WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1914
Find out what all happened June to December 1914

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

The Crown council of Romania decides for the country to remain neutral in World War I. (21. July 1914)

World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war. (8. September 1914)

Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity founded at Syracuse University. (5. November 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)

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

The First Battle of Ypres begins. (19. October 1914)

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

In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed. (5. August 1914)

Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia. (29. June 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: South African troops land in German South West Africa. (18. September 1914)

World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station. (13. September 1914)

SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos. (9. November 1914)

World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins. (24. December 1914)

French composer Albéric Magnard killed after shooting at invading German soldiers. (3. September 1914)

World War I: Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal. (23. August 1914)

World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war. (22. August 1914)

World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins. (24. September 1914)

Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (14. December 1914)