Chronology of First World War

The Chronology of First World War

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

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Britain introduces conscription	2nd February, 1916
German Verdun Offensive	21st February, 1916
Germany declares war on Portugal	9th March, 1916
Battle of Jutland	31st May, 1916
Russian Brusilov Offensive	4th June, 1916
Lord Kitchener killed at sea	5th June, 1916
Start of Anglo-French Somme Offensive	1st July, 1916
Italian Gorizia Offensive	9th August, 1916
Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff	29th August, 1916
First use of British tanks at Flers-Courcelette	15th Sept., 1916
French recapture Douaumont Fort at Verdun	24th October, 1916
Somme Offensive ends	18th November, 1916
Beatty replaces Jellicoe as C-in-C of Grand Fleet	29th November, 1916
Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister	6th December, 1916
Nivelle becomes French Western Front C-in-C	12th December, 1916
Zimmermann Telegram intercepted by Britain	19th January, 1917
Battle of Gaza begins	26th March, 1917
United States declares war on Germany	6th April, 1917
Start of Nivelle Offensive	9th April, 1917
Start of Arras offensive	9th April, 1917
Canadian Army captures Vimy Ridge	12th April, 1917
2nd Battle of the Aisne begins	16th April, 1917
French tanks used for the first time in battle	17th April, 1917
Petain becomes French Western Front C-in-C	15th May, 1917
Maria Bochkareva forms the Women's Battalion	16th May, 1917
John Pershing given command of AEF	19th May, 1917
British attack at Messines	7th June, 1917
United States troops arrive in France	25th June, 1917
Greece declares war on the Central Powers	29th June, 1917
King George V changes name to Windsor	17th July, 1917
British Offensive at Passchendaele	12th October, 1917
Italian Caproretto Offensive	24th October, 1917
Sir Frederick Maude dies in Mesopotamia	18th November, 1917
Massed tank attack at Cambrai	20th November, 1917
Bolshevik government disbands Women's Battalion	21st November, 1917
Wilson announces 14 Points Peace Programme	8th January, 1918
Start of German Spring Offensive	21st March, 1918
Foch appointed Allied Co-ordinator in France	29th March, 1918
3rd Battle of the Aisne begins	27th May, 1918
Battle of Le Hamel	4th July, 1918
2nd Battle of the Marne	15th July, 1918
German retreat at the Marne	20th July, 1918
Amiens Offensive	8th August, 1918
Allied breakthrough at Albert	21st August, 1918
United States St Mihiel Offensive	12th Sept., 1918
Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins	26th Sept., 1918
Canal du Nord Offensive	27th Sept., 1918
Max von Baden appointed Chancellor of Germany	3rd October, 1918
Allied forces capture the Hindenburg Line	5th October, 1918
Italian Vittorio Veneto Offensive	23rd October, 1918
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates	9th November, 1918
Armistice	11th November, 1918
Lloyd George wins British General Election	14th December, 1918
Paris Peace Conference	12th January, 1919
Treaty of Versailles signed	28th June, 1919