In 1914, the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty was signed, giving the U. S. control over the proposed canal, as well as leases for potential canal defenses.

In 1914, he negotiated the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty with the United States, by which Nicaragua agreed to allow the construction of a canal across the country, linking the Caribbean with the Pacific Ocean ( a canal which has not been constructed ).

In return, in 1914, he signed the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty, which granted the United States exclusive rights to build an inter-oceanic canal across Nicaragua.

It was occupied by Japanese troops in September, 1914, and passed to the Japanese Empire under the Versailles Treaty in 1919 as a mandated territory under League of Nations supervision.

The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland on 24 July 1923, that ended the state of war that had existed since 1914 between Turkey on the one hand, and the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania and the Serb-Croatian-Slovene State on the other.

As the American historian Gerhard Weinberg noted, German demands for territorial revision went beyond merely regaining land lost under the Treaty of Versailles, and instead embraced calls for the German conquest and colonization of all Eastern Europe, regardless of whether the land in question had belonged to Germany before 1918 or not Likewise, the British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper argued that the goal of overthrowing Versailles was only a prelude to seizing Lebensraum in Eastern Europe for Germany with no regard as to where Germany's 1914 frontiers had been.

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.

However, T. Lindsay Buick in his landmark 1914 book ' The Treaty of Waitangi: or how New Zealand became a British Colony ', clearly reproduces written instructions drafted by Edward Cardwell of the Colonial Office ( Cardwell later became Viscount Cardwell and was most noted for his reforms of the British Army after the disaster of the Crimean War ).

France would respect the clauses of the Treaty of Frankfurt in their entirety until 1914.

This emphasis, combined with the effects of the War Guilt Clause in the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ) which ended the First World War, led to a huge amount of historical writing on the subject of the origins of the war in 1914, with the involved governments printing huge, carefully edited, collections of documents and numerous historians writing multi-volume histories of the origins of the war.

Prior to the opening of the Panama Canal to traffic on 15 August 1914, a controversy with Great Britain respecting the interpretation of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty arose.

Therefore he travelled to Niš, Kingdom of Serbia, where he and Serbian prime minister Pašić signed the secret Treaty of Serbian-Albanian Alliance on September 17, 1914.

Due to Canada's important contributions to the British war effort in 1914 – 18, Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden insisted that Canada be treated as separate signatory to the Treaty of Versailles and it subsequently joined the League of Nations.

After World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), the Treaty of Versailles transferred most of the region from Weimar Germany to the new Second Polish Republic, forming the so-called Polish Corridor.

On 8 July 1914, Villistas and Carrancistas had signed the Treaty of Torreón, in which they agreed that after Huerta's forces were defeated, 150 generals of the Revolution would meet to determine the future shape of the country.

The Convention that the Carrancistas and Villistas had agreed to in the Treaty of Torreón went ahead at Aguascalientes on 5 October 1914.

With " Article 17 " of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, Turkey formally ceded ( retroactive to 5 November 1914 ) all remaining claims and rights in Egypt and Sudan.

The Versailles Treaty created the International Labour Organisation to draw up common standards between countries, for as it said, " peace can be established only if it is based on social justice ", and echoed the US Clayton Act 1914 in pronouncing that " labour should not be regarded merely as a commodity or an article of commerce ".

After the events in 1914, Sonnino was initially supportive to the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary, but after becoming foreign minister in November 1914, he sided with the Allied forces, and signed the Treaty of London in 1915.

On September 17, 1914, Pašić and Albanian leader Essad Pasha Toptani signed in Niš the secret Treaty of Serbian-Albanian Alliance .< ref >

By 1914, Harden had again moved sufficiently to the right that he welcomed the German invasion of Belgium, however after the war he supported the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

Fischer rejected the then popular argument in Germany that Nazi Germany had been the result of the Treaty of Versailles, and instead argued that the origins of Nazi Germany predated 1914, and were the result of long-standing ambitions of the German power elite.

He was promoted to major in September 1914 and to lieutenant colonel in July 1918, while still in Europe, and he stayed on as a member of the Japanese delegation to the Versailles Peace Treaty negotiations in February 1919.

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.

In 1914, Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt was granted German patent 309, 536 for his sound-on-film work ; that same year, he apparently demonstrated a film made with the process to an audience of scientists in Berlin.

Between 1897 and 1914, applications were received from a number of other boroughs, but only one was successful: in 1905, Cardiff was designated a city and granted a lord mayoralty as " the Metropolis of Wales ".

Electricity arrived in Tenney in 1914, through a franchise granted to Otter Tail Power Company.

An application for incorporation of the village was made to the State of Wisconsin on October 14, 1914: however, actual incorporation was not granted until March 30, 1917 ( Curtiss Centennial Booklet ).

From 1911 to 1914 he studied Greek Philology, Prehistory and Ancient History in Berlin, with the aid of a scholarship granted by the Junta de Ampliación de Estudios.

His patent for the Rotoscope was granted in 1915, although Max and his brother Dave Fleischer made their first cartoon using the system in 1914.

He was a moderate, constitutional and conciliatory politician who attained the twin dominant objectives of his political life, party unity and finally in September 1914 achieving Irish Home Rule under an Act which granted an interim form of self-government to Ireland.

In 1848, residents of the " Four Communes " in Senegal were granted citizenship, which was reaffirmed by the Third Republic, leading to the 1914 election to the French Chamber of Deputies of Senegalese politician Blaise Diagne.

Founded as the African Institute in February 1837 and renamed the Institute of Colored Youth ( ICY ) in April 1837, Cheyney University is the oldest African American institution of higher learning, though degrees were not granted from Cheyney until 1914, when it adopted the curriculum of a normal school ( teacher training ).

The power to arrest for a Federal offence is granted by s. 3Z of the Crimes Act 1914.

In 1914 at the outset of World War I Japan had seized the territory granted to Germany in 1897.

Home Rule was eventually won by John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party and granted under the Third Home Rule Act 1914.

Soon the courts and the police were formed by his decree of January 7, 1921, and the civil rights of Central Lithuania were granted to all people who lived in the area on January 1, 1919, or for five years prior to August 1, 1914.

The town was proclaimed a municipality in 1914 and in 1971 it was granted city status.

In 1912 women founded the parallel United Farm Women's Association, and in 1914, women were granted full membership rights in UFA itself.

In 1937 he was granted the title Viscount Samuel ; later that year Samuel, although Jewish, aligned himself with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy towards Adolf Hitler, urging that Germany be cleared of its 1914 war guilt and recommending that Germany's former colonies be returned to her.

She filed for a patent on February 12, 1914 and on November that year the U. S. Patent Office granted her a the first U. S. patent

In 1914 official authority was granted for 172 constables in the Metropolitan ( London ) Police to take their own dogs on patrol with them, a motley crew of sheepdogs, retrievers, collies, terriers, spaniels, mongrels and even one Pomeranian.

The popes — Pius IX ( died 1878 ) and his successors Leo XIII ( reigned 1878 – 1903 ), St Pius X ( 1903 – 14 ), Benedict XV ( 1914 – 22 ) and ( from 1922 until the issue was resolved in 1929 ) Pius XI — refused to accept this unilateral decision, which, they felt, could be reversed by the same power that granted it, and which did not ensure that their decisions would be clearly seen to be free from interference by a political power.

* In 1914, the children of Prince Ernst August III of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick, a great-great-grandchild of George III, were granted the title of prince and the style Highness by George V, in letters patent dated 17 June 1914.

In 1914, with a royal decree of Tsar Ferdinand I, a pension for life was granted to their father Nikola Delchev, because of the merits of his sons to the freedom of Macedonia.

Instead of home rule as envisioned in the 1914 Act, " Southern Ireland " was granted dominion status in 1922 as the Irish Free State ; however, the six north-eastern counties that remained within the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland did obtain home rule in the previous year.