WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO JULY 1914
Find out what all happened May to July 1914

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

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

Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship. (26. July 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 Crown council of Romania decides for the country to remain neutral in World War I. (21. July 1914)

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

Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Philippine government. (27. July 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 funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo. (4. July 1914)

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

USS Nevada (BB-36) is launched. (11. July 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)

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

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