WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO AUGUST 1914
Find out what all happened April to August 1914

World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost. (25. August 1914)

World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia. (17. August 1914)

World War I: Battle of Cer begins. (16. August 1914)

World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, Belgium and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality. (4. August 1914)

19 men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike. (20. April 1914)

Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta. (23. June 1914)

Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball. (11. July 1914)

The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives. (29. May 1914)

World War I: Germany declares war against France. (3. August 1914)

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

Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship. (26. July 1914)

The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland. (25. May 1914)

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

World War I: The beginning of the Battle of Cer. (15. August 1914)

World War I: the Battle of Haelen a.k.a. (Battle of the Silver Helmets) last cavalry style attack from the German army on the city of Halen, Belgium. (12. August 1914)

World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia. (6. August 1914)

Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz, Veracruz. (21. April 1914)

World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China. (23. August 1914)

Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia will accept all but one of those demands and Austria will declare war on July 28. (23. July 1914)

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