Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.

* 1914 – 1918, the First Battle of the Atlantic took place.

* 1914 – Armen Alchian, American economist

* 1914 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter ( d. 2008 )

* 1845 – Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect, designed the Museum of Applied Arts and the Church of St. Elisabeth ( d. 1914 )

* 1914 – Heidi Kabel, German actress ( d. 2010 )

* 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.

* 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany ; Austria declares war on Russia.

* 1914 – Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian-Austrian conductor ( d. 1963 )

* 1914 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author ( d. 2001 )

* 1914 – Joe Mercer, English footballer ( d. 1990 )

* 1914 – Luis Mariano, Spanish tenor ( d. 1970 )

* 1914 – Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet ( d. 1988 )

* 1914 – Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist ( d. 2012 )

* 1914 – Beatrice Straight, American actress ( d. 2001 )

* 1914 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player ( b. 1876 )

* 1995 – H. Adams Carter, American Alpine Club President, 10th Mountain Division trainer ( b. 1914 )

* 1914 – Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I.

* 1914 – J. Lee Thompson, English director ( d. 2002 )

* 1914 – World War I: Germany declares war against France.

* 1832 – Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer ( d. 1914 )

* 1995 – Ida Lupino, English actress and director ( b. 1914 )

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

They had four children: Joan, born on Holloway's 24th birthday in 1914, Patricia ( b. 1920 ), John ( b. 1925 ) and Mary ( b. 1928 ).

Joan Maud Littlewood ( 6 October 1914 – 20 September 2002 ) was an English theatre director, noted for her work in developing the left-wing Theatre Workshop.

His retirement years featured some painful moments with the death of his mother in 1934, and not being able to make it to her funeral, the death of his wife — whom he had married in 1914 — from a heart seizure in 1963 and the death of his youngest child, Joan Franklin, in 1976 due to a heart weakness brought on by stringent dieting in her days as a figure skater.

* 1914 – World War I: the United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary ; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.

* 1914 – World War I: the Battle of Mons ; the British Army begins withdrawal.

Half of the German divisions available in 1940 were combat ready, often being more poorly equipped than the British and French Armies, as well as the German Army of 1914.

Two months after Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, Zionist British cabinet member Herbert Samuel circulated a memorandum entitled The Future of Palestine to his cabinet colleagues.

In late 1905 Balfour had requested of Charles Dreyfus, his Jewish constituency representative, that he arrange a meeting with Weizmann, during which Weizmann asked for official British support for Zionism ; they were to meet again on this issue in 1914.

The UK was allied with France ( by the Entente Cordiale ) and Russia, and when the First World War broke out in 1914, the British Army sent the British Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium to prevent Germany from occupying these countries.

Legislation introducing Home Rule, i. e. limited self-government for Ireland within the United Kingdom, was passed by the British parliament in 1914, but its implementation was immediately postponed because of the outbreak of the First World War.

The Maritz Rebellion or the Boer Revolt or the Five Shilling Rebellion or the Third Boer War, occurred in South Africa in 1914 at the start of World War I, in which men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa because they did not want to side with the British against Germany so soon after they had had a long bloody war with the British.

In September 1914 cavalry comprised 9. 28 % of the total manpower of the British Expeditionary Force in France — by July 1918 this proportion had fallen to 1. 65 %.

For instance prior to 1914 most officers of British cavalry regiments came from a socially privileged background and the considerable expenses associated with their role generally required private means, even after it became possible for officers of the line infantry regiments to live on their pay.

In 1914 there were still dragoon regiments in the British, French, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Peruvian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Spanish armies.

* 1914 – Alan Bullock, British author of the first biography of Hitler written in any language.

In 1910 British physicist William Henry Bragg demonstrated that gamma rays are electromagnetic radiation, not particles, and in 1914 Rutherford and Edward Andrade measured their wavelengths, and found that they were similar to X-rays but with shorter wavelengths and higher frequency.

Though large numbers of Irishmen had willingly joined Irish regiments and divisions of the New British Army at the outbreak of war in 1914, the likelihood of enforced conscription created a backlash – particularly as the Government of Ireland Act 1914 ( as previously recommended in March by the Irish Convention ) was controversially linked with a " dual policy " enactment of the Military Service Bill.

The Supreme Council of the IRB met on 5 September 1914, a month after the British government had declared war on Germany.

The Irish Volunteers — the smaller of the two forces resulting from the September 1914 split over support for the British war effort — set up a " headquarters staff " that included Patrick Pearse as Director of Military Organisation, Joseph Plunkett as Director of Military Operations and Thomas MacDonagh as Director of Training.

By the mid-twenties the British film industry was losing out to heavy competition from Hollywood, the latter helped by having a much larger home market-in 1914 25 % of films shown in the UK were British, but by 1926 this had fallen to 5 %.

Some of the first such " fighters " belonged to the " gunbus " series of experimental gun carriers of the British Vickers company that culminated in the Vickers F. B. 5 Gunbus of 1914.

* 1914 – Ralph Erskine, British architect ( Byker Wall ) ( d. 2005 )

The " long nineteenth century ", from 1789 to 1914 sees the drastic social, political and economic changes initiated by the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, and following the reorganisation of the political map of Europe at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the rise of Nationalism, the rise of the Russian Empire and the peak of the British Empire, paralleled by the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

The November 1914 memorandum expressed the signatories concerns about British industrial design in the face of foreign competition.