The Arvada enterprise., 1914-12-31
WHAT YEAR 1914
GAVE TO MANKIND
Chronological Record of Most
important Events Of the
Twelve Months.
EUROPEAN WAR STANDS FIRST
Mexieo's Muddisd AnaIrs-Pope Plus
and Earl Roberts Among the II.
iustrious Dead - Disasters
and sports-FInaneiai and
Industrial happenings.
COMPILED Bv e. w. PickARO.
EUROPEAN WAR STANDS FIRST
COMPILED BY e. W. pickAao.
EUROPEAN WAR

June n.-Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
te,r 10 the Austrian throne. and his NOR
ganatic wife, the duchess OF Hohenberg.
shot and killed by student In Sarajevo.
capital Of BOSNIA. after a futile attempt
had been made to blow them up with .
bomb
July .s.-Austria sent peremptory note
to Servia demanding punishment of all
accOmpiicea In murder of Archduke Fran
c,n Ferdinand and suppression OF all so
cteties which had f0mcnted rebellion In
Bosnia
July @.-Tfoops mobliIzed by Austria.
4crvia. Russia and Montenegro. Servtans
moved their capital to Nish.
fully 8-Austria declared war against
Servfa.
fully z.-Austrtnns invaded servia and
sheIied Belgrade.
July ai.-Katser demanded Russian mob
U,zation cease and c1ar refused. Martial
law proclaimed In Germany.
Stock exchanges In nearly all cities OF
the world closed.
Aug. l.-oermany declared war on Rus
s,x and mObiiized its army. Gar declared
martial law and France Issued decree Of
mobilization. Italy declared Its neutral
ny.
Aug Alderman troops advanced on
France through neutral Luxembourg.
Russia began Invasion Of East Prussia
and Posen.
Aug a-Gcrnmns started three armies
toward France. through Belgium. violat-
Ing the neutrality OF TINT country
french troops crossed German frontier
In VOsEcs mountains.
Aug l-Oreat Britain demanded that
Germany withdraw h.r troops from Rel
GUM Germany and England declared
war on each other and Germany declared
war on Belgium. France declared war on
Germany.
United States proclaimed Its neutrality.
Aug. h.-OermAns repulsed nj Liege by
ReIRianH.
field Marshal Earl Kitchener made
British SECRETARY OF state for war.
Pressdcnt Wilson offered the services OF
the United States as mediator
Aug. 6-AMstria- Hungary declared war
on R0rsia.
British cruiser .AmphIon sunk by Ger
man mine.
Aug. 1.-G-rmana entered Liege.
Aug s-Twenty thousand English troops
landed on French coast. French invaded
and Auehlhausen.
Italy reahlrmed It's neutrality.
Aug Io.--Fvancc. broke on diplomatic
relations with Austria Hungary,
Aug. li.-Frcach driven out OF Ccrnay
and Aueihausen.
AUX. n.-NetmHnN ONCNpicu iiusHeW,
Tongrcs and IT. TrOud Belgium. France
and England declared war on Austria.
Aug. fk-Japnn ISSUED ultimatum to Ger
MANY demanding withdrawal OF German
Wsvships from the Orient and evacuation
Of K,awchau.
Aug n-feiTian a+at Of government
was transferred from Brussels to Ant
wcrp,
beginning ~ nvc days. battle IN Lor-
As, ~
frontier with heavy loss. Beginning OF
Ave DAYS battle between Servinrs md
Austvians on the JRdar. ending In AUS
TRAN rout
Aug ~ -Rruxsc's occupied by the Ger
mans. tn. allies retiring to Antwerp.
Scrviaps defeated 5000 AustriRns at
Shabats. forty miles west of Belgrade.
Aug. 0.-Frcnch rccaptuved Muclhauscn.
Aisacc, tpit WEIR driven back In Lorraine.
Aug. 2i.-Germnns began homhardmcnt
of Nnmur forts and levied war tax of
e4o.ooo0 900 on Brussels md $1,000 900 on
GirRe.
Aug :c.-Gcrmans occupied 0hcnt and
OruGes.
Aug a-yapao declared war on Ger
many.
J.upcvi,,e, France. occupied by the Ger.
U,nnr
Rurs,nns drove back the Germans from,
the eastern frontier.
Aux. et-Thc allied armies Rionr tho
Ino from Mons to the MoseIle defeated
una driven back by the Germans
Germans captured Nnmur. drove tho
French out of Aisacc and advanced from
Lorraine Into GrHncc.
japanese warsh,p- began bomhn RI, mcn'
Of Using Tao. fortified seaport OF Kiau,
ch,u.
Aug. ,s.-Aus,r,a declared war on in.
ia As.aN S, M