This year saw the beginning of what became known as
World War I, after
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria, (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I.
F ...
, heir to the Austrian throne was
assassinated
Assassination is the murder of a prominent or important person, such as a head of state, head of government, politician, world leader, member of a royal family or CEO. The murder of a celebrity, activist, or artist, though they may not have a ...
by Serbian nationalist
Gavrilo Princip. It also saw the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with the
St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line
The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line (SPT Airboat Line) was the first scheduled airline using a fixed wing aircraft. The airline provided service between St. Petersburg, Florida and neighboring Tampa across Tampa Bay a distance of about 23 m ...
.
Events
January
*
January 1 – The
St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line
The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line (SPT Airboat Line) was the first scheduled airline using a fixed wing aircraft. The airline provided service between St. Petersburg, Florida and neighboring Tampa across Tampa Bay a distance of about 23 m ...
in the United States starts services between
St. Petersburg and
Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with
Tony Jannus (the first federally-licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a
Benoist XIV __NOTOC__
The Benoist XIV, also called ''The Lark of Duluth'', was a small biplane flying boat built in the United States in 1913 in the hope of using it to carry paying passengers. The two examples built were used to provide the first heavier-th ...
flying boat
A flying boat is a type of fixed-winged seaplane with a hull, allowing it to land on water. It differs from a floatplane in that a flying boat's fuselage is purpose-designed for floatation and contains a hull, while floatplanes rely on fusela ...
. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the first departure.
*
January 11 – The
Sakurajima volcano in Japan begins to erupt, becoming effusive after a very large earthquake on
January 13
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
* 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...
. The lava flow causes the island which it forms to be linked to the
Ōsumi Peninsula.
* January 11 – The
''Karluk'', flagship of the
Canadian Arctic Expedition
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
,
sank after being crushed by ice.
February
*
February 8 – The
Luxembourg national football team has its first victory, beating
France 5–4 in a friendly match, for the first and only time in
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
history.
*
February 12 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the
Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial built to honor the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument, and is in the ...
is put into place.
*
February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
–
Copyright: In New York City, the
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...
is established, to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
*
February 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
–
Karl Staaff
Karl Albert Staaff (21 January 1860 – 4 October 1915) was a Swedish liberal politician and lawyer. He was chairman of the Liberal Coalition Party (1907–1915) and served twice as Prime Minister of Sweden (1905–1906 and 1911–1914).
Staaff ...
steps down as
Prime Minister of
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
, in the aftermath of the
Courtyard Crisis
The Courtyard Crisis () was a constitutional conflict between the Swedish king and prime minister and significant event in Swedish 20th-century history, marking the last time the Monarch of Sweden directly intervened in a controversial partisan po ...
. He is replaced by
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, father of
Dag Hammarskjöld.
*
February 26
Events Pre-1600
*747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events.
* 364 – Valentinian I is p ...
– The
ocean liner
An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans. Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (such as for pleasure cruises or as hospital ships).
Ca ...
that will become
HMHS ''Britannic'', sister to the , is launched at the
Harland and Wolff shipyards in
Belfast.
*
February 28
Events Pre-1600
*202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.
* 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
*1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on ...
– The
Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed by ethnic
Greeks, in
Northern Epirus.
March
*
March 7
Events Pre-1600
* 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.
* 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...
–
Prince William of Wied
Prince Wilhelm of Wied (German: ''Wilhelm Friedrich Heinrich Prinz zu Wied'', 26 March 1876 – 18 April 1945), reigned briefly as sovereign of the Principality of Albania as Vilhelm I from 7 March to 3 September 1914, when he left for exile. Hi ...
arrives in
Albania, to begin his reign.
*
March 10 –
Suffragette
A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members ...
Mary Richardson
Mary Raleigh Richardson (1882/3 – 7 November 1961) was a Canadian suffragette active in the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, an arsonist, a socialist parliamentary candidate and later head of the women's section of the B ...
damages
Velázquez's painting ''
Rokeby Venus'' in London's
National Gallery, with a meat chopper.
*
March 17 (
Saint Patrick's Day) – Green beer is invented by Dr. Thomas H. Curtin, and displayed at the
Schnorrer Club of Morrisania
Schnorrer Club of Morrisania was established in 1881. It was located at East 163rd Street, 1 block east of Third Avenue. Membership included many notable figures and it was active in Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party politics. It ...
in the Bronx, New York.
*
March 20 – Film ''
Tess of the Storm Country'' is released, propelling its star
Mary Pickford to new levels of fame, marking the rise of the modern
celebrity.
*
March 27 – Belgian surgeon
Albert Hustin makes the first successful non-direct
blood transfusion, using
anticoagulant
Anticoagulants, commonly known as blood thinners, are chemical substances that prevent or reduce coagulation of blood, prolonging the clotting time. Some of them occur naturally in blood-eating animals such as leeches and mosquitoes, where the ...
s.
*
March 29 –
Katherine Routledge and her husband arrive on
Easter Island, to make the first true study of it (they depart in
August 1915
Events
Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.
January
* January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction".
*January 1 ...
).
April
*
April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
–
September 27 –
''Komagata Maru'' incident: The sails from India to Canada. Canadian regulations, designed to exclude Asian immigrants, prevent the boat from docking in Vancouver, and it is forced to return to
Calcutta with all its passengers.
*
April 9 –
Tampico Affair: A misunderstanding involving
United States Navy sailors in
Mexico and army troops loyal to Mexican dictator Victoriano Huerta leads to a breakdown in diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico.
*
April 11 – Canadian
Margaret C. MacDonald
Major Margaret Clothilde MacDonald (26 February 1873 – 7 September 1948) was a Canadian military nurse. She is well known for being one of the first females to hold a position in the completely male-dominated military of her time. She is also ...
is appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing service band, and becomes the first woman in the
British Empire to reach the rank of major.
*
April 14–
18 – The first International Criminal Police Congress is held in
Monaco; 24 countries are represented, including some from Asia, Europe, and the Americas; the Dean of the Paris Law School is president.
*
April 20
**
Colorado Coalfield War –
Ludlow Massacre: The
Colorado National Guard attacks a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners in
Ludlow, Colorado
Ludlow is a ghost town in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. It was the site of the Ludlow Massacre–part of the Colorado Coalfield War–in 1914. The town site is located at the entrance to a canyon in the foothills of the Sangre d ...
, killing 24 people.
** President
Woodrow Wilson asks the
United States Congress to use military force in Mexico, in reaction to the
Tampico Affair.
*
April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
–
United States occupation of Veracruz: 2,300 U.S. Navy sailors and Marines from the South Atlantic fleet land in the port city of
Veracruz, Mexico, which they will occupy for over six months. The
''Ypiranga'' incident occurs when they attempt to enforce an arms embargo against Mexico, by preventing the German cargo steamer from unloading arms for the Mexican government in the port.
*
April 22 – Mexico ends diplomatic relations with the United States for the time being.
*
April 23
Events Pre-1600
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
* 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...
– The
Afrikaans language receives official recognition, when
Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven addresses the English caucus of the
Cape Provincial Council.
May
*
May 1 –
November 1 – The ''Exposition Internationale'' is held at
Lyon,
France.
*
May 5 –
November 11 – The
Jubilee Exhibition (''Jubilæumsutstillingen'') is held at
Kristiania,
Norway, to mark the centennial of the country's
Constitution.
*
May 9 –
J. T. Hearne becomes the first
bowler to take 3,000
first-class wickets.
*
May 14 –
Woodrow Wilson signs a
Mother's Day proclamation.
*
May 17 – The
Protocol of Corfu provides for the provinces of
Korçë and
Gjirokastër, constituting
Northern Epirus, to be granted autonomy under the nominal sovereignty of
Albania.
*
May 25 – In the U.K., the
House of Commons passes the
Irish Home Rule Bill.
*
May 29 – The
ocean liner
An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans. Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (such as for pleasure cruises or as hospital ships).
Ca ...
RMS ''Empress of Ireland'' sinks in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence
The Gulf of St. Lawrence () is the outlet of the North American Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean. The gulf is a semi-enclosed sea, covering an area of about and containing about of water, at an average depth of .
...
; 1,012 lives are lost.
*
May 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
– The
ocean liner
An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans. Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (such as for pleasure cruises or as hospital ships).
Ca ...
makes her maiden voyage.
June
* c. June – Blaise Diagne of
Senegal becomes the first Black African representative in the French Parliament.
*
June 1 –
Woodrow Wilson's envoy,
Edward Mandell House, meets with
Kaiser Wilhelm II.
*
June 8 – The
Brazilian Football Confederation
The Brazilian Football Confederation ( pt, Confederação Brasileira de Futebol; CBF) is the governing body of football in Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country ...
is founded, with
Álvaro Zamith as its first president. The
Brazilian Olympic Committee is founded on the same day.
*
June 9 –
Pittsburgh Pirate Honus Wagner becomes the first baseball player in the twentieth century with
3,000
3000 (three thousand) is the natural number following 2999 and preceding 3001. It is the smallest number requiring thirteen letters in English (when "and" is required from 101 forward).
Selected numbers in the range 3001–3999
3001 to 3099
...
career hits.
*
June 12 –
Greek genocide:
Ottoman Greeks in
Phocaea are
massacred by
Turkish irregular troops.
*
June 18 –
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction ...
: The ''Constitutionals'' take
San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosí ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de San Luis Potosí), is one of the 32 states which compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 58 municipalities and i ...
