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Show CHIEF EVENTS OF YEAR JUSl ENDED Record of Twelve Months Will Be Momentous to Future Generations. Gen-erations. DETAILS OF WAR IN EUROPE Clash There Has Overshadowed Other Events Disasters 3oth on Land and Sea Have Been Many Minor Incidents Placed on Record. This has proved one of the great years of history, for it has seen the outbreak of the long-dreaded World War. School children a thousand years from now will remember 1914 as they do 1492 and 177G. Following is a record of some of the prominent events of the year, especially the first five months of the great conflict: JANUARY. Jan. 1. John Lind arrives in Vera Cruz to observe Mexican chaos for President Wilson. Jan. 3. Two thousand Mexican refugees rom battle of Ojinaya ilee into the United Uni-ted States. Jan. 4. Steamship Oklahoma breaks in two 33 miles from Sandy Hook; 32 die. Jan. 5. Ford Motor company announces its workmen shall have at least $3U a week each. Jan. 8. United States naval force of Vera Cruz strengthened. Jan. 9. Villa captures Ojinaga. Jan. 14. Mexican rebels take Torreon. Jan. 30. Steamship Monroe rammed and sunk by Steamship Nantucket off Cheas-peake Cheas-peake bay, 43 drown. FEBRUARY. Feb. 4. Castillo, Mexican bandit, wrecks passenger train in burning tunnel near Madera; 17 Americans and 59 Mexicans perish. Feb. 10. Earthquake through New York state. Feb. 11. Lieut. Arthur B. Cook, U. S. navy, wounded by bullet in Vera Cruz street. Feb. 17. Villa kills W. S. Benton, Scotch rancher. MARCH. burg: Germany addresses ultimat uin to Belgium demanding free passage for her troops. Aug. 4. England sends ultimatum mo Berlin, demanding unqualified obscrv;irM.v Of Belgian neutrality; Germany rejects ultimatum ; Germ a n troops hegi n attack on Liege; President Wilson issues proclamation procla-mation of neutrality. Aug. 5. England announces existence of state of war with Germany: President Wilson tenders his good offices to the warring nai ions. Aug. 6. Austria declares war on Russia. Aug. 7. Germans enter Liege; French invade southern Alsace. Aug. 8. Italy reaffirms neutrality; French occupy Muelhausen. Aug. 10. France proclaims a state of , war with Austria. 1 Aug. 13. England declares war on Austria. Aus-tria. Aug. 13. President Carbajal leaves Mexico Mex-ico City. Aug. 15. Austria ns enler Servia ; Japp-n sends u It i ma turn to Germany. i Aug. 17. British expeditionary force I completes its landing in France: Belgian capital removed from Brussels: beginning of a five days' battle in Lorraine, ending in rejuil.se of French across frontier with heavy loss: beginning of five days' battle ! between Servians and Auslrians on the i Jadar. ending in Austrian rout. Aug. 20. Germans enter Brussels; Bel- gian army retreats on Antwerp. Aug. 23. Germans begin attack on Mons; Austria announces victory over Russians at Krasnik. Aug. 2-1. Germans enter Nanuir: British begin retreat from Mons; Zeppelin drops bombs into Antwerp. Aug. "ri. Austria declares war on Japan: Muelliausen evacuated by the French. Aug:. 2tt. Non-partisan French cabinet organized; Germans take Longwy. Aug. 26. British fleet sinks five German warships off Helogoland. Aug. 27. Louvain burned by Germans: Japanese blockade Tsing Tao. Aug. 29. Germans capture La Fere; Russians Rus-sians defeated in three days' battle near Tannenberg. Aug. 30. Germans occupy Amiens. SEPTEMBER. Sept. 1. St. Petersburg to be known henceforth as Petrograd by Imperial decree, de-cree, Sept. 2. Germans advance pentrates to Creil, about 30 miles from Paris and swings eastward; French center between Verdun and Reims driven back; seat of French government removed to Bordeaux. Sept. 3. Russians occupy Lemberg. Sept. 5. Battle begins south of tv- Marne and east of Paris in which the German right wing is pushed back, followed fol-lowed by a general retreat. Sept. Maubeuge taken by the Germans. Ger-mans. Sept. If). The kaiser protests to President Presi-dent Wilson against use of dum-dum bullets bul-lets and civilian excesses by the allies. Sept. 12. German retreat halts on the Aisne. Sept. 16. Belgian commission protests to President Wilson against German Nov. h. Tsing Tao surrenders to tbe Japanese. I Nov, 7. German light cruiser Geier in- 1 t-rns in I lonululu ; Auslrians report advance ad-vance in Servia; Russians reach Pleschen in Silesia and enter East Prussia. Nov. 9. Carranza tlees from Mexico City. Nov. n. The Emden defeated and forced ashore at North Keeling island in Bay of Bengal, by Australian cruiser Sydney. Syd-ney. Nov. 11. Germans capture Dixmu.de: German submarine sinks British gunboat Niger off Deal. Nov. 12. Russians occupy Johannesburg in East Prussia; Russians defea'ad at ; Vlotslavek. Nov. 13. Fighting