1914

Events

• April 11 – Margaret C. MacDonald is appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing service band.
  She becomes the first woman in the British Empire to reach the rank of Major.

• June 28 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated, triggering the start of World War I.

• July 21 – Sinope, the outermost known moon of Jupiter, is discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Lick Observatory.

• September 14 – Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS AE1 vanishes while on combat patrol near Papua New Guinea.
  This begins one of Australia's longest naval mysteries: the sunken vessel will not be discovered for another 103 years.

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