5

Susan Coons (Killian) 76
Lott Russon 85

4

Bernard Snow (II) 58
Nancy Jane Killian (Snow) 54
John Sylvester Perry 62
Evelone (Eva) Maude Matson (Perry) 57
Anders Peder Jensen 89
Elijah Peck Sr. 64 died
Charlotte Russon (Peck) 63
Lawson Green Wilson 67

3

William Nephi Lowe 45
Mary Louisa Powell (Lowe) 35
Charles Eben Snow 30
Edith Estella Perry (Snow) 33
Martin Peterson 49
Elisha Peck Jr. 43
Elizabeth Jane Wilson (Peck) 38

2

Earl Franklin Lowe 11
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 8
Harry Chester Peterson 12
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 12

General

Population: 1.81 Billion*

• Business: Industrial Workers of the World organize
• Entertainment: Writers include Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Joyce Kilmer (Trees), Theodore Dreiser, Robert Frost, Elmer Rice (first use of flashback), ER Burroughs (Tarzan), Booth Tarkington, Bertrand Russell, DW Griffith, Gustav Meyrink (Der Golem)
  Music includes Irving Berlin, Paul Graener, Richard Strauss, Stravinski
  Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli makes debut
  Popular songs include Colonel Bogey March, Saint Louis Blues, Play A Simple Melody, Syncopated Walk, Twelfth Street Rag, Blame It on the Blues, Missouri Waltz
  Art includes Augustus John, Matisse, Braque
  Films include Charlie Chaplin in Making a Living and Tillie's Punctured Romance, The Golem, The Destruction of Carthage, the Little Angel
• Finance: International gold standard ends with outbreak of WWI
  World stock prices plummet and world exchanges suspend trading
• Medicine: Dr. Alexis Carrel performs first successful heart surgery on dog
• Military: WWI begins
• Religion: Start of Jehovah's Witnesses - Jehovah's Witnesses predict end of the world
  Pope Pius X dies and Pope Benedict XV (Giacomo Della Chiesa) appointed
• Science: George Washington Carver publishes research on peanuts and sweet potatoes
  Fossilized bacteria discovered by Walcott
  Neanderthal baby excavated
  Jeans writes about radiation and quantum theory
  Fertilization through peat discovered by Bottomley
  Broad writes about perception physics and reality
  Goddard (USA) begins rocketry experiments
  Kendall prepares pure thyroxin for treatment of thyroid deficiencies
  Watson writes about behavior and psychology
• Transportation: First airlines begin with heavier-than-air flight
• Deaths: Chemist Sir Joseph Swan, Field Marshal Earl Roberts, Poet Theodore Watts-Dunton, British statesman Joseph Chamberlain, Naturalist John Muir, Ambrose Bierce, Writer Bertha von Suttner, King Carol of Romania, Pope Pius X, Archduke and Mrs. Ferdinand, Cartoonist John Tenniel, French poet Frederic Mistral

Africa

• General: European warfare transfers to German colonies - Britain and France occupy
• Egypt: Proclaimed British protectorate
• German East Africa: Railway built from Lake Tanganyika to Dar es Salaam
• Nigeria: Amalgamation of N and S provinces
• Togoland: Germany's colony of Togoland falls to French, African, and British forces in German East Africa
• South Africa: Drought

Americas

• Canada: Entry into war against Germany
  Completion of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
• Haiti: Gen. Zamon becomes president
• Mexico: Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata attack Mexico City
  U.S. sailors arrested
  3000 US Marines occupy Veracruz to safeguard US Interests - President Huerta resigns
  End of instability as Carranza assumes throne
• Panama: Panama canal opens under US auspices

Asia

• Japan: Japan takes the German-leased territory in Shandong province China
  Tsunami
  Sakurajima erupts
• New Guinea: Conquered by Australia - leaves German hands and renamed Papua New Guinea
• Philippines: Eruption of Mayon
• Tibet: Dalai Lama concedes Chinese rule
• Vietnam: 100,000 Vietnamese go to France to serve in labor battalions in WWI

