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On the outbreak of war, Hitler applies to join the German army and is enlisted in the Sixteenth Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment
In action as a front-line HQ runner Hitler is awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class, for bravery
More than 1000 die when the liner Empress of Ireland sinks after a collision in the St Lawrence river
The Assemblies of God is established as the largest affiliation of Pentecostal churches
Giacomo della Chiesa is elected pope and takes the name Benedict XV
The Panama Canal opens to shipping on a neutral basis just two weeks after the start of World War I
Harold Macmillan joins the King's Royal Rifle Corps, transferring a few months later to the Grenadier Guards
Austria-Hungary plans to attack Serbia, in response to the assassination of the archduke, and seeks a guarantee of German support
A Germany army reaches and enters the Belgian capital, Brussels
The British Expeditionary Force fights a rearguard action to escape encirclement by the Germans at Mons
A German army encircles and almost annihilates a larger Russian force at Tannenberg
from August - Serbian forces repel two Austrian invasions of their territory
A Germany army crosses the river Marne in an advance towards Paris
A French army halts the German advance, just 30 miles from Paris
The Germans adopt a defensive position at the river Aisne in northern France, in the first sign of the trench warfare that will characterize the entire war in the west
from September - the German and French armies, attempting to outflank each other, engage in a race to the sea
British troops are driven to the western front in London Transport double-deckers
The German cruiser Emden is sunk off the Cocos-Keeling islands by an Australian cruiser, the Sydney
An employee of the Metropolitan Railway coins the term Metro-land when promoting the company's services in London's suburbs
Alexander Graham Bell again summons his assistant Thomas Watson (as in 1876), but this time he is in New York and Watson in San Francisco
Radiotelephone messages are transmitted from Arlington in Virginia to the Eiffel Tower in Paris
Franz Kafka publishes Metamorphosis, the tale of a travelling salesman who wakes up to find himself transformed into an insect
Germans make an experimental but ineffective use of chlorine gas against the Russians in Poland
The Germans attempt an advance on the western front, launching the second battle of Ypres
The Germans gain ground at Ypres after the first significant use of chlorine gas
