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World War One Timeline Explanation
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This table contains various events related to the World War One of 1914-1919.
The dates are to the nearest day when possible. Those events dated to the nearest year are less certain, naturally, than those dated to the precise day.
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| Reinsurance Treaty |
June 18, 1887 |
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| Tirpitz submits plan for seventeen battleship German Navy |
January 3, 1896 |
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| Tangier Crisis |
March 31, 1905 |
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| Algeçiras Conference |
January - April 7, 1906 |
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| Agadir Crisis |
July 1 - November 4, 1911 |
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| Germany agrees to a French protectorate in Morocco in exchange for the cession of French territory in equatorial Africa |
November 4, 1911 |
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| Greece negotiates the purchase of two American battleships |
June, 1914 |
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| Assassination of Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo |
June 28, 1914 |
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| World War I |
June 28, 1914 |
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| Germany gives Austria-Hungary blank check of support against Serbia |
July 5/6, 1914 |
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| Austrian Ultimatum to Serbia |
July 23, 1914 |
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| Serbia Mobilizes |
July 25, 1914 |
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| Serb reply negatively to Austrian ultimatum |
July 25, 1914 |
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| Austria-Hungary mobilizes against Serbia |
July 26, 1914 |
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| Russian enters 'period preparatory for war' |
July 26, 1914 |
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| Turkey secretly proposes a mutual defense pact with Germany |
July 27, 1914 |
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| Save |
July 28, 1914 |
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| Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia |
July 28, 1914 |
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| Churchill requisitions two warships being built for Turkey |
July 28, 1914 |
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| Germany demands immediate cessation of Russian mobilization |
July 29, 1914 |
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| Artillery duel at a Serbian bridgehead on the Sava river immediately outside of Belgrade |
July 29, 1914 |
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| Russian orders full mobilization in support of Serbia |
July 30, 1914 |
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| Germany issues ultimatum to Russia |
July 31, 1914 |
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| Turkey mobilizes |
July 31, 1914 |
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| Austria-Hungary orders total mobilization |
July 31, 1914 |
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| German declaration of war on Russia |
August 1, 1914 |
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| Russian cavalry units cross the border of East Prussia |
August 1, 1914 |
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| Germany orders full mobilization |
August 1, 1914 |
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| France orders full mobilization |
August 1, 1914 |
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| Russian mobilization begins |
August 1, 1914 |
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| German ultimatum to Belgium demanding right of passage through Belgian territory |
August 2, 1914 |
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| Germany invades Russian Poland |
August 2, 1914 |
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| Turkey proclaims neutrality |
August 2, 1914 |
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| Turkey signs a secret treaty with Germany |
August 2, 1914 |
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| Luxembourg occupied by German troops |
August 2, 1914 |
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| Britain asks for Turkey's neutrality |
August 2, 1914 |
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| German troops cross into Belgium |
August 3/4, 1914 |
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| Germany declares war on France |
August 3, 1914 |
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| Turkey declares 'armed neutrality' |
August 3, 1914 |
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| France asks Russia to attack Germany |
August 3, 1914 |
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| Turkey begans laying mines in straits in defense of neutrality |
August 4/5, 1914 |
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| Britain declares war on Germany |
August 4, 1914 |
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| Escape of German Cruisers Goeben and Breslau |
August 4-10, 1914 |
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| Goeben and Breslau bombard French ports in Algeria |
August 4, 1914 |
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| United States declares neutrality |
August 4, 1914 |
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| German troops begin full-scale invasion of Belgium |
August 4, 1914 |
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| Frontiers, Battles of the |
August 5-25, 1914 |
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| German Army Zeppelin LZ.6 attempts to bomb Liége |
August 5/6, 1914 |
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| Liége, Battle of |
August 5-16, 1914 |
The Germans, under General Emmich with a force of 30,000 men, attacked at night on 5 August, sustaining heavy losses and making little or no progress, much to the surprise of the supremely confident German army. |
| Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia |
August 6, 1914 |
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| Austria declares war on Russia |
August 6, 1914 |
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| French troops move into Upper Alsace |
August 6, 1914 |
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| Mulhouse, Battle of |
August 7, 1914 |
