WWI Timeline

  • Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    Ferdinand was killed with his wife Sophie by Serb Nationalist Gavrilo Percip when visiting Seravejo. He had already survived an attempted assisanation just earlier that day.
  • War declared on Serbia by Austria

    War declared on Serbia by Austria
    Austria blamed the assasination of Ferdinand on the Serbian government, therefore, declaring war on them.
  • Turkey enters War

    Turkey enters War
    Turkey enters the Central Powers side of the war, giving help to a German naval bombardment of Russia.
  • Winston Churchill Resigns

    Winston Churchill Resigns
    Critical of the Dardenelles campaign, Winston Churchill resigns as First Lord of the Admiralty. He later joined the army as a battalion commander.
  • Battle of Jutland

    Battle of Jutland
    The Battle of Jutland was a naval Battle between the Grand Fleet and the High Seas Fleet near Jutland, Denmark. This ended being the largest naval battle of World War I.
  • Romania enters War

    Romania enters War
    Romainia joins the War on the Ally side, later declaring war on Austria/Hungary.
  • First Aeroplane Raid

    First Aeroplane Raid
    Germany air raids London, with hopes that by making raids on them the British Air Force would be forced to Protect their home front instead of attacking the German Air force.
  • Germany's U Boat Campaign

    Germany's U Boat Campaign
    In Early 1917, Germany was ordered to sink all allied or neutral ships. In merely one month, almost one million tons of shipping was sunk.
  • USA declares war on Germany.

    USA declares war on Germany.
    US President, Woodrow Wilson, declares war in early April on Germany in response to Germany sinking their ships.
  • Armistice signed

    Armistice signed
    At eleven AM, the Armisitice was signed ending the war in Redonthes, France.