* 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.

At the start of the First World War, the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1914 was passed which granted temporary powers to HM Treasury for issuing banknotes to the value of £ 1 and 10 /- ( ten shillings ) in the UK.

Through its purported connections to the June 1914 assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, the Black Hand may have been one of the principal catalysts to the start of World War I, fueling the July Crisis of 1914 and giving Austria-Hungary a pretext to invade Serbia.

In Europe, most countries left the gold standard with the start of World War I in 1914 and, with huge war debts, failed to return to gold as a medium of exchange.

At the start of World War I, 4 August 1914, Admiral George Callaghan, Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet, was removed by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.

It was these alliances that, at the start of the First World War in 1914, drew all the major European powers into the conflict.

His father was interned as an enemy alien after the start of the war in 1914, and upon his release he returned to Germany.

On 16 August 1914, less than three weeks after the start of World War I, the Café Piccadilly was given a new name-the more patriotic-sounding Café Vaterland.

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.

The original British Expeditionary Force, six divisions strong at the start of the war, had been wiped out by the battles of 1914 and 1915.

The profession got its start in 1914 within the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers ( AIME ).

In July 1914, Akhmatova wrote “ Frightening times are approaching / Soon fresh graves will cover the land "; on August 1, Germany declared war on Russia, marking the start of " the dark storm " of world war, civil war, revolution and totalitarian repression for Russia.

Her first collections Evening ( 1912 ) and Rosary ( 1914 ) received wide critical acclaim and made her famous from the start of her career.

In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Lord Kitchener became Secretary of State for War, a Cabinet Minister.

However, the name was changed at the start of World War I in 1914 for patriotic reasons.

Mayo through Paintsville in Johnson County, 1914. Coal was important for Johnson County and the rest of eastern Kentucky even before the Civil War, but its development halted at the start of the war.

He also coined the term " long nineteenth century ", which begins with the French Revolution in 1789 and ended with the start of World War I in 1914.

The increase in international trade at the turn of the 20th century accelerated the formation of international organizations, and, by the start of World War I in 1914, there were approximately 450 of them.

The Edwardian period is sometimes extended beyond Edward's death in 1910 to include the years up to the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, the start of World War I in 1914, the end of hostilities with Germany in 1918, or the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

The Iron Cross was reauthorized by Emperor Wilhelm II on 5 August 1914, at the start of World War I.

At the start of 1914 the British Army had a reported strength of 710, 000 men including reserves, of which around 80, 000 were regular troops ready for war.

The Triple Alliance was the military alliance between Germany, Austria – Hungary, and Italy, ( as opposing the Triple Entente which consisted of an alliance between Britain, France and Russia ), that lasted from 1882 until the start of World War I in 1914.