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1914 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2026. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1914 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1914

• January 26, 1914 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Tiger in Chinese astrology.
• February 26, 1914 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
• February 28, 1914 – The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
• May 16, 1914 – The first ever National Challenge Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2–1.
• July 23, 1914 – Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
• July 26, 1914 – Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.
• August 21, 1914 – World War I: The Battle of Charleroi, a successful German attack across the River Sambre which pre-empted a French offensive in the same area.
• November 9, 1914 – SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
• December 16, 1914 – World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
• December 23, 1914 – World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.

Who Were Born On 1914?

• February 2, 1914 – Eric Kierans, Canadian economist and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Communications (d. 2004)
• April 17, 1914 – George W. Davis, American art director (d. 1984)
• May 17, 1914 – Robert N. Thompson, American-Canadian chiropractor and politician (d. 1997)
• June 11, 1914 – Jan Hendrik van den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (d. 2012)
• July 20, 1914 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (d. 2005)
• September 11, 1914 – Patriarch Pavle of Serbia (d. 2009)
• October 5, 1914 – Zhang Zhen, Chinese general and politician (d. 2015)
• October 28, 1914 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995)
• November 25, 1914 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and coach (d. 1999)
• December 14, 1914 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichord player (d. 2003)