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The declaration of war
On July 28, Austria declared war on Serbia and bombed Belgrade after giving it an ultimatum on July 23. On the 30th of that month, Russia decreed general mobilization to intimidate Austria. On August 1, Germany, Austria's ally, and France, Russia's ally, proclaimed general mobilization. That same day Berlin declared war on Russia. -
Austria ataca Serbia en la primera guerra mundial
Gavrilo Princip is arrested. Sarajevo, June 28, 1914. In response, the Austro-Hungary empire sends an ultimatum to Serbia. If Serbia does not meet the required conditions, the Austro-Hungarian army will invade Serbia. -
Assassination of Archduke farncisco
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip. -
Italy enters the war alongside the Entente.
Despite being one of the member states of the Triple Alliance, along with Austria-Hungary and Germany, Italy did not declare war on the Triple Entente in August 1914, as it considered that said alliance was defensive in nature and the Austro-Hungarian aggression against Serbia did not force Italy to take part in the conflict. -
The Battle of the Marne
At the beginning of September 1914, after a month of lightning offensive in Belgium and northeastern France, German troops were a few dozen kilometers from Paris. The French government went to Bordeaux. -
The Dardanelles
On April 25, 1915, British and French forces landed in Gallipoli, in the Turkish Strait of the Dardanelles, controlling access to Constantinople (now Istanbul) and the Black Sea, closed by Turkey - an ally of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire - - at the beginning of the war. -
Battles of Verdun and the Somme
On July 1, 1916, the United Kingdom launched an assault on the German trenches at the Battle of the Somme, and for the next five months its soldiers suffered, died and were wounded in one of the most terrifying battles of attrition of the First War. World. -
Verdún
On February 25, 1916, the Germans, who wanted to "completely bleed" the French army and force Paris to sue for peace, launched a major offensive north of Verdun. -
La batalla del Somme
La batalla del Somme está considerada la más sangrienta de la guerra con 1,2 millones de muertos, heridos o desaparecidos. Los alemanes y los Aliados (en su mayoría británicos) se enfrentaron en el norte de Francia entre julio y noviembre de 1916. -
Russia signs peace with Germany through the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia signs peace with Germany through the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.