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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip. -
one month later after the assassination
On July 28, 1914, one month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War. -
Germany declares war on Russia
Germany declares war on Russia. France and Belgium begin full mobilization -
Germany declares war on France,
Germany declares war on France, and invades neutral Belgium. Britain then sends an ultimatum, rejected by the Germans, to withdraw from Belgium. -
The first British troops land in France.
The first British troops land in France. The 120,000 highly trained members of the regular British Army form the British Expeditionary Force commanded by Field Marshal John French. -
Great Britain and France declare war on Austria-Hungary.
Great Britain and France declare war on Austria-Hungary. Serbia is invaded by Austria-Hungary. -
Japan declares war on Germany
The Japanese then prepare to assist the British in expelling the Germans from the Far East. German possessions in the South Pacific include a naval base on the coast of China, part of New Guinea, Samoa, and the Caroline, Marshall and Mariana Islands. -
The British Navy suffers its worst defeat in centuries
during a sea battle in the Pacific. Two British ships, the Monmouth and Good Hope, are sunk with no survivors by a German squadron commanded by Admiral Graf von Spee. -
Germany declared the waters about the British Isles
a "war zone" in which submarines would destroy every enemy merchant vessel found there. She warned neutrals that neither the crews nor passengers of such vessels, whether enemy or neutral subjects, would be safe in the zone. This was quite a different matter from the interference of the British with the trade rights of the United States. Compensation for property losses might be made after the war, -
Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, mostly citizens within the Ottoman Empire. -
Treaty of London
London Pact, or more correctly, the Treaty of London, 1915, was a secret pact between the Triple Entente and the Kingdom of Italy. The treaty was signed in London on 26 April 1915 by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the French Third Republic, the Russian Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy -
the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed
the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans. -
Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and France against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper reaches of the River Somme in France. -
he Kingdom of Poland was proclaimed by a joint act
The Kingdom of Poland was proclaimed by a joint act of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Battle of Verdun -
the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
was 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. -
1st major strike of the Russian
"February Revolution" starts at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd -
U.S. Enters World War I.
On April 6, 1917, the United States formally declared war against Germany and entered the conflict in Europe. Fighting since the summer of 1914, Britain, France, and Russia welcomed news that American troops and supplies would be directed toward the Allied war effort. -
The first American troops land in France.
it is not known if this footage is of the first landing; but it must be close to that date) -
China declares war on Germany & Austria
On this day in 1917, as World War I enters its fourth year, China abandons its neutrality and declares war on Germany. -
Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
During World War I, the first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops land in France at the port of Saint Nazaire. The landing site had been kept secret because of the menace of German submarines, but by the time the Americans had lined up to take their first salute on French soil -
The Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.
