War Chronology 1914 from Archduke Assassination to 1915
The document catalogs a century of events starting with the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the rapid slide into World War I. It details March 1914 through December 1915 milestones, including mobilizations, battles, and political shifts across Europe, Asia, and Africa, naming nations, leaders, battles, and key political actions. It tracks invasions, blockades, naval actions, surrenders, and shifts in government, with notes on peace efforts and notable incidents in the early war years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archduke Francia Ferdinand
Hohenbern
Barajevo
Bosnia
Austria
Servia
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Bervia
Russia
Montenegro
Serviang
Nish
Belgrade
Kaiser
Czar
Germany
France
Pobbeles
Italy
Mexico Crisis Timeline Through 1914 Border Conflicts
Chronological digest of Mexican turmoil from Villa’s victories and Huerta’s fall to U S mediation efforts. Key events include Vera Cruz siege, Tampico incident, naval blockades, foreign mediation, and shifts of provisional governments and leaders such as Villa Carranza and Zapata, with U S actions along the border and at Naco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ville
Ojinaga
Rio Grande
Wilson
Mexico
Taft
W. B. Benton
Villa
Torreon
Tampico
Admiral Mayo
Huerta
Huarta
San Pedro
United States
Congress
House
Senate
Vera Cruz
Admiral Badger
Renate
Mas Rads Ata
Tunston
Galveston
Volunteer Army
Brazil
Chile
Argentina
Guerta
Fenston
Robert J. Kern
Chicago
Garrison
Vera Crag
Lobos
Frans Tsag Carbajal
Fiuerte
Gere
Dresden
Jamnina
Carbajal
Carranza
Mexico City
Aguas Calientes
Aguna Calientes
E. Gutierrez
Carranga
Funston
Pablo Gonzales
Naco
Ariz
Mexican
General Bliss
Mex
San Luis Potos
Hugh Scott
Maytorons
Boun
Lary Line
Political timeline of US legislative actions in 1914
Chronological record of House and Senate actions including Alaska railroad bills tolls exemption repeal attempts, Wilson administration appointments, treaty debates, adjournment, and 1914 election shifts. Notable events include canal tolls repeal efforts, antitrust bills, ambassadorial nominations, supreme court and attorney general appointments, and dry status changes in several states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Senate
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Italy
Spain
Norway
Sweden
Portugal
Switzerland
Wilson
George T. Henry, Jr
Sant Francisco
Washington
Russia
Ira Nelson Morrin
Chicago
James C. McReynolds
Supreme Court
T. W. Gregory
Republican Party
Congress
Pres&resolve Party
Colorado
Oregon
Arizona
Canal Zone governance and notable 1913 events timeline
A dated chronology lists events from January to December, including Wilson appointing Col George W Gosthals as Canal Zone governor, Becker's death verdict reversal and retrial, Daniels banning alcohol on Navy property, marriages of Eleanor Wilson and Kermit Roosevelt, Panama Canal completion to commerce, public disasters, and antitrust indictments. The items cover political appointments, legal outcomes, international treaties, and notable society happenings associated with 1913.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Canal Zone
George W. Gosthals
Court of Appeals
Charles Becker
New York
George W. Gosthala
Daniels
Rosenthal
Eleanor Randolph Wilson
Panama Canal
David J. Palmer
Washington
Grand Army of the Republic
James Gordon Bennett
New York Herald
George de Reutern
Paris
Robert Taft
Martha Bowers
New Haven Railroad
Chicago
Middle West
Dee
Senate
Disasters timeline Across the World in a Year
A compiled list of maritime, earthquake, storm and industrial disasters from January to December. The record mentions sinking ships off Sandy Hook and the Battle, volcanic eruptions in Japan, floods in Belgium, major fires in St Augustine and Salem, a deadly mine explosion in Alberta, and the Empress of Ireland sinking in the St Lawrence River with heavy loss of life. Names include the Admiral Sampson, Ernst Edison plant fire, and the Arctic voyage of the Karluk under Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russiana
