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Assasination
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Honenberg, were assassinated by the Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip. The murders triggered the outbreak of World War I a few weeks later. -
Austria declares war !
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 and Russia join the war
August 1, 1914 - Germany declares war on Russia. France and Belgium begin full mobilization. August 3, 1914 - Germany declares war on France, and invades neutral Belgium. Britain then sends an ultimatum, rejected by the Germans, to withdraw from Belgium. -
Declares war on France
August 3, 1914 - Germany declares war on France, and invades neutral Belgium. Britain then sends an ultimatum, rejected by the Germans, to withdraw from Belgium. -
British troops land in France
August 7, 1914 - The first British troops land in France. -
Britain declares war on France
August 12, 1914 - Great Britain and France declare war on Austria-Hungary. Serbia is invaded by Austria-Hungary. -
first confrontation on European soil
On August 23, 1914, in their first confrontation on European soil since the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, four divisions of the British Expeditionary Force , commanded by Sir John French, struggle with the German 1st Army over the 60-foot-wide Mons Canal in Belgium, near the French frontier. -
Battle at Coronel
German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile -
War Zone at sea
On February 4, 1915, Germany declared the waters about the British Isles a "war zone" in which submarines would. Hamm, William A. The American People. -
Genocide
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 Signed
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. -
Torpedo
On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. -
Battle of 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. -
Titanic gone
November 21, 1916 – Britannic sinks in Aegean Sea. The Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic, sinks in the Aegean Sea on this day in 1916, killing 30 people. ... On November 21, -
Battle of Rafa
World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine. -
Relations renewed
Mexico and the USA renew diplomatic relations -
Declared war
the United States formally declared war against Germany and entered the conflict in Europe. -
Feet on the ground
June 25, 1917 - The first American troops land in France. -
China joins the fight
China declared war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. An explosion and fire at a weapons manufacturing plant in Kazan, Russia killed 21 people and injured another 172, including 30 children in the surrounding neighborhoods. -
segregation
Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring backs & whites to live in separate areas -
14 Points
The Fourteen Points speech of President Woodrow Wilson was an address delivered before a joint meeting of Congress on January 8, 1918, during 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. -
Pandemic
First recorded case of Spanish flu at Funston Army Camp, Kanas; start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million -
November in spain
In November, central Spain cools down as it heads into winter. -
Armistice
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, Germany. Previous armistices had eliminated Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. -
Paris Peace
a few months after the end of World War I, leaders from the Allied nations began a series of discussions that became known as the Paris Peace Conference to settle issues raised by the war and its aftermath. -
Allied Powers signed
Germany and the Allied Nations (including Britain, France, Italy and Russia) signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war.
