The country seemed to be on the brink of civil war when World War I broke out in August 1914.

But most damaging, the new situation effectively trapped Russian foreign policy: After 1913, Russia could not afford losing its last ally in this crucial area and thus had no alternatives but to unconditionally support Serbia when the crisis between Serbia and Austria broke out in 1914.

Finally, when a Serbian backed organization assassinated the heir of the Austro-Hungarian throne, causing the 1914 July Crisis, nobody could stop the conflict and the First World War broke out.

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.

He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

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

A single attempt by the German army, on 12 August 1914, to use six regiments of massed cavalry to cut off the Belgian field army from Antwerp foundered when they were driven back in disorder by rifle fire.

In D. W. Griffith's The Avenging Conscience ( 1914 ), the title " The birth of the evil thought " precedes a series of three shots of the protagonist looking at a spider, and ants eating an insect, though at a later point in the film when he prepares to kill someone these shots are cut straight in without explanation.

But the United States was already gaining quickly when World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) caused a devastating interruption in the European film industries.

Many young foreigners, including Americans like Fred Zinn, volunteered for the Foreign Legion when the war broke out in 1914.

The modern sports nickname of Golden Tornadoes commemorates the " Golden Tornado " of May 11, 1914 when a major tornado struck the college, most notably taking the gold colored roof from the top of Old Main, which was the origin of the associated color.

After the relative peace of most of the 19th century, the rivalry between European powers exploded in 1914, when the First World War started.

Carnarvon financed Carter's work in the Valley of the Kings from 1914, but it was interrupted by World War I until 1917, when serious work was resumed.

Trials in 1914 using sea planes operating with the fleet were less than impressive, when out of four taking part one crashed, one was unable to take off and only one succeeded in all tasks.

The outside world was not aware of the development of color variations in koi until 1914, when the Niigata koi were exhibited in the annual exposition in Tokyo.

Liverpool reached its first FA Cup Final in 1914, losing 1 – 0 to Burnley It won consecutive League championships in 1922 and 1923, but did not win another trophy until the 1946 – 47 season, when the club won the First Division for a fifth time.

In contrast to the Zulu War of 1906 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when he recruited volunteers for the Ambulance Corps, this time Gandhi attempted to recruit combatants.

The first boxing contest held at the Arms Park was on 24 January 1914, when Bombadier Billy Wells beat Gaston Pigot by a knockout in the first round of a 20 round contest.

However, the manner of the increase was not experimentally determined until 1914 when Robert Andrews Millikan showed that Einstein's prediction was correct.

On 24 June 1914, just four days before Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo, Pacelli, together with Cardinal Merry del Val, represented the Vatican when the Serbian Concordat was signed.

The Panama Canal has seen annual traffic rise from about 1, 000 ships when it opened in 1914, to 14, 702 vessels in 2008, the latter measuring a total of 309. 6 million Panama Canal / Universal Measurement System ( PC / UMS ) tons.

In August 1914, when World War I broke out, Romania declared neutrality.

The sandstone building was constructed between 1911 – 1914, when it replaced the old town hall of Schöneberg, at that time an independent city () not yet incorporated into Greater Berlin, which took place in 1920.

Spy fiction, literature concerning the forms of espionage, was a sub-genre derived from the novel during the nineteenth century, which then evolved into a discrete genre before the First World War ( 1914 – 18 ), when governments established modern intelligence agencies in the early twentieth century.

* 1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.

Despite the German plans to maintain the stalemate with the French and British, German commanders planned an offensive at the Belgian town of Ypres, which the British had defended in November 1914.

In the fall of 1914, during World War I, German forces captured the town and held it until the Allied offensive in the summer of 1918.

Linton was incorporated as a village in 1906 and incorporated as a town in 1914.

Marmaduke was incorporated on August 2, 1909, and had expanded to a fair-sized town by 1914 with two drugstores, three banks, three restaurants, a Methodist and Baptist church, two barber shops, a hotel, a boarding house, and two " dime stores ".

He left the town in 1914 to pursue further education.

Elmer M. Sheridan founded the town in 1914, and named it prior to large scale citrus growing.

His family also helped establish the first church in the community, an event which helped lead to the town ’ s incorporation on August 14, 1914.

* Swami Satchidananda ( 1914 – 2002 ), Indian religious figure, lived in the town.

On April 9, 1914, fire, originating in the Pablo hotel destroyed the hotel along with 11 other houses in the heart of town.

The last bank of several institutions that had been established in town — the newly formed American State Bank of Sheridan — built its headquarters in 1914 at Main and Fourth.

It gave Griffith a tradition of a crime-free community for many years because of men like John Harkenrider, Griffith ’ s first marshal, Deputy John Taylor, and Dan Walters, town Marshall between 1914 and 1917.

Signage on the north and south ends of town ( shown right ) along Indiana State Road 25 proudly boast that, following the first Indiana State Basketball Championships that were held in 1911, the Wingate team was the first to win back-to-back championships in 1913 and 1914.

In 1914, a newspaper described it as a modern town, because of electric lights, city water, a city manager, a sewage plant, a fire department, a school, and a park.

The downtown historic district includes many buildings built between 1914 and 1925, a time of great expansion in the town.

The town was incorporated from 1890 to 1914, when the townspeople requested the incorporation be withdrawn so that Old Quaker Road, used since Revolutionary times and before, could be paved into a state highway.

Also in 1914, a teacher-training college, or normal school as it was referred to then, was built for African-Americans, just outside the town.

This waterworks served the town until 1914.

Students in Hingham met in several buildings around town until a school was built in 1914.

The town remained in North Dakota until 1914, when it was moved slightly across the border so as to be next to a newly-built branch line of the Soo Line Railroad and in a state that permitted the sale of alcohol.

Woodlynne Amusement Park, which encompassed Woodlynne Lake ( no longer in existence ), operated between the years 1895 and 1914 in the area that now comprises the town of Woodlynne.

In 1914, a newly-appointed municipal clerk wrote the name of the town as “ Seaside Park ” in the council minutes.

The town of Buies Creek was incorporated by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1914.