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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were killed in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins.
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Germany declares war on Russia, France, Belgium, UK.
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Austria Hungary declared war on Russia, Serbia and Belgium
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27,000 French soldiers die on this single day in an offensive thrust to the east of Paris, towards the German borders.
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It´s ended agust 30. German army, led by Erich Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg achieves its greatest victory of the war on the Eastern front against Russia
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Germany responds to U.S. anger by ceasing to sink ships like cruise with civils without warning
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Tsar Nicholas takes command of the Russian armies.
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Sir Douglas Haig becomes commander of British Expeditionary Force.
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Started the Febryary 21 and ended december 16
The longest battle of the war, the Battle of Verdun, is fought to a draw with an estimated one million casualties -
David Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
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Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates. Provisional government is declared.
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Russian Army lead by Alexander Kerensky begins last -- and disastrous -- offensive in Galicia. This atack ended the 16 of july
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American troops in France fire their first shot in trench warfare.
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Bolshevik socialists, led by Lenin, overthrow Kerensky's government.
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The new Russian government, represented by Leon Trotsky, signs an armistice with Germany.
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British and Australian troops stop the German advance near Amiens.
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Former Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, children, and members of his entourage are murdered by the Bolsheviks. In 1919 the Russian civil war fails to unseat the Bolsheviks.
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Austro-Hungarian empire agreed to an armistice, and Germany, which had its own trouble with revolutionaries, agreed to an armistice on 11 November 1918, ending the war in victory for the Allies.
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Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates so A German republic is founded.
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World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. Negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany,