;
Venustiano Carranza demands
Victoriano Huerta's surrender.
*
June 23
Events Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
* 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
* 1280 – The Spanish Re ...
– After it had been closed so that it could be deepened, the
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal is reopened by the
Kaiser
''Kaiser'' is the German word for "emperor" (female Kaiserin). In general, the German title in principle applies to rulers anywhere in the world above the rank of king (''König''). In English, the (untranslated) word ''Kaiser'' is mainly ap ...
; the British Fleet under
Sir George Warrender visits; the Kaiser inspects the
Dreadnought HMS ''King George V''.
*
June 24 – In
Manchester, New Hampshire, a downtown fire causes $400,000 worth of damage and injures 19 firemen.
*
June 28
Events Pre-1600
* 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
* 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
* 1461 – ...
–
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip. They were shot at close range whil ...
:
Serbian
Serbian may refer to:
* someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe
* someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people
* Serbian language
* Serbian names
See also
*
*
* Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
nationalist
Gavrilo Princip, 19, assassinates
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria, (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I.
F ...
and his wife,
Duchess Sophie, in
Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, triggering the
July Crisis and World War I.
Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo
The anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo consisted of large-scale anti-Serb violence in Sarajevo on 28 and 29 June 1914 following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Encouraged by the Austro-Hungarian government, the violent demonstrations ass ...
and
Zagreb break out.
*
June 29
** The Secretary of the Austro-Hungarian Legation at
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...
sends a dispatch to
Vienna, suggesting Serbian complicity in the crime of Sarajevo. Anti-Serb riots continue throughout Bosnia.
**
Khioniya Guseva attempts and fails to assassinate
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; rus, links=no, Григорий Ефимович Распутин ; – ) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, thus g ...
at his hometown in
Siberia.
** The International Exhibition opens at the "White City",
Ashton Gate,
Bristol, England, U.K. It closes on August 15, and the site is used as a military depot.
*
June 30 – Among those addressing the
Parliament of the United Kingdom, on the murdered
Archduke
Archduke (feminine: Archduchess; German: ''Erzherzog'', feminine form: ''Erzherzogin'') was the title borne from 1358 by the Habsburg rulers of the Archduchy of Austria, and later by all senior members of that dynasty. It denotes a rank within ...
, are Lords
Crewe
Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The Crewe built-up area had a total population of 75,556 in 2011, which also covers parts of the adjacent civil parishes of Willaston ...
and
Lansdowne in the
House of Lords, and Messrs
Asquith and
Law in the
Commons.
July
*
July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
– The
Royal Naval Air Service
The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from 1 July 1914 to 1 April 1918, when it was merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps t ...
, a forerunner of the
Royal Air Force, is established.
[Admiralty Circular CW.13963/14, 1 July 1914: "Royal Naval Air Service – Organisation"]
*
July 2 – The German
Kaiser
''Kaiser'' is the German word for "emperor" (female Kaiserin). In general, the German title in principle applies to rulers anywhere in the world above the rank of king (''König''). In English, the (untranslated) word ''Kaiser'' is mainly ap ...
announces that he will not attend the Archduke's funeral.
*
July 4
** The Archduke's funeral takes place at
Artstetten Castle, 50 miles west of
Vienna,
Austria-Hungary.
**
Lexington Avenue bombing
The Lexington Avenue explosion was the July 4, 1914, explosion of a terrorist bomb in an apartment at 1626 Lexington Avenue in New York City. Members of the Lettish section of the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) were constructing a bomb in a sev ...
: Four people are killed in New York City, when an
anarchist
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...
bomb intended to kill
John D. Rockefeller explodes prematurely, in the conspirator's apartment.
*
July 5 – A council is held at
Potsdam, powerful leaders within Austria-Hungary and Germany meet to discuss the possibilities of war with Serbia, Russia, and France.
*
July 7 –
Austria-Hungary convenes a Council of Ministers, including Ministers for Foreign Affairs and War, the Chief of the General Staff and Naval Commander-in-Chief; the Council lasts from 11:30 am until 6:15 pm.
*
July 9
Events Pre-1600
*118 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
* 381 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodos ...
– The Emperor of
Austria-Hungary receives the report of the Austro-Hungarian investigation, into the
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip. They were shot at close range whil ...
at Sarajevo. ''The Times'' publishes an account of the Austro-Hungarian press campaign against the Serbians (who are described as "pestilent rats").
*
July 10 –
Nicholas Hartwig
Baron Nicholas Genrikhovich Hartwig (, ; December 16, 1857 – July 10, 1914) was an Imperial Russian diplomat and Tsarist official who served as ambassador to Persia (1906–1908) and Serbia (1909–1914). An ardent Pan-Slavist, he was said to ...
, Russian Minister to
Serbia, dies of a
heart attack while visiting Austrian minister
Wladimir Giesl von Gieslingen
Wladimir Rudolf Karl Freiherr Giesl von Gieslingen (18 February 1860 – 20 April 1936) was an Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian general and diplomat during World War I, most famous for delivering the ultimatum to the Serbian government during the ...
, at the Austrian Legation in
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...
.
*
July 11
**
Baseball legend
Babe Ruth makes his major league debut, with the
Boston Red Sox.
** , the United States Navy's first "
super-dreadnought
The dreadnought (alternatively spelled dreadnaught) was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's , had such an impact when launched in 1906 that similar battleships built after her ...
"
battleship
A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns. It dominated naval warfare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The term ''battleship'' came into use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ...
, is launched.
** Over 5,000 people attend a rally in
Union Square, Manhattan, called by the Anti-Militarist League to commemorate the
anarchist
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...
s killed in the July 4th
Lexington Avenue bombing
The Lexington Avenue explosion was the July 4, 1914, explosion of a terrorist bomb in an apartment at 1626 Lexington Avenue in New York City. Members of the Lettish section of the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) were constructing a bomb in a sev ...
.
*
July 13 – Reports surface of a projected Serbian attack upon the Austro-Hungarian Legation at
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...
.
*
July 14 – The
Government of Ireland Bill completes its passage through the
House of Lords in the U.K. It allows
Ulster counties to vote on whether or not they wish to participate in Home Rule from Dublin.
*
July 15 –
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction ...
:
Victoriano Huerta resigns from the presidency of Mexico, and leaves for
Coatzacoalcos,
Veracruz.
*
July 18
** The
Signal Corps of the
United States Army establishes an Aviation Section, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.
**
The British Fleet is reviewed at
Spithead, by
George V.
**
Mahatma Gandhi leaves South Africa for the last time, sailing out of
Cape Town for England, on board the S.S. ''Kinfauns Castle''.
*
July 19 –
George V summons a conference to discuss the
Irish Home Rule problem. It meets from
July 21–
24, without reaching consensus.
*
July 23 –
July Ultimatum: Austria-Hungary presents Serbia with an unconditional ultimatum.
*
July 25 – Austria-Hungary severs diplomatic ties with
Serbia, and begins to
mobilise its own forces.
Radomir Putnik,
Chief of the Serbian General Staff
The Chief of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff ( sr, Начелник Генералштаба Војске Србије, Načelnik Generalštaba Vojske Srbije) is the chief of the General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces. The Chief of t ...
, is arrested in
Budapest, but subsequently allowed to return to Serbia.
*
July 26 –
Bachelor's Walk massacre: The
King's Own Scottish Borderers of the
British Army fire on Dubliners at Bachelor's Walk, killing three people and injuring a further 38.
*
July 27 –
Felix Ysagun Manalo
Felix Manalo Ysagun (born Félix Ysagun y Manalo; May 10, 1886 – April 12, 1963), also known as Ka Felix, was the founder and the first Executive Minister of Iglesia ni Cristo. Followers see Manalo as a prophet and the last messenger of G ...
registers the ''
Iglesia ni Cristo'' (Church of Christ) with the
government of the
Philippines.
*
July 28
**
World War I begins when
Austria-Hungary declares war on
Serbia by telegram. Tsar
Nicholas II of Russia orders a partial mobilisation against Austria-Hungary.
**
Henriette Caillaux, wife of French minister
Joseph Caillaux, is acquitted of the murder of
Gaston Calmette by reason of
crime passionnel.
*
July 28–
August 10 – World War I:
Pursuit of ''Goeben'' and ''Breslau'': British and French naval forces fail to prevent the ships of the
Imperial German Navy Mediterranean Division from reaching the
Dardanelles.
*
July 29
** World War I:
Austro-Hungarian Navy
The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy (german: kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine, in short ''k.u.k. Kriegsmarine'', hu, Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet) was the naval force of Austria-Hungary. Ships of the A ...
river monitor fires the first shots of the war, opening the bombardment of the defences of
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...
, Serbia's capital.
** In
Massachusetts, the new
Cape Cod Canal
The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in the U.S. state of Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The approximately canal traverses the neck o ...
opens; it shortens the trip between New York and
Boston by 66 miles, but also turns Cape Cod into an island.
*
July 31
Events Pre-1600
*30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
* 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Tr ...
–
Russia orders full mobilisation.
August
*
August 1
** The
German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...
declares war on the
Russian Empire, following Russia's military
mobilization in support of Serbia; Germany also begins mobilisation.
**
France orders general mobilisation.
** The
New York Stock Exchange is closed because of the outbreak of war in Europe, where nearly all stock exchanges are already closed.
**
Marcus Garvey founds the
Universal Negro Improvement Association in
Jamaica.
*
August 2
Events Pre-1600
*338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
*216 BC – The Carthaginian arm ...
