Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday in the Julian calendar. It was the year that saw the beginning of what became known as World War I.

Everything would get better and better. This was the world I was born in. . . . Suddenly, unexpectedly, one morning in 1914 the whole thing came to an end.
Harold Macmillan

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  • Thoughts and pictures come to my mind, . . . thoughts from before the year 1914 when there was real peace, quiet and security on this earth—a time when we didn’t know fear. . . . Security and quiet have disappeared from the lives of men since 1914.
    • Konrad Adenauer, Cleveland West Parker, January 20, 1966, p. 1. Quoted in the article How We Know We Live in the “Last Days”, in The Watchtower magazine, April 1, 1967.
  • Everything would get better and better. This was the world I was born in. . . . Suddenly, unexpectedly, one morning in 1914 the whole thing came to an end.
    • Harold Macmillan, Stated in 1980 former British prime minister. Quoted in the article The Kingdom and “a Holy Place”, in the The Watchtower magazine, September 15, 1982.
  • Since 1914 the world has had a new character: a character of international anarchy.
    • H. R. Trevor-Roper, British historian said in 1954. Quoted in the article When Will God’s Will Be Done on Earth?, in the The Watchtower magazine, February 1, 1971.

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