WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1914
Find out what all happened August to December 1914

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

The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces. (7. November 1914)

World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed. (2. November 1914)

World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt. (23. December 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)

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

World War I: Germany declares war against France. (3. August 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: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality. (5. October 1914)

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

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

World War I: German troops capture Namur. (24. August 1914)

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

World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia. (17. August 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 land in German South West Africa. (18. September 1914)

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

A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687. (15. December 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)

World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost. (25. August 1914)