Europe

• General: Start of WWI
  Trench warfare begun
  Christmas Truce
• Austria-Hungary: Archduke Ferdinand assassinated by Serbian/Bosnian student
  Emperor Franz Joseph declares war on Serbia over assassination
  Britain France and Russia declare war
  Sarajevo crisis leads to Austrian bombardment of Belgrade
  War declared on Trukey
• Belgium: Germany invades
• Bulgaria: Partnership with Germany
• Cyprus: US annexes Cyprus inciting anti-US sentiment and the ABC mediation
• France: Pacifist Jean Jaures assassinated
  Calmette-Caillaux affair in France – Mme. Caillaux kills Gaston Calmette
  On Western Front battle of the Marne – allies halt German advance on Paris – Battle of Ypres prevents German army reaching Channel ports
• Germany: War declared on Russia, France and Belgium
  Launch of the Schlieffen Plan
  Tear-gas shells developed
  Troops halted on battle of Marne
  Germans start using airships for spying and dropping bombs
  Mine output has increased 800% since 1871
• Great Britain: WWI
  Anglican Church disestablished in Wales
  Hostilities break out in England against landlordism before WWI
  Germany drops bomb on Dover
  Irish Home Rull bill passed - suspended due to war
  Hogue the British Navy cruser sunk by German boat killing 1400
  During Battle of Mons British see angels between them and Germans with cavalry – Germans say they say large number of horsemen in a location where there were no British
  First single-seater fighter planes built
  Bank of England authorized to issue money in excess of statutory limit
• Poland: Germans take Lodz
• Russia: Russia joins war as Serbian ally
  Advance into Germany halted at Tannenburg
  Famine and Influenza
  St. Petersburg changed to Petrograd
• Serbia: Assassin kills Austria-Hungary Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  Peace treaty with Turkey
  Serbia and Montenegro declare war on Germany

Middle East

• General: German warships Breslau and Goeben escape through Dardanelles
• Mesopotamia: Campaign to protect oil supply begins
• Ottoman Empire: Attack on Russia results in Allies declaring war
  Peace treaty with Serbia
  Start of Hellenic holocaust as Armenians massacred

Pacific

• General: Japan takes over many German colonies in Pacific
• Antarctica: EH Shackleton leads Antarctic expedition
• Australia: Australia takes over the colony of Kaiser Wilhelmsland
  Drought begins in southwest
• New Zealand: Eruption of Whakari

President:

Pres: Woodrow Wilson

General

• Business: Federal Trade Commission created
  Clayton Antitrust Act passed - Antitrust laws strengthened
  Industrial Workers of the World organize
  Ford doubles wages of his workers, stimulating local economies and giving workers spare money
• Culture: Annie Oakley starts promoting firearms for women
  Birth of a Nation debuts on film
  10.5 million immigrants enter US from SE Europe between 1905 and now
• Education: Federal Bureau of Educaton adopts The Gary Plan by Wirt involving bells and rotating schedules
• Entertainment: American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) founded
• Finance: USA GNP per capita reaches five times that of Europe
• Medicine: Typhoid Mary (Mallon) recaptured
• Military: Wilson issues Neutrality Proclamation
  US troops occupy Veracruz Mexico
• Politics: US meets with Kaiser
• Sports: Jack Dempsey begins fighting under name Kid Blackey
• Transportation: Panama Canal opens
  US Court decides patent suit on airplanes in favor of Wright Brothers against Glenn Curtiss

East

• Massachusetts: Cape Cod Canal opens between Cape Cod and Buzzard's Bay
• Washington D.C.: Henry Bacon designs Lincoln Memorial
Yale Bowl opened seating 80k

Midwest

South

• Louisiana: New Orleans gets seven new pumps
• West Virginia: Mine disaster kills 151

West and Pacific

• Colorado: Ludlow massacre when National Guard fire on striking coal miners – many children killed
• Utah: WW organizer Joe Hill (Joel Hagglund) was accused of murder and, despite only circumstantial evidence, was executed by the state of Utah in 1915

President

Pres: Joseph F. Smith

Membership: 454,718

Temples: 4

Other

• Relief Society Magazine begins publication (ends 1970 with Ensign)
• Relief Society introduces uniform lessons
• Missionaries removed from France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium
• Harding elected senator from Ohio and becomes friends with Reed Smoot
• End of Senator Kearns the anti-Mormon printer
• Violence against the Church in Britain ebbs due to war
• Utah receives favorable press for response to war until 1917