1914

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

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.

• 1st till 4t August: Beginin o the First Warld War.

See awso

• The naist year in the calendar is: 1915, the precedent is 1913.
• Years o the XIXt an XXt Centuries

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