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

He gained a BSc with Gold Medal in 1908, and became a lecturer at St Mary's until 1914.

Carnegie at Skibo Castle, 1914

In 1914, the founder of the agricultural college at Nanking University suggested to the now-defunct Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry that China should imitate the practice in the United States of Arbor Day.

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

Since the award was not as effective at advertising as Chalmers had hoped, it was discontinued after 1914.

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.

After Rupert Potter died in 1914, Potter, now a wealthy woman, found Lindeth Howe, a large house in nearby Windermere where her mother lived until her death in 1931 at the age of 93.

In the 20th century excavations were carried out at Carchemish, Turkey, between 1911 and 1914 and in 1920 by D. G. Hogarth and Leonard Woolley, the latter assisted by T. E. Lawrence.

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.

His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914.

Attlee became a lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1912, but promptly applied for a Commission in August 1914 for World War I.

In his definitive study of the taxonomy of the coyote, Jackson had, in response to Miller, queried whether Heller had seriously looked at specimens of coyotes prior to his 1914 article, and thought the characters to be “ not sufficiently important or stable to warrant subgeneric recognition for the group ”.

There are historic forts at both ends of Copacabana beach ; Fort Copacabana, built in 1914, is at the south end by Posto Seis and Fort Duque de Caxias, built in 1779, at the north end.

The major European empires consisted of the following colonies at the start of World War I ( former colonies of the Spanish Empire became independent before 1914 and are not listed ; former colonies of other European empires that previously became independent, such as the former French colony Haiti, are not listed ):

* 1914 – A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyūshū, Japan, kills 687.

The first shot of the war at sea was fired on 5 August 1914 by a destroyer of the 2nd Flotilla,, in an engagement with the German auxiliary minelayer.

During the course of the war, he took part in actions at Heligoland Bight ( 1914 ), Dogger Bank ( 1915 ) and Jutland ( 1916 ).

* 1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party ( Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP ) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires.

On August 4, 1914, Germany invaded Belgium, leaving Moresnet at first " an oasis in a desert of destruction ".

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.

His colorful personal life often made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio.

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 ).

An estimate of Holmes's age in the story " His Last Bow " places his birth in 1854 ; the story is set in August 1914 and he is described as being 60 years of age.

As Banach had to earn money to support his studies it was not until 1914 that he finally, at age 22, passed his high school graduation exams.

* Lillian M. Gilbreth jr. ( June 17, 1914 – June 23, 2001 ) ( age 87 ); married Donald Dodge Johnson ; two children ( Julia, Dodge ).

He was recalled at the outbreak of World War I, and first came to national attention, at the age of 66, as the victor at Tannenberg in 1914.

But in 1914 at the age of 63, when he was too old to take part in the War, he took on the Presidency of the Antiquaries which carried with it an ex officio appointment as a Trustee of the British Museum and he spent the War successfully fighting the War Office who wanted to commandeer the museum for the Air Board.

In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Novello wrote " Keep the Home Fires Burning ", a song that expressed the feelings of innumerable families sundered by World War I. Novello composed the music for the song to a lyric by the American Lena Guilbert-Ford, and it became a huge popular success, bringing Novello money and fame at the age of 21.

In her 1914 autobiography My Own Story, Pankhurst recalls visiting a bazaar at a young age to collect money for newly-freed slaves in the United States.

Dreyfus volunteered for military service again in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, and served despite advancing age in a range of artillery commands, first as a major and finally as a lieutenant-colonel.

The golden age of Valparaíso ’ s commerce ended after the opening of the Panama Canal ( 1914 ).

During Valparaíso's golden age ( 1848 – 1914 ), the city received large numbers of immigrants, primarily from Europe.

One of the city's more colorful residents was the boxer Kid Mexico ( real name, Tod Faulkner ) who was the state's bantamweight champion in 1914 ( at age 14 — he had lied about his age ) and the state's welterweight champion in 1925.

He opened his own grocery store in 1914 at the age of twenty and added appliances to his line in 1920.

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.

In 1914, the Cardinals chose Della Chiesa at the age of 59, indicating their desire for another long-lasting pontificate at the outbreak of World War I, which he labeled “ the suicide of civilized Europe .” The war and its consequences were the main focus of Benedict.

Hugh Casey was educated at Manual Training High School from 1910 to 1914, graduating at the age of 15.

Dressler had appeared in two shorts as herself, but her first role in a film came in 1914, at the age of 44.

The most likely reason for the 1914 date is that she added to her age when beginning her career as a minor, so that she could work.

Born May 19, 1914 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, southeast China, Go Seigen did not start learning the game of Go until he was nine, a relatively late age for a professional ( Honinbo Dosaku first learned Go at seven and Honinbo Shusaku before he was six ).

John Muir died at California Hospital ( now California Hospital Medical Center ) in Los Angeles on 24 December 1914 of pneumonia at age 76, after a brief visit to Daggett, California, to see his daughter Helen Muir Funk.

His father died in 1914, at 43 years of age, after having suffered from dropsy and complications due to an earlier heart condition.