1914 |
28th June 1914 | Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo. ....More |
5th July 1914 | Kaiser William II promised German support for Austria against Serbia ....More |
28th July 1914 | Austria declared war on Serbia ....More |
28th July 1914 | Germany’s submarine warfare campaign started ....More |
1st August 1914 | Germany declared war on Russia ....More |
3rd August 1914 | Germany declared war on France and invaded Belgium. ....More |
4th August 1914 | Britain declared war on Germany ....More |
23rd August 1914 | The BEF started its retreat from Mons. ....More |
26th August 1914 | Battle of Tannenberg ....More |
26th August 1914 | Battle of Le Cateau ....More |
6th September 1914 | Battle of the Marne ....More |
9th September 1914 | Russian army defeated at Masurian Lakes. ....More |
19th October 1914 | First Battle of Ypres ....More |
29th October 1914 | Turkey entered the war on Germany’s side. ....More |
1915 |
19th January 1915 | The first Zeppelin raid on Britain took place on January 19 1915 ....More |
19th February 1915 | Britain bombarded Turkish forts in the Dardanelles ....More |
10th March 1915 | Battle of Neuve Chapelle ....More |
25th April 1915 | Allied troops landed in Gallipoli ....More |
7th May 1915 | The Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat ....More |
23rd May 1915 | Italy declared war on Germany and Austria ....More |
5th August 1915 | The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians ....More |
25th September 1915 | Start of the Battle of Loos ....More |
22nd November 1915 | The Allies started the evacuation of Gallipoli ....More |
30th December 1915 | H.M.S Natal Incident ....More |
1916 |
27th January 1916 | Conscription introduced in Britain ....More |
21st February 1916 | Start of the Battle of Verdun ....More |
29th April 1916 | British forces surrendered to Turkish forces at Kut in Mesopotamia ....More |
31st May 1916 | Battle of Jutland ....More |
4th June 1916 | Start of the Brusilov Offensive ....More |
1st July 1916 | Battle of the Somme ....More |
4th July 1916 | Mametz wood (The Somme) ....More |
7th July 1916 | News Reaches Home ....More |
7th July 1916 | 13th Battalion Cheshire Regiment attack at La Boisselle ....More |
14th July 1916 | The Assault on Bazentin Ridge (The Somme) ....More |
15th July 1916 | 1st South African brigade take "Devel's Wood" (The Somme) ....More |
23rd July 1916 | Anzacs capture Pozières (The Somme) ....More |
10th August 1916 | Twenty million watch the Battle of the Somme film ....More |
15th September 1916 | Battle of Flers Courcelette ....More |
17th September 1916 | Germany Takes to the sky ....More |
20th September 1916 | End of the Brusilov Offensive ....More |
25th September 1916 | Morval and Thiepval Ridge ....More |
1st October 1916 | The Battle of the Ancre Heights ....More |
9th October 1916 | 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment Capture Stuff Redoubt ....More |
13th November 1916 | Battle on the River Ancre. ....More |
7th December 1916 | Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister ....More |
1917 |
25th January 1917 | Sinking of H.M.S. Laurentic ....More |
17th February 1917 | 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment Trench Raid at Factory Farm ....More |
6th April 1917 | America declared war on Germany ....More |
9th April 1917 | The Battle of Arras ....More |
16th April 1917 | The Nivelle Offensive started ....More |
31st July 1917 | The Third Battle at Ypres (Passchendaele) starts ....More |
20th September 1917 | Battle of the Menin Road Ridge ....More |
23rd October 1917 | Battle of Caporetto ....More |
6th November 1917 | Major offensive launched by Britain on the Western Front (Last Battle of Passche ....More |
20th November 1917 | Victory at Cambrai ....More |
5th December 1917 | Armistice between Germany and Russia signed ....More |
9th December 1917 | Britain captured Jerusalem from the Turks ....More |
1918 |
3rd March 1918 | The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed between Russia and Germany ....More |
21st March 1918 | Germany broke through on the Somme (Kaiserschlacht) ....More |
3rd April 1918 | Marshal Foch was appointed Allied Commander on the Western Front ....More |
9th April 1918 | Germany started an offensive in Flanders ....More |
15th July 1918 | Second Battle of the Marne started. The start of the collapse of the German army ....More |
8th August 1918 | Attack at Amiens ....More |
19th September 1918 | Turkish forces collapsed at Megiddo ....More |
4th October 1918 | Germany asked the Allies for an armistice ....More |
29th October 1918 | Germany’s navy mutinied ....More |
30th October 1918 | Ottoman Empire signs treaty with Allies ....More |
3rd November 1918 | Austria made peace ....More |
9th November 1918 | Kaiser William II abdicated ....More |
11th November 1918 | Germany signed an armistice with the Allies. ....More |