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June 28
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. -
July 28
One month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist. -
Aug 1
Germany declares war on Russia. -
Aug 3
Germany declares war on France and invades neutral Belgium. -
Aug 7
The first british troops that land in France was the 120,000 highly trained (BEF) British Expeditionary Force commanded by Field Marshal John French. -
Aug 12
Great Britain and France declare war on Austria-Hungary. -
Aug 23
Japan declares war on Germany. -
Nov 1
Austria invades Serbia. And the British Navy had suffered their worst sea battle in centuries the Pacific. The two British ships the Monmouth and the Great Hope were sunken with no survivors by a German squadron. -
Feb 2
Germany declared the waters about the British Isles a “war zone” in which submarines would destroy every enemy merchant vessel found. -
April 24
The American Holocaust was held at the Ottoman Empire with 1.5 million Americans mostly citizens for extermination. -
April 26
The Treaty of London was a secret pact between the Triple Entente and the of Italy Kingdom. It was signed by the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, the French Third Republic, the Russian Empire, and the Kingdom of Italy. -
May 7
A German U-Boat torpedoes the British passenger liner Lusitania off the Irish coast. -
July 1
The British Army suffers the worst single-day death toll in its history as 18,800 soldiers are killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. -
Nov 21
Mines from a SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War. -
Jan 1
Royal Navy battleship HMS Cornwallis was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by a German submarine SM U-32 with the loss of 15 of her 720 crew. -
March 3
British troopship connaught was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel by German submarine SM U-48 with the loss of 3 crew. -
April 6
The United States of America declares war on Germany. -
June 25
The first American troops landed in France. -
Aug 14
China declares war on Germany and Austria. -
Nov 5
Gen Pershing and US troops see action on Western Front for the first time. -
Jan 8
Was the principles of peace to end World War 1. -
March 4
First recorded case of Spanish flu at Funston Army Camp, Kansas; start worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million people. -
July 28 to Nov 11
Spain stayed neutral from WW1 between July 28 to November 11. -
Nov 11
France and Germans sign the Armistice. -
Jan 18
A few months after WW1 ended the leaders from the Allied nations began a series of discussions that became known as the Paris Peace Conference. -
June 28
The Treaty of Versailles, ending WW1 and establishing the League of Nations, is signed in France.
