WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1914
Find out what all happened April to December 1914

World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France. (13. September 1914)

Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. (17. September 1914)

The last Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. (1. September 1914)

Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. (27. April 1914)

Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia. (29. June 1914)

A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687. (15. December 1914)

The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I. (18. September 1914)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialized in The Egoist. (29. December 1914)

World War I: the United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit. (12. August 1914)

St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd. (1. September 1914)

World War I: German forces occupy Brussels. (20. August 1914)

The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time. (18. July 1914)

World War I: The German minelayer Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64 km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion. (5. August 1914)

World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army. (15. December 1914)

In Major League Baseball's World Series, the Boston Braves defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 4 games to 0, at Fenway Park in Boston, completing the first World Series sweep in history. (13. October 1914)

World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg (30. August 1914)

World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. (28. July 1914)

The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany. (18. October 1914)

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I. (28. June 1914)

World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops. (9. October 1914)