In 1914, an existing spur line on the T & NO to Kerr Lake was electrified and joined to the NCR.

In 1914, another section — from Ridgeway to the Orleans – Monroe county line — was also included in Route 30's definition as a spur route.

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

* 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: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.

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.

For its inaugural international event, the CPU sponsored a conference to be held on August 1, 1914, on the shores of Lake Constance in southern Germany.

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

The slab on top carries the inscription (" Here lies a French soldier who died for the fatherland 1914 – 1918 ").

At Méteren, near the Belgian border at Bailleul on 13 October 1914, during an Allied counter-offensive, he was shot through the right lung by a sniper.

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.

Frieser, in agreement with Overy, Cooper and others that reject the existence of a blitzkrieg doctrine, argues that after the failure of the Schlieffen Plan in 1914, the German Army came to the conclusion decisive battles could not be executed on a strategic level.

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.

Austria-Hungary authorized the mobilization and the declaration of war against Serbia on 28 July 1914.

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.

seine fishing | Seining salmon on the Columbia River, 1914

By 1914, around 100 people — men, women, and children — were living on Clipperton Island, resupplied every two months by a ship from Acapulco.

The " Indians " name originates from a request by the club owner to decide on a new name, following the 1914 season.

Research indicates that this legend is mostly untrue, and that the new name was a play on the name of the Boston Braves, then known as the " Miracle Braves " after going from last place on July 4 to a sweep in the 1914 World Series.

He even beat Alekhine with the black pieces, in their short 1914 match at St. Petersburg.

It was their fear of the spectre of 1914 that emerged victorious in the conflict of goals between armament in breadth for a short war and armament in depth for a feared long war.

The " short twentieth century ", from 1914 to 1991, sees the First World War, the Second World War and the Cold War, including the rise and fall of Nazi Germany and of the Soviet Union.

The short, filmed in 1914, stars Ford Sterling, Mack Swain, Edgar Kennedy, and Al St. John and includes a previously unknown cameo with Charlie Chaplin as a Keystone Kop.

After a series of short victorious wars he unified numerous German states into a powerful German Empire under Prussian leadership, then created a " balance of power " that preserved peace in Europe from 1871 until 1914.

* The Symphony of Souls ( 1-reel short subject ; 1914 )

In Ireland, James Joyce published his short story collection Dubliners in 1914.

* Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayali journalist and short story writer ( d. 1914 )

The coastal strip is sand but a short way inland, the ground rises to the vale of Ypres, which before 1914 was a flourishing market garden.

Melies, the stage manager at the Theatre Robert-Houdin, was inspired to develop a series of more than 500 short films, between 1914, in the process developing or inventing such techniques as multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand painted colour.

Joyce Kilmer ( Born: Alfred Joyce Kilmer, 6 December 1886 – 30 July 1918 ) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled " Trees " ( 1913 ), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914.

Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 American animated short film by Winsor McCay.

Together they made short work of Huerta, who resigned and fled in June 1914 after repeated military losses to the “ Big Four.

After the Olympics, it continued to be used for athletics until 1914, and was later turned into a greyhound racing track, although it was also used for short periods by Queens Park Rangers football club, and for other sports.

His best known works include the trilogy about the long 19th century ( The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789 – 1848, The Age of Capital: 1848 – 1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875 – 1914 ), The Age of Extremes on the short 20th century and an edited volume which introduced the influential idea of ' invented traditions '.

The late 19th century, known as the Belle Époque, with its Fin de siècle retrospectively appeared as a " golden age " of European culture, cut short by the outbreak of World War I in 1914.

However, the Suspensory Act 1914 ( which received the Royal Assent on the same day ) meant that implementation would be suspended for the duration of what was expected to be only a short European war.

Mansfield had a brief affair in 1914 with French writer Francis Carco ; her visiting him in Paris in February 1915 was retold in one of her short stories, An Indiscreet Journey.

* James Joyce uses the term in Grace, a short story in The Dubliners of 1914, to describe the seating arrangement of five men in a church service.

One of the first prizes was in 1914 when they produced the first of two Cracker Jack baseball card issues, which featured players from both major leagues as well as players from the short lived Federal League.

" In the Penal Colony " () ( also translated as " In the Penal Settlement ") is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919.

In the defence policy crisis in 1914, which overturned the parliamentary Liberal government, the party sided with king Gustav V of Sweden, but stopped short of accepting a rightist government by royal appointment, instead opting for an independent-conservative " war cabinet " under Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, eventually overturned in favor of a Liberal-Social democratic majority coalition government and breakthrough of parliamentary rule, albeit reluctantly embraced by the right.

In 1914 a coupé and van were added to the line-up but the chassis was too short and the 1018 cc engine too small to make a much-needed 4-seat version of the car.

Although most in the United Kingdom and continental Europe expected a short war, Rocker predicted on August 7, 1914 " a period of mass murder such as the world has never known before " and attacked the Second International for not opposing the conflict.

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.