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Archduke Franz Ferdinand gets assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo
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1 month after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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Germany declared war on Russia
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Germany declared war on France and invades neural Belgium. Britain gives Germany an ultimatum. Germany rejects it and Belgium withdraws from it.
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The first British troops land in France. This was the opening Act of WWI
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Britain enacts the Defense of the the Realm Act (DORA)
Serbia is invaded by Austria-Hungary.
Great Britain and France declares was on Austria-Hungary. -
The first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF)
Subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers
Allies clashed with Germany on French borders -
The first world war imperial German Naval victory over the Royal Navy
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Vanceboro international bridge bombing
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Ottoman governments systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armeenians
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Allies signed the Treaty of London committing itself to enter World War 1
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Allies signed the Treaty of London committing itself to enter WWI
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Lusitania was torpedoed without warning by a German Submarine
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A battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and France against the German Empire
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HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people