** German troops occupy
Luxembourg, in accordance with the
Schlieffen Plan.
** A secret treaty between the
Ottoman Empire and
Germany secures Ottoman neutrality.
** At 7:00 pm (local time) Germany issues a 12-hour ultimatum to neutral Belgium, to allow German passage into France.
*
August 3
** Germany declares war on Russia's ally,
France.
** At 7:00 am (local time) Belgium declines to accept Germany's ultimatum of August 2.
*
August 4
** German troops invade Belgium at 8:02 am (local time).
In London the King declares war on Germany, for this violation of Belgian neutrality and especially to defend France. This means a declaration of war by the whole
British Empire against Germany. The United States declares neutrality.
**
Ittihad Alexandria is founded in
Alexandria, Egypt.
**
Imperial German Navy Rear-Admiral
Wilhelm Souchon bombards the
French Algeria
French Algeria (french: Alger to 1839, then afterwards; unofficially , ar, الجزائر المستعمرة), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of French colonisation of Algeria. French rule in the region began in 1830 with the ...
n ports of
Bône and
Philippeville from battlecruiser and light cruiser .
*
August 5
** Germany declares war on Belgium.
** The
Kingdom of Montenegro declares war on
Austria-Hungary.
** The guns of
Point Nepean fort at
Port Phillip Heads in
Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the
Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer , which is attempting to leave the
Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war, and she is detained; this is said to be the first
Allied
An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an alliance are called ...
shot of the war.
**
SS ''Königin Luise'', taken over two days earlier by the
Imperial German Navy as a
minelayer, lays
mines off the east coast of England. She is intercepted and sunk by the British
Royal Navy light cruiser HMS ''Amphion'', the first German naval loss of the war. The following day, ''Amphion'' strikes mines laid by the ''Königin Luise'' and is sunk with some loss of life, in the first British casualties of the war.
** German
zeppelins drop bombs on
Liège
Liège ( , , ; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is a major city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège.
The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from b ...
, Belgium, killing 9 civilians.
** The first electric
traffic light is installed between Euclid Avenue and East 105 Street, in
Cleveland, Ohio.
*
August 5–
16 –
Battle of Liège: The German Army overruns and defeats the Belgians with the first operational use of
Big Bertha.
*
August 6
Events Pre-1600
*1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
* 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada ...
–
World War I:
**
Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.
** The first engagement between ships (
light cruisers) of the British
Royal Navy and the
Imperial German Navy occurs, when
HMS ''Bristol'' pursues the (which escapes) in the
West Indies.
*
August 7 – World War I:
**
Battle of Mulhouse: France launches its first attack of the war, in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the province of
Alsace from Germany, beginning the
Battle of the Frontiers.
** British colonial troops of the British
Gold Coast Regiment, entering the German West African colony of
Togoland, encounter the German-led police force at a factory in
Nuatja, near
Lomé, and the police open fire on the patrol.
Alhaji Grunshi
Alhaji Grunshi, , serving in the Gold Coast Regiment, was the first soldier in British service to fire a shot in the First World War.
First World War
At the start of the First World War, Germany's West African colony of Togoland was isolated from ...
returns fire, the first soldier in British service to fire a shot in the war.
*
August 8
** German colonial forces execute
Martin-Paul Samba
Martin-Paul Samba, born Mebenga m'Ebono (circa 1875 – 8 August 1914) was a Bulu military officer during the Imperial German colonial period of Cameroon. M'Ebono became a favourite of the German colonials during his upbringing in Kribi, a c ...
, for
high treason.
** Sir
Ernest Shackleton's
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition sets sail on the ''
Endurance'' from Britain, in an attempt to cross Antarctica.
*
August 9 – World War I: British Royal Navy light cruiser
HMS ''Birmingham'' rams and sinks German
submarine
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. The term is also sometimes used historically or colloquially to refer to remotely op ...
''
U-15'' off
Fair Isle, the first
U-boat lost in action.
*
August 12 – World War I:
**
Battle of Halen
The Battle of Halen, also known as the Battle of the Silver Helmets ( nl, Slag der Zilveren Helmen, french: Bataille des casques d'argent) because of the many cavalry helmets left behind on the battlefield by the German cuirassiers, took place on ...
: Belgian troops defeat German cavalry, but the battle does little to delay the
German invasion of Belgium German invasion of Belgium may refer to:
* German invasion of Belgium (1914) during World War I
*German invasion of Belgium (1940)
The invasion of Belgium or Belgian campaign (10–28 May 1940), often referred to within Belgium as the 18 Days' ...
.
**
Formal declaration of war by the United Kingdom on
Austria-Hungary.
*
August 13 – The
Teoloyucan Treaties are signed in the
State of Mexico
The State of Mexico ( es, Estado de México; ), officially just Mexico ( es, México), is one of the 32 federal entities of the United Mexican States. Commonly known as Edomex (from ) to distinguish it from the name of the whole country, it is ...
.
*
August 15
** The
Panama Canal is inaugurated with the passage of the .
**
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction ...
:
Venustiano Carranza's troops under general
Álvaro Obregón enter Mexico City.
*
August 15–
24 – World War I:
Battle of Cer: Serbian troops defeat the Austro-Hungarian army, marking the first Entente victory of the War.
*
August 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power in China and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who died the previous day, had no heirs.
* 942 – Start of the four-day Battle of al-Mada'in, between the Hamdan ...
– World War I:
** German warships and (both commissioned in 1912), which reached
Constantinople on
August 10, are transferred to the
Ottoman Navy, ''Goeben'' becoming its flagship, ''Yavuz Sultan Selim''.
**
Lake Nyasa is the scene of a brief naval battle, when Captain Edmund Rhoades, commander of the British steamship
SS ''Gwendolen'', hears that war has broken out, and he receives orders from the British high command to "sink, burn, or destroy" the German Empire's only ship on the lake, the ''Hermann von Wissmann'', commanded by a Captain Berndt. Rhoades's crew finds the ''Hermann von Wissmann'' in a bay near "Sphinxhaven", in German East African territorial waters. ''Gwendolen'' disables the German vessel with a single cannon shot from a range of about 1,800 metres (2,000 yards). This very brief engagement is hailed by ''The Times'' in England, as the British Empire's first naval victory of World War I.
*
August 17–
September 2 – World War I: The
Battle of Tannenberg begins between German and Russian forces.
*
August 20 – World War I:
**
German forces occupy
Brussels.
**
Pope Pius X dies.
*
August 22 – World War I –
Battle of Rossignol: German forces decisively defeat the French.
*
August 23 –
World War I:
**
Battle of Mons
A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and force ...
: In its first major action, the
British Expeditionary Force holds the German forces, but then begins a month-long fighting
Great Retreat to the
Marne.
**
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
declares war on Germany.
*
August 26 –
World War I:
** The
Togoland Campaign ends, when the German West African colony of
Togoland (
Togo from
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Ja ...
) surrenders to Britain and France.
**
Battle of Río de Oro: British Royal Navy
protected cruiser HMS ''Highflyer'' forces the , sailing as an
auxiliary cruiser, to
scuttle.
*
August 26–
27 –
Battle of Le Cateau: British, French and Belgian forces make a successful tactical retreat from the German advance.
*
August 26–
30 –
Battle of Tannenberg: The Russian
Second Army is surrounded and defeated.
*
August 28 –
Battle of Heligoland Bight: British cruisers under Admiral Beatty sink three German cruisers.
*
August 29–
30 – The
Battle of St. Quentin: French forces hold back the German advance.
September
*
September 1
** (August 19
Old Style)
Saint Petersburg in Russia changes its name to ''Petrograd''.
** The last known
passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in the
Cincinnati Zoo
The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden is the sixth oldest zoo in the United States, founded in 1873 and officially opening in 1875. It is located in the Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. It originally began with in the middle of the c ...
from old age.
*
September 2 –
World War I: The French village of
Moronvilliers is occupied by the Germans.
*
September 3
**
Pope Benedict XV (Giacomo della Chiesa) succeeds
Pope Pius X
Pope Pius X ( it, Pio X; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death in August 1914. Pius X is known for vigorously opposing modernist interpretations of C ...
, becoming the 258th pope.
**
William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months, due to opposition to his rule.
*
September 5 –
World War I:
** London Agreement: No member of the
Triple Entente (
Britain,
France, or
Russia) may seek a separate peace with the
Central Powers.
** The
First Battle of the Marne begins: Situated north-east of Paris, the
French 6th Army
The Sixth Army (french: 6eme Armée) was a field army of the French Army during World War I and World War II.
World War I
The Sixth Army was formed 26 August 1914, composed of troops from various disparate French armies: two active army corps, th ...
under
General Maunoury attacks German forces near Paris. Over 2,000,000 fight (500,000 are killed/wounded) in the
Allied
An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an alliance are called ...
victory. A French and British counterattack at the
Marne ends the German advance on Paris.
** British
Royal Navy scout cruiser HMS ''Pathfinder'' is sunk by
German submarine ''U-21'' in the
Firth of Forth
The Firth of Forth () is the estuary, or firth, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth. It meets the North Sea with Fife on the north coast and Lothian on the south.
Name
''Firth'' is a cognate of ''fjord'', a Norse word meani ...
(Scotland), the first ship ever to be sunk by a locomotive
torpedo fired from a
submarine
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability. The term is also sometimes used historically or colloquially to refer to remotely op ...
.
