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Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo
Two Bullets were shot on a Sarajevo street on June 28,1914. Ferdinand and his wife Sofie were in the Bosnian city with Austrian troop exercises colse by. The couple was returning from an official visit at City Hall. And 19 year old Gavrilo Princip envisioned the death of the Ferdinand as the key that would unlock the shackles binding his people to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. -
Austro-Hungarian Government send ultimatum to Serbia
Austro-Hungarian government decided to settle a long-standing score with near-neighbour Serbia. It contained a long list of demands. -
Serbian Government order Mobilisation
German"s Government attempted to lay blame for the outbreak of war on Russia. Germany argued that while Russia protested in public and via diplomatic despatches - not least from the Russian Tsar to the German Kaiser - her intention to ensure continued peace in Europe, her real intent was to rapidly mobilise her army so as to gain a crucial initial advantage against Germany on the battlefield. -
Austro-Hungarian Government order Partial Mobilisation as against Serbia
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, Beginning the fisrt World War. -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
This was started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. So they wanted to kill the country Serbia. -
Germany declares war on France
Two days after declaring war on Russia, Germany declares war on France.Heading along with a long-held strategy. Conceived by the former chief of staff of the German army, Alfred von Schlieffen, for a two-front war against France and Russia.