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1914

1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1914th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 914th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 20th…

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Defining events of 1914

  1. 1914 Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.

    April 1914 massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War

    The Ludlow Massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War. Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and private guards employed by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attacked a tent colony of roughly 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914. Approximately 21 people were killed, primarily miners' wives and children.

  2. 1914 Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.

    1914 detention of a German ship by US forces

    The Ypiranga Incident occurred on April 21, 1914, at the port of Veracruz in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. Ypiranga was a German steamship that was commissioned to transport arms and munitions to the Mexican federal government under Victoriano Huerta. The United States had placed Mexico under an arms embargo to stifle the flow of weaponry to the war-torn state, then in the throes of civil war, forcing Huerta's government to look to Europe and Japan for armaments.

  3. 1914 The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.

    1914 confirmation of the atom's quantum nature

    The Franck–Hertz experiment was the first electrical measurement to clearly show the quantum nature of atoms. It was presented on 24 April 1914, to the German Physical Society in a paper by James Franck and Gustav Hertz. Franck and Hertz had designed a vacuum tube for studying energetic electrons that flew through a thin vapour of mercury atoms.

  4. 1914 World War I: The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.

    1914–1918 global conflict

    World War I, or the First World War, also known as The Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major areas of conflict included Europe and the Middle East, as well as parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific. The war saw important developments in weaponry including tanks, aircraft, artillery, machine guns, and chemical weapons.

  5. 1914 World War I: The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.

    Military of Switzerland

    The Swiss Armed Forces are the military forces of Switzerland, consisting of land and air service branches. Under the country's militia system, regular soldiers constitute a small part of the military and the rest are conscripts or volunteers aged 19 to 34. Because of Switzerland's long history of neutrality, the Swiss Armed Forces have not been involved in foreign wars since the early 19th century, but do participate in international peacekeeping missions.

  6. 1914 World War I: France, the United Kingdom and the British Empire declare war on Austria-Hungary.

    1914–1918 global conflict

    World War I, or the First World War, also known as The Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major areas of conflict included Europe and the Middle East, as well as parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific. The war saw important developments in weaponry including tanks, aircraft, artillery, machine guns, and chemical weapons.

  7. 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.
  8. 1914 World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive.
  9. 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.
  10. 1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.

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Died in 1914

John Tenniel British illustrator and cartoonist (1820–1914)
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound British peer and politician (1845–1914)
John Tenniel British illustrator and cartoonist (1820–1914)
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound British peer and politician (1845–1914)
John Tenniel British illustrator and cartoonist (1820–1914)
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound British peer and politician (1845–1914)
John Tenniel British illustrator and cartoonist (1820–1914)
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound British peer and politician (1845–1914)

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