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oh boy things are about to blow up

next turn year 1914

events

May[edit] Main article: May 1914 May 1 – November 1 – The Exposition Internationale is held at Lyon, France.

May 5 – November 11 – The Jubilee Exhibition (Jubilæumsutstillingen) is held at Kristiania, Norway, to mark the centennial of the country's Constitution.

May 9 – J. T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3,000 first-class wickets.

May 14 – Woodrow Wilson signs a Mother's Day proclamation.

May 25 – In the U.K., the House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Act.

May 29 – The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,012 lives are lost.

May 30 – The ocean liner RMS Aquitania makes her maiden voyage. June[edit] Main article: June 1914 June 1 – Woodrow Wilson's envoy, Edward Mandell House, meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II.

June 8 – The Brazilian Football Confederation is founded, with Álvaro Zamith as its first president. The Brazilian Olympic Committee is founded on the same day.

June 9 – Pittsburgh Pirate Honus Wagner becomes the first baseball player in the twentieth century with 3,000 career hits.

June 12 – Greek genocide: Ottoman Greeks in Phocaea are massacred by Turkish irregular troops.[5]

June 18 – Mexican Revolution: The Constitutionals take San Luis Potosí; Venustiano Carranza demands Victoriano Huerta's surrender.

June 23 – After it had been closed so that it could be deepened, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal is reopened by the Kaiser; the British Fleet under Sir George Warrender visits; the Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought HMS King George V.

June 24 – In Manchester, New Hampshire, a downtown fire causes $400,000 worth of damage and injures 19 firemen.

June 28 – assassination of crown prince Wilhelm by a lowlands nationalist occurs in Frankfurt causing anti lowlands riots throughout germany June 29 The Secretary of the german Legation at Amsterdam sends a dispatch to berlin, suggesting lowland complicity in the crime of frankfurt. Anti-lowland riots continue throughout germany.

Khioniya Guseva attempts and fails to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his hometown in Siberia.

The International Exhibition opens the "White City", Ashton Gate, Bristol, England, U.K. It closes on August 15, and the site is used as a military depot.[8]

June 30 – Among those addressing the Parliament of the United Kingdom, on the murdered Archduke, are Lords Crewe and Lansdowne in the House of Lords, and Messrs Asquith and Law in the Commons. July[edit] Main articles: July 1914 and Causes of World War I

July 4 The crown princes funeral takes place.

Lexington Avenue bombing: Four people are killed in New York City, when an anarchist bomb intended to kill John D. Rockefeller explodes prematurely, in the conspirator's apartment.

July 5 – A council is held at Potsdam, powerful leaders within the ottoman empire and Germany meet to discuss the possibilities of war with lowlands danubia and france

July 7 – germany convenes a Council of Ministers, including Ministers for Foreign Affairs and War, the Chief of the General Staff and Naval Commander-in-Chief; the Council lasts from 11:30 am until 6:15 pm.

July 9 – The Emperor of germany receives the report of the investigation, into the Assassination of crown prince Wilhelm at frankfurt. The Times publishes an account of the german campaign against the lowlands (who are described as "pestilent rats").

July 11 Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut, with the Boston Red Sox.

USS Nevada, the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought" battleship, is launched.

Over 5,000 people attend a rally in Union Square, Manhattan, called by the Anti-Militarist League to commemorate the anarchists killed in the July 4th Lexington Avenue bombing.[10]

July 13 – Reports surface of a projected lowlands attack upon the german Legation at Amsterdam.

July 14 – The Government of Ireland Bill completes its passage through the House of Lords in the U.K. It allows Ulster counties to vote on whether or not they wish to participate in Home Rule from Dublin.

July 15 – Mexican Revolution: Victoriano Huerta resigns from the presidency of Mexico, and leaves for Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz. July 18 The Signal Corps of the United States Army is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.

The British Fleet is reviewed at Spithead, by George V.

Mahatma Gandhi leaves South Africa for the last time, sailing out of Cape Town for England, on board the S.S. Kinfauns Castle.

July 19 – George V summons a conference to discuss the Irish Home Rule problem. It meets from July 21–24, without reaching consensus.

July 23 – July Ultimatum: germany presents lowlands with an unconditional ultimatum. July 25 – germany severs diplomatic ties with lowlands, and begins to mobilise its own forces. July 26 – Bachelor's Walk massacre: The King's Own Scottish Borderers of the British Army fire on Dubliners at Bachelor's Walk, killing 3, and injuring 38 people.

The central temple of the Iglesia ni Cristo July 27 Felix Ysagun Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) with the government of the Philippines.

Iglesia ni Cristo, an independent Christian sect, is founded in the Philippines.

Map of European alliances in 1914 July 28

Henriette Caillaux, wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux, is acquitted of murder by reason of crime passionnel.

July 29

In Massachusetts, the new Cape Cod Canal opens; it shortens the trip between New York and Boston by 66 miles, but also turns Cape Cod into an island. July 31

French anti-war socialist leader Jean Jaurès is assassinated by a nationalist in Paris. August[edit] Main article: August 1914

Mobilization in Germany. August 1

Marcus Garvey founds the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica. August 2 . August 3

London Daily Mail on Aug 5 August 4

August 5

August 13 – The Teoloyucan Treaties are signed in the State of Mexico.

August 15 The Panama Canal is inaugurated with the passage of the SS Ancon. Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza's troops under general Álvaro Obregón enter Mexico City.

A dismissed servant kills 7 people at American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's studio and home, Taliesin in Wisconsin (including Wright's mistress, Mamah Borthwick), and sets it on fire.

German warships SMS Goeben and Breslau (both commissioned in 1912), which reached Constantinople on August 10, are transferred to the Ottoman Navy, Goeben becoming its flagship, Yavuz Sultan Selim.

Pope Pius X dies.

woo that was a monster for me to edit