Outbreak of WW1

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    Outbreak of WW1

  • Assination of Austrian crowned prince and his wife

    in Sarajevo, Serbia.

  • Austria declared war on Serbia

    Russia moved against Austria and Germany declared war on Russia and France.

  • Battle near Mons

  • Germany invaded Belgium

  • Prime Minister placed navy under commandment of British Admirality

    also announced 20,000 men to be sent to war in the next 6 weeks

  • Surrender of german colonies

  • Opposing armies dug trenchlines across northern France

    early September

  • Germans advanced towards Paris

    from 6th-12th of September

  • Loss of Australia's first submarine AE1

  • 5000 Australian troops marched in Melbourne

    before going to war

  • Australian soldiers met New Zealand in Western Australia

    (date-estimate)

  • Australian and New Zealand soldiers left for Europe

  • HMAS Sydney destroyed German raider "Emden"

    took survivors prisoner (estimate date)