*
September 6–
8 – French Army troops are rushed from Paris to join the First Battle of the Marne using
Renault Type AG taxicabs.
*
September 7 – World War I:
Turkey declares war on Belgium.
*
September 10 – World War I: South Africa declares war on Germany.
*
September 11 –
World War I:
** The
Battle of Rawa
Battle of Rawa (also written as ''-Rava'', ''-Rawa-Ruska'', ''-Rava-Ruska'', or ''-Rava-Russka'') was an early stage World War I battle between Austria-Hungary and Russia, between September 3–11, 1914. The Russian armies had defeated their oppo ...
ends in the defeat of Austro-Hungarian forces by the Russians.
**
First Battle of the Masurian Lakes: A German offensive pushes the
Russian First Army back across its entire front.
**
Battle of Bita Paka
The Battle of Bita Paka (11 September 1914) was fought south of Kabakaul, on the island of New Britain, and was a part of the invasion and subsequent occupation of German New Guinea by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN& ...
: The
Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) was a small volunteer force of approximately 2,000 men, raised in Australia shortly after the outbreak of World War I to seize and destroy German wireless stations in German New Guin ...
lands on
German New Guinea and secures a strategically significant wireless station, the first major Australian military engagement of the War.
*
September 13 –
World War I:
** The conclusion of the
Battle of Grand Couronné ends the
Battle of the Frontiers, with the north-east segment of the
Western Front Western Front or West Front may refer to:
Military frontiers
*Western Front (World War I), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (World War II), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (Russian Empire), a majo ...
stabilising.
**
South African __NOTOC__
South African may relate to:
* The nation of South Africa
* South African Airways
* South African English
* South African people
* Languages of South Africa
* Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the Afric ...
troops open hostilities in
German South-West Africa (modern-day
Namibia), with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
*
September 14 –
Royal Australian Navy submarine
HMAS AE1
HMAS ''AE1'' (originally known as just ''AE1'') was an E-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). She was the first submarine to serve in the RAN, and was lost at sea with all hands near what is now East New Britain, Papua New Guinea ...
vanishes while on combat patrol near
Papua New Guinea, beginning one of Australia's longest naval mysteries; the sunken vessel will not be discovered for another 103 years.
*
September 15 – The
Maritz Rebellion of disaffected
Boers against the government of the
Union of South Africa begins. General
Koos de la Rey, a Boer general associated with the leaders of the rebellion, is shot dead after his driver fails to stop at a police roadblock.
*
September 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".
* 1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Empi ...
** World War I: The
Race to the Sea, by opposing forces on the
Western Front Western Front or West Front may refer to:
Military frontiers
*Western Front (World War I), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (World War II), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (Russian Empire), a majo ...
, begins.
**
Andrew Fisher becomes
Prime Minister of Australia
The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia. The prime minister heads the executive branch of the Australian Government, federal government of Australia and is also accountable to Parliament of A ...
for the third time.
*
September 21 – World War I: British Imperial police forces capture
Schuckmannsburg, in the
Caprivi Strip of
German South-West Africa.
*
September 22 –
World War I:
**
Action of 22 September 1914
The Action of 22 September 1914 was an attack by the German U-boat that took place during the First World War. Three obsolete Royal Navy cruisers, of the 7th Cruiser Squadron, manned mainly by Royal Naval Reserve part-time reservists and sometim ...
: German submarine ''
U-9'' torpedoes three British
Royal Navy armoured cruiser
The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was designed like other types of cruisers to operate as a long-range, independent warship, capable of defeating any ship apart from a battleship and fast eno ...
s, , and , with the death of more than 1,400 men, in the North Sea.
**
Bombardment of Papeete: German naval forces bombard Papeete,
French Polynesia
)Territorial motto: ( en, "Great Tahiti of the Golden Haze")
, anthem =
, song_type = Regional anthem
, song = " Ia Ora 'O Tahiti Nui"
, image_map = French Polynesia on the globe (French Polynesia centered).svg
, map_alt = Location of Frenc ...
.
** German light cruiser
SMS ''Emden'' bombards
Madras
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
, the only
Indian city to be attacked by the
Central Powers in the War.
*
September 25 – World War I: The first
Battle of Albert begins as part of the Race to the Sea.
*
September 26 – The United States
Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil (non-criminal) antitrust law and the promotion of consumer protection. The FTC shares jurisdiction ov ...
(FTC) is established, by the
Federal Trade Commission Act
The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 was a United States federal law which established the Federal Trade Commission. The Act was signed into law by US President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 and outlaws unfair methods of competition and unfair acts ...
.
*
September 28
Events Pre-1600
*48 BC – Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII.
* 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus ...
– World War I: The
First Battle of the Aisne ends indecisively.
*
September 30
** World War I:
British Indian Army
The British Indian Army, commonly referred to as the Indian Army, was the main military of the British Raj before its dissolution in 1947. It was responsible for the defence of the British Indian Empire, including the princely states, which co ...
Expeditionary Force A arrives at
Marseille for service in the
Ypres Salient of the
Western Front Western Front or West Front may refer to:
Military frontiers
*Western Front (World War I), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (World War II), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (Russian Empire), a majo ...
.
** The
Flying Squadron of America is established, to promote the
temperance movement.
October
*
October 3 – World War I: 25,000
Canadian troops depart for Europe.
*
October 4
** The
1914 Burdur earthquake
The 1914 Burdur earthquake (also called the Afyon-Bolvadin earthquake) occurred at 00:07 local time (22:07 UTC) on 4 October. It was estimated to be 7.0 on the surface wave magnitude scale with a maximum intensity of IX (''Violent'') on the Merc ...
occurs in
Turkey.
** The
Manifesto of the Ninety-Three is signed, supporting the early
German war effort.
*
October 9 – World War I:
Siege of Antwerp:
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, (Belgium) falls to German troops.
*
October 14 – World War I: The
Canadian Expeditionary Force
The Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) was the expeditionary field force of Canada during the First World War. It was formed following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany on 15 August 1914, with an initial strength of one infantry division ...
arrives on 32
ocean liner
An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans. Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (such as for pleasure cruises or as hospital ships).
Ca ...
s, in
Plymouth Sound.
*
October 16–
31– World War I:
Battle of the Yser: The Belgian army halts the German advance, but with heavy losses.
*
October 19 –
World War I:
** The
First Battle of Ypres begins.
** The
Race to the Sea effectively ends, with the
Western Front Western Front or West Front may refer to:
Military frontiers
*Western Front (World War I), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (World War II), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (Russian Empire), a majo ...
reaching the Belgian coast.
*
October 27 –
World War I:
** British
super-dreadnought
The dreadnought (alternatively spelled dreadnaught) was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's , had such an impact when launched in 1906 that similar battleships built after her ...
battleship (23,400 tons) is sunk off
Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser ''Berlin''.
** The Greek army occupies
Northern Epirus with the approval of the
Allies
An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an alliance are called ...
.
*
October 28 –
World War I:
**
Battle of Penang,
Malaya
Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia:
Political entities
* British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits ...
: German cruiser
''Emden'' sinks a Russian cruiser and French destroyer, before escaping.
** Participants in the
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip. They were shot at close range whil ...
are sentenced at Sarajevo.
Gavrilo Princip, being under 20 years of age at the time of the assassination, cannot be given the death penalty, and is given a 20-year prison sentence instead.
*
October 29 – World War I:
Ottoman warships shell Russian
Black Sea ports; Russia, France, and Britain declare war on
November 1–
November 5.
*
October 31 – World War I:
Battle of the Vistula River concludes in a Russian victory over German and Austro-Hungarian forces around Warsaw.
November
*
November 1 – World War I:
Battle of Coronel – A British
Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir
Christopher Cradock is met in the eastern Pacific and defeated by superior German forces led by Vice-Admiral
Maximilian von Spee in the first British naval defeat of the war, resulting in the loss of
HMS ''Good Hope'' and
HMS ''Monmouth''.
*
November 5 –
World War I:
**
Britain and
France declare war on
Turkey.
The United Kingdom annexes
Cyprus, which it controls until Cyprus' declaration of independence in
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Ja ...
.
** The
Battle of Tanga ends, with the British
Indian Expeditionary Force B failing to capture
German East Africa
German East Africa (GEA; german: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozam ...
defences.
**
Alpha Phi Delta is founded as a Greek social
fraternity
A fraternity (from Latin language, Latin ''wiktionary:frater, frater'': "brother (Christian), brother"; whence, "wiktionary:brotherhood, brotherhood") or fraternal organization is an organization, society, club (organization), club or fraternal ...
at
Syracuse University
Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...
in the United States.
*
November 7 –
Siege of Tsingtao: The Japanese and British seize
Jiaozhou Bay in China, the base of the
German East Asia Squadron.
*
November 9
Events Pre-1600
* 694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
* 1277 – The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement f ...
– World War I:
Battle of Cocos
The Battle of Cocos was a single-ship action that occurred on 9 November 1914, after the Australian light cruiser , under the command of John Glossop, responded to an attack on a communications station at Direction Island by the German light c ...
– The German cruiser ''
Emden
Emden () is an independent city and seaport in Lower Saxony in the northwest of Germany, on the river Ems. It is the main city of the region of East Frisia and, in 2011, had a total population of 51,528.
History
The exact founding date of E ...
'', the last active warship of the
Central Powers in the
Indian Ocean, is sunk by the Australian cruiser ''
Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...
''.
