world war 1 1914

By marimar.morales

  • June 28

    Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austro-Hungarian empire, in Sarajevo, Bosnia

  • July 28

    Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • July 29

    Austria-Hungary repeatedly invades Serbia but is repeatedly repulsed

  • August 1

    Outbreak of war - Germany declares war on Russia

  • August 3

    Germany declares war on France

  • August 4

    Germany invades neutral Belgium
    Britain declares war on Germany
    US President Woodrow Wilson declares policy of US neutrality

  • August 14

    Battle of the Frontiers begins

  • August 17-19

    Russia invades East Prussia

  • August 23

    Japan declares war on Germany

  • August 26-30

    Battle of Tannenberg, which Russia loses; Germany's greatest success of the war on Eastern Front

  • August 23 - September 2

    Austria-Hungary invades Russian Poland (Galicia)

  • September 5-10

    First Battle of Marne, halts German advance, resulting in stalemate and trench warfare

  • September 9-14

    First Battle of Masurian Lakes, which Russia loses

  • September 14

    First Battle of Aisne begins

  • September 15 - November 24

    The "race to the sea", trenches appear on September 15

  • September 17-28

    Austro-German attack on western Poland

  • October 14 - November 22

    First Battle of Ypres

  • October 29

    Turkey enters the war on the side of the Central Powers

  • December 8

    Battle of the Falkland Islands

  • December 21

    First German air raid on Britain

  • December 25

    Unofficial Christmas truce declared by soldiers along the Western Front