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| Liége, Surrender of Citadel garrison and city of |
August 7, 1914 |
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| Montenegro declares war on Austria |
August 8, 1914 |
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| Fort de Barchon surrenders, first of 12 forts surrounding Liége to fall |
August 8, 1914 |
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| First elements of BEF arrive in France |
August 9, 1914 |
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| Serbia declares war on Germany |
August 9, 1914 |
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| Austrian forces enter Poland from Galicia |
August 10, 1914 |
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| Galicia, Battle of |
August 10 - September 4, 1914 |
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| Fort d'Évegnée surrenders |
August 11, 1914 |
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| German crusiers Goeben and Breslau enter Dardanelles |
August 11, 1914 |
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| Austrians invade Serbia |
August 12, 1914 |
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| First of two 420mm mortars arrives for use against Liége Forts |
August 12, 1914 |
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| Russia invades East Prussia |
August 12/13, 1914 |
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| Jadar River, Battle of |
August 12, 1914 |
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| Haelen, Battle of |
August 12, 1914 |
First cavalry action of the war |
| Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary |
August 12, 1914 |
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| France declares war on Austria-Hungary |
August 13, 1914 |
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| Forts d'Embourg, de Chaudfontaine, and de Pontisse surrender |
August 13, 1914 |
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| Second of two 420mm mortars arrives for use against Liége Forts |
August 13, 1914 |
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| Forts de Liers and de Fléron surrender |
August 14, 1914 |
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| Lorraine, Battle of |
August 14-22, 1914 |
The Invasion of Lorraine - August 14 |
| British Expeditionary Force begins to form up near Le Cateau, France |
August 14, 1914 |
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| Forts de Boncelles, de Loncin, and de Lantin after magazine explodes at Fort de Loncin |
August 15, 1914 |
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| Fort de Hollogne and Fort de Flémalle, last of the forts around Liége, surrender |
August 16, 1914 |
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| Tser and the Jadar, Battle of the |
August 17–21, 1914 |
Serbian forces repulsed an Austrian invasion. |
| Stallupönen, Battle of |
August 17, 1914 |
The first German victory on the Eastern Front; General Francois inflicts heavy casualties on Russian advance despite orders from Prittwitz to withdraw. |
| Tirlement, Battle of |
August 18/19, 1914 |
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| British naval squadron denied entrance to straits |
August 18, 1914 |
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| Ardennes, Battle of the |
August 20-23, 1914 |
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| Gumbinnen, Battle of |
August 20-23, 1914 |
Russians defeat German Eighth Army, advance to river Vistula |
| Brussels, Belgium, surrenders |
August 20, 1914 |
General Kluck enters Brussels, Belgium, after Battle of Tirlement, August 18/19, 1914 |
| Charleroi, Battle of |
August 21-23, 1914 |
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| Namur, Siege of |
August 21-25, 1914 |
The nine forts surrounding the city of Namur quickly succumb to the German siege train. |
| Sambre, Battle of the |
August 22/23, 1914 |
Battle of the Sambre August 22-23 |
| BEF has five divisions (160,000 men) assembled in France |
August 22, 1914 |
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| Mons |
August 23, 1914 |
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| Japan declares war on Germany |
August 23, 1914 |
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| Mons, Battle of |
August 23, 1914 |
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| Mons, Battle of |
August 23-24, 1914 |
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| Dinant, Capture of |
August 23, 1914 |
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| Namur, Fall of |
August 23, 1914 |
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| Elouges, Action of |
August 24, 1914 |
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| British retreat from Mons; French retreat from Dinant, Charleroi |
August 24 - September 5, 1914 |
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| Solesmes, Rearguard Action of |
August 25, 1914 |
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| Austria-Hungary declares war on Japan |
August 25, 1914 |
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| Maubeuge, Siege of |
August 25 - September 7, 1914 |
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| Komarów, Battle of |
August 25-27, 1914 |
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| Le Cateau |
August 26, 1914 |
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| Le Cateau, Battle of |
August 26/27, 1914 |
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| Tannenberg, Battle of |
August 26 - September 1, 1914 |
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| Lille, German capture of |
August 27, 1914 |
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| Heligoland Bight, Battle of |
August 27/28, 1914 |
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| Guise, Battle of |
August 29, 1914 |
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| Russian General Samsonov commits suicide |
August 30, 1914 |
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| Paris, First German Zeppelin Raid on |
August 30, 1914 |
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| Marne, First Battle of the |
September 5-10, 1914 |
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| U-boat British Scout Cruiser Pathfinder sunk by U-boat |
September 5, 1914 |
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| Joffre's counterattack begins |
September 5, 1914 |
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| Masurian Lakes, First Battle of the |
September 7 -14, 1914 |
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| Lemberg, First Battle of |
September 8-12, 1914 |
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| Drina, First Battle of |