*
November 13 –
Zaian War:
Battle of El Herri –
Zayanes (
Berbers
, image = File:Berber_flag.svg
, caption = The Berber ethnic flag
, population = 36 million
, region1 = Morocco
, pop1 = 14 million to 18 million
, region2 = Algeria
, pop2 ...
) in Morocco overpower French forces.
*
November 14 – The
Joensuu Town Hall
The Joensuu City Hall ( fi, Joensuun kaupungintalo) is a brick building in the center of Joensuu, Finland, designed by Eliel Saarinen and completed in 1914, combining styles of Romantic Nationalism and late Art Nouveau. It serves as a center of ...
, designed by
Eliel Saarinen, was inaugurated in
Joensuu, Finland.
*
November 16 – A year after being created by passage of the
Federal Reserve Act of 1913
The Federal Reserve Act was passed by the 63rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.
The Pa ...
, the
Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business.
*
November 21
Events Pre-1600
*164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)
* 235 & ...
– In
New Haven, Connecticut, the new
Yale Bowl officially opens; Harvard defeats Yale 36–0 in the first American football game held here.
*
November 23 –
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction ...
: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from
Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the
Tampico Affair;
Venustiano Carranza's troops take over, and Carranza makes the town his headquarters.
*
November 24 –
Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 194 ...
is expelled from the
Italian Socialist Party.
*
November 28 –
World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the
New York Stock Exchange re-opens for
bond trading.
December
*
December 2 –
Serbian Campaign (World War I): Austro-Hungarian forces occupy Belgrade, Serbia.
*
December 5 – The
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition began in an attempt to make the first land crossing of
Antarctica.
*
December 8 – World War I:
Battle of the Falkland Islands: A superior British
Royal Navy squadron under
Doveton Sturdee defeats ships of the
Imperial German Navy under
Maximilian von Spee.
*
December 12 – The
New York Stock Exchange re-opens, having been closed since
August 1, except for bond trading.
*
December 15 – A gas explosion at the
Mitsubishi Hōjō mine disaster,
Kyūshū
is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surround ...
, Japan, kills 687 people (the worst coal mine disaster in Japanese history).
*
December 16 – World War I:
Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby:
Imperial German Navy battlecruisers attack British North Sea ports, resulting in 137 deaths.
*
December 17 – United States President
Woodrow Wilson signs the
Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (initially introduced by
Francis Burton Harrison). This begins the ongoing international
War on Drugs.
*
December 18 –
Egypt becomes a British
protectorate.
*
December 19
**
Serbian Campaign (World War I): The
Battle of Kolubara ends, resulting in a decisive
Serbian
Serbian may refer to:
* someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe
* someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people
* Serbian language
* Serbian names
See also
*
*
* Old Serbian (disambiguat ...
victory over
Austria-Hungary.
**
Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...
leaves England, sailing for India on this date (accompanied by his wife
Kasturba). He begins to learn the
Bengali language whilst on board.
*
December 20 –
Tokyo Station, officially opens, and changes from railway base station from
Shinbashi Station in
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
.
*
December 24 –
World War I: An unofficial, temporary
Christmas truce ckb: ئاگربەستی کریسماس
The Christmas truce (german: Weihnachtsfrieden; french: Trêve de Noël; nl, Kerstbestand) was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christ ...
begins, between British and German soldiers on the
Western Front Western Front or West Front may refer to:
Military frontiers
*Western Front (World War I), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (World War II), a military frontier to the west of Germany
*Western Front (Russian Empire), a majo ...
.
*
December 25 – World War I:
Cuxhaven Raid
The Raid on Cuxhaven (german: link=no, Weihnachtsangriff, Christmas Raid) was a British ship-based Airstrike, air-raid on the Imperial German Navy at Cuxhaven mounted on Christmas Day, 1914.
Aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service were carried ...
: British aircraft launched from warships attack the German port of
Cuxhaven with submarine support, although little damage is caused.
Date unknown
* The capital of the
Guangxi Province of China is moved from
Guilin to
Nanning
Nanning (; ; za, Namzningz) is the capital and largest city by population of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southern China. It is known as the "Green City" because of its abundance of lush subtropical foliage. Located in the South of ...
.
*
Oxymorphone, a powerful narcotic analgesic closely related to morphine, is first developed in Germany.
* The first everyday items made of
stainless steel
Stainless steel is an alloy of iron that is resistant to rusting and corrosion. It contains at least 11% chromium and may contain elements such as carbon, other nonmetals and metals to obtain other desired properties. Stainless steel's corros ...
come into public circulation.
* The Port of
Orange, Texas, is dredged for the fabrication of vessels for the
United States Navy.
* Phi Sigma, a local undergraduate classical club, is founded by a group of students in the Greek Department at the
University of Chicago.
* Fashion and perfumes company
Puig
Puig () is a word of Catalan origin, meaning "hill". Hence, in Catalan-speaking areas, it appears in the names of numerous people and geographical features:
Geographical features
* Puig-l'agulla, a mountain of Catalonia
* Puig de l'Àliga (Sant ...
is founded in
Barcelona.
*
Woodman's of Essex, the famous family-owned clam shack on Boston's North Shore, is opened.
Births
January
*
January 1 –
Noor Inayat Khan
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpose of S ...
(aka Nora Baker), World War II heroine (executed
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
)
*
January 4
Events Pre-1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
* 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army.
1601–1900
*1649 – Engli ...
–
Jean-Pierre Vernant
Jean-Pierre Vernant (; January 4, 1914 – January 9, 2007) was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and ...
, French historian and anthropologist (d.
2007
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)
*
January 5 –
George Reeves, American actor (''Superman'') (d.
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
)
*
January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
*1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
–
Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and bandleader (d.
1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
)
*
January 10
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...
–
Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 23rd
Premier of the Republic of China (d.
2000
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)
*
January 14
Events Pre-1600
*1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
*1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
*1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...
**
Magda Fedor
Mrs. Lajos Kisgyörgy Née: Magda Fedor (14 January 1914 – 8 December 2017) was a Hungarian sports shooter, 123-time national champion, multiple World Championships and European Championships medalist.
Early life
Born in Pinkaszentkirály ( ...
, Hungarian sports shooter (d.
2017
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)
**
Harold Russell
Harold John Avery Russell (January 14, 1914 – January 29, 2002) was an American World War II veteran. After losing his hands during his military service, Russell was cast in the epic drama film ''The Best Years of Our Lives'' (1946), which e ...
, Canadian actor (d.
2002
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)
*
January 15
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months.
* 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...
–
Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian (d.
2003
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)
*
January 18 –
Arno Schmidt, German author (d.
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
)
*
January 26 – Princess
Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d.
2006
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)
*
January 30
Events Pre-1600
*1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
*1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
1601–1900
*1607 – An estimated ...
–
John Ireland, Canadian-born actor (d.
1992
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)
*
January 31 –
Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (d.
1994
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)
February
*
February 3
Events Pre-1600
* 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
*1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
*1488 – ...
**
Mary Carlisle, American actress, singer and dancer (d.
2018
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)
**
George Nissen George Peter Nissen (1914 – 2010) was an American gymnast and inventor who developed the modern trampoline and made trampolining a worldwide sport and recreation.
Background
Born on February 3, 1914, in Blairstown, Iowa, Nissen became a keen ...
, American gymnast, inventor of the trampoline (d.
2010
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)
*
February 4
Events Pre–1600
* 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...
–
Alfred Andersch, German writer (d.
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
)
*
February 5
Events Pre-1600
* 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
**
William S. Burroughs, American author (d.
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...
)
**
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
)
*
February 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
**
Silvius Magnago
Silvius Magnago (5 February 1914 – 25 May 2010) was a South Tyrolean politician.
Biography
Magnago was born in Merano, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on 5 February 1914. In 1936 he graduated from the grammar school of ...
, Italian politician (d.
2010
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)
**
Roza Papo
Roza Papo (1914–1984) was a Bosnian Jewish physician and general of the Yugoslav People's Army. She was the first woman to rise to the rank of general on the Balkan Peninsula.
Early life
Roza Papo was born on 6 February 1914 into a Sephardi J ...
, Yugoslav physician and general (d.
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
)
*
February 10 –
Larry Adler, American musician (d.
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
)
*
February 12 –
Lazar Koliševski, Yugoslav communist political leader (d.
2000
File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...
)
*
February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
–
Kevin McCarthy, American actor (d.
2010
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)
*
February 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
–
Arthur Kennedy
John Arthur Kennedy (February 17, 1914January 5, 1990) was an American stage and film actor known for his versatility in supporting film roles and his ability to create "an exceptional honesty and naturalness on stage", especially in the origi ...
, American actor (d.
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
)
*
February 18 –
Mahmoud Zulfikar
Mahmoud Qasdy Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar (18 February 1914 – 22 May 1970) was an Egyptians, Egyptian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He started his career as an architect, before becoming an actor in 1939. He was a major figur ...
, Egyptian film director (d.
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
)
*
February 19
Events Pre-1600
* 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
* 356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan ...
–
Jacques Dufilho
Jacques Dufilho (19 February 1914 – 28 August 2005) was a French actor. He was born at Bègles (Gironde) and he died at Ponsampère (Gers).
Life and career
Dufilho appeared in 65 French productions. Moreover, he was frequently seen in Italian f ...
, French comedian, actor (d.
2005
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)
*
February 22 –
Renato Dulbecco
Renato Dulbecco ( , ; February 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012) was an Italian–American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect anima ...
, Italian-born virologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
2012
File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...
