world war 1 time line

  • geore callaghan was born

    geore callaghan was born
    George Astley Callaghan was bor December 21, 1852
  • event 6

    Austria-hungary declares war on serbia
  • event 7

    the united kingdom declares war on Germany, after Germany invades belgium
  • event 1

    German u-boats destroied the cressly, aboukir and Houge with the loss of 1,400 sailors latter that month the britain naval forces avenged the fallen sailors
  • event 2

    admiral franz von hipper and the first high seas fleet bombarded the coastal towns of scarbough, hartpool and whitby along side were the fleet of sir George Astley Callaghan and his 1,600 men
  • event 3

    admiral hipper planed to make another raid but the german forces defeated them before they could attack
  • event 8

    the dardanelles campaign begins
  • event 9

    the battle of Gallipoli begins
  • event 10

    Tsar Nicolas II taked=s personal control over russias armies
  • event 11

    the battle of verdun begins (the battle of verdun is the longest battle i nhistory)
  • event 4

    jutland, a battle took place against the royal navy and Gemany, The royal navy lost a total of 3 battlecruisers, 3 cruisers, 8 destroyers and suffered 6,100 casualties. The Germans lost a total of 1 battle ship, 1 battle cruiser, 4 cruisers and 5 destroyers with 2,550 casualties
  • event 12

    Germany sends the secret zimmerman telegram to mexico in effort to entice mexico to join the war, teh british intercept and decipher the code message
  • event 5

    German naval forces attack british naval forces and the fleet was led by sir George Astley Callaghan
  • event 13

    the battle of passchen daele (also known as the third battle of ypres) begins
  • event 14

    German flying ace baron manfred von richthofen (also known as red baron) is shot down
  • event 15

    the secon battle of teh amrne begins
  • george dies

    george callaghan died in November 23, 1920