WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1914
Find out what all happened July to December 1914

In Brazil, Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras is founded. (26. August 1914)

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

William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule. (3. September 1914)

World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire. (5. November 1914)

USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched. (11. July 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 United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit. (12. August 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: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough. (16. December 1914)

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

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

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: German troops capture Namur. (24. August 1914)

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

World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth. (1. November 1914)

World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days. (26. August 1914)

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

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

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