)
*
February 23
Events Pre-1600
* 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
–
Theofiel Middelkamp
Theofiel ("Theo") Middelkamp (23 February 1914 – 2 May 2005) was a Dutch road cyclist. In 1947, Middelkamp became world champion. In 1936, he was the first Dutch cyclist ever to win a stage in the Tour de France.
Biography
Middelkamp was born ...
, Dutch cyclist (d.
2005
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)
*
February 26
Events Pre-1600
*747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events.
* 364 – Valentinian I is p ...
–
Robert Alda, American-born actor, father of actor
Alan Alda (d.
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal ente ...
)
March
*
March 1 –
Ralph Ellison, American writer (d.
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...
)
*
March 2
**
Hansi Knoteck, Austrian actress (d.
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
)
**
Martin Ritt, American director (d.
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
)
*
March 3
**
Julio Franco Arango
Julio Franco Arango (3 March 1914 – 16 September 1980) was a Colombian Roman Catholic bishop.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1938, Arango was named bishop in June 1964. In August 1964, he was appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Du ...
, Colombian Roman Catholic bishop (d.
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
)
**
Asger Jorn, Danish painter (d.
1973
Events January
* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...
)
*
March 4 –
Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d.
2002
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)
*
March 6 –
Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d.
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
)
*
March 8 –
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d.
1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...
)
*
March 13 –
Saroj Dutta
Saroj Dutta (March 13, 1914 – August 5, 1971) popularly known comrade SD, was an Indian communist intellectual and poet, active in the Naxalite movement in West Bengal in the 1960s. He was the first West Bengal state secretary of Communist Pa ...
, Indian communist leader (d.
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
Ja ...
)
*
March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
;
Founder FS Modise, Leader of IPHC
*
March 17 –
Juan Carlos Onganía, 35th
President of Argentina
The president of Argentina ( es, Presidente de Argentina), officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation ( es, Presidente de la Nación Argentina), is both head of state and head of government of Argentina. Under Constitution of Ar ...
(d.
1995
File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...
)
*
March 19 –
Jiang Qing, Chinese politician (d.
1991
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)
*
March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
–
Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (d.
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
)
*
March 23 –
Wendell Smith Wendell Smith may refer to:
* Wendell Smith (sportswriter) (1914–1972), American baseball writer
*Wendell Smith (actor)
Wendell Smith is a Canadian actor born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
History
Originally based in Nova Scotia, Wendell Smit ...
, African American sportswriter (d.
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
)
*
March 25
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
* 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...
–
Norman Borlaug, American agricultural scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
2009
File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...
)
*
March 26 –
William Westmoreland, American Vietnam War general (d.
2005
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)
*
March 28 –
Edmund Muskie
Edmund Sixtus Muskie (March 28, 1914March 26, 1996) was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, a United States Senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 6 ...
, American politician (d.
1996
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...
)
*
March 30 –
Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d.
1948
Events January
* January 1
** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated.
** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect.
** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...
)
*
March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
–
Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat, writer, and
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
)
April
*
April 2
**
Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing comedies, including ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' (194 ...
, English actor (d.
2000
File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...
)
**
Hans Wegner, Danish furniture designer (d.
2007
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)
*
April 3 –
Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshal of the Indian Army (d.
2008
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)
*
April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
**
David W. Goodall
David William Goodall (4 April 1914 – 10 May 2018) was an English-born Australian botanist and ecologist. He was influential in the early development of statistical methods in plant communities. He worked as researcher and professor in Englan ...
, Australian botanist and ecologist (d.
2018
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)
**
Marguerite Duras, French author, director (d.
1996
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)
*
April 8
Events Pre-1600
* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
*1139 – Ro ...
–
María Félix, Mexican actress (d. April 8,
2002
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)
*
April 11
**
Norman McLaren
William Norman McLaren, LL. D. (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).Rosenthal, Alan. ''The new documentary in action: a caseb ...
, Scots-born Canadian animator and director (d.
1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...
)
**
Robert Stanfield
Robert Lorne Stanfield (April 11, 1914 – December 16, 2003) was a Canadian politician who served as the 17th premier of Nova Scotia from 1956 to 1967 and the leader of the Official Opposition and leader of the federal Progressive Conservative ...
, Premier of Nova Scotia (d.
2003
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)
*
April 12
**
Armen Alchian, American economist (d.
2013
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)
**
Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (d.
2010
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)
**
Gretel Bergmann, German-Jewish athlete (d.
2017
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)
**
Jan van Cauwelaert
Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M. (12 April 1914 – 18 August 2016) was a Belgian-Congolese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Upon his death at the age of 102, he was one of the oldest bishops in the Church, the oldest European-born bishop and ...
, Belgian bishop (d.
2016
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)
*
April 13
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1601–1900
*1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
–
Orhan Veli, Turkish poet (d.
1950
Events January
* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...
)
*
April 18 –
Claire Martin, Canadian author (d.
2014
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)
*
April 22
**
Baldev Raj Chopra, Indian film director (d.
2008
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)
**
Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d.
2002
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)
**
Michael Wittmann, German tank commander (d.
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
)
*
April 24 –
Jan Karski, Polish World War II resistance movement fighter (d.
2000
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)
*
April 25 –
Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 51st
President of Venezuela
The president of Venezuela ( es, Presidente de Venezuela), officially known as the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is the head of state and head of government in Ven ...
(d.
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
)
*
April 26
**
Bernard Malamud, American author (d.
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal ente ...
)
**
Lilian Rolfe
Lilian Vera Rolfe, (26 April 1914 – 5 February 1945) was an Allied secret agent in the Second World War.
Early life
Rolfe and her twin sister Helen Fedora Rolfe were the daughters of George Rolfe, a British chartered accountant working in Pa ...
, French-born World War II heroine (d.
1945
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
Januar ...
)
*
April 30 –
Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian songwriter (d.
2008
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)
May
*
May 5 –
Tyrone Power, American actor (d.
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
)
*
May 7 –
Ye Fei, Filipino-Chinese general and politician (d.
1999
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)
*
May 8
Events Pre-1600
* 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...
–
Romain Gary, Russian-born writer, diplomat (d.
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
)
*
May 9
**
Carlo Maria Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini (; 9 May 1914 – 14 June 2005) was an Italian conductor.
From the age of five, when he began to play the violin, Giulini's musical education was expanded when he began to study at Italy's foremost conservatory, the Conserva ...
, conductor (d.
2005
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)
** Hank Snow, Canadian country musician (d.
1999
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)
* May 12 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (d. 1993)
* May 13 – Joe Louis, African-American boxer (d.
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
)
*
May 14
** Teodor Oizerman, Soviet and Russian philosopher and academician (d.
2017
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)
** Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (d.
1995
File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...
)
** Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (d.
1995
File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...
)
* May 16 – Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist (d.
2009
File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...
)
* May 18
** Georg von Tiesenhausen, German-American rocket scientist (d.
2018
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)
** Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 1993)
** Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (d. 1982)
* May 19
** Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d.
2002
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)
** Alex Shibicky, Canadian hockey player (d.
2005
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)
* May 20 – Avraham Shapira, head of the Beth din, Rabbinical court of Jerusalem and the Supreme Rabbinic Court; rosh yeshiva of Mercaz HaRav (d.
2007
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)
* May 22
** Vance Packard, American social critic and author (d.
1996
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...
)
** Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
* May 24
** Lilli Palmer, German actress (d.
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal ente ...
)
** George Tabori, Hungarian writer and director (d.
2007
File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...
)
* May 26 – Irmã Dulce Pontes, Brazilian Catholic Franciscan Sister (d.
1992
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)
* May 31 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese classical music, film composer (d.
2006
File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
)
June
* June 6 – Zhang Jingfu, Chinese politician (d. 2015)
* June 10 – Joseph DePietro, American weightlifter (d.
1999
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)
*
June 12 – Go Seigen, Japanese Go player (d.
2014
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)
* June 14
**Gisèle Casadesus, French actress (d.
2017
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)
**Ruthven Todd, Scottish poet, artist, and novelist (d. 1978)
* June 15
** Yuri Andropov, Soviet leader (d.
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
)
** Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born American cartoonist (d.
1999
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)
*
June 18 – E. G. Marshall, American actor (d.
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
)
* June 20 – Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Turkish archaeologist
* June 21 – William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1996
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)
* June 22 – Mei Zhi, Chinese children's author, essayist (d. 2004)
*
June 23
Events Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
* 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
* 1280 – The Spanish Re ...
– Juán Landolfi, Argentine-Italian football player (d. unknown)
* June 25 – Luz Magsaysay, 7th First Lady of the Philippines (d. 2004)
* June 26
** Laurie Lee, English author (d.
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...
)
** Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and teacher (d.
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...
)
** Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (d.
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
)
* June 27 – Margaret Ekpo, Nigerian women's rights activist, social mobilizer and politician (d.
2006
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)
*
June 29 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor (d.
1996
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)
*
June 30 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, 15th President of Portugal (d.
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
)
July
*
July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
– Christl Cranz, German alpine skier (d. 2004)
*
July 2 – Erich Topp, German commander (d.
2005
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)
*
July 5 – Yitzhak Rafael, Israeli politician (d.
1999
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)
* July 6
** Otto Bumbel, Brazilian professional football manager (d.
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
)
** Vincent J. McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter (d.
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
)
* July 8
** Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (d.
2010
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)
** Billy Eckstine, American jazz musician and singer (d. 1993)
*
July 9
Events Pre-1600
*118 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
* 381 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodos ...
– Willi Stoph, Prime Minister (1964-1973, 1976-1989) and Chairman of the Council of State (1973-1976) of the GDR (d.
1999
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)
*
July 10
** Joe Shuster, Canadian-born comic book author (d.
1992
File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
)
** Rempo Urip, Indonesian director (d.
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
)
*
July 11
** Mohammad Al-Abbasi, Prime Minister of Jordan (d.
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
)
** Aníbal Troilo, Argentine tango musician (d. 1975)
*
July 13
** Cyril Stevenson, Bahamian politician and newspaper publisher (d.
2006
File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
)
** Trevor Berghan, New Zealand rugby union player (d.
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
)
*
July 15
** Birabongse Bhanudej, Siamese prince, racing driver and sailor, and pilot (d.
1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
)
** Akhtar Hameed Khan, Indian-born pioneer of microcredit in developing countries (d.
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
)
** Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d.
1996
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...
)
* July 16 – Herbert Nürnberg, German boxer (d.
1995
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)
* July 17 – Klári Tolnay, Hungarian actress (d.
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
)
*
July 18
** Gino Bartali, Italian road cyclist (d.
2000
File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...
)
** Jo Cals, Dutch politician and jurist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1965–1966) (d.
1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
Events
Ja ...
)
*
July 19
** César Povolny, German-French association footballer (d. unknown)
** Hans Maršálek, Austrian typesetter, political activist, detective and historian (d. 2011)
** John Kenneth Macalister, Canadian World War II hero (d.
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
)
* July 20
** Dobri Dobrev, Bulgarian ascetic and philanthropist (d.
2018
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)
** Charilaos Florakis, Greek Communist leader (d.
2005
File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...
)
** Ersilio Tonini, Italian Cardinal (d.
2013
File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...
)
*
July 21
** Pan Jin-yu, (d.
2010
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)
** Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Italian screenwriter and actress (d.
2010
File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...
)
* July 22 – Charles Régnier, German actor, director, radio actor and translator (d.
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
)
* July 24
** Frances Oldham Kelsey, American Food and Drug Administration reviewer (d. 2015)
** Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d.
2007
File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...
)
*
July 27 – Gusti Huber, Austrian actress (d. 1993)
* July 30 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish president of the International Olympic Committee (d.
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
)
*
July 31
Events Pre-1600
*30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
* 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Tr ...
– Louis de Funès, French comedy actor (d. 1983)
August
*
August 2
Events Pre-1600
*338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
*216 BC – The Carthaginian arm ...
– Beatrice Straight, American actress (d.
2001
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)
*
August 8 – Yabing Masalon Dulo, Filipino textile master weaver and dyer (d. 2021)
*
August 9
** Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
** Tove Jansson, Finnish author (d.
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
)
*
August 10 – Ken Annakin, British film director (d.
2009
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)
*
August 15 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer (d.
1996
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)
*
August 17 – Gabrielle Weidner, Belgian World War II heroine (d.
1945
1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
Januar ...
)
* August 19
** Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, French politician, 95th Prime Minister of France (d. 1993)
** Margaret Morgan Lawrence, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 2019)
*
August 26 – Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d.
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
)
* August 30 – Julie Bishop (actress), Julie Bishop, American actress (d.
2001
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)
September
*
September 1 – Tsuneko Sasamoto, Japanese photographer (d. 2022)
*
September 5
** Sor Isolina Ferré, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic nun (d.
2000
File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...
)
** Gail Kubik, American composer (d.
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
)
** Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (d.
2018
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)
*
September 7 – James Van Allen, American physicist (d.
2006
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)
*
September 10
** Terence O'Neill, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d.
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
)
** Robert Wise, American film director and producer (d.
2005
File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...
)
*
September 11 – Serbian Patriarch Pavle II, Serbian Patriarch Pavle, (d.
2009
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)
* September 12
** Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d.
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
)
** Janusz Żurakowski, Polish-born pilot (d. 2004)
*
September 14 – Clayton Moore, American actor (''The Lone Ranger'') (d.
1999
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)
*
September 15
** Creighton Abrams, U.S. Vietnam War general (d. 1974)
** Subandrio, Indonesian politician (d. 2004)
** Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d.
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
)
** Jens Otto Krag, Danish politician, 18th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1978)
*
September 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".
* 1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Empi ...
– Lambert Mascarenhas, Indian journalist (d. 2021)
* September 18
** Jack Cardiff, British cinematographer, director, and photographer (d.
2009
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)
* September 20 – Kenneth More, English actor (d. 1982)
* September 23 – Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Sultan of Brunei (d.
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal ente ...
)
* September 24 – John Kerr (governor-general), John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d.
1991
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)
*
September 25 – Elena Lucena, Argentine film actress (d. 2015)
*
September 26 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert (d. 2011)
*
September 27 – Sophie Sooäär, Estonian actress and singer (d.
1996
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)
October
* October 1 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
* October 6 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d.
2002
File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...
)
* October 7 – Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (d. 1974)
*
October 9 – Guy Charmot, French resistance fighter and doctor (d. 2019)
* October 10 – Agostino Straulino, Italian sailor and sailboat racer (d. 2004)
*
October 14 – Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2006
File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
)
* October 15 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (d.
2007
File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...
)
* October 17 – Jerry Siegel, American comic book author (d.
1996
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)
*
October 19 – Juanita Moore, African-American actress (d.
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
)
* October 20 – James C. Floyd, Canadian aerospace engineer
* October 21 – Martin Gardner, American writer (d.
2010
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)
* October 24 – František Čapek, Czechoslovakian canoeist (d.
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
)
* October 25 – John Berryman, American poet (d.
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
)
* October 26 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (d.
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
)
*
October 27 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (d. 1953)
*
October 28
** Jonas Salk, American medical scientist (d.
1995
File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...
)
** Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...
)
* October 30 – Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (d.
1987
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...
)
November
*
November 1 – Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar), Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (d.
2006
File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
)
* November 2 – Ray Walston, American actor (d.
2001
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)
* November 8
** George Dantzig, Polish-born American mathematician (d.
2005
File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...
)
** Norman Lloyd, American actor, producer, and director (d. 2021)
*
November 9
Events Pre-1600
* 694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
* 1277 – The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement f ...
– Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d.
2000
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)
*
November 11
** Howard Fast, American novelist and television writer (d.
2003
File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
)
** Yue Yiqin, Chinese flying ace (d. 1937)
*
November 13
** Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (d.
2005
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)
** Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (d.
2016
File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
)
* November 18 – William Phillips (economist), William Phillips, New Zealand economist (d. 1974)
*
November 21
Events Pre-1600
*164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)
* 235 & ...
– Abd al-Karim Qasim, Iraqi general, 24th Prime Minister of Iraq (d. 1963)
* November 25 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d.
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
)
December
* December 9 – Frances Reid, American actress (d.
2010
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)
* December 10 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (d.
1996
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...
)
* December 11 – Gabriel Chiramel, Indian priest, zoologist and author (d.
2017
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)
*
December 12 – Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (d.
2000
File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...
)
* December 13 – Larry Parks, American actor (d. 1975)
* December 14
**Karl Carstens, German president (d.
1992
File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...
)
**Frane Milčinski, Frane Milčinski - Ježek, Slovene language, Slovene poet, Satire, satirist, comedian, actor, children's writer and director (d. 1988)
**Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d.
2003
File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...
),
*
December 15 – Anatole Abragam, French physicist (d. 2011)
* December 21 – Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and microbiologist (d.
2010
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)
*
December 24 – Zoya Bulgakova, Russian Soviet stage actress (d.
2017
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)
* December 26 – Richard Widmark, American actor (d.
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
)
* December 28 – Bidia Dandaron, Buddhist author and teacher in the USSR (d. 1974)
Date unknown
* Makhosini Dlamini, 1st Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 1978)
Deaths
January
* January 8 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, American soldier and politician, 30th governor of Kentucky (b. 1823)
*
January 10
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...
– Leonie Aviat, French Roman Catholic religious sister and saint (b. 1844)
*
January 11 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts (b. 1842)
*
January 15
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months.
* 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...
– Camilo Garcia de Polavieja, Spanish general (b. 1838)
* January 16 – Itō Sukeyuki, Japanese admiral (b. 1843)
* January 17 – Fernand Foureau, French explorer (b. 1850)
* January 19
** Candelaria Figueredo, Cuban patriot (b. 1852)
** Georges Picquart, French general and politician (b. 1854)
*
January 26 – Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, Argentine Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1840)
February
* February 1 – Albert Günther, German-born British zoologist (b. 1830)
*
February 4
Events Pre–1600
* 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...
– Per Pålsson, Swedish criminal (b. 1828)
*
February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
– Alphonse Bertillon, French police officer and forensic scientist (b. 1853)
* February 20 – Federico Degetau, Puerto Rican politician (b. 1862)
* February 24 – Joshua Chamberlain, American Civil War general (b. 1828)
* February 25 – John Tenniel, Sir John Tenniel, English illustrator (b. 1820)
March
*
March 1
** Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, British aristocrat and politician, 2-time Governor-General of Canada (b. 1845)
** Carlos Felipe Morales, Dominican Roman Catholic priest, politician and military figure, 30th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1867)
* March 9 – José Luciano de Castro, Portuguese politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1834)
* March 12 – George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur (b. 1846)
*
March 13
** Hakeem Noor-ud-Din, Indian Muslim scholar (b. 1841)
** María Tubau, Spanish actress (b. 1854)
* March 16
**
Gaston Calmette, French journalist, editor of ''Le Figaro'' (b. 1858)
** Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
* March 18 – Andreas Beck (explorer), Andreas Beck, Norwegian explorer (b. 1864)
*
March 19 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
* March 22 – Allen Caperton Braxton, American lawyer (b. 1862)
*
March 23 – Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès, Lebanese Maronite, Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic nun and saint (b. 1832)
*
March 25
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
* 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...
