Great Britain joined Russia and France to form an alliance, known as the Triple Entente.
Australian troops made a landing on a hostile shore along the Gallipopli peninsula in Turkey.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand (next king of Austria-Hungary) was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia
Germany declares war on France and invades neutral Belgium
Germany declares war on Russia.
Great Britain declares war on Germany and the United States declares it neutrality.
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The Battle of Liege. (signified the first land battle of the war, as the German Second Army crossed the frontier into neutral Belgium to attack France from the North.
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First Battle of the Marne
First tranches dug on the Western Front
The US requests that Germany withdraws it military and naval attaches from the Embassy in washington
The Allies begin an orderly evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula.
the First division of the AIF from Egypt began arriving in France
The British Army suffers the worst single-day death toll in its history as 18,800 soldiers are killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
The British Army suffers the worst single-day death toll in its history as 18,800 soldiers are killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
The United States of America declares war on Germany
The British attempt once more to break through the German lines, this time by attacking positions east of Ypres, Belgium
In Russia, Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky overthrow the Provisional Government
Soviet Russia signs an armstice with Germany
Prime Minister Hughes puts a second referendum to the Australian people.
he referendum asked:
Are you in favour of the proposal of the Commonwealth Government for reinforcing the Commonwealth Forces overseas?
The Spring offensive, a series of German attacks along the Western Front in attempt to end WW1
A combined French and American attack along the Marne marks the first in a series of coordinated Allied counter-offensives on the Western Front.
At 5:10 am, in a railway car at Compiègne, France, the Germans sign the Armistice which is effective at 11 am-the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
