1914

1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1914th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 914th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1914, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. It was the year that saw the start of what became known as World War I.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1880s  1890s  1900s  – 1910s –  1920s  1930s  1940s
Years:	1911 1912 1913 – 1914 – 1915 1916 1917

1914 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1914 MCMXIV
Ab urbe condita	2667
Armenian calendar	1363 ԹՎ ՌՅԿԳ
Assyrian calendar	6664
Bahá'í calendar	70–71
Balinese saka calendar	1835–1836
Bengali calendar	1321
Berber calendar	2864
British Regnal year	4 Geo. 5 – 5 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2458
Burmese calendar	1276
Byzantine calendar	7422–7423
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4610 or 4550     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4611 or 4551
Coptic calendar	1630–1631
Discordian calendar	3080
Ethiopian calendar	1906–1907
Hebrew calendar	5674–5675
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1970–1971
- Shaka Samvat	1835–1836
- Kali Yuga	5014–5015
Holocene calendar	11914
Igbo calendar	914–915
Iranian calendar	1292–1293
Islamic calendar	1332–1333
Japanese calendar	Taishō 3 (大正３年)
Javanese calendar	1843–1845
Juche calendar	3
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4247
Minguo calendar	ROC 3 民國3年
Nanakshahi calendar	446
Thai solar calendar	2456–2457
Tibetan calendar	阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 2040 or 1659 or 887     — to — 阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 2041 or 1660 or 888

Events

• June 28 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Countess Sophie were assassinated by Black Hand in Sarajevo. This led to World War I.
• August 2 – According to the NSDAP 25 points manifesto, anyone who was not German-race who did not live in Germany before this date had to leave the country.
• August 15 - Construction of the Panama Canal is finished.
• August 31 – Saint Petersburg, Russia is renamed Petrograd by Nicholas II.
• September 26 - The Federal Trade Commission is formed.

Date unknown

• Australian supermarket chain Coles Supermarkets was founded.
• The Iglesia ni Cristo ("Church of Christ") was built in the Philippines.
• The Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main opened.
• Yuma, Arizona became a city.
• Portugal got rid of the monarchy of Kongo.

Nobel Prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Robert Bárány, Austrian doctor.

Births

• February 5 – William S. Burroughs, American writer (d. 1999)
• March 31 – Octavio Paz, Mexican writer, poet and diplomat (d, 1998)
• April 2 – Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)
• May 13 – Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
• May 29 – Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa climber (d. 1986)
• September 24 – John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
• October 16 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, last Shah of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
• October 27- Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
• November 25 – Joe DiMaggio, American MLB baseball player (d. 1999)
• December 14 – Karl Carstens, 5th President of West Germany (d. 1992)
• December 20 - Harry F. Byrd, Jr., American politician (d. 2013)
• December 30 – Igor Diakonov, Russian (Soviet) historian and linguist (d. 1999)
• Nancy Drew, Fictional character

Deaths

• June 14 – Adlai E. Stevenson, Vice President of the United States (b. 1835)
• June 28 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1863), and his wife Countess Sophie
• August 6 – Ellen Louise Wilson, American First Lady, wife of Woodrow Wilson. (b. 1860)