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(EU) Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
After the assassination of the Archduke, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Which is the start of WW1. -
(EU) Archduke Franz Ferdinand Shot in Sarajevo
On this day, the Archduke of Austria-Hungary was shot by Gavrilo Princip. This event is often considered the spark of WW1, which would grow because of entangling alliances. -
(EU) Germany and Russia
Germany declared war on Russia. -
Britain declares war on Germany
Germany declares war on Russia, France, and Belgium. Britain declares war on Germany. Austria declares war on Russia. Montenegro declares war on Austria. France declares war on Austria. Britain declares war on Austria. Montenegro declares war on Germany. Japan declares war on Germany. Austria declares war on Belgium. -
(EU) Germany and France
Germany declares war on France. Germany also invades Belgium. " Britain then sends an ultimatum, rejected by the Germans, to withdraw from Belgium.". -
(EU) Britain and France declare war on an empire.
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire -
Christmas Truce
The sound of Christmas carols across No Man’s Land encourages troops from both sides to exchange greetings. The truce is spontaneous and was experienced by hundreds, perhaps thousands, of soldiers. -
(US-EU) Sinking of the Lusitania
The Lusitania got hit by a torpedo, from a German submarine. Many people died. It was also carrying lots of rifle ammunition and artillery shells. -
(EU) The Battle of the Verdun
Over the next 10 months, the French and German armies at Verdun, France, suffer over 700,000 casualties, including some 300,000 killed. By the battle’s conclusion, entire French villages had been wiped from the map; they were subsequently memorialized as having “died for France.” More than a century after the battle’s conclusion, over 10 million shells remained in the soil around Verdun, and bomb-clearing units continued to remove some 40 tons of unexploded munitions from the area annually. -
(US) Wilson Re-elected
Wilson is re-elected as president again. -
(US-EU) Zimmermann Note
The message came in the form of a coded telegram dispatched by Arthur Zimmermann, a Staatssekretär (a top-level civil servant) in the Foreign Office of the German Empire on 19 January 1917. The message was sent to the German ambassador to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckardt. -
(US-EU) The United States Declares War/ Congress Votes to Declare War
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. -
Congress passes the Espionage Act
In June 1917, Congress passed the Espionage Act. The piece of legislation gave postal officials the authority to ban newspapers and magazines from the mails and threatened individuals convicted of obstructing the draft with $10,000 fines and 20 years in jail. -
(US-EU) Spanish Influenza
This was a deadly flu. It infected over 500 million people. It was caused by the H1N1 type of influenza virus, which is similar to bird flu of today, mainly H5N1 and H5N2. -
(EU) Armistice
Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France at 5:45 am,[1] for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918.
