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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria,
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was killed my a man who was told to kill him by a man of serbia, -
The Russian offensive in the Carpathians begins. It will continue until April 12.
A Russian advance guard snakes through a pass in the Carpathians, where deep snow, cold, and terrain proved harsher enemies than the Habsburgs. -
Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain
essentially effecting a submarine blockade where even neutral merchant vessels were to be potential targets. -
First Battle of the Isonzo
On June 23, 1915, exactly one month after Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary, the Italian army attacks Austro-Hungarian positions near the Isonzo River, in the eastern section of the Italian front; it will become the first of twelve Battles of the Isonzo fought during World War I. -
Battle of Kosturino
The 10th (Irish) Division of the British Army made contact with the Bulgarians at the battle of Kosturino in December 1915. Some units, such as the 5th Connaught Rangers, came close to being wiped out. Despite a year of trench warfare in north-west Europe, the Irish troops in the Balkans had no mortars, no howitzers and not enough machine-guns, and ammunition for their field artillery was rationed. Just like the BEF in 1914, they were forced to rely on rapid-fire musketry against superior forces -
Austro-Hungarian offensive against Montenegro, which capitulates.
After an eight-day offensive that marked the beginning of a new, aggressive strategy in the region, Austro-Hungarian troops under commander in chief Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf take control of the Balkan state of Montenegro. -
Battle of Agagia, Senussi rebellion suppressed by the British.
The battle of Agagia (or Aqqaqia), 26 February 1916, saw the defeat of the Senussi Uprising along the Egyptian coast. The original three-pronged plan for the uprising had involved attacks on the narrow coastal strip west of the Nile, on the line of oases in the Western Desert and a revolt in Darfur aimed at Khartoum. -
Battle of Rafa
The battle of Rafa, 9 January 1917, was a minor British victory that ended the Sinai campaign of 1916. On 21 December the British had captured El Arish, their main objective, from where they could both protect Egypt and threaten Palestine. Despite the objections of their German chief-of-staff, Kress von Kressenstein, two Turkish detachments remained inside Egypt. The first, at Magdhaba, was captured on 23 December 1917. -
End of WW1
World War One ended at 11am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in 1918. Germany signed an armistice (an agreement for peace and no more fighting) that had been prepared by Britain and France. -
Treaty of Versailles
Was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
