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World War I

By irati.cillerotic

  • Montenegro declares war on Austria-Hungary

  • Austro-Hungarians declared war on Serbia and subsequently invaded

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

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    World War I

  • Austria-Hungary seeks German support for a war against Serbia

  • Austria-Hungary sends an ultimatum to Serbia

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. Russia mobilizes

  • Began the World War

  • Germany declares war on Russia

  • Germany invades Luxembourg.

  • The United Kingdom declares war on Germany

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.

  • France declares war on Austria-Hungary.

  • The Germans occupy Brussels.

  • Japan declares war on Germany.

  • Battle of Zanzibar, German naval victory

  • Bombardment of Papeete German Light Cruiser Emden attacks Madras

  • Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

  • The United Kingdom begins the naval blockade of Germany.

  • France and the United Kingdom declare war on the Ottoman Empire.

  • Fighting begins at Noyon.

  • The Russian offensive in the Carpathians begins. It will continue until April 12.

  • First Zeppelin raid on Great Britain

  • Germany begins unrestricted submarine warfare against merchant vessels

  • British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles. The Gallipoli Campaign begins

  • The Siege of Przemyśl ends. The Russians capture the fortress.

  • Allied forces land on Gallipoli, landing at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles

  • First Battle of Krithia. The Allied advance is repelled.[

  • The Gorlice-Tarnów begins: the German troops under General Mackensen break through the Russian lines in Galicia.

  • The British liner Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat

  • Third Battle of Krithia. Yet another Allied failure.

  • Mackensen breaks again through the Russian lines in the Lviv area.

  • The Germans occupy Warsaw.

  • Battle of the Nek, a phase of the August Offensive.

  • Germany suspends unrestricted submarine warfare.

  • A French army lands in Salonika and, with the help of British and Italian troops, sets up a Balkan Front.

  • The First Siege of Kut, Mesopotamia, by the Ottomans begins

  • Togoland is divided into British and French administrative zones.

  • Douglas Haig replaces John French as commander of the British Expeditionary Force.

  • The Gallipoli Campaign ends in an Allied defeat and an Ottoman victory

  • The Gallipoli Campaign ends in an Allied defeat and an Ottoman victory

  • The United States of America declares war on Germany

  • Battle of Lagnicourt, part of the Second phase of the Second Battle of Arras.

  • The British forces under siege at Kut surrender to the Ottomans, first siege of Kut ends.

  • The Brusilov Offensive begins

  • The Battle of the Somme begins

  • Battle of Mlali.

  • The Central Powers create a unified command.

  • The Central Powers create a unified command.

  • The Germans occupy Bucharest. The capital of Romania moved to Iaşi.

  • Battle of Magdhaba in the Sinai peninsula

  • Togoland is divided into British and French administrative zones.

  • Battle of Rafa. The British drive the Ottomans out of Sinai.

  • The German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends a telegram to his ambassador in Mexico, instructing him to propose to the Mexican government an alliance against the United States.

  • Greece: King Constantine I abdicates

  • The Third Battle of Ypres (aka Battle of Passchendaele) begins.

  • Battle of Broodseinde (part of the final phases of the Battle of the Third Battle of Ypres).

  • Battle of Broodseinde (part of the final phases of the Battle of the Third Battle of Ypres).

  • Battle of Buqqar Ridge.

  • Russia signs a preliminary armistice with Germany.

  • Woodrow Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points.

  • Germans capture Kiev.

  • Royal Air Force founded by combining the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

  • Treaty of Bucharest between Romania and the Central Powers. It will never be ratified.

  • Action of Arsuf.

  • Battle of Hamel.

  • The Tsar and his family were shot early in the morning by the Bolsheviks.

  • The British capture Jisr ed Damieh in the Battle of Sharon.