renewed at Nleuport ! Nov. 15. Russians defeated at Lipno and 1 Kutno; battle in Flanders attuins climax with charge of the Prussian Guard ! against Ypres: battle in Flar.ders attains i climax with charge of the Prussian Guard j against Ypres. Nov. Hi. The Sheikh-ul-lslum at Constantinople Con-stantinople proclaims a Holy War against the allies; British house of enmmons votes a war loan of 225.00,000 pounds. I Nov. 17. Berlin announces Austrian vic-I vic-I tory over Servians at. Yaljevo. I Nov. IS. Freneb rapture Tracy-le-Val; Naval battle in Black sea, in which Turks and Russians both claim victory. Nov. I!). House of commons votes a new army of 1,000.0'Hl men; more than 1,100,000 men already under arms, exclusive of territorials: ter-ritorials: Germans pierce Russian center south of Lodz. Nov. 22. Russians surround two German Ger-man corps south of Lodz. Nov. 2(1. British battleship Bulwark destroyed de-stroyed by explosion in the Medway river; Germans break through Russian circle near Lodz. Nov. 2ti. American army evacuates Vera Cruz. Nov. 2. Russians fail in ass It on Darkehmen in East Prussia. Nov. 30. Artillery fighting renewed aong the Yser. DECEMBER. Dec. 1. German Reichstag votes new credit of five billion marks; Russians occupy oc-cupy Plotsk on the Vistula; King George visits the army in Flanders; French capture cap-ture Chateau of Vermel I es. Dec. 2. Austrians take Belgrade by storm: Germany claims SO, 000 Russian prisoners since November 11 ; General De Wet captured. Dec. 3. London war office announces landing of Australians and New Zealan-ders Zealan-ders in Egypt; Italian premier in parlia-ir. parlia-ir. -nt finds no reasons for a change of policy; Servians turn on Austrians in three days' battle which ends in a notable nota-ble Servian victory. Dec. 6. Germans occupy Lodz. Dec. 7. French attack to the north of Nancy repulsed. Dec. 8. The German squadron under Rear Admiral Von Spce is attacked in the South Atlantic off the Falkland islands by 'a British fleet under Admiral Sturdee. and the cruisers Schnrnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig and Nuernberg are sunk; British occupy Bassorah. in Asia Minor. Dec. 30. 1 Inofficial reports speak of a German submarine attack on Dover. Dec. 11. Russians claim to have beaten back thre Grman attacks on Warsaw. Dec. 12. Berlin announces the Russians lost lHO.noo men at Lodz: French state left bank of the Yser is free of Germans: Colonel Col-onel Goethals asks two destroyers to protect pro-tect the neutrality of the Canal Zone. Dec. 13. French bombard Metz forts. Dec. 14. The Servians, having cut an Austrian army to pieces, reoccupy - Belgrade. Bel-grade. Dec. 14. British announce the submarine B-U dived under five rows of mines and sank the Turkish battleship Messudieh. Dec. 15. Three thousand U. S. troops ordered to Mexican border at Waco, where wander bullets killed and wounded fifty-two persons on the American side. General attack by the allies in Flanders and France. Dc. 16. Seven German cruisers shell Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby in England; at least ninety-five killed and one hundred wounded. March 12. Geo. Westinghouse, inventor of the airbrake, dies. March 16. Gaston Calmette, editor of the Figaro, sot dead by Mme. Caillaux, wife of French minister of finance. March 23. War Minister Seely of Britain resigns. APRIL. April 1. House of Representatives repeals re-peals the Panama canal tolls bill. April 2. One hundred and seventy killed when storm overtakes Newfoundland sealers seal-ers on the Ice. April 2. Twelve Federal Reserve bank districts announced. April 5. Secretary Daniels bars strong drink from U. S. navy. April 10. Five men of U. S. navy under the stars and stripes are locked up by Huerta agents in Tampico. April 13. Four gunmen, murderers of Herman Rosenthal, are executed. April 14. President Wilson orders entire Atlantic fleet to Vera Cruz to force an apology for the Tampico insult to the American flag. April IS. President Wilson sends ultimatum ulti-matum to Huerta. April 19. Huerta refused to salute U. S. flag. April 20. President asks congress's permission per-mission to use armed forces of the United Uni-ted States against Huerta. House assents; as-sents; senate debates. April 21-2. Admiral Fletcher's marines seize Vera Cruz; 17 Americans and about 250 Mexicans killed. April 22. Carranza says Vera Cruz seizure is unjustified. April 25. A. B. C. Powers offer mediation media-tion to IT. S. and Huerta. April 29. Industrial war in Colorado mines. About seventy-five men, women and children die in all. April 30. Admiral Fletcher turns Vera Cruz over to Genera.1 Funston. MAY. May S. Several hundred die in earthquake earth-quake near Mt. Aetna, Sicily. May 11. Half million pay tribute to Vera Cruz dead in New York. May IS. First commercial cargo goes through Panama canal. May 22. Charles Recker for second time found guilty of murder of Herman Rosenthal. Rosen-thal. May 27. Herman B. Duryea's Darbar II wins the Derby. May 2S. One thousand and thirty-two drowned when the Empress of Ireland, hit by Stnrstad, sinks near Rimouski, St. Lawrence river. JUNE. June 11. Senate has to rk peal Panama canal toll bill; 50 to 33. June 25. H. H. Clatlin Co. and allied concerns throughout the United States fail. June 25. Salem, Mass., laid waste by fire. 20.1X10 homeless. June 2S. Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated. June 30. Mrs. Txuise Bailey mysteriously mysterious-ly shot In the office of Dr. Edwin Carman at Frecport. L. I. JULY. July 15. General Huerta resigns tis president pres-ident of Mexico to Francisco Carbajal. July 1R. Gencial Huerta resigns and leaves Mexico City for Europe. July 23. Austria sends an ultimatum to Servia. July 27. Sir Edward Grey proposes an International conference. i July 2S. Austria and Germany di dine j Sir Edward Grey's proposal; Austria de- . Clares war on S.-rvki. j July 31. The kaiser demands that Rus- sla suspend mobilization within twelve ' hoars; Russia orders general moleliza lion. : AUGUST. j Aug. 1. Germany declares war on Russia; Rus-sia; French cabinet, orders general m-il-.l- ! ization. Aug. 2. German forces enter l.iix- m- "atrocities." Sept. 17. Austrian armies effect junction junc-tion and hold line of San River against Russians. Sept. 20. Germans bombard Reims and injure the famous cathedral. Sept. 22. German submarine sinks British Brit-ish cruisers Aboukir. Cressy and Hogue In the North sea; Russians capture Jaroslav and invest Przemysl. Sept. 215. Britisli troops from India land at Marseilles. Sept. 2S. Germans begin siege of Antwerp: Ant-werp: Russian patrols peneirate Carpathian Carpa-thian passes into Hungary. Sept. 29. Germans deliver fierce attacks around Noyon; French press forward from Toul and Verdun. Sept. 30. German warships bombard Japanese position before Kiauchau. OCTOBER. Oct. 1. Heavy fighting near Arras begins. be-gins. Oct. 2. End of week's battle at Augus-towo Augus-towo in which the Germans are defeated and forced out of Russian territory. Oct 3-5. Ru flans occupy towns In Hungary. Oct. 5. German attacks of Lassigny repulsed; re-pulsed; Belgian government removed from Antwerp to Ostend. Oct. 7. Bombardment of Antwerp begins; be-gins; British submarine sinks German destroyer; de-stroyer; Jananese seize Caroline islands. Oct. S. Zeppi'lins bombard Antwerp. Oct. 0. Antwerp occupied by the Germans. Ger-mans. Oct. 10. French win cavalry engagement around Hazebrouok. Oct. 11. German advanre ia Poland approaches ap-proaches the Vistula and threatens Warsaw; War-saw; Austrian counter-offensive in Galicia. Oct. 12. A Boer commander in the Cape piovince mutinies and martial law is declared de-clared throughout the South African Union. Oct. 13. Belgian, government transferred from Ostend to Havre. Oct. 14. Allies occupy Ypres; battle begins be-gins on the Vistula. Oct. 15. Ostend occupied by the Germans. Ger-mans. ' Oct. 111. British cruiser Hawke sunk by German submarine. Oct. 17. Japanese cruiser Takachimo sunk by torpedo in Kiauchau bay. Oct. 1S. Belgian army effects junction with allied left, battle on from Channel coast to Bille. Oct. 20. English gunboats participate in battle at Nieuport on Belgian coa-t. Oct. 24. Ten days' battle before Warsaw ends in German defeat . Oct. 2ii. After a week of furious fighting German assaulls on allied lino from Nieu-port Nieu-port to Ypres slack-en. Oct. 27. South African sedition spreads. General DeYVet In 'revoll ; Russians pursue pur-sue retreating Germans and reoccupy Lodz and Radom. Oct. 2S. Berlin admits retreat from Warsaw and Ivangorod; German cruiser Emden enters harbor of Penang and torpedoes tor-pedoes Russian cruiser and French destroyer. de-stroyer. Oct. 29. Turkey begins war on Russia by naval nttn.'-ks on Odessa. Novorossysk, and Tboodosla in the Crimea. Oct. 31. Colonel Maritz. robe leader in Cape Province, beaten an; driven out of the colony. NOVEMBER. Nov. 1. A squadron of lice German cruisers, including the Gne...enau and Seharnhorst. defeated a Hrilish squadron oil Ccronel. on tl'.o coast of Chile; Turks bombard S"h:islopol. Nov. 3. German squadron makes a raid to British coast near Yarmouth. Nov. 3. Republican lanuslide in I'nilert Stales eleetir.q;;. Nov. J. German eroiser York s:r;kos mine in .lade l;::y and sii.i.s; hi.,vy lighting light-ing ariuind Y:i:, s. Nov. .1 Fi,u::.n,l and l-Vnvo declare war on Turkiy; 1 ':i r.'a n" ! lis tors bombarded; bom-barded; Ru.-si.; II s l'i ievl;.v J .Ml is la v. |