WW1

By roman6298

  • Bismarck

    Bismarck completes efforts to unify Prussia and the German kingdoms into a single nation and has King Wilhelm I proclaimed Kaiser.

  • Bloody Massacre

    "Bloody Sunday Massacre" by Tsarist troops in St. Petersburg left Russian workers dead and cost Nicholas support among the workers and farmers.

  • Death

    After his father's untimely death, 29 year-old Wilhelm II becomes ruler, Kaiser Wilhelm II, of Germany.

  • France signs treaty

    France forced to sign humiliating treaty with Germany that ends the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War.

  • Tsar Nicholas

    Nicolas is crowned Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, a position he did not want. Germany and Russia do not renew a friendship treaty and begin their adversary relationship.

  • Great Britain

    Great Britain's Queen Victoria, whose bloodline runs through most of the ruling houses of Europe, dies.

  • Russo

    Russo-Japanese War results in disastrous defeat for Russia and major civil unrest at home

  • British battleship

    British launch first "dreadnought" class battleship.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife are assassinated in Sarajevo.

  • Full Mobilization

    As an ally of Serbia, Russia announces full mobilization of her armed forces.

  • Germany Mobilizes

    Germany mobilizes her armed forces and declares war on Russia.

  • War!

    Germany declares war on France.

  • Belgium

    Germany declares war on neutral Belgium and invades in a right flanking move designed to defeat France quickly. As a result of this invasion, Britain declares war on Germany.

  • Austria- Hungary

    Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.

  • Frontier Battle

    "The Battle of the Frontiers" -- 27,000 French soldiers die on this single day in an offensive thrust to the east of Paris, towards the German borders.

  • Erich Ludendorff

    German army, led by Erich Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg achieves its greatest victory of the war on the Eastern front against Russia at the Battle of Tennenberg.

  • First Battle

    First Battle of the Marne halts German invasion in France

  • Trenches

    First trenches of the Western front are dug.

  • Christmas Truce

    Unofficial Christmas Truce declared by soldiers in the trenches along the Western Front.

  • Declares War

    Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.