-
Franz Ferdinand is assassinated
On the June 28, 1914 Franz Ferdinand was the Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination begun the first world war. -
The Battle of Liege
The Battle of Liege ran for twelve days from 5-16 August 1914. Liege was defended by a ring of twelve heavily armed forts built on high ground in the 1880s, six on each side of the Meuse River, each 3-5km apart, and some 6-10km from the city itself. -
The Battle of Mulhouse
The Battle of Mulhouse was the opening attack by the French against the Germans. The battle was part of a French attempt to recover the providence of Alsace, which had been lost because the French lost the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-1871. A French force invaded the frontier on August 7, 1914. -
Battle of Gumbinnen
The Battle of Gumbinnen, initiated by forces of the German Empire on August 20, 1914, was the first major German offensive on the Eastern Front during the First World War. The Germans acted in haste however and the Russian army emerged victorious. -
The Battle of Tannenberg
The Battle of Tannenberg was a battle between the Russian and the German Empires in the first days of World War I. It was fought by the Russian Second Army against the German Eighth Army between 26th August and 30th August 1914. The battle resulted in the loss of the Russian Second Army, as well as the death of its commander Alexander Samsonov. -
The Battle of Albert
The Battle of Albert began on 25th September and ended on the 29th of the same month, 1914. It directly followed the First Battle of the Marne and the First Battle of the Aisne as progress toward advancing the trench lines to the sea continued. -
The Battle of Arrras
Designed to outflank the German forces by advancing along a line between Arras and Lens, the Allies attack began on 1 October once sufficient troops had been collected. -
Battle of Yser
The Belgian army's defence of the Yser Canal in October 1914 is referred to as the Battle of Yser. Diksmuide fell to the Germans on 10 November, but Nieuwpoort remained in Belgian hands throughout the war. -
The Battle of Łódź
The Battle of Łódź took place from November 11 to December 6, 1914, near the city of Łódź in Poland. It was fought between the German Ninth Army and the Russian First, Second, and Fifth Armies. -
1st Battle of Champagne
The First Battle of Champagne, began on 20 December 1914, and was the first significant attack by the Allies against the Germans since the construction of trenches following the so-called 'race to the sea' during the autumn of 1914. -
The Battle of Gallipoli
The Battle of Gallipoli lasted from 25 April 1915 – 9 January 1916 (8 months, 2 weeks and 1 day) and resluted in Ottoman victory. The Battle of Gallipoli was a campaign of World War I that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire. The attack was repelled and after eight months' fighting, with many losses on both sides, the land campaign also failed and the invasion force was withdrawn to Egypt. -
The Battle of Loos
The Battle of Loos lasted from 25 September – 14 October 1915 and ended in a stalemate between the two sides. It was the largest British offensive mounted in 1915 on the Western Front during World War I. The first British use of poison gas occurred and the battle was the first mass engagement of New Army units. -
The Battle of the Somme begins
The Battle of the Somme began on the 1st of July, 1916. On the first day the British lost 58,000 troops (one third of the force) The attack was launched upon a 30 kilometre front, from north of the Somme river between Arras and Albert. -
Australia's involvement in the Battle of The Somme
Australia lost over 23,000 men and roughly 200 were ttaken as prisoners of war. The Australians' provided necessary support in the battles to win such as fighting in the Battle of Flers and Poziers. -
Period: to
Battle of The Somme
-
Australia's involvement in the Somme
Apart from its financial and industrial contribution, Australia provided the greatest military contribution of all the British colonies: 331,000 volunteers (out of a population of 4,875,000) but also suffered the greatest loses, 64.8 per cent, or 58,500 men, including 16,000 dead. In the battle of the Somme it is estimated that 4000 Autralian men died. -
The Battle of Fromelles
The Battle of Fromelles, 19–20 July 1916, was a British operation on the Western Front during World War I, General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force had ordered the First Army and Second Army to prepare attacks to support the Fourth Army on the Somme 80 kilometres to the south, to exploit any weakening of the German defences opposite. The German troops overwhelmed the Allies. -
The Battle of Pozières
The Battle of Pozières was a two-week struggle for the French village of Pozières and the ridge on which it stands, during the middle stages of the 1916 Battle of the Somme. Though British divisions were involved in most phases of the fighting, Pozières is primarily remembered as an Australian battle. The battle was fought from 23 July to 7 August in 1916 and the Australian force played a large part in the British victory. -
The Battle of Amiens
The SommeThe Battle of Amiens which began on 8th August and ended on the 12th of August 1918, was the opening phase of the Allied offensive later known as the Hundred Days Offensive that ultimately led to the end of the First World War. Allied forces advanced over 11 kilometres on the first day. -
The Battle of the Argonne Forest
The Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from September 26, 1918, until the Armistice on November 11, a total of 47 days. -
WWI ends
The opposing sides of the war fought until the signing of the Treaty of Versailles with Germaqny on the 28th of June 1919. -
