ww1: Europe

  • Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand

    Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia.
  • Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia

  • Mobilization in Russia

    Russia begins mobilization and readying troops for war to protect Serbia.
  • Germany declared war on Beligium

  • Germany invades Belgium & Britain joins war

  • Ottoman Empire (Turkey), joins war on central powers

    (end of 1914 date not specified)
  • Italy joins Allies

    (spring of 2015 date not specified)
  • Chlorine gas released

    German army releases chlorine gas for th first time in allied trenches (April 1915 day not specified)
  • Bulgaria joins central

    (October 1915 day not specified)
  • Romania joined allies

    (date not specified)
  • Battle of Somme

    British lose 20,000 deaths in a single day (date not specified)
  • Czar is overthrown

    The Russian Revolution overthrows Czar and is changed into a republican government
    day not specified
  • Central powers agree to a truce with the allies

    day not specified
  • Germany signs the treaty of Versailles