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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on this day in 1914.
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The Austrian government blamed the Serbian government for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife and declared war on Serbia
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British declared war on Germany
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Turkey enters the war on the side of the central powers
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Zeppelin airships dropped bombs on Yarmouth
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Germany sunk the Lusitania which had 100 American Passengers aboard with U-boats
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Entering World War I on the side of the Allies—Britain, France and Russia Italy declares war on Hungary
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In the first combined chlorine–phosgene attack by Germany, against British troops at Wieltje near Ypres, Belgium 88 tons of the gas were released from cylinders causing 1069 casualties and 69 deaths.
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Lloyd George became prime minister of the war time coalition (Dec)
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The Germans mounted an attack on the French at Verdun designed to "bleed the french dry" The battle continued for nine months, the battle was inconclusive
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The first German air raid on London took place. Germans hoped that by making these raids the British air force would focus on defending their land instead of attacking the German aircrafts.
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US declares war in response to the sinking of US ships, by German U-boats
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the Allies launch a renewed assault on German lines in the Flanders region of Belgium, in the region near Ypres, during World War I. The attack starts three months of brutal fighting, known as the Third Battle of Ypres. Started 7/31/1917 ended 11/10/1917
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Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.
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The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, had approached the Central Powers to arrange an armistice and withdraw from a war they saw as the major obstacle to their plan of providing food and land to the long-impoverished Russian peasant population
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Bulgaria signs an armistice with the Allies at Salonika. Under the terms of the agreement, the Bulgarian army is immediately demobilized and its equipment is transferred to the Allies.
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Aboard the British battleship Agamemnon, anchored in the port of Mudros on the Aegean island of Lemnos, representatives of Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire sign an armistice treaty marking the end of Ottoman participation in the First World War.
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The only remaining ally of Germany, Austria-Hungary, signs an armistice with Italy, leaving Germany alone in the war.
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At 11 am in the French town of Redonthes, the Armistice was signed bringing the war to an end(Germany signed the Armistice)
