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A fellow countryman of Cabrinovic, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, fired a Browning handgun at Franz Ferdinand and Sophie as they were leaving the royal couple's open automobile.
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The Austro-Hungarian government declares war on Serbia a month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were killed. -
Tsar Nicholas II issued an order for the Russian army to be fully mobilized. Germany formally declared war on Russia two days later. -
The Schlieffen Plan, which was adopted before to World War I, stipulated that in the event of a conflict, Germany would attack France first before moving on to Russia. -
Due to German soldiers' astute planning, Russia suffered a significant setback in the Battle of Tannenberg and lost command of its Second Army on August 14, 1914. -
At the outset of World War One, in September 1914, the Battle of Masurian Lakes took place. The fight saw the Russian Army suffer its second loss against the Germans.
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The Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine (U-boat) U-20. -
The goal was to smash the French army before the Allies increased in power because to the full deployment of British forces. -
Rasputin was brutally killed by Prince Felix Yusupov and four other accomplices after being lured to their palace on the Moika River.
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The resolution to declare war on Germany was approved by the US Senate. -
Over 21 million people were killed by the microscopic murderer as it made a full rotation of the earth in just four months.
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Russia's involvement in World War I came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on March 3, 1918, between Russia and the Central Powers.
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The final major German offensive on the Western Front during the First World War took place at the Second Battle of the Marne.
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Germany and its allies were tired in the autumn of 1918. Their soldiers had been routed, and their starving populace was starting to revolt. Erich Ludendorff, a German general and strategist, concluded that a cease-fire should be negotiated as early as September 29. -
After World War I, the victorious Allies formally met in Paris in 1919 and 1920 to negotiate a peace treaty with the defeated Central Powers.
