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The Chronology of First World

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Chronology of First World War


Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand 28th June, 1914


Austra-Hungary demands Serbia arrest the leaders of the Black Hand 23rd July, 1914


Serbia appeals to Russia for help 24th July, 1914


Serbia refuses to hand over leaders of the Black Hand group 25th July, 1914


Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia 28th July, 1914


Germany declares war on Russia 1st August, 1914


Germany declares war on France 3rd August, 1914


Moltke orders the Schlieffen Plan to proceed 4th August, 1914


German troops enter Belgium 4th August, 1914


Great Britain declares war on Germany 4th August, 1914


Lord Kitchener calls for 100,000 men to join British Army 7th August, 1914


Big Bertha used against Liege Forts 12th August, 1914


Austro-Hungarian troops invade Serbia 12th August, 1914


French troops enter Lorraine 14th August, 1914


British Expeditionary Force arrives in France 22nd August, 1914


Battle of Mons begins 23rd August, 1914


French Army abandons Plan 17 24th August, 1914


Battle of Tannenberg begins 26th August, 1914


Battle of Heligoland 28th August, 1914


War Propaganda Bureau Writers Conference 2nd Sept., 1914


Battle of the Marne begins 6th Sept., 1914


French troops attack German Army at the River Aisne 13th Sept., 1914


Battle of Albert 25th Sept., 1914


Battle of Arras 1st October, 1914


First German aircraft shot down by Allied plane 5th October, 1914


Battle of Ypres 15th October, 1914


Canadian troops arrive in Britain 16th October, 1914


Turkey joins Central Powers 29th October, 1914


Anglo-Indian invasion of Mesopotamia 21st November, 1914


Farman MF-11 carries out first night bombing raid 21st December, 1914


Christmas Truce on the Western Front 25th December, 1914


South African forces occupy Swakopmund 14th January, 1915


Battle of Dogger Bank 24th January, 1915


BEF attacks at Neuve Chapelle 10th March, 1915


Allied naval attack on the Dardanelles 18th March, 1915


Roland Garros uses deflector plates 1st April, 1915


German gas attack at Ypres 22nd April, 1915


Allied landings at Gallipoli 25th April, 1915


Sinking of the Lusitania 7th May, 1915


Artois Offensive 9th May, 1915


Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary 23rd May, 1915


Germany abandons Ypres offensive 25th May, 1915


Asquith forms coalition government 25th May, 1915


First Zeppelin raid on London 31st May, 1915


Isonzo Offensive begins 23rd June, 1915


Suvla Bay Offensive at Gallipoli 6th August, 1915


Grand Duke Nikolai sacked as Commander-in-Chief 5th September, 1915


First tank demonstrated to British military leaders 11th Sept., 1915


Anglo-French Offensive at Artois-Loos 25th Sept., 1915


Allied troops land at Salonika 5th October, 1915


Edith Cavell executed 12th October, 1915


Sir Douglas Haig, new BEF commander 19th December, 1915