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World War 1
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France loss
France loses land to Prussia in the Franco-Prussian war -
German empire
German empire established -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife
Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated by a serbian nationalist in sarajevo -
start of ww1
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Germany invades Belgium
Germany invades Belgium causing Britain to declare war on Germany drawing Australia into the war as it is a part of the British Empire -
Australia takes New Guinea
An australian military expedition takes control of German New Guinea. -
Britain declares war on Ottomans
The British Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire as it allied with Germany -
Gallipoli landing
Australian and British troops land in Gallipoli to threaten the Ottoman capital Constantinople -
'Simpson and his donkey' die
Stretcher bearer John Simpson Kirkpatrick is killed in Gallipoli. -
RMS Lusitania sinks
The passenger liner RMS Luisitania, is sunk by German U-Boat -
Billy hughes as prime minister
Billy Hughes replaces Andrew Fisher as Labor leader and Prime Minister -
Gallipoli ends
The Galli[poli campaign ends with the evacuation of British Empire forces from the peninsula. -
Irish rebel
Irish nationalists rebel against the British rule in the Easter rising. -
The Somme begins
The Somme campaign begins -
The battle of the Fromelles
Australians join the western front wiht the battle of Fromelles -
Russian Revolution
The Russian revolution begins after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II -
US joins the war
The USA declares war on the Germans -
Spring offensive
The Germans launch a spring offensive in an attemp to force a conclusive victory on the Western Front -
The fouteen points
American President Woodrow Wilson issues his 'Fourteen Points' designed to demonstrate the morality of the anti-German cause and to bring about the stable post-war environment -
Amiens
The Battle of Amiens begins a series of encounters that result in a German collapse on the Western front. Australians are prominent in the fighting. -
German surrender
Following the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Germans agree to an armistice concluding hostilities -
German blockade
Allies maintained a naval blockade of Germany, Germany relied on imports this caused an estimated 523,000 civilian deaths -
Germany "De-clawed"
Germans are restricted to 100,00 soldiers and no tanks, U-boats or aeroplanes after Treaty of Versailles
