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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina. -
Germany invades Belgium
Germany invaded Belgium to avoid French fortifications along the French-German border. -
Battle of Marne
The First Battle of the Marne or known in France as the Miracle on the Marne -
Gallipoli Campaign
The Battle of Gallipoli was part of World War I and was fought to force Turkey out of the war and to capture Constantinople -
Battle of Verdun
The French repelled the German assault and saved the city of Verdun -
Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme was one of the most bitterly contested and costly battles of the First World War, lasting nearly five months. -
Death of Grigori Rasputin
Gregory Rasputin, the holy man who had become a favourite of Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsarina Alexandra because of their belief in his healing powers -
Tsar Nicholas abdicates
Discontent at home, plus losses of territory and massive casualties in two wars, precipitated the February Revolution on March 12, 1917. Nicholas II abdicated on March 15, 1917 -
US declares war on Germany
President Woodrow Wilson asked a special joint session of the United States Congress for a declaration of war on April 2, 1917, which passed in the Senate on the same day and then in the House of Representatives four days later on April 6. -
Lenin's return to from exile
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers -
Armistice ending WWI
On Nov. 11, 1918, after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
The Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany and the Allied Nations on June 28, 1919, formally ending World War One.