WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO OCTOBER 1914
Find out what all happened July to October 1914

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

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

Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Philippine government. (27. July 1914)

World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia. (15. August 1914)

World War I: The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon. (15. August 1914)

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

World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. (27. October 1914)

World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea. (6. August 1914)

Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka. (11. September 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)

World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France. (13. September 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: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality. (5. October 1914)

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

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

World War I: German troops conquer Namur. (28. August 1914)

World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa. (18. September 1914)

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

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