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Lord Kitchener calls for 100,000 men to join British army
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Assassination od Archduke Franz Fernindand
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia. -
First German aircraft shot down by allied plane
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Battle of Ypres
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Germans attack at Verdun
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First use of the tanks, in the Battle of the Somme
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United States declares war on Germany
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British attack at Passchendaele
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Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates
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Armistice
Warring Parties agree to stop fighting.