* 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: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

Following a Royal Commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book, work that was to take twenty years due in part to the demands of the Great War ( 1914 – 18 ) and in part to the constitution of the Church Assembly in 1920 which " perhaps not unnaturally wished to do the work all over again for itself.

The brewery gained more esteem in 1914 when it was made " Purveyor to the Royal Danish Court ".

* 1914 – A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats an inferior squadron of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

In May 1910 Soddy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society In 1914 he was appointed to a chair at the University of Aberdeen, where he worked on research related to World War I.

* was a modified Royal Sovereign-class battleship launched in 1891 and sunk as a blockship in 1914.

Prince William arrived in Albania at his provisional capital of Durrës on 7 March 1914 along with the Royal family.

However, World War I broke out in August 1914, and Moseley turned down this job offer to enlist in the Royal Engineers of the British Army instead.

During the Great War, the Italian Royal Army increased in size from 15, 000 men in 1914 to 160, 000 men in 1918, with 5 million recruits in total entering service during the war.

Attempts at reaching some sort of compromise between the conflicting parties meant the Bill still had not received the Royal Assent by the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.

* HMS Legion ( 1914 ), a Royal Navy ship sunk in 1921

In 1914 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

* 1914 – World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.

* " A New Illustration of Pareto's Law ", Josiah C. Stamp, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, volume 77, number 2, pages 200 – 204, January 1914.

* 1914 – Denys Lasdun, English architect, designed the Royal National Theatre ( d. 2001 )

However, British rule had begun with the occupation of the island of Mafia by the Royal Navy in 1914.

Warfare in the early 20th century ( 1914 – 1918 ) Clockwise from top: front line Trench warfare | Trenches, a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British Mark I ( tank ) | Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible ( 1898 ) | HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a Naval mine | mine at the Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign | battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas mask s, and German Albatros D. III biplane s.

The Naval Wing of the RFC lasted until July 1914 when the Royal Navy reformed its air branch, under the Air Department of the Admiralty, naming it the Royal Naval Air Service ( RNAS ).

The full dress of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, as worn by the entire regiment until 1914, included a racoon-skin hat ( bearskin for officers ) with a white hackle and a scarlet tunic with the dark blue facings of a Royal regiment.

The " Colonel Bogey March " is a popular march that was written in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts ( 1881 – 1945 ), a British army bandmaster who later became director of music for the Royal Marines at Plymouth.

The 1st ( North Wales ) Brigade was Headquartered in Llandudno in December 1914 and included a battalion of the ( Royal Welch Fusiliers ), which had been raised and trained in Llandudno.

Also on that day, at the spot where, on Christmas Day 1914, their regimental ancestors came out from their trenches to play football, men from the 1st Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers played a football match with the German Battalion 371.

* 1 / 4th ( Denbighshire ) Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers ( November 1914 to September 1915 )

Educated at Eastbourne College and Jesus College, Cambridge, Lloyd George was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1914.

In August 1914 he joined the 10th Battalion, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, as a private.

Hendon ’ s first proper fire station ( 1914 ) was built to designs by A. Welch, and superseded another close by in Church End.

He hired Major William A. Welch as assistant engineer, and in 1914 named him chief engineer and general manager.

On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip participated in the assassination in Sarajevo of the Austrian Archduke.

It was not until his father's death on June 10, 1914, that he participated in his first play with the Varsity Show, entitled On Your Way.

It is estimated that between 1830 and 1914 some 3000 professional artists participated in a mass movement away from urban centres into the countryside, residing for varying lengths of time in over 80 communities.

* 1914, König-class battleship Markgraf, participated Skagerrakschlacht, 1918 internment in Scapa Flow, there 1919 self-destructed, 1936 scrapped

Diamond was also entitled to the French Fourragère ( Croix de Guerre 1914 – 1918 ) as a personal award, since he had participated in earning it with the 6th Marines.

The ordnance collection includes artillery pieces that participated in notable battles, such as the Néry gun, a field gun that was used during the 1914 action at Néry, and equipment captured from enemy forces.

He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1914 papal conclave, which selected Pope Benedict XV.

In July 1914, as brigade commander, he participated in the suppression of the Bailang Peasant Uprising in Henan and Shaanxi.

At the outbreak of war in August 1914, Foch's XX Corps participated in the brief invasion of Germany before retiring in the face of a German counterattack and successfully blocking the Germans short of Nancy.

Formed in Ireland on 21 August 1914, the 10th Division was sent to Gallipoli where, as part of General Sir Frederick Stopford's IX Corps, at Suvla Bay on August 7 it participated in the disastrous Landing at Cape Helles and the August offensive.

The division participated in the defence of the Belgian city of Antwerp in late 1914.

On December 9, 1914, Baron Sonnino addressed a note to the Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Berchtold, calling attention to Article VII of the treaty by which Italy participated in the Triple Alliance, with particular reference to the words in that clause according to which the Austro-Hungarian Government was bound, in the event of its disturbing the status quo in the Balkans, even by a temporary occupation of Serbian territory, to come to an agreement with Italy and to arrange for compensations.

To meet these needs, the IRE established professional journals ( most notably the Proceedings of the IRE, established 1913 and edited for 41 years by Alfred N. Goldsmith ); participated actively in all aspects of standardization and regulations of the frequency spectrum, modulation techniques, testing methods, and radio equipment ; and organized regional and professional groups ( starting in 1914 and 1948, respectively ) for cooperation and exchange between members.

Then in 1914, he participated in the engagement and occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico.

Boorstin was born in 1914, in Atlanta, Georgia into a Jewish family ; his father was a lawyer who participated in the defense of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent who was accused of the rape and murder of a teenage girl.

Henry Menasco Wade ( November 11, 1914 – March 1, 2001 ) was a Texas lawyer who participated in two of the most notable U. S. court cases of the 20th century, the prosecution of Jack Ruby for killing Lee Harvey Oswald and the U. S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade.

Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Seitz developed pronounced pacifist leanings and participated in the 1917 Stockholm Socialists ' Congress.

In 1914, Ekster participated in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions in Paris, together with Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Archipenko, Vadym Meller, Sonia Delaunay-Terk and other French and Russian artists.

Colonel Lejeune and his unit eventually landed in Mexico on 22 April 1914 and participated in the United States occupation of Veracruz.

Pillars were raised on which hung flags and shields commemorating all the forces that participated in a battle fought in Langemark ( West Flanders, Belgium ) on November 10, 1914, during the First World War.

In 1914 a treaty was negotiated in India, the Simla Convention, representatives of China, Tibet and Britain participated.

The United States Navy issued the Mexican Service Medal to members of the Navy and Marines who participated in any of the above actions, as well as to service member who served aboard U. S. naval vessels, patrolling Mexican waters, between April 21, and November 26, 1914, or between March 14, 1916, and February 7, 1917.

In August 1914 the First World War began and the regiment's battalions actively participated on the Western Front and in the Middle East.