WWI TIMELINE

  • The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    him and his wife were were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić.
  • Germany declared war on Russia

    The Imperial German Government had used every effort since the beginning of the crisis to bring a peaceful settlement. but the German Emperor had undertaken
  • Great Britain declared war on Germany .

    in 1914 in response to the German invasion of Belgium. Belgium had been regarded as a neutral state under international law since 1839
  • Germany attempted to blockade Great Britain

    was mainly characterized by the efforts of the Allied Powers, with their larger fleets and surrounding position, to blockade the Central Powers by sea,
  • German submarine sank the British ship Lusitania

    One hundred twenty-eight Americans were lost on the British ship out of 197. This was after many protests of Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare, Many Germans claimed that the British deliberately exposed the Lusitania
  • British troops withdraw from Gallipoli

    even though they withdrew the Wolrd War 1 World War I kept on going
  • Jerusalem fell to the Allies

    the Mufti of Jerusalem and associate of Ali, declared "holy war"
  • Russian signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    between Soviet Russia and Central Powers headed by Germany ... Austria-Hungary before he had to sign the treaty
  • The Ottoman Empires signs an armistice

    The Ottoman Empire collapsed on October 30, 1918, when the Mondros Armistice was signed, after the Ottoman state and its allies had lost the Great War.
  • Fighting Finally ended

    End of WWI on The eleventh hour of the eleventh day .
    Germany signs an armistic .