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1914 28th June | Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated by Princip, a Serbian terrorist |
1914 28th July | The Austrian Government Declares war on Serbia |
1914 1st August | Germany declares war on Russia |
1314 3rd August | Germany declares war on France and poured troops into Belgium as per the Schlieffen Plan |
1914 4th August | Britain declares war on Germany for invading neutral Belgium |
1914 August | The Russians suffer a massive defeat at the hands of the germans at Tannenberg |
1914 13th August | Japan declares war on Germany through her alliance with Great Britain, signed in 1902 |
1914 September | The Russians suffer a massive defeat at the hands of the Germans at the Masurian Lakes |
1914 29th October | Turkey enters the war on the side of the central powers |
1913 2nd November | Russia declares war on Turkey |
1914 5th November | Britain and France declare war on turkey |
1914 Autumn/Winter | The German army in France is eventually halted at the River Marne |
1914 Autumn/Winter | The BEF (British Army) briefly holds up the German advance at Mons |
1914 Autumn/Winter | The British lose a huge number of men at the first battle of Ypres |
1914 Autumn/Winter | By Christmas both sides have dug themselves into the trenches on the western front |
1914 December | The first Zeppelins appear over the English coast |
1915 7th May | Sinking of the US passenger ship 'Lusitania' by U-Boats almost brings the USA into the war |
1915 23rd May | Italy enters the war on the side of the Allies |
1915 2nd April | Poison gas used for the first time (by the Germans) |
1915 April-August | Allies attempt unsuccessfully to relieve pressure on the Russians at the Dardanelles |
1915 February | Winston Churchill resigns as First Lord of the Admiralty and serves on the Western Front |
1916 April | Rumania joined the war on the side of the Allies, but is promptly defeated by the Germans |
1916 31st May | Battle of Jutland - the only truly large scale naval battle of the war (result indecisive) |
1916 28th November | The first German air raid on London |
1916 December | Lloyd George becomes Prime minister of the wartime coalition |
1916 21st February - November | Germans attack Verdun to 'bleed the French dry'. Massive casualties on both sides |
1916 1st July - November | Battle of the Somme. 60,000 British casualties (20,000 of whom died) on the first day |
1917 February | Tsar Nicholas of Russia is overthrown and a provisional government takes his place |
1917 March | Lloyd George appoints the French General Nivelle as supreme war commander over Haig's head |
1917 July - November | British attack Germans at Passchendale (3rd battle of Ypres); result inconclusive |
1917 Lloyd George appoints | Lloyd George appoints Churchill as Minister of Munitions |
1917 | German adoption of unrestricted submarine warfare: a million tonnes of shipping is sunk in the first month. |
1917 6th April | USA declares war on Germany after American ships are sunk by U-boats |
1917 October | Communists seize control of Russia, promising to end war |
1917 November | Battle of Cambrai: First large scale tank battle of the war; result inconclusive |
1917 December | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: The Russians are forced into a humiliating peace with Germany |
1918 April | The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy Air Service are merged to for the Royal Air Force |
1918 Mid October | The Allies had taken almost all of German occupied France and part of Belgium |
1918 30th October | Turkey surrenders to the Allies giving them control of the Dardanelles (Black Sea Straits) |
1918 9th NOvember | Kaiser Wilhelm II Abdicated |
1918 11AM, 11th November | In the french town of Redonthes, the Armistice is signed, bringing the war to an end |
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