Timeline of World War One
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1914 |
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June 28th |
Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo |
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July 5th |
Kaiser William II promised German support for Austria against Serbia |
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July 28th |
Austria declared war on Serbia |
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August 1st |
Germany declared war on Russia |
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August 3rd |
Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium. Germany had to implement the Schlieffen Plan. |
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August 4th |
Britain declared war on Germany |
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August 23rd |
The BEF started its retreat from Mons. Germany invaded France. |
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August 26th |
Russian army defeated at Tannenburg and Masurian Lakes. |
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September 6th |
Battle of the Marne started |
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October 18th |
First Battle of Ypres |
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October 29th |
Turkey entered the war on Germany’s side. Trench warfare started to dominate the Western Front. |
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1915 |
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January 19th |
The first Zeppelin raid on Britain took place |
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February 19th |
Britain bombarded Turkish forts in the Dardanelles |
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April 25th |
Allied troops landed in Gallipoli |
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May 7th |
The “Lusitania” was sunk by a German U-boat |
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May 23rd |
Italy declared war on Germany and Austria |
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August 5th |
The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians |
| September 25th | Start of the Battle of Loos | |
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December 19th |
The Allies started the evacuation of Gallipoli |
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1916 |
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January 27th |
Conscription introduced in Britain |
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February 21st |
Start of the Battle of Verdun |
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April 29th |
British forces surrendered to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia |
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May 31st |
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| June 4th | Start of the Brusilov Offensive | |
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July 1st |
Start of the Battle of the Somme |
| August 10th | End of the Brusilov Offensive | |
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September 15th |
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December 7th |
Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister |
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1917 |
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February 1st |
Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign started |
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April 6th |
USA declared war on Germany |
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April 16th |
France launched an unsuccessful offensive on the Western Front |
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July 31st |
Start of the Third Battle at Ypres |
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October 24th |
Battle of Caporetto – the Italian Army was heavily defeated |
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November 6th |
Britain launched a major offensive on the Western Front |
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November 20th |
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December 5th |
Armistice between Germany and Russia signed |
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December 9th |
Britain captured Jerusalem from the Turks |
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1918 |
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March 3rd |
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and Germany. |
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March 21st |
Germany broke through on the Somme |
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March 29th |
Marshall Foch was appointed Allied Commander on the Western Front |
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April 9th |
Germany started an offensive in Flanders |
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July 15th |
Second Battle of the Marne started. The start of the collapse of the German army |
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August 8th |
The advance of the Allies was successful |
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September 19th |
Turkish forces collapsed at Megiddo |
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October 4th |
Germany asked the Allies for an armistice |
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October 29th |
Germany’s navy mutinied |
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October 30th |
Turkey made peace |
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November 3rd |
Austria made peace |
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November 9th |
Kaiser William II abdicated |
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November 11th |
Germany signed an armistice with the Allies – the official date of the end of World War One. |
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Post-war – 1919 |
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January 4th |
Peace conference met at Paris |
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June 21st |
The surrendered German naval fleet at Scapa Flow was scuttled. |
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June 28th |
The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Germans. |
