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 – 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.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

England and Australia were evenly matched until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

* 1914 – World War I: Battle of Cer begins.

* 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.

* 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 Haelen a. k. a. ( Battle of the Silver Helmets ) last cavalry style attack from the German army on the city of Halen Belgium.

* 1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army.

* 1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.

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

* 1914 – World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

* 1914 – World War I: German troops conquer Namur.

* 1914 – World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg

In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, Carnegie founded the Church Peace Union ( CPU ), a group of leaders in religion, academia, and politics.

* 1914 – World War I: the German minelayer Königin Luise lays a minefield about off the Thames Estuary ( Lowestoft ).

Well known armour types in European history include the lorica hamata, lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later medieval and renaissance knights, and breast and back plates worn by heavy cavalry in several European countries until the first year of World War I ( 1914 – 15 ).

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

* 1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium.

The world's first four-engined bomber was the Russian Il ' ya Muromets created in 1914 and successfully used in World War I.

The First World War began in August 1914 and Montgomery moved to France with his regiment that month.

Biological sabotage – in the form of anthrax and glanders — was undertaken on behalf of the Imperial German government during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), with indifferent results.

The country seemed to be on the brink of civil war when World War I broke out in August 1914.