September 8-17, 1914 |
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| Grodek, Battle of |
September 11, 1914 |
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| Aisne, First Battle of the |
September 14-28, 1914 |
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| Moltke replaced by Falkenhayn as Chief of the German General Staff |
September 14, 1914 |
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| Race to the Sea begins (??) |
September 15, 1914 |
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| Przemyśl, Siege of |
September 16, 1914 |
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| Tsingtao, Battle of |
September 18, 1914 |
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| Picardy, Battle of |
September 22 - 26, 1914 |
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| U-9 sinks H.M.S. Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy |
September 22, 1914 |
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| Russians launch an attack on Carpathians passes leading into northern Hungary |
September 24, 1914 |
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| Albert, First Battle of |
September 25-29, 1914 |
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| Orlau-Frankenau, Battle of |
September 26-28, 1914 |
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| Artois, Battle of |
September 27-October 10, 1914 |
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| Antwerp, Siege of |
September 28 - October 2, 1914 |
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| Warsaw Offensive |
September 28 - October 31, 1914 |
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| Turkey closes Dardanelles |
October 1, 1914 |
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| Arras, Battle of |
October 1-4, 1914 |
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| Wirballen, Battle of |
October 4-8, 1914 |
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| Warsaw, Battle of |
October 9–20, 1914 |
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| Ivangorod, Battle of |
October 9–20, 1914 |
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| Race to the Sea begins |
October 10, 1914 |
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| Yser, Battle of the |
October 18-27, 1914 |
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| Belgians flood the twenty-mile strip of land between Dixmude and Nieuport |
October 27, 1914 |
Belgians flood the twenty-mile strip of land between Dixmude and Nieuport |
| Turkey joins Central Powers |
October 29, 1914 |
Turkey joins Central Powers |
| Turkish naval forces begin hostilities against Russia |
October 29, 1914 |
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| Ypres, First Battle of |
October 31 - November 22, 1914 |
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| Coronel, Battle of |
November 1, 1914 |
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| Tanga, Battle of |
November 3, 1914 |
Colonel Lettow-Vorbeck defeats British attempt to capture German East Africa |
| Basra, Capture of |
November 5, 1914 |
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| Przemyśl, Siege of |
November 10, 1914 |
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| Lódz, Battle of |
November 11–25, 1914 |
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| Hungary, Invasion of |
November 15, 1914 |
Russians commenced the second investment of Przemysl (Nov. 10) and renewed the invasion of northern Hungary (Nov. 15). |
| British campaign in Mesopotamia begins |
November 22, 1914 |
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| Qurna, Battle of |
December 3, 1914 |
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| Kolubara River, Battle of |
December 3–9, 1914 |
The Austrians were forced to recross the Serbian frontier as Serbs recaptured Belgrade (Dec. 15), ending the second invasion of Serbia. |
| Limanova, Battle of |
December 5–17, 1914 |
Battle of Limanova. The Austrians failed to break the Russian position before Cracow. |
| Falkland Islands, Battle of the |
December 8, 1914 |
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| Austrians driven out of Serbia |
December 15, 1914 |
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| Scarborough and Hartlepool, German naval bombardment of |
December 16, 1914 |
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| Givenchy, Battle of |
December 18, 1914 |
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| Champagne, First Battle of |
December 20, 1914 |
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| Christmas Truce |
December 24-26, 1914 |
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| Sarikamish, Battle of |
December 29, 1914 - January 3, 1915 |
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| Afiun-Kara-Hissar, Battle of |
1915 |
Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar (1915) - World War I - Turkish Assimilation of Armenians |
| Russia asks Britiish War Office for demonstration against Turkey |
January 2, 1915 |
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| Admiralty asks Admiral Carden about plans for forcing Strait |
January 3, 1915 |
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| South African forces occupy Swakopmund |
January 14, 1915 |
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| Japan's Twenty-one Demands on China |
January 18, 1915 |
In a classic act of opportunism, the Japanese government used the distraction of the war in Europe to press China secretly for a series of concessions. It was made clear that if China were to refuse these demands, war with Japan would be the result. |
| Dogger Bank, Battle of |
January 24, 1915 |
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| William P. Frye sunk |
January 28 1915 |
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| Bolimov, Battle of |
January 31, 1915 |
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| Rumani, Battle of |
February 2, 1915 |
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| Suez Canal, Defence of the |
February 3, 1915 |
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| Germany declares war zone around British Isles |
February 4, 1915 |
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| Masurian Lakes, Second Battle of the |
February 7, 1915 |
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| Singapore Rebellion |
February 15/16, 1915 |
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| Dardanelles, Allied naval attack on the |
February 19, 1915 |
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| Neuve Chapelle, Battle of |
March 10-13 1915 |
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| Dardanelles Narrows, Allied attempt to force |
