WORLD WAR 1 TIMELINE by Zion Booker

june 28, 1914

camerona33 — 2024-04-11 15:53:25 UTC

June 28th:

Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria-Este was killed on this date

August 2, 1914 Germany invades Belgium

zionb3 — 2024-04-11 15:54:12 UTC

Germany made plans to besiege France by crossing Luxembourg and Belgium, , despite their neutrality.

October 12, 1915

camerona33 — 2024-04-11 15:54:52 UTC

Oct 12th: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.

July 1, 1916 -November 18 1916

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July 1st-Nov 18th: The Battle of the Somme (1 July - 18 November 1916) was a joint operation between British and French forces intended to achieve a decisive victory over the Germans on the Western Front

July 28,1914

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July 28th: Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

August 4,1914

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Great Britain declares war on Germany.

August 6,1914

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The Austro-Hungarian Empire declares war on Russia

August 10, 1914

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Austria-Hungary invades Russia

August 30,1914

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German possessions in the Far East are attacked as New Zealand troops occupy German Samoa.

September 10,1914

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the French 6th Army under the command of General Michel-Joseph Manoury attacks the right flank of the German 1st Army, beginning the decisive First Battle of the Marne

December 1914

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December 25th:during a war that would go on to kill and wound tens of millions of soldiers, the western front and possibly other parts of the eastern front went quiet in observation of Christmas

November 22, 1914

zionb3 — 2024-04-11 16:05:20 UTC

The Allies suffered major casualties, with the French sustaining somewhere 50,000 to 80,000 casualties, followed by the British with over 58,000, and Belgium with over 21,000

May 7 1915

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May 7th:the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children on board, 1,195 perished, including 123 Americans

April 22, 1915 -May 25

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April 22- may 25

a wave of asphyxiating gas released from cylinders embedded in the ground by German specialist troops smothered the Allied line on the northern end of the Ypres salient

April 24,1915

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April 24th a symbolic date for commemorating the victims of the Ottoman Empire's near total destruction of its Armenian population.

April 25, 1915

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April 25th:16,000 Australians and New Zealanders, together with British, French and Indian troops, landed on the Gallipoli peninsula. The invasion was part of a campaign to: capture the peninsula and help naval operations in the Dardanelles straits

February 21 1916 December 18 1916

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Feb 21-Dec 18thBattle of Verdun, (February 21–December 18, 1916), World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war

November 7 1916

camerona33 — 2024-04-11 16:11:27 UTC

Nov 7th: Democratic U.S. President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated Republican Charles E. Hughes in the U.S. presidential election.

January 19, 1917

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Jan 19th British naval intelligence intercepted and decrypted a telegram sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman to the German Ambassador in Mexico City.

January 30 1917

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Jan 30th:

Russian battleship Peresvet struck two mines and sank in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt

March 15,1917

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March 15th: Tsar Nicholas abdicated his throne and his son's claims, sending in motion the end of the Russian Empire after 196 years.

April 6,1917

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April 6th: the United States formally declared war against Germany and entered the war

July 31, 1917- nov 10th

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July 31st- Nov 10th:

Battle of Passchendaele, (July 31–November 6, 1917), World War I battle that served as a vivid symbol of the mud, madness, and senseless slaughter of the Western Front.

November 2, 1917

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Nov 2:

Balfour Declaration, (November 2, 1917), statement of British support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people

January 8,1918

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Jan 8th:

President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace

March 3, 1918

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Mar 3rd:

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria), by which Russia withdrew from World War I

May 31, 1918

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May 31st:

The Sinking Of the President Lincoln

November 9, 1918

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Nov 9th:

Kaiser Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate his throne and flee Germany for Holland

November 10, 1918

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Nov 10th:

the Germans received word that Kaiser Wilhelm II had abdicated and instructions from the new government that they should sign the armistice

November 11, 1918

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Nov 11th:

an armistice was signed between the Germans and the Allies, ending World War I

June 28, 1919

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June 28th

The Versailles Peace Treaty, signed on June 28, 1919, officially ended World War I

August 10, 1920

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Aug 10th: Treaty of Sèvres, (August 10, 1920), post-World War I pact between the victorious Allied powers and representatives of the government of Ottoman Turkey.