1914

year

1914 is a year o the XXt century o the Gregorian calendar. Its equivalent is the year 1332 o the Islamic calendar.

Millennium:2nt millennium
Centuries:19t century20t century – 21st century
Decades: 1880s  1890s  1900s  – 1910s –  1920s  1930s  1940s
Years:1911 1912 191319141915 1916 1917

Events

  • 10t Januar: the Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa's troops tak Ojinaga in the Mexican state o Chihuahua.
  • Mairch:
  • The Republic o China joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • 7t Mairch: Prince William o Wied arrives in Albania tae begin his reign.
  • 16t Mairch: The lass o Fraunce minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmette, the editor o the journal Le Figaro, because he threatened tae pablish Caillaux's luv letters tae her durin his previous merriage (she wis later acquitted).
  • Aprile: the plague in Dakar (ends in January 1915). Residential segregation is creatit an Africains shoud gang intae the toun.
  • 29t Juin: Chionya Gusyeva attents an fails tae marder Grigori Rasputin at his hame toun in Siberia.
  • 31t July 1914: Death o the French Socialist Jean Jaurès, mardered juist afore Warld War I, bi Raoul Villain, a French Nationalist, because he wis agains the weir.

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