918)
Hellenic Holocaust (1914-1922)

Births