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Battle of cer
The Battle of Cer was fought between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in August 1914 during the early stages of the Serbian Campaign of the First World War. it was at around Cer Mountain and several surrounding villages, as well as the town of Šabac. -
Germany invades Luxembourg
The German occupation of Luxembourg in World War l was the first of two military occupation of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg by Germany in the twentieth century. From August 1914 until the end of World War I on 11 November 1918, Luxembourg was under full occupation by the German Empire. -
Japan declears war on Germany
Japan was in World War I from 1914 to 1918 in an alliance with the Entente Powers and played an important part in securing the sea lanes in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans against the German Navy. Politically, Japan seized the opportunity to expand its sphere of influence in China, and to gain recognition as a great power in post war geopolitics -
Russians are defeated at battle of Tannenberg
On the eastern front, Germans shatter the Russian Second Army and take over 92,000 prisoners at the Battle of Tannenberg. -
Germans conduct air raid on Paris
The attack has little military value, but is intended to terrorize civilians. -
Germans stopped at first battle of the Marne
German invasion of France is stopped in the First Battle of the Marne as German troops are forced to the north side of the Marne River, making the Schlieffen Plan to fail. -
First battle of the Marne
Just one month Into WWI, the first battle of the Marne started 30 miles north of Paris in the Marne river Valley of France. The Germans was moving toward Paris when the French staged a surprise attack that started the first battle of the Marne. -
Christmas truce observed on western front
Christmas across No Man’s Land encourages troops from both sides to exchange greetings. the truce is spontaneous and was experienced by hundreds, mayeb even thousands, of soldiers. -
Bread Rationing is introduced in germany
Each citizen and neutral foreign national is issued a bread card for an initial daily quota of 225 grams. -
German women demonstrate for peace
Several thousand women demonstrate for peace before the German Reichstag. -
In second battle of ypres, Germans used poison gas
In the Second Battle of Ypres, the Germans open the assault with a chlorine gas attack, the first use of poison gas on the Western Front; more than 10,000 Allied troops are affected, over half of them died. By May 25, the Allies withdraw. The effects of a gas attack are described in Wilfred Owen’s poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, written in 1917. -
German U-Boat torpedoes the Lusitania
The Lusitania, a Cunard passenger ship sinks in British waters. A total of 1,198 drown, including women and children and 124 U.S. citizens. Germans will end unlimited submarine warfare on September 1, 1915 because of worldwide outrage at this attack on civilian shipping. -
German Forces in South-West Africa Surrender to general Botha of South Africa
A six-month campaign conquers the German colony, capturing its wireless stations and strategic harbors. -
Battle of Rafa
The Battle of Rafa, its also known as Action of Rafah. It was the Third and final battle to complete the recapturing of Sinai Peninsula by British forces during the Sinai and Peninsula campaign of the first World War.The Desert Column of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) attacked a Ottoman Army garrison at El Magruntein to the south of Rafa, close to the frontier between the Sultanate of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, to the north and east of Sheikh Zowaiid. -
Australians attack Noreuil.
Noreuil is a village that was about 10 kilometres north-east of Bapaume.In late March 1917, the German Army was withdrawing east and north – east of Bapaume back to its new fort, the Hindenburg Line.
