1914

"On June 28 1914, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo by the 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia. Franz Ferdinand's assassination led to the July Crisis and precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia, which in turn triggered a series of events that eventually led - four weeks after his death - to Austria-Hungary's allies and Serbia's allies declaring war on each other, starting World War I."--Sholem Stein

"The incident [vandalism of the Rokeby Venus] has come to symbolize a particular perception of feminist attitudes towards the female nude; in a sense, it has come to represent a specific stereotypical image of feminism more generally." --The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality (1992), p.35, Lynda Nead.

On Monday March 2 1914, at 2 a.m., a famous collection was sold by public auction at the hôtel Drouot, rooms Nos 7 and 8. That of la Peau de l'Ours."--Anecdotiques (1926) by Apollinaire

Centrale elettrica (1914) - Antonio Sant'Elia

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1914 (MCMXIV) was the 5th year of the 1910s decade.

This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip.

Events

July Crisis marks the start of World War I
Suffragette Mary Richardson slashes the Rokeby Venus
By 1914, Africa had only two independent nations, Liberia, a nation founded by free black Americans earlier in the nineteenth century, and the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia in East Africa.

March 28 - Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (d. 1997)
August 26 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1996)
Asger Jorn, Danish member of the Situationist International, and a prolific artist and essayist. (d. 1973)
Mario Bava (1914-1980)
William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
Marguerite Duras (1914 - 1996)
Henri Langlois (1914 - 1977)
Norman McLaren (1914 - 1987)
Sun Ra (1914 - 1993)

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