Scots wwii2

WW1 Timeline

By andrew.bunten
  • Lord Kitchener calls for 100,000 men to join British army

    Lord Kitchener calls for 100,000 men to join British army

  • Assassination od Archduke Franz Fernindand

    Assassination od Archduke Franz Fernindand

    On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's south-Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Greater Serbia or a Yugoslavia.
  • First German aircraft shot down by allied plane

    First German aircraft shot down by allied plane

  • Battle of Ypres

    Battle of Ypres

  • Germans attack at Verdun

    Germans attack at Verdun

  • First use of the tanks, in the Battle of the Somme

    First use of the tanks, in the Battle of the Somme

  • United States declares war on Germany

    United States declares war on Germany

  • British attack at Passchendaele

    British attack at Passchendaele

  • Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates

    Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates

  • Armistice

    Armistice

    Warring Parties agree to stop fighting.