1914

YEAR
1914
Previous	1913
Conflict(s)	Mexican Revolution World War I
Next	1915

Events

• By this year Europe had 300 milions of inhabitants. Austria-Hungary had more than 50 milions inhabitants.
• By this year all of Paris seemed to be celebrating Braque and Picasso as the acclaimed masters of a whole new school of art.
• A report by the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Scotland is produced.
• Saint Petersburg is renamed Petrograd.
• Treasure hunters steals the Statue of Anansi from a sacred cave along the shores of the Gold Coast.
• A Mauser pistol, later owned by Lieutenant Musashi, is produced.
• Car horn is invented.
• The excavation of Carchemish ends.
• Panama Canal is opened.
• John Ford arrives in Hollywood.
• Moab schoolhouse burns down.
• First air conditioner is manufactured.
• Edgar Rice Burroughs writes Tarzan of the Apes.
• John Seven Oaks is abandoned when he is a baby, (Approximate)
• The Lewis Gun is invented by Isaac Newton Lewis.
• Bronislaw Malinowski begins studing the Trobriander tribe of Papua New Guinea.
• Pilots begin exchanging shots with revolvers or rifles held to their shoulders.
• Spring: Indy becomes involved in recovering a stolen family heirloom, the Cross of Roger for an Italian immigrant in New York.
• Summer: Indy and his father move back to Princeton, New Jersey.
• 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.
• July
  • July 28: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
  • July 30: Russia orders mobilization of his army.
• August
  • Germans invade Luxembourg and Belgium. They take Liege and Brussels.
  • August 1: Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.
  • August 3: Germany declares war on France.
  • August 4: Great Britain declares war on Germany.
  • August 5: the Schweitzers are informed that, as Germans in French territory, they are prisoner of war.
  • August 13: Russians invade Prussia.
  • August 23: Japan declares war against Germany and occupies the Marshall islands, the Marianas and the Carolines.
  • August 23-24: Battle of Mons. Germans and British battle for the first time. Germans force the main army of the British to retreat from Belgium.
  • August 26: Battle of Tannenburg. Germans defeat Russia, taking 25;000 prisoners and demoralizing the Russian army.
• September
  • Indy accompanies his father in Greece in pursuit of clues to the location of the Holy Grail.
  • September 5-9: Battle of the Marne. Allies halt German advance to Paris.
  • September 6-15: Battle of the Masurian Lakes. Russians defeated and retreat from East Prussia.
• October
  • The Jones returns to Princeton, where Indy attends junior high school.
  • October 10: Germans take Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges.
  • October 30-November 24: Battle of Ypres. Germans fail to reach Channel ports.
• 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.
• 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.
  • November 1: Battle of Coronel. German Admiral von Spee is victorious over the British.
• December
  • Trench warfare begins on both fronts.
  • December 6: Germans take Lodz as they march into Poland.
  • December 8: Battle of the Falkland Islands. British naval victory in the south Atlantic.
  • December 18: Great Britain moves to protect Egypt and the Suez Canal.
• 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."
• Hindu nationalist leaders like Tilak and M.K. Gandhi back the war effort.
• Brazil joins the Allies while Argentina is neutral.
• The United States of America briefly seize the port of Veracruz to protect U.S. oil interests.
• A patent is issued in Paris for a jet engine.
• The Bas-ketmaker culture is verified.
• Yuri is captured and imprisoned in Dusterstadt. He begins creating a robe using strings.
• The A-1 Triad is redesigned to AH-1.

Deaths

• Alexander Zonze
• May: Man in the iron mask
• June: Zed
• June: Igor Ivanovich Stravsky
• June 28: Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo
• Ellen Wilson in White House, Washington DC

Appearances

• Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror (Historical note)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Princess of Peril (Historical note)
• Young Indiana Jones and the Journey to the Underworld
• Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Ruby Cross
• Young Indiana Jones and the Gypsy Revenge
• Young Indiana Jones and the Secret City
• Young Indiana Jones and the Mountain of Fire
• Young Indiana Jones and the Face of the Dragon
• Young Indiana Jones and the Eye of the Tiger
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Revolution (Mentioned only)
• Prisoner of War (Mentioned only)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – "Germany, Mid-August 1916" → Trenches of Hell (Mentioned only)
• Field of Death (Mentioned only)
• The Mata Hari Affair (Mentioned only)
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Special Delivery (Mentioned only)
• The Secret Peace (Historical note)
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hunting for Treasure (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants
• Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx (Mentioned only)
• Indiana Jones: The Search For Buried Treasure (Mentioned only)

Sources

• Grail Diary
• Who Are Those Guys? (Non-fiction source)
• The War to End All Wars (Non-fiction source)
• The Battle of Verdun (Non-fiction source)
• Schweitzer (Non-fiction source)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Sourcebook
• The World of Indiana Jones
• Indiana Jones Artifacts
• Indiana Jones and the Lands of Adventure
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Media Kit
• Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century (Non-fiction source)
• Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed (Non-fiction source)
• V. I. Lenin - History Will Not Forgive Us (Non-fiction source)
• The Secret Life of Edith Wharton (Non-fiction source)
• Woodrow Wilson - American Idealist (Non-fiction source)
• The Best Intentions - The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles (Non-fiction source)
• New Gods for Old (Non-fiction source)
• The World of John Ford (Non-fiction source)
• Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide

External links

• 1914 on Wikipedia