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WWI Events

By ksav112

  • Gavrilo Princip is arrested

  • Gavrilo Princip kills the Archduke

    Gavrilo Princip kills the Archduke

    The Black Hand kills the Archduke of Austria sparking the first world war.

  • Germany declares war on France

  • Archduke and Archduchess visit Sarajevo

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

  • Serbia agrees to two of the three terms of the ultimatum

  • Austria-Hungary sends ultimatum to Serbia

  • Germany Declares War on Russia

    Germany Declares War on Russia

    Germany backs up Austria and declares war on Russia to start the war

  • Germany orders France and Russia to stop mobilizing0

  • France mobilizes to support its Russian ally

  • Germany invades Belgium

    Germany invades Belgium

    Germany pushes through Belgium on it's way to invade France.

  • Canada is automatically at war

  • Russia mobilises to defend Serbia

    Russia mobilises to defend Serbia

    Russia prepares it's army for war.

  • Russia mobilizes to defend Serbia

  • Germany begins the Schlieffen Plan and attacks France through neutral Belgium

  • Battle of Ypres

  • Battle of the Somme

  • Beginning of Conscription Crisis in Canada

  • Battle of Vimy Ridge

  • Battle of Passchendaele

  • Armistice

  • Signing of the Treaty of Ve rsailles

  • Britain declares war on Germany