By 1914, Germany ranks as the second strongest naval power.
Russia, over the past decade, has nearly doubled its annual spending on the army.
Felix Warburg reportedly travels to Germany in 1914 to establish a central bank there.
Mohandas K. Gandhi returns to India after 21 years in South Africa.
The German Reichstag, in 1914, reportedly considers a eugenic sterilization law.
1914 sees a resurgence of the Illuminati in Austria.
Serbian nationalists assassinate Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand, igniting the spark that leads to the Great War.
The 1914 assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne sparks the mobilization of all the Great Powers.
Austria-Hungary issues a 48-hour ultimatum to Serbia, then declares war on Serbia upon Serbia’s unwillingness to grant Austria a free hand in crushing anti-Austrian movements in Serbia.
Germany declares war on Russia.
The Allies begin as Britain, Belgium and France; the Central Powers as Austria-Hungary and Germany.
Turkey and Bulgaria will soon join the Central Powers, and Russia and Italy (and eventually, the US) will join the Allies.
The war will spread from Europe to Asia and Africa, making a world war of the long-anticipated Great War.
Austrian watercolorist Adolf Hitler, already obsessed with the "danger" that world Jewry poses to the "Aryan race”, joins the Bavarian Sixteenth Regiment in August, 1914.
The Second Russian Army, under General A. V. Samsonov, invades East Prussia upon the outbreak of hostilities.
German commander Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, his chief of staff, direct movements that encircle the Russians and enable the Germans to take about 90,000 prisoners.
Samsonov shoots himself, and his remaining men are forced to retreat from what will become known as the Second Battle of Tannenburg.
I. G. Farben, headed in 1914 by Carl Duisberg, reportedly pushes for chemical warfare.
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute director Haber, a fervent patriot, plays a major role in developing poison gases for the Central Powers, arning himself the title of “father of chemical warfare.” I. G> Farben is soon producing a reported 40 tons of chlorine gas per day.
Thomas Masaryk and Eduard Benes, with strong support from Slovak leaders, form the provisional government of Czechoslovakia in 1914.
Einstein advances to the prestigious and relatively high-paying post of professor at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft in Berlin.
He also holds a cross-appointment at the University of Berlin, but ceases to teach regular university courses.
He does not reapply for German citizenship.
