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Shophie (his wife) and Francis were shot dead by Gavrilo Princip.
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One month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War.
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Four days after Austria declared war on Serbia, two more great European powers—Russia and Germany—declare war on each other; the same day, France orders a general mobilization.
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It was a decision that is seen as the start of World War One. Britain, led by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, had given Germany an ultimatum to get out of Belgium by midnight of August 3rd.
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an offensive during World War I by the French army and the British Expeditionary Force against the advancing Germans who had invaded Belgium and northeastern France and were within 30 miles of Paris.
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During World War I, Britain suffers its first casualties from an air attack when two German zeppelins drop bombs on Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn on the eastern coast of England.
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A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England.
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On this day in 1915, Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering World War I on the side of the Allies—Britain, France and Russia.
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The Germans attacked the Russian forces in Poland. Battles raged across Poland both in the north, around Warsaw, and in the south, around Cracow.
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he Battle of Loos was a World War I battle that took place in 1915 on the Western Front. British used poison gas and the first mass engagement of New Army units
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This World War I siege stemmed from German General Erich von Falkenhayn’s edict to elicit major bloodshed from the French defense of the fortress complex around Verdun. Both sides were left with more than 600,000 casualties.
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Involving some 250 ships and 100,000 men, this battle off Denmark’s North Sea coast was the only major naval surface engagement of World War I. The battle began in the afternoon of May 31, 1916, with gunfire between the German and British scouting forces.
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On this day in 1916, the Battle of Lutsk marks the beginning of the Brusilov Offensive, the largest and most successful Allied offensive of World War I.
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During the Battle of the Somme, the British launch a major offensive against the Germans, employing tanks for the first time in history.
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David Lloyd George (1863-1945) was a liberal British statesman who became prime minister during World War I.
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On this day in 1917, the lethal threat of the German U-boat submarine raises its head again, as Germany returns to the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare it had previously suspended in response to pressure from the United States and other neutral countries.
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On this day, Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States, bringing America, which had been neutral, into the European conflict.
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the Allies launch a renewed assault on German lines in the Flanders region of Belgium, in the much-contested region near Ypres, during World War I. The attack begins more than three months of brutal fighting, known as the Third Battle of Ypres.
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The World War I Battle of Cambrai marked the first large-scale use of tanks for a military offensive.
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On the morning of this day in 1917, after Turkish troops move out of the region after only a single day s fighting, officials of the Holy City of Jerusalem offer the keys to the city to encroaching British troops.
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German forces cross the Somme River, achieving their first goal of the major spring offensive begun three days earlier on the Western Front.
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Two major offensives took place on the Western Front, both based on movement as opposed to the trench mentality of the previous years.
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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.
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Sailors in the German High Seas Fleet steadfastly refuse to obey an order from the German Admiralty to go to sea to launch one final attack on the mighty British navy, echoing the frustrated, despondent mood of many on the side of the Central Powers during the last days of World War I.
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The German kaiser (emperor) and king of Prussia from 1888 to 1918, was one of the most recognizable public figures of World War I
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Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France.
