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| 1914 |
| | | A Home Rule Act is finally passed for Ireland, with its implementation postponed until after the war | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The sculptor Constantin Brancusi has his first one-man exhibition, at Stieglitz's gallery in New York | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The Swedish-American poet Carl Sandburg makes his name with 'Chicago', published in the magazine Poetry | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Jacob Epstein completes his sculpture The Rock Drill, the outstanding work of the Vorticist movement | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The Clayton Act strengthens many aspects of US antitrust legislation | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The Panama Canal opens to shipping on a neutral basis just two weeks after the start of World War I | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Tsar Nicholas II changes the name of his capital city to Petrograd, because St Petersburg sounds German | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Benito Mussolini, advocating Italian entry into the war on the side of the Allies, is expelled from the Socialist party | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Stanley Spencer joins the Royal Army Medical Corps, with whom he finds a wealth of subject matter | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Benito Mussolini founds a newspaper, Il Popolo d'Italia' ('The People of Italy'), to argue the case for Italy joining the war | |
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| c. 1914 |
| | | Robert Tressell's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is published posthumously in an abbreviated version | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Ivor Novello has a great success with his topical song Keep the Home Fires Burning (with lyrics by Lena Ford) | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Charlie Chaplin introduces his most famous character, the little tramp, in Kid Auto Races at Venice | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The British government changes the status of Egypt from a Turkish province to a British protectorate | |
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| 1914 June 28 |
| | | Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Austria-Hungary plans to attack Serbia, in response to the assassination of the archduke, and seeks a guarantee of German support | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Germany promises to support Austria-Hungary if a strike against Serbia provokes war with Russia | |
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| 1914 July |
| | | Erskine Childers sails his own yacht from Germany to Ireland with 900 rifles and 14,000 rounds of ammunition for the Irish Volunteers | |
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| 1914 July 28 |
| | | Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, following this with bombardment of the Serbian capital, Belgrade | |
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| 1914 July 30 |
| | | The Austrian attack on Serbia causes Russia to mobilize her army | |
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| 1914 August 1 |
| | | In response to the tsar's mobilization of his troops, Germany declares war on Russia | |
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| 1914 August 2 |
| | | Germany and the Ottoman empire sign a secret treaty of alliance | |
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| 1914 August 2 |
| | | German troops move into Luxembourg and demand passage through neutral Belgium | |
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| 1914 August 3 |
| | | With her troops already poised to attack, Germany declares war on France | |
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| 1914 August 3 |
| | | Italy declares neutrality amid the rush of other major European powers into war | |
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| 1914 August 4 |
| | | German troops invade Belgium, violating her guaranteed neutrality | |
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| 1914 August 4 |
| | | Bound by treaty to defend Belgium, Britain declares war on Germany | |
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| 1914 |
| | | With five major European nations committed within a few days to hostilities, World War I begins | |
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| 1914 August 4 |
| | | President Woodrow Wilson proclaims US neutrality in the European war | |
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| 1914 |
| | | The new republican government of Portugal offers Britain support in the war | |
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| 1914 August 7 |
| | | Spain declares a policy of neutrality in the rapidly developing European war | |
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| 1914 August 7 |
| | | A small British Expeditionary Force is rushed across the Channel to Boulogne | |
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| 1914 August 10 |
| | | France declares war on the empire of Austria-Hungary | |
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| 1914 August 12 |
| | | Britain declares war on the empire of Austria-Hungary | |
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| 1914 August 20 |
| | | A Germany army reaches and enters the Belgian capital, Brussels | |
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| 1914 August 23 |
| | | Japan, with her own local agenda in the far east, declares war on Germany | |
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| 1914 August 23 |
| | | The British Expeditionary Force fights a rearguard action to escape encirclement by the Germans at Mons | |
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| 1914 August 25-28 |
| | | A German army encircles and almost annihilates a larger Russian force at Tannenberg | |
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| 1914 August |
| | | British and French forces invade the German colony of Togoland | |
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| 1914 |
