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Do wars always start in years ending ‘14’?

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15 March 2014

9:00 AM

15 March 2014

9:00 AM

Years of war

Imaginative souls have tried to compared the situation in Ukraine with that which preceded the first world war 100 years ago. Are years ending in 14 especially violent?
1414 saw the Polish-Teutonic war, one of a dozen skirmishes between Poland and Teutonic knights between the 14th and 16th centuries.

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