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WWI Timeline

  • Assassination

    Assassination
    Archduke Franz Ferdinand gets assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo
  • War was Declared

    1 month after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
  • War was Declared

    War was Declared
    Germany declared war on Russia
  • Germany declares another War

    Germany declared war on France and invades neural Belgium. Britain gives Germany an ultimatum. Germany rejects it and Belgium withdraws from it.
  • Battle of Mulhouse

    Battle of Mulhouse
    The first British troops land in France. This was the opening Act of WWI
  • Invasion And More War Declarations

    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.
  • Battle of Mons

    Battle of Mons
    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
  • Battle of Coronel

    The first world war imperial German Naval victory over the Royal Navy
  • Bridge bombing

    Bridge bombing
    Vanceboro international bridge bombing
    An attempt to destroy the Saint Croix-Vanceboro railway bridge
  • Armenian Genocide

    Ottoman governments systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armeenians
  • Treaty of London

    Treaty of London
    Allies signed the Treaty of London committing itself to enter World War 1
  • Treaty of London

    Allies signed the Treaty of London committing itself to enter WWI
  • Lusitania sinks

    Lusitania was torpedoed without warning by a German Submarine
  • Battle of Somme

    A battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and France against the German Empire
  • HMHS Britannic sinks

    HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people