* 1914 – The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.

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

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

It was part of the ' Big Push ' ( later known as the Battle of the Somme ) that was intended to force the German Army into a retreat from the Western Front, a line they had held since late 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.

Half of the German divisions available in 1940 were combat ready, often being more poorly equipped than the British and French Armies, as well as the German Army of 1914.

The UK was allied with France ( by the Entente Cordiale ) and Russia, and when the First World War broke out in 1914, the British Army sent the British Expeditionary Force to France and Belgium to prevent Germany from occupying these countries.

* 1914 – World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.

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.

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.

* 1914 – The U. S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U. S. Signal Corps, giving definite status to aircraft within the U. S. Army for the first time.

The Panama Canal was built by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914 ; the existing 83-kilometer ( 50-mi.

After 1862 the spiked helmet ceased to be generally worn by the Russian Army, although it was retained until 1914 by the Cuirassier regiments of the Imperial Guard and the Gendarmerie.

* 1914 – World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

In January 1914, before the outbreak of World War I, Lawrence was co-opted by the British Army to undertake a military survey of the Negev Desert while doing archaeological research.

In 2007 Jack Sheldon rejected Edmonds's calculations, suggesting that although German casualties 1 June – 10 November were 217, 194 were available in Volume III of the Sanitätsbericht, ( Medical Report Concerning the German Army 1914 – 1918 ( 1934 )) Edmonds may not have included them as they did not fit his case.

Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, troops of the Russian Empire captured Allenstein in 1914, but it was recovered by the Imperial German Army in the Battle of Tannenberg.

As with Yellowstone, the new federal park was under U. S. Army jurisdiction until 1914.

Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by first invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France.

On August 23 and 24, 1914, Mons was the site of the first battle fought by the British Army in World War I.

It was fought by the Russian First and Second Armies against the German Eighth Army between 26 August and 30 August 1914.

The battle saw the British Army, supported by contingents from British imperial territories, including Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Canada, India and South Africa, mount a joint offensive with the French Army against the German Army, which had occupied large areas of France since its invasion of the country in August 1914.

In 1914 when the town was chosen for the U. S. Amateur Golf tournament, a representative hurried here from the Boston manager's office.

In 1914, the Clayton Act attempted to take labor out from under the anti-trust legislation by stating that human labor was not to be considered a commodity.

The term " Afroasiatic " ( often now spelled as " Afro-Asiatic ") was later coined by Maurice Delafosse ( 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.

It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1900 to 1914.

According to Hosea Ballou, then Pierre Batiffol ( 1911 ) and George T. Knight ( 1914 ) Amalric was a believer that all people would eventually be saved and this was one of the counts upon which he was declared a heretic by Pope Innocent III.

Between 1914 and 1915 talks were held for a proposed amalgamation with rugby league, the predominant code of football in New South Wales and Queensland was considered and trialled.

During 1823 – 1931 the grown settlement was known as Ust-Abakanskoye, 1914 – 1925: Abakan, 1925 – 1931: Khakassk.

HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey ( also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha ) () ( 14 July 1874 – 19 December 1944 ) was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan ( 8 January 1892 – 19 December 1914 ).

Nimzowitsch never developed a knack for match play, though ; his best match success was a draw with Alekhine, but the match consisted of only two games and took place in 1914, thirteen years before Alekhine became world champion.

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

Gropius's design for the Dessau facilities was a return to the futuristic Gropius of 1914 that had more in common with the International style lines of the Fagus Factory than the stripped down Neo-classical of the Werkbund pavilion or the Völkisch Sommerfeld House.

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.

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for gallant leadership: the citation for this award, published in the London Gazette in December 1914 reads:

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

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.

Beatrix ’ s father, Rupert William Potter ( 1832 – 1914 ), was educated in Manchester and trained as a barrister in London.

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.

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.