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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo
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One month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning the First World War.
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Britain then sends an ultimatum, rejected by the Germans, to withdraw from Belgium.
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The 120,000 highly trained members of the regular British Army form the British Expeditionary Force commanded by Field Marshal John French.
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The Japanese then prepare to assist the British in expelling the Germans from the Far East.
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This is the third attempt to conquer the Serbs in retaliation for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This attempt fails like the two before it.
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This meant that ships can be sunk without warning.
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Was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, mostly citizens within the Ottoman Empire.
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Treaty between Italy and England
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A German U-Boat torpedoes the British passenger liner Lusitania off the Irish coast. It sinks in 18 minutes, drowning 1,201 persons, including 128 Americans. President Woodrow Wilson subsequently sends four diplomatic protests to Germany.
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18,800 soldiers are killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme
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No one knows why it sank but people believe the ship hit a hidden mine which killed 30 people on board
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the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
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British troopship Connaught was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel by German submarine SM U-48 with the loss of three crew
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The USA officially enters the war
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China officially enters the war
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Continuous artillery barrages and low ammo forced the Ottoman command to consider a strategic withdraw from Gaza to Wadi el Hesi to the northeast
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The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I
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American collier ship USS Cyclops disappeared with all 306 crew and passengers on-board after departing from Barbados for Baltimore in the Bermuda Triangle Area
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This is the beginning of the end of the war
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Fighting continues all along the Western Front until precisely 11 o'clock, with 2,000 casualties experienced that day by all sides.
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Allied nations began a series of discussions that became known as the Paris Peace Conference to settle issues raised by the war and its aftermath.
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Germany and the Allied Nations (including Britain, France, Italy and Russia) signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war.
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