WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1914
Find out what all happened January to December 1914

The first ever National Challenge Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2-1. (16. May 1914)

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

The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens. (16. November 1914)

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

The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I. (1. 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)

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

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

The Protocol of Corfu is signed recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty. (17. May 1914)

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

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

The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York, New York. (30. May 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)

Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign. (7. March 1914)

The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act. (26. September 1914)

World War I: Germany declares war against France. (3. 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: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough. (16. December 1914)