Warsaw
Germina
Ypres
la Bassee
Zedbruges
Bulwark
Germany
Poland
General de Wet
Belgrade
Bervin
Lodz
Russian Poland
Scharnhorst
Gneisenaau
Leipzig
Nuernberg
Admiral von Spee
Sir Frederick Sturdee
Falkland Islands
Dresden
Emperor William IM
Berlin
Beverg
Kurna
Persian Gulf
India
Lowicz
Alles
Roulers
Armentieres
Servia
War- Baw
Dover
Kiel
Goethals
Panama Canal
Dardanelles
Mesgudieh
Oklahoma
Sandy Kook
Belgium
Russia
Japan
Sakura
Kagoshima
Yan
Plymouth
Bream Whaler
Wilhjalmur Stefangson
Riberia
Don
Acuta
Terra del Fuego
Sakara
Old Dominion Hner
Monroe
Many Tucket
Virginia
St. Louis Athletic Club
Hondo Island
Jos Jp Provigny
Ptavropel
Tiffy
Venice
Newfoundland
T. Augustine
Fila
Courty Court
Eccles
W. Va
Vaiparates
Chile
Storstad
St. Lawrence River
Laurence Irving
Sir Henry Ston-Kerr
Hillcrest
Alberta
Salem
Maas
Joplin
Admiral Sampson
Seattle
Francis H. Seegett
Oregon Coast
Isbarta
Burdur
Agia Minor
Grecian
Attica
Beotia
Peloponnesus
Franklin Company
Royalton
Edison Company
West Orange
N. J
Noted figures pass in a string of year-end obituaries
A list of notable deaths and memorials spans January to December, naming Dr Weir Mitchell in Philadelphia, Gen Simon Buckner in January, Dr Edgar Spitzka in New York, Count Yukyo Ito in Tokyo, Gen Picquart in Amiens, and Lord Strathcona in London. It notes Edwin Ginn in Boston leaving 1,000,000 to a world peace foundation, plus other prominent losses including George Westinghouse, Adlai Stevenson, Jacob Riis, Bertha von Suttner, and Pope Pius X among many others with dates and places across the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weir Mitchell
Philadelphia
Simon B. Buckner
Edgar C. Spitzka
Arsenist
New York
Yukyo Ito
Tokyo
Marie-George Picquart
Dreyfus
Amiens
France
Strathcona
Mount Royal
Canada
London
Edwin Ginn
Boston
World Peace Foundation
Shelby M. Cullom
United States
Fillness
Robert G. Bremer
New Jersey
Augustus O. Bacon
Georgia
Robert Louie Stavenson
Samuel W. Allerton
Chicago
Joseph Fels
Teller
Colorado
George W. Vanderbilt
Biltmore
Frederick Townsend Martin
George Westinghouse
Josiah
Pickard
Iowa State University
Schools of
Butte” Waddell
Frederick Weyerhaeuser
Minnesota
Lilian M. W. Stevens
W. GT. U
Haruko
Japan
Draper
Massachusetts
George Alfred Townsend
Gath
McKee Rankin
George ¥. Baer
Reading Railway
Boman
Duke of Argyll
Queen Victoria
Raniel BE
Sickles
Charles W. Post
Milionaire Breakfast
Battle Creek
Mich
Santa Barbara
Cal
Lillian Nordica
Batavia
Java
Willam
Bradley
U. S
Kentucky
Jacob Riis
W. M. French
Chicago Art Institute
Adlai EB. Stevenson
Frank BM. Hiscock
Bertha von Suttner
Joseph Chamberlain
Horace H. Lurton
Supreme Court of the United States
Aus
Woodrow Wilson
James Lemaitre
Pat Ptancon
Pope Pius X
Francs Xavier Wernz
Society of Jesus
Dartua Miller
Burtington Railroad
J. Herniiker Heaton
Hugeland
America
Baron O'Brian
U. 8
Augustus Heinze
Earl Roberta
Cyr
Robert J. Burdette
Vinnie Ream Hoxl
Cardinal Cavalieri
Venice
Alfred T. Mahan
U. BN
Dea
Perugini
W. W. Rockhill
Ameys Foan
Tale
Dao
e-Congresaman
Bereng
Payne
Major financial upheavals and labor clashes of 1914
A compact timeline lists events from Jan to Dec including J. P. Morgan withdrawal from corporate directorates, Memphis bank failure, Standard Oil loan to China, United States Express folding, Germany’s Frances Trust collapse, new reserve bank locations, London bankers’ loan, Wilson’s federal reserve nominations and withdrawals, New Haven dissolution talks, Harvester monopoly order, war tax bills, U S federal reserve banks opening, tariff and freight rate actions, Torch Automobile profits distribution, dynamite conspiracy trials, Ludlow coal strike battles, National Guard mobilizations, Colorado strike violence, federal troops deployment, Supreme Court actions on labor leaders, and the Colorado coal strike settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Morgan & Co
Mercantile Bank of Memphis
Birmingham
Ala
A. C. Miller
San Francisco
H. B
Federal Reserve Board
