World War 1

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  • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

  • Austra-Hungary demands Serbia arrest the leaders of the Black Hand

  • Serbia appeals to Russia for help

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • Germany declares war on Russia

  • Germany declares war on France

  • Moltke orders the Schlieffen Plan to proceed

  • German troops enter Belgium

  • Great Britain declares war on Germany

  • Lord Kitchener calls for 100,000 men to join British Army

  • Big Bertha used against Liege Forts

  • Austro-Hungarian troops invade Serbia

  • French troops enter Lorraine

  • British Expeditionary Force arrives in France

  • Battle of Mons begins

  • French Army abandons Plan 17

  • Battle of Tannenberg begins

  • Battle of Heligoland

  • War Propaganda Bureau Writers Conference

  • Battle of the Marne begins

  • French troops attack German Army at the River Aisne

  • Battle of Albert

  • Battle of Arras

  • First German aircraft shot down by Allied plane

  • Battle of Ypres

  • Canadian troops arrive in Britain

  • Turkey joins Central Pwers

  • Anglo-Indian invasion of Mesopotamia

  • Farman MF-11 carries out first night bombing raid

  • Christmas Truce on the Western Front

  • South African forces occupy Swakopmund

  • Battle of Dogger Bank

  • BEF attacks at Neuve Chapelle

  • Allied naval attack on the Dardanelles

  • Roland Garros uses deflector plates

  • German gas attack at Ypres

  • Allied landings at Gallipoli

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

  • Artois Offensive

  • Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary

  • Germany abandons Ypres offensive

  • Asquith forms coalition government

  • First Zeppelin raid on London

  • Isonzo Offensive begins

  • Suvla Bay Offensive at Gallipoli

  • Grand Duke Nikolai sacked as Commander-in-Chief

  • First tank demonstrated to British military leaders

  • Anglo-French Offensive at Artois-Loos

  • Allied troops land at Salonika

  • Edith Cavell executed

  • Sir Douglas Haig, new BEF commander

  • Britain introduces conscription

  • German Verdun Offensive

  • Germany declares war on Portugal

  • Battle of Jutland

  • Russian Brusilov Offensive

  • Lord Kitchener killed at sea

  • Start of Anglo-French Somme Offensive

  • Italian Gorizia Offensive

  • Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff

  • First use of British tanks at Flers-Courcelette

  • French recapture Douaumont Fort at Verdun

  • Somme Offensive ends

  • Start of Nivelle Offensive

  • French tanks used for the first time in battle

  • British attack at Messines

  • Italian Caproretto Offensive

  • Wilson announces 14 Points Peace Programme

  • 3rd Battle of the Aisne begins

  • Allied breakthrough at Albert

  • Allied forces capture the Hindenburg Line

  • Armistice

  • Paris Peace Conference