WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1914
Find out what all happened April to October 1914

German submarine SM U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers, HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of over 1,400 men. (22. September 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: A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the latter's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground. (15. August 1914)

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

The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland. (25. May 1914)

World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army. (9. September 1914)

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

St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd. (1. September 1914)

Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia. (29. June 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 Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight. (28. August 1914)

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

Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka. (11. September 1914)

World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia. (6. August 1914)

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

World War I: the United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit. (12. August 1914)

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

The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany. (18. October 1914)

World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg (30. August 1914)

Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. (27. April 1914)