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Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, At the top of these Serbian military conspirators was Chief of Serbian Military Intelligence Dragutin Dimitrijević, his righthand man Major Vojislav Tankosić, and Masterspy Rade Malobabić. -
Battle of the Marne started
The First Battle of the Marne was conducted between 6-12 September 1914, with the outcome bringing to an end the war of movement that had dominated the First World War since the beginning of August. -
Britain bombarded Turkish forts in the Dardanelles
The naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign of the First World War were mainly carried out by the Royal Navy with substantial support from the French and minor contributions from Russia and Australia. The Dardanelles Campaign began as a purely naval operation. -
Italy declared war on Germany and Austria
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British forces surrendered to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia
The siege of Kut Al Amara 7 December 1915 – 29 April 1916, also known as the First Battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000 strong British-Indian garrison in the town of Kut, 100 miles south of Baghdad, by the Ottoman Army. In 1915, its population was around 6,500. Following the surrender of the garrison on April 29, 1916, the survivors of the siege were marched to imprisonment at Aleppo. -
Start of the Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, took place during the First World War between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on either side of the river Somme in France. The battle saw the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army mount a joint offensive against the German Army, which had occupied a large part of the north of France since its invasion of the country in August 1914. -
British tanks won a victory at Cambrai
The Battle of Cambrai 20 November – 7 December 1917 was a British campaign of the First World War. Cambrai, The battle is often erroneously noted for being the first mass use of tanks in a combined arms operation. However, the French had deployed large numbers of tanks in April (130+), May (48) and October (92) 1917, and the British more than 200 in Flanders in June and July. -
Britain captured Jerusalem from the Turks
The Battle of Jerusalem developed from 17 November with fighting continuing until 30 December 1917, This subsidiary operation took place from 21 to 22 December 1917 between the Tul Keram–Junction Station–Jaffa railway and the sea. -
Germany started an offensive in Flanders
Despite profound achievements ‘Operation Michael’ failed in its purpose decisively to destroy British Forces on the Western Front; The original plan, codenamed ‘George’, envisaged a breakthrough thrust near Armentières with a second attack astride Ypres which would cut-off British units in the salient. -
Germany asked the Allies for an armistice
It went into effect at 11 am on 11 November 1918, and marked a victory for the Allies and a complete defeat for Germany, although not technically a surrender. -
Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War One.
The armistice between the Allies and Germany - also known as the Armistice of Compiègne after the location it was signed - was an agreement that ended the fighting in the First World War.