WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER 1914
Find out what all happened September to October 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: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital. (5. September 1914)

World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins. (24. 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: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France. (13. September 1914)

World War I: Siege of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops. (9. October 1914)

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

World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa. (18. September 1914)

The First Battle of Ypres begins. (19. October 1914)

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

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

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

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

World War I: first aerial combat resulting in an intentional fatality. (5. October 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)

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)

French composer Albéric Magnard killed after shooting at invading German soldiers. (3. September 1914)

Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. (17. September 1914)

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