The following events occurred in August 1914:
Headline from newspaper Le Soir, 4 August 1914, declaring Germany had violated Belgium's neutrality.
An imagined depiction of the massacre during the Battle of Dinant by the American artist George W. Bellows (1918)
A Berlin crowd listens as a German officer reads Wilhelm II's order for mobilisation, 1 August 1914.
Belgian troops defending a Herstal suburb, just north-east of Liège.
The following events occurred in January 1914:
A Benoist XIV over Tampa Bay in Florida in 1914.
Prime Minister Brătianu
Sakurajima erupting view from Kagoshima, Japan.
SMS Szent István in the Fažana Strait