They weaved a whole little myth around 1914, the folllow up was that Jesus came in 1919 inspected the whole world and chose them out of everyone else as th eonly worthy people on earth and gave them authority over all his belongings on earth as His FDS (what a grandiose and shamelessly self promoting lie) so if 1914 didn't happen then 1919 also has to be a lie and the FDS status, the basis of the GB's authority, has been a con.
That's exactly right Greendawn. Quite a bit of watchtower chronology hangs on
1914 being the year that Daniel's prophecy of the end of the gentile times being
right, which is why they hang on to 607 being the date for Jerusalem's destruction
by the Babylonians, despite so much archaelogical evidence that says the year
was 586/587.
Apart from Jesus return, inspection and appointing of the fds, their grandiose
theory about the 7 trumpets of Revelation 8 being 7 conventions held by the jws,
or bible students as they were then known, between 1922 and 1928 would be
shown to be the bs it obviously is if they abandoned 607 and 1914.