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The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 set off a chain of events that led to war in early August 1914. -
Austria-Hungary declares war ln Serbia
After sending and rejecting the ultimatum, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, which would be the first of many declarations to give way to the First World War. -
Germany declares war on Russia
Russia began to mobilize its reserve army near its border with Austria-Hungary. Consequently, on 31st July, German leadership in Berlin demanded Russian demobilization. As there was no response, Germany declared war on Russia onthe same day. -
Germany declares war on France
Britain declared war on Germany in support of Belgium and France, and on Turkey because of her alliance with Germany. -
German troops enter to belgium
To avoid the French fortifications along the French-German border, the troops had to cross Belgium and attack the French Army by the north. -
Austro-Hungarian troops invade Serbia
The immediate reason for Austria's ultimatum was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo, Bosnia on June 28, 1914 by the Bosnian Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip. -
French troops enter Lorraine
The French army could not face the German advance, which intended to meet the objectives set in the Schlieffen Plan. -
British Expeditionary Force arrives in France
After the Boer War, the British war minister, Richard Haldane, created the British Expeditionary Army (BEF), in case it was necessary to take part in a foreign war. By August 1914, there were about 120,000 soldiers in the BEF. -
Battle of Mons begins
The British Expeditionary Force arrived in France on 14th August, 1914. On the way to meet the French Army at Charleroi, the 70,000 strong BEF met the advancing German Army at Mons. -
Battle of Marne begins
The result was an Allied victory over the German army.The battle was the high point of the German advance into France and the pursuit of the Allied armies after the border battles in August that lasted until outskirts of Paris. -
Battle of Albert
After the failure to take Lorraine, General Noel De Castlenau and the French 2nd Army was sent to the Somme region of the Western Front. On 25th September, 1914, Castlenau ordered a frontal attack on German positions. The French attacks were initially successful but eventually they were driven back beyond the town of Albert. -
Battle of Arras
French Tenth army attempted to outflank German forces on the Western Front by advancing along a line between Arras and Lens. -
Battle of Ypres
Ypres, a medieval town in Belgium, was taken by the German Army at the beginning of the war. However, by early October, 1914, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was able to recapture the town. -
Canadian troops arrive in Britain 16th october 1914
Over 30,000 Canadian soldiers reached Britain for training at Salisbury Plain in October. -
Christmas Truce on the Western Front
The Christmas Truce was a series of unofficial ceasefires that stretched across the Western Front in World War I around Christmas 1914. -
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
The Italian declaration opened up a new front in World War I, stretching 600 kilometers along Italy's border with Austria-Hungary. -
Battle of Jutland
It was the biggest naval combat of World War I, the only major direct confrontation between two fleets in the entire war. The tactical victory went to the German side. Not only did they lose fewer ships while doing considerable damage to the Royal Navy, but the strategic victory was undoubtedly British. At the end of the battle and despite the losses they were still in combat condition, while the German fleet decided to withdraw. -
Lord Kitchener killed at sea
He was drowned in HMS Hampshire. Kitchener was on his way to a secret meeting with the Russians at Petrograd. This loss was seen as a serious setback to the British war effort. -
King George V changes name to Windsor
Britain's King George V orders the British royal family to dispense with the use of German titles and surnames, changing the surname of his own family, to Windsor. -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Talks to pacify the Eastern Front of World War I began in December 1917. Russia sent the then People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Leon Trotsky, and the diplomat and revolutionary Adolph Joffe. -
The defeat of the German army on the Western Front
The number of troops in the German army had been severely depleted after four years of war, and its economy and society were under great internal stress. After strings of military defeats, German troops began to surrender in large numbers. When the Allied forces broke through the German lines at great cost. -
The treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty that was signed in that city at the end of the First World War by more than fifty countries. This treaty ended what would be "the last war", it tried to limit further military adventures by Germany. -
The treaty of Saint-Gernmain-in-Laye 10th September 1919
The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye definitively established the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and in its place the Republic of Austria was recognized as a "successor state", which was limited to some area in which it was spoken only German. -
The Neuilly-sur-Seine treaty 27th November 1919
In accordance with the stipulations of the treaty, Bulgaria recognized the new kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia), promised to pay four hundred and fifty million dollars in compensation and reduced its Army to twenty thousand soldiers. In addition, it lost four enclaves of western land in favor of Yugoslavia and ceded western Thrace to the Kingdom of Greece, leaving it without access to the Aegean Sea. -
The Trianon treaty
The Trianon peace treaty was signed after the end of World War I, on June 4, 1920, between the Allies and the Kingdom of Hungary. It was signed in the Grand Palace of Trianon, in Versailles, France. The agreement established the new situation of Europe, with the States that were to replace the old kingdom of Hungary, after the disappearance of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire.