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1914 BCE
Assassination Of Ferdinand
A Serbian nationalist student, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, when their open car stopped at a corner on its way out of the town. -
Austria declares war
The Austrian government blamed the Serbian government for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife and declared war on Serbia. -
Germans declare war
Germany declared war on Russia. -
Germany declares war again
Germany declared war on France. -
Japan Declares war
Japan declared war on Germany through her alliance with Great Britain, signed in 1902 -
Battle of Mons
The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force. -
Austria invades Serbia
The third attempt to conquer the Serbians in retaliation for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This attempt fails like the two before it, at the hands of highly motivated Serbs fighting on their home ground. -
Dangerous waters
Germany declares the waters surrounding British Isles to be a war zone in which ships can be sunk without warning. -
Armenian holocaust
The Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, mostly citizens within the Ottoman Empire. -
Enter Italy
Italy signs the Treaty of London entering WW1 for the territory they were promised. -
The torpedo, full speed ahead!
A German submarine torpedoes the British passenger liner Lusitania. It sinks idrowning 1,201 persons, including 128 Americans. President Woodrow Wilson sends four diplomatic protests to Germany. -
British bombardment
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. -
Britannica Down
The Britannica sinks in the Aegean Sea killing 30 people. More than 1,000 others were rescued. -
Rafa
the third and final battle to complete the recapture of the Sinai Peninsula by British forces during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War -
Enter US
The USA declares war on Germany -
Landfall
The first US troops land on French soil -
Enter China
CHina declares war on Germany and Austria -
14 Points
President Woodrow Wilson speech in which Wilson outlined his vision for a stable, long-lasting peace in Europe, the Americas and the rest of the world following World War I. -
Armstice
Armistice concluded between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany. -
Peace Conference
Post-World War I peace conference begins in Paris. Some of the most powerful people in the world meet to begin the long, complicated negotiations that would officially mark the end of the First World War -
Treaty Of Versailles
Germany and the Allied Nations (including Britain, France, Italy and Russia) signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war.