– Frédéric Mistral, French writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
*
March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
– Christian Morgenstern, German poet and writer (b. 1871)
April
* April 1 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1876)
*
April 2 – Paul Heyse, German writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
* April 7
** Mohammad Ayub Khan (Emir of Afghanistan), Mohammad Ayyub Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1855)
** Sui Sin Far, English-born writer (b. 1865)
*
April 11 – Elena Guerra, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1835)
* April 15 – Count Frederick of Hohenau (b. 1857)
* April 16
** George William Hill, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1838)
** Jacinta Parejo, Venezuelan public figure, First Lady of Venezuela (b. 1845)
* April 19
** Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (b. 1839)
** Empress Shōken, empress-consort of the Emperor Meiji, Meiji Emperor (b. 1849)
*
April 24 – Benedict Menni, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1841)
*
April 25 – Géza Fejérváry, 16th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1833)
*
April 26 – Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist (b. 1831)
* April 28 – Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, French botanist (b. 1839)
May
* May 2 – John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, husband of Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Princess Louise of the United Kingdom (b. 1845)
* May 3 – Élisabeth Leseur, French Roman Catholic mystic and servant of God (b. 1866)
*
May 8
Events Pre-1600
* 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...
– Seth Edulji Dinshaw, Indian Parsi philanthropist (b. 1842)
*
May 9 – C. W. Post, American cereal manufacturer (b. 1854)
* May 10 – Lillian Nordica, American opera singer (b. 1857)
* May 12 – Eugenio Montero Ríos, 29th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1832)
* May 15 – Ida Freund, Austrian-born British chemist and educator (b. 1863)
* May 23 – William O'Connell Bradley, American politician from Kentucky (b. 1847)
* May 26 – Jacob Riis, Danish-American social reformer (b. 1849)
* May 27 – Joseph Swan, Sir Joseph Swan, British scientist (b. 1828)
*
May 29 – Joseph Gérard, French Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1831)
June
* June 10 – Abraam, Bishop of Faiyum, Abraam, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox bishop and saint (b. 1829)
* June 11 – Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
* June 14 – Adlai Stevenson I, Adlai E. Stevenson I, List of Vice Presidents of the United States, 23rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1835)
* June 15 – John Robert Sitlington Sterrett, American classical scholar and archeologist (b. 1851)
* June 19 – Brandon Thomas (playwright), Brandon Thomas, British actor and playwright (''Charley's Aunt'') (b. 1848)
* June 21 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
* June 22 – Princess Phannarai, Thai princess consort (b. 1838)
* June 25 – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1826)
*
June 28
Events Pre-1600
* 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
* 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
* 1461 – ...
**
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria, (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I.
F ...
(assassinated) (b. 1863)
** Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, wife of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria, (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I.
F ...
(assassinated) (b. 1868)
July
*
July 2 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836)
* July 6 - Georges Legagneux pioneer French aviator (b. 1882)
*
July 9
Events Pre-1600
*118 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
* 381 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodos ...
– Prince Gustav of Thurn and Taxis (1848–1914), Prince Gustav of Thurn and Taxis (b. 1848)
* July 12 – Horace Harmon Lurton, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1844)
* July 17 – Luis Uribe, Chilean naval hero (b. 1847)
*
July 21 – Karl von Czyhlarz, Czech-born Austrian jurist and politician (b. 1833)
*
July 23 – Vladimir Meshchersky, Russian journalist and novelist (b. 1839)
*
July 29 – Pietro Pace, Maltese Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1831)
*
July 31
Events Pre-1600
*30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
* 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Tr ...
– Jean Jaurès, French pacifist (assassinated) (b. 1859)
August
*
August 4 – Hubertine Auclert, French feminist (b. 1848)
*
August 6
Events Pre-1600
*1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
* 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada ...
** Maxim Sandovich, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox priest, martyr and saint (b. 1888)
** Ellen Axson Wilson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1860)
*
August 8
**
Martin-Paul Samba
Martin-Paul Samba, born Mebenga m'Ebono (circa 1875 – 8 August 1914) was a Bulu military officer during the Imperial German colonial period of Cameroon. M'Ebono became a favourite of the German colonials during his upbringing in Kribi, a c ...
, Cameroonian rebel leader (executed)
** Rudolf Duala Manga Bell, Cameroonian resistance leader (executed)
*
August 9 – Roque Sáenz Peña, 16th
President of Argentina
The president of Argentina ( es, Presidente de Argentina), officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation ( es, Presidente de la Nación Argentina), is both head of state and head of government of Argentina. Under Constitution of Ar ...
(b. 1851)
*
August 12 – John Philip Holland, Irish developer of the submarine (b. 1840)
*
August 15 – Adolfo Carranza, Argentine lawyer (b. 1857)
*
August 20 –
Pope Pius X
Pope Pius X ( it, Pio X; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death in August 1914. Pius X is known for vigorously opposing modernist interpretations of C ...
(b. 1835)
*
August 23
** Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1861)
** Robert Strange (bishop), Robert Strange, American Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal bishop (b. 1857)
*
August 26 – Achille Pierre Deffontaines, French general (died of wounds received in action) (b. 1858)
* August 27 – Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Austrian economist (b. 1851)
*
August 28 – Leberecht Maass, German admiral (killed in action) (b. 1863)
* August 30 – Alexander Samsonov, Russian general (suicide) (b. 1859)
September
*
September 3 – Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)
*
September 5 – Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873)
*
September 11
** Mircea Demetriade, Romanian poet, playwright and actor (b. 1861)
** Ismail Gasprinski, Crimean Tatar intellectual (b. 1851)
*
September 13 – Mostafa Fahmy Pasha, Egyptian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1840)
*
September 14 – Nicolás Zamora, Filipino Methodist minister and bishop (b. 1875)
*
September 15 –
Koos de la Rey, Boer general (b. 1847)
* September 16 – C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (b. 1843)
*
September 22 – Alain-Fournier, French writer (killed in action) (b. 1886)
*
September 26 – August Macke, German painter (killed in action) (b. 1887)
*
September 28
Events Pre-1600
*48 BC – Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII.
* 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus ...
– Richard Warren Sears, American founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company (b. 1863)
October
* October 1 – Kitty Lange Kielland, Norwegian painter (b. 1843)
* October 10 – King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
* October 12 – Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia (b. 1892)
*
October 16
** Victor Arnold (Austrian actor), Victor Arnold, Austrian actor (b. 1873)
** Antonino Paternò Castello, Marchese di San Giuliano, Italian diplomat (b. 1852)
* October 17
** Adolfo Saldias, Argentine historian, lawyer, politician, soldier and diplomat (b. 1849)
** Prince Wolrad of Waldeck and Pyrmont (b. 1892)
*
October 19 – Julio Argentino Roca, Argentine general and statesman, 2-Time
President of Argentina
The president of Argentina ( es, Presidente de Argentina), officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation ( es, Presidente de la Nación Argentina), is both head of state and head of government of Argentina. Under Constitution of Ar ...
(b. 1843)
* October 21 – Dimitrie Sturdza, 4-Time Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1833)
* October 23 – José Evaristo Uriburu, Argentine politician, 12th
President of Argentina
The president of Argentina ( es, Presidente de Argentina), officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation ( es, Presidente de la Nación Argentina), is both head of state and head of government of Argentina. Under Constitution of Ar ...
(b. 1831)
* October 24 – Yevgeniya Mravina, Russian soprano (b. 1864)
*
October 27 – Prince Maurice of Battenberg (b. 1891)
*
October 28
** Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (b. 1823)
** Federico Peliti, Italian baker (b. 1844)
November
*
November 1 – Christopher Cradock, Sir Christopher Cradock, British admiral (killed in action) (b. 1862)
* November 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (suicide) (b. 1887)
*
November 5 – August Weismann, German evolutionary biologist (b. 1834)
*
November 9
Events Pre-1600
* 694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
* 1277 – The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement f ...
– Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1836)
*
November 14 – Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, British field marshal (b. 1832)
* November 17 – Sattar Khan, Iranian constitutional reformer and national hero (b. 1866)
*
November 21
Events Pre-1600
*164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)
* 235 & ...
– Thaddeus C. Pound, American businessman and politician (b. 1832)
*
November 28 – Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, German physicist (b. 1824)
December
* December 1 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, United States Navy admiral, geostrategist and historian (b. 1840)
*
December 8 –
Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (killed in action) (b. 1861)
* December 14 – Giovanni Sgambati, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1841)
*
December 16 – Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (b. 1832)
*
December 24 – John Muir, American naturalist (b. 1838)
Date unknown
* Jehandad Khan, Afghan emir (executed)
* Watchmaker Glycine Watch SA is founded by Eugène Meylan in Switzerland.
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Max von Laue
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Theodore William Richards
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Róbert Bárány
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – not awarded
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – not awarded
References
Primary sources and year books
''New International Year Book 1914'' Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 913pp
Further reading
* Beatty, Jack. ''The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began'' (1912
excerpt argues the war was not inevitable
* Gilbert, Martin. ''A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933'' (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 297–349; emphasis on World War I
External links
European newspapers from 1914
{{Authority control
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