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1914
Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie the Duchess of Hohenburg, are killed by Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip. -
August 26, 1914 — August 30, 1914
On the eastern front, Germans shatter the Russian Second Army and take over 92,000 prisoners at the Battle of Tannenberg. -
August 30, 1914
The attack has little military value, but is intended to terrorize civilians. -
October 1, 1914
October 1914: Responding to need, the Commission for Relief in Belgium is created by Herbert Hoover, who is at the time a mining engineer and consultant living in London. -
December 25, 1914
The sound of Christmas carols across No Man’s Land encourages troops from both sides to exchange greetings -
February 4, 1915
Germany warns that neutral vessels in British waters “would be destroyed without it always being possible to warn the crews and passengers.” -
January 1, 1915
Each citizen and neutral foreign national is issued a bread card for an initial daily quota of 225 grams about 8 ounces. -
February 1, 1915
Ottoman Turkish army disarms and segregates Armenian soldiers into labor battalions fearing Christian Armenians are aiding Orthodox Russians in their fight against Turkey. -
WWI
Allies, including Australian and New Zealand troops, land in Gallipoli, Turkey at Helles and Anzac Cove. -
WWI
A total of 1,198 drown, including many women and children and 128 U.S. citizens.
