1914 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1914?
- January 5, 1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
- January 26, 1914 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
- February 6, 1914 – 30 000 Swedish peasants from all over the country, who have travelled to Stockholm, carry out a huge protest march, which will be known as Bondetåget, to the Royal Palace in Stockholm, to show their support for King Gustaf V and his attempts to exercise personal power as a monarch. In the court yard, the king holds the so-called Court yard speech (Swedish Borggårdstalet, which crown prince Gustaf Adolf recites outside the castle to those, who do not get room at the court yard), where the king puts forth his opinion about the Swedish armed defence propagating that it should be strong, contrary to the official policy of Swedish prime minister Karl Staaff and his government of disarmament. This triggers a political crisis (the so-called Courtyard Crisis; Swedish Borggårdskrisen) and despite the fact that 50 000 workers two days later carry out a counter demonstration (the so-called Workers’ march), supporting the government, Karl Staaff is forced to resign on February 17. This is the last time the Swedish monarch tries to exercise any political power and from now on, the Swedish monarchs accept parliamentarism and abstain from claiming any political powers, even if they are not formally abolished until 1975, when the new Swedish instrument of government comes into effect.
- February 13, 1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
- March 1, 1914 – The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
- April 20, 1914 – 19 men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner’s strike.
- August 15, 1914 – The First Russian Army, led by Pavel Rennenkampf, enters Eastern Prussia.
- August 22, 1914 – World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
- August 25, 1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
- August 26, 1914 – World War I: the German colony of Togoland is invaded by French and British forces, who take it after 5 days.
- September 1, 1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
- September 5, 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
- September 8, 1914 – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
- September 17, 1914 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- October 27, 1914 – World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
- November 2, 1914 – Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- November 7, 1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
- December 15, 1914 – World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.
- December 23, 1914 – World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
- December 25, 1914 – World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.
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