Royal irish rifles ration party somme july 1916

World War 1

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    World War 1

  • The formation of the Triple Alliance

  • Great Britain joined Russia and France to form an alliance, known as the Triple Entente.

  • Australian troops made a landing on a hostile shore along the Gallipopli peninsula in Turkey.

  • Archduke Francis Ferdinand (next king of Austria-Hungary) was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia

  • Germany declares war on France and invades neutral Belgium

  • Germany declares war on Russia.

  • Great Britain declares war on Germany and the United States declares it neutrality.

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    The Battle of Liege. (signified the first land battle of the war, as the German Second Army crossed the frontier into neutral Belgium to attack France from the North.

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    First Battle of the Marne

  • First tranches dug on the Western Front

  • The US requests that Germany withdraws it military and naval attaches from the Embassy in washington

  • The Allies begin an orderly evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula.

  • the First division of the AIF from Egypt began arriving in France

  • The British Army suffers the worst single-day death toll in its history as 18,800 soldiers are killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

  • The British Army suffers the worst single-day death toll in its history as 18,800 soldiers are killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

  • The United States of America declares war on Germany

  • The British attempt once more to break through the German lines, this time by attacking positions east of Ypres, Belgium

  • In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky overthrow the Provisional Government

  • Soviet Russia signs an armstice with Germany

  • Prime Minister Hughes puts a second referendum to the Australian people.

    he referendum asked:
    Are you in favour of the proposal of the Commonwealth Government for reinforcing the Commonwealth Forces overseas?

  • The Spring offensive, a series of German attacks along the Western Front in attempt to end WW1

  • A combined French and American attack along the Marne marks the first in a series of coordinated Allied counter-offensives on the Western Front.

  • At 5:10 am, in a railway car at Compiègne, France, the Germans sign the Armistice which is effective at 11 am-the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.