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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killings started a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August. -
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Germany invades Belgium
To avoid the French fortifications along the French-German border, the troops had to cross Belgium and attack the French Army by the north. The Belgians refused so they entered by force. -
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Battle of Marne
A battle of the First World War fought from 6 to 12 September 1914. It resulted in an Allied victory against the German armies. -
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Gallipoli Campaign
a military campaign in the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula. The Entente powers, fought to weaken the Ottoman Empire ,by taking control of the Turkish straits. -
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Battle of Verdun
The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse. -
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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 French Third Republic against the German Empire. -
Death of Grigori Rasputin
He died of three gunshot wounds, one of which was a close-range shot to his forehead. According to historian Douglas Smith, "what really happened at the Yusupov home on 17 December will never be known". -
Tsar Nicholas abdicates
This brought to an end the Romanov dynasty that had ruled Russia for over three hundred years. -
Lenin's return to from exile
Leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
A separate peace treaty between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers, that ended Russia's participation in World War I. The treaty was signed at German-controlled Brest-Litovsk, after two months of negotiations. -
Armistice ending WWI
Signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their last remaining opponent, Germany. Previous armistices had been agreed with Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
The most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
US declares war on Germany
The United States Congress declared war upon Germany, hours after Germany declared war on the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan.