WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 1914
Find out what all happened February to December 1914

Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. (23. November 1914)

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

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

World War I: German forces occupy Brussels. (20. August 1914)

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

Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico. (9. April 1914)

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

In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place. (12. February 1914)

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

St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd. (1. 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)

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: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight. (28. August 1914)

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

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

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

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)

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