WW1 Time-line

Arch duke Assasination

Jun 28, 1914

Arch duke Franz Fedinand and his wife shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo.

Ottoman Empire jpins the central powers

Aug 18, 1914

Ottoman empire signs a treaty with central powers and joins the war.

Battle of Tannenburg

Aug 30, 1914

The Battle of Tannenberg was an engagement between Russia and Germany in the first month of World War I

First trenches dug

Sep 15, 1914

THe start of trnch warfare.

Wat in the South

Oct 11, 1915

Bulgary joins the central powers to help crush Serbia.

Battle of Verdun

Feb 21, 1916

The Germans overwelmed the French, at first the French defences did well but finally fell through. lasted until December of 1916 10 months

The battle of Somme

Jul 1, 1916

An estimated one million casualties and no breakthrough for the allies

Submarine warfare

Feb 1, 1917

Germany declares war with submarine warfare!

War ends

Mar 24, 1918

At eleven o'clock on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the war ends as Germany and Allies sign an Armistice.

Treaty Of Versaillies

Jun 28, 1919

one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers