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  • By this year Europe had 300 milions of inhabitants.[1] Austria-Hungary had more than 50 milions inhabitants.[2]
  • By this year all of Paris seemed to be celebrating Braque and Picasso as the acclaimed masters of a whole new school of art.[3]
  • A report by the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Scotland is produced.[4]
  • Saint Petersburg is renamed Petrograd.[5]
  • Treasure hunters steals the Statue of Anansi from a sacred cave along the shores of the Gold Coast.[6]
  • Car horn is invented.[7]
  • The excavation of Carchemish ends.[8]
  • Panama Canal is opened.[8]
  • John Ford arrives in Hollywood.[9]
  • Moab schoolhouse burns down.[10]
  • First air conditioner is manufactured.[8]
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs writes Tarzan of the Apes.[10]
  • The Lewis Gun is invented by Isaac Newton Lewis.[11]
  • Bronislaw Malinowski begins studing the Trobriander tribe of Papua New Guinea.[12]
  • Pilots begin exchanging shots with revolvers or rifles held to their shoulders.[13]
  • Spring: Indy becomes involved in recovering a stolen family heirloom, the Cross of Roger for an Italian immigrant in New York.[14]
  • Summer: Indy and his father move back to Princeton, New Jersey.[15]
  • June 28: Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, is killed in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, setting in motion events that would lead to the first World War.[16][1]
  • July
  • August
  • September
    • Indy accompanies his father in Greece in pursuit of clues to the location of the Holy Grail.[10]
    • September 5-9: Battle of the Marne. Allies halt German advance to Paris.[8]
    • September 6-15: Battle of the Masurian Lakes. Russians defeated and retreat from East Prussia.[8]
  • October
    • The Jones returns to Princeton, where Indy attends junior high school.[10]
    • October 10: Germans take Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges.[8]
    • October 30-November 24: Battle of Ypres. Germans fail to reach Channel ports.[8]
  • Late October-Early November: Indy and his father find themselves involved in a desperate hunt by Chinese, Japanese and German factions for a golden Chinese dragon statuette.[18]
  • November
    • Henry and Indy leave Peking aboard the yacht of Amos Hungerford. They travel west, stopping in the small Indian territory of Killahabad. Indy befriends the Oxford-educated prince, Kasim Khan. Indy confirms the region’s tiger troubles may be tied to a cursed gem recently discovered.[19]
    • November 1: Battle of Coronel. German Admiral von Spee is victorious over the British.[8]
  • December
    • Trench warfare begins on both fronts.[8]
    • December 6: Germans take Lodz as they march into Poland.[8]
    • December 8: Battle of the Falkland Islands. British naval victory in the south Atlantic.[8]
    • December 18: Great Britain moves to protect Egypt and the Suez Canal.[8]
  • In San Francisco, Carruthers shows off his acquisition of a "genuine 15th - century Inca funeral urn" from Bolivia before Henry points out the inscription saying "Made in Japan."[20]
  • Hindu nationalist leaders like Tilak and M.K. Gandhi back the war effort.[21]
  • Brazil joins the Allies while Argentina is neutral.[8]
  • The United States of America briefly seize the port of Veracruz to protect U.S. oil interests.[22]
  • A patent is issued in Paris for a jet engine.[23]
  • The Bas-ketmaker culture is verified.[24]
  • Yuri is captured and imprisoned in Dusterstadt. He begins creating a robe using strings.[25]
  • The A-1 Triad is redesigned to AH-1.[26]

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