Frederick A. Delano
New Haven Road
International Harvester Company
United States District Court
St. Paul
Minn
Wilson
Congress
Internal Revenue
House
Senate
United States Federal Reserve
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mississippi
Ohio
Torch Automobile Company
United States Circuit Court of Appeala
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Colorado National Guard
Ludlow
National Guard of Colorado
Trinidad
Colorado
Forbes
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company
Fort D. A. Russell
United States Supreme Court
Gompers
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Federal Penitentiary
Butte
Mont
Western Railroad
Sporting highlights from 1920s golf and motorsports: mixed results
A digest of race and match results spanning February to October includes Vander ont cup victor Ralph De Palms at Los Angeles with 76.6 mph, Eldwin Pullen fifth in Santa Monica, Lawrence Jenkins winning the British amateur golf title, Francia Ouimet claiming France’s amateur crown, Rene Thomas’s 500-mile Indianapolis record run in 6 3 45.09 at 82.47 mph, and British Open winner Barry Verdon. Also noted are polo, rowing, heavyweight boxing, lightweight boxing, and other era events with names such as Jack Johnson, Freddie Welsh, Georges Carpentier, and Francis Ouimet among the linked competition entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph de Palms
Los Angeles
Eldwin Pullen
Santa Monica
Cal
Lawrence Jenkins
Scotland
Francia Ouimet
Boston
France
Rene Thomas
Delage
Indianapolis
Meatowbrook
Harvard
Barry Verdon
Columbia University
Poughkeepsie
Jack Johnson
Frank Moran
Paris
Harvard Claw
Uly
Freddie Welsh
Weles
Willie Ritchie
America
London
Georges Carpentier
Smith
Charien Evang
Chicago
Walter C. Hagen
Profesional
Country Club
Bayheater
N. C
United States
M. Barnes
Philadelphis
Francis Ouimet
Mrg
H. Arnold Jackson
Philadelphia
American League
A On Nola
Joseph Smith Heads Reorganized Latter Day Saints
In Chicago on December 20 Major BE Bigelow retired from A. A. service. Eugene Zimmerman, a Cincinnati millionaire, appears with Gen. Thomas Sherwin at Boston in a historical church leadership note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Smith
Reorganized Church of the Latter Dry Saints
Major BE. A. Bigelow
Chicago
Eugene Zimmerman
Cincinnati
Thomas Sherwin
Boston
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Pope Pius
Earl Roberts
E. W. Pickard
Luxembourg
East Prussia
Posen
Vosges
England
Liege
Earl Kitchener
Austria-Hungary
Amphton
Flance-Lorraine
Altkirch
Muehlhausen
Cernay
Muelhauzen
Trasselt
Tongres
St. Trond
Orient
Klauchau
Brussels
Antwerp
Lorraine
Bervlang
Shabats
Muethausen
Alsace
Stine
Mons
Moselle
Wand
Ermnel
Namur
Arence
Taung Tao
Saermigns
Brabant
Viviani
Marienburg
Yap
Guam
Helgoland
Paria
Arlas
Nancy
New Zealand
Apla
Tannenberg
Bordeaux
Lemberg
Itelme
Pathfinder
North Sea
Nanteuil
Verdun
Servans
Dinant
Manheug - Bent
I -Atlies
Marne
Russian
Pruvats
Avai Herbertehgehe
Eegt
Govern
Bismarck Archipelago
the &Olomon Islands
Loneyllis
Tlnl
Red Cross
Alene River
Amlena
Marseilles
Augustowo
Ostend
Lyck
Quatrecht
Ghent
Pallada
Havre
Martie
Cape Provinces
South Africa
Union of South Africa
Bruges
Hawke
Takacitho
Kiauchau Bay
Undaunted
Beletan
Nieuport
Maritz
Prinzip
Alayer
von Falkenhayn
von Moltke
da Wet
Beyers
Radom
Botha
Emden
Peneng Harbor
Turkey
Breslau
Odessa
Theodosia
Black Sta As
Hermes
Dover Straits
Tha
Akabah
Arabia
Dixmude
Cyprus
sheik-ut-Islam
Tsing Tao
China
Cocos Islands
Sydney
Black Sea
Aant
Deal
Johannisburg
Pragala
Yser
Red Sea
West Flanders
Pope
Boldau
Scarborough
Hartlepool
Whitby
Yorkshire
Ailes
Onton
Galicia
Po- Rove
Patloret
Allie
Middelkerko
Hussein Kamel
Egypt
Lawiez
Denmark
Germania
Dixmudoc
Gonaive
Haiti
Guillermoe Billinghurst
Peru
Hig
Calliaux
Gaston Calmette
Paria Figaro
House of Lords
Albania
Easad Pasha
William
Durazzo
Boits
House of Commons
Carlos Mendoza
Mbcerni
Panama
Mme
Henriette Calliatx
Giacomo Della Chiesa
Bologna
Benedict XV
William of
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