| | | from August - Serbian forces repel two Austrian invasions of their territory | |
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| 1914 |
| | | from August - the German cruiser Emden carries out successful raids on British shipping in the seas around India | |
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| 1914 September 3 |
| | | A Germany army crosses the river Marne in an advance towards Paris | |
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| 1914 September 5 |
| | | A French army halts the German advance, just 30 miles from Paris | |
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| 1914 September 8 |
| | | After a four-day battle, the French drive the German forces back over the river Marne | |
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| 1914 September 13 |
| | | The Germans adopt a defensive position at the river Aisne in northern France, in the first sign of the trench warfare that will characterize the entire war in the west | |
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| 1914 |
| | | from September - the German and French armies, attempting to outflank each other, engage in a race to the sea | |
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| 1914 October |
| | | British planes, taking off from Dunkirk, bomb Cologne railway station and destroy Germany's latest Zeppelin in its great shed at Düsseldorf | |
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| 1914 October 29 |
| | | Turkey, launching an attack on Russian ports in the Black Sea, enters the war on the German side | |
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| 1914 |
| | | from October - there are heavy casualties on both sides, and a small advantage to the Allies, in the fighting round Ypres during the 'race to the sea' | |
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| 1914 |
| | | British troops are driven to the western front in London Transport double-deckers | |
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| 1914 |
| | | More than 30,000 troops in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sail to fight with Britain | |
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| 1914 |
| | | H.G. Wells publishes The War that will end War, offering an optimistic prediction of the present conflict leading to a future world state | |
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| 1914 November 1 |
| | | Maximilian von Spee sinks two British cruisers off Coronel, on the Pacific coast of south America | |
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| 1914 November 2 |
| | | Russia declares war on the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1914 November 5 |
| | | Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1914 November 9 |
| | | The German cruiser Emden is sunk off the Cocos-Keeling islands by an Australian cruiser, the Sydney | |
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| 1914 November 16 |
| | | The German enclave of Qingdao, in China, falls to the Japanese after a two-month siege | |
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| 1914 November 23 |
| | | A British force seizes the Turkish port of Basra, to safeguard the supply of Persian oil | |
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| 1914 |
| | | from November - with the battle lines stablized to the coast, the German and Allied armies settle in for years of gruesome trench warfare | |
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| 1914 December |
| | | German planes cross the Channel and bomb Dover | |
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| 1914 December |
| | | Roger Casement travels to Germany to persuade Irish prisoners of war to change sides and invade Ireland | |
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| 1914 December 7 |
| | | Maximilian von Spee's squadron of cruisers is sunk by the British off the Falkland Islands | |
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| 1915 |
| | | An employee of the Metropolitan Railway coins the term Metro-land when promoting the company's services in London's suburbs | |
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London's Transport Museum
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| 1915 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi returns to India after more than twenty years in South Africa | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Alexander Graham Bell again summons his assistant Thomas Watson (as in 1876), but this time he is in New York and Watson in San Francisco | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Manuel de Falla's ballet El Amor Brujo, including the 'Ritual Fire Dance', is performed in Paris | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson loses his title, in the 26th round, to the "Great White Hope", Jess Willard | |
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| 1915 |
| | | The Corning Glass Company launches Pyrex, a new range of heat-resistant kitchen ware made from borosilicate glass | |
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| 1915 |
| | | D.W. Griffith's epic film The Birth of a Nation has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag, by George Asaf and Felix Powell, rapidly becomes one of the most popular songs of the day | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Somerset Maugham publishes his semi-autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Canadian army surgeon John McCrae writes 'In Flanders Fields' after a friend is killed in the trenches | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Radiotelephone messages are transmitted from Arlington in Virginia to the Eiffel Tower in Paris | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Thomas Edison invents a machine to record telephone conversations, calling it the telescribe | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Australian author C.J. Dennis creates the Sentimental Bloke, featuring first in a book of poems and four years later in a film | |
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| 1915 |
| | | American campaigner for birth control Margaret Sanger publishes a controversial pamphlet, Family Limitation | |
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