1914--
Austrian
Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated: Archduke
Ferdinand assassinated. On this day in 1914, 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. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World
War I by early August.
World
War-I begins: World War I began in 1914, after
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. During
the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the
Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan
and the United States (the Allied Powers).
First
Battle of the Marne: On
September 9, the exhausted Germans began a fighting retreat to the Aisne River.
1915
: -First
use of Poison gas by German:
On April 22, 1915, The first major gas
attacked by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line.
-
Lusitania Sunk: On May
7, 1915, less than a year after World War I (1914-18) erupted across
Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a
British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England.
1916:
Battle
of Verdun: The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest single
battle of World War One.
--
Battle of Jutland: The
Battle of Jutland was a naval battle fought by Britain's Royal Navy against the
Imperial German Navy's.
1917:
--Russian
Revolution: Russia signalled her withdrawal
from World War One soon after the October Revolution of 1917, and
the country turned in on itself with a bloody civil war between the
Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard.
--United
States declares war: On
April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson declared war against Germany
1918:
Russia
Leaves the War: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on
3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the
Central Powers that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
Allies
Advance: The Hundred Days Offensive
(8 August to 11 November 1918) was an Allied offensive which ended the
First World War.
1919:
Germany
Signs armistice:
On Nov. 11, 1918, fighting in World War I came to an end
following the signing of an armistice between the Allies and Germany at 11
a.m.– it was on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
