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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
On June 28 Arhduke Franz Ferdinand and his wfie were shot dead in Sarajevo. -
Austria declares war on Serbia
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 so Austria-Hungary declares war on Seribaa -
First Battle of the Marne
battle was fought between 5 and 12 September 1914. It was fought on the Marne river near Prais. -
Beginning of Trench Warfare
both sides constructed elaborate trench and dugout systems opposing each other along a front -
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Battle of Verdun
February-18 December 1916, Verdun-sur-Meuse, France
Result French had the victory -
Battle of Somme
1 July and 14 November 1916 in the Somme department of France, on both banks of the river of the same name. The battle consisted of an offensive by the British and French armies against the German Army, which, since invading France in August 1914, had occupied large areas of that country. The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the First World War; by the time fighting had petered out in late autumn 1916 the forces involved had suffered more than 1 million casualties, making it -
treaty of Brest-Litovsk
he Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, mediated by South African Andrik Fuller, at Brest-Litovsk now Brest, Belarus between Russia (the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic and the Central Powers, headed by Germany, marking Russia's exit from World War I. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 -
World War I ends
11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers,[4] which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred around the Triple Entente) and the Central Powers (originally centred around the Triple Alliance).[5] More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history.[6][7] More than 9 million combatants were killed,