March 18, 1915 |
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| Turkey moves against Armenians |
April 1915 |
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| Shaiba, Battle of |
April 11, 1915 |
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| Ypres, Second Battle of |
April 22 - May 25, 1915 |
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| Gallipoli, Allied landings at |
April 25, 1915 |
Allies land troops at Anzac Cove and Helles |
| Helles & Anzac Cove, Allied Landing at |
April 25, 1915 |
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| Gallipoli Campaign |
April 25, 1915 - January 10, 1916 |
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| Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive |
April 28 - August, 1915 |
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| Krithia, First Battle of |
April 28, 1915 |
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| Gulflight sunk |
May 1, 1915 |
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| Eski Hissarlik, Counter-attack at |
May 1, 1915 |
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| Krithia, Second Battle of |
May 6, 1915 |
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| Lusitania sunk |
May 7, 1915 |
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| Artois Offensive |
May 9, 1915 |
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| Festubert, Battle of |
May 15, 1915 |
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| Anzac Cove, Turkish attack at |
May 19, 1915 |
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| London, First Zeppelin raid on |
May 31, 1915 |
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| Amara, Capture of |
May 31, 1915 |
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| Krithia, Third Battle of |
June 4, 1915 |
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| Isonzo, 01 First Battle of the |
June 23, 1915 |
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| Isonzo, Eleven Battles of |
June 23, 1915-September 15, 1918 |
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| Nasiriyeh, Battle of |
June 27, 1915 |
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| Gully Ravine, Battle of |
June 28, 1915 |
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| Achi Baba, Attack on |
July 12, 1915 |
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| Isonzo, 02 Second Battle of the |
July 18, 1915 |
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| Sari Bair, Battle of |
August 6, 1915 |
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| Suvla Bay, Landings at |
August 6, 1915 |
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| Lone Pine, Battle of |
August 6, 1915 |
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| Arabic sunk |
August 19, 1915 |
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| Scimitar Hill, Battle of |
August 21, 1915 |
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| Hill 60, Battle of |
August 21, 1915 |
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| Military agreement between German, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria concluded at Pless |
September 6, 1915 |
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| Bulgaria mobilizes |
September 23, 1915 |
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| Greece mobilizes |
September 23, 1915 |
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| Loos, Battle of |
September 25, 1915 |
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| Champagne, Battle of |
September 25 - November 6, 1915 |
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| Artois-Loos Offensive |
September 25, 1915 |
Anglo-French Offensive |
| Kut-al-Amara, Capture of |
September 28, 1915 |
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| Salonika, Allied troops land at |
October 5, 1915 |
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| Bulgaria joins Central Powers |
October 15, 1915 |
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| Isonzo, 03 Third Battle of the |
October 18, 1915 |
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| Gaza Offensive |
October 31 - December 9, 1915 |
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| Ancona sunk |
November 7, 1915 |
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| Isonzo, 04 Fourth Battle of the |
November 10, 1915 |
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| Ctesiphon, Battle of |
November 22-25 1915 |
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| Wilson calls up reserves |
December 7, 1915 |
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| Kut-al-Amara, Siege of |
December 7, 1915 - April 29, 1916 |
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| Gallipolli, Evacuation of Anzac Cove and Suvla Bay |
December 10-20, 1915 |
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| Gallipolli, Evacuation of Helles |
December 20, 1915 - January 9, 1916 |
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| Sheikh Sa'ad, Battle of |
January 6, 1916 |
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| Germans pledge to abide by submarine rules |
January 7, 1916 |
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| Wadi, Battle of the |
January 13, 1916 |
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| Hanna, Battle of |
January 21, 1916 |
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| Verdun Offensive begins |
February 21 - July 1916 |
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| Dujaila, Battle of |
March 8, 1916 |
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| Isonzo, 05 Fifth Battle of the |
March 9, 1916 |
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| Lake Naroch, Battle of |
March 18, 1916 |
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| HMS Sussex sunk |
March 24, 1916 |
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| Kut, First Battle of |
April 5, 1916 |
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| Sussex pledge |
May 4, 1916 |
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| Asiago, Battle of |
May 15, 1916 |
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| Conscription to the British armed forces began for the first time. |
May 24 1916 |
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| British Grand Fleet leaves Scapa Flow for the Battle of Jutland. |
May 31, 1916 |
British Grand Fleet leaves Scapa Flow for the Battle of Jutland. |
| Jutland, Battle of |
May 31 - June 1, 1916 |
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| Khanaqin, Battle of |
June 1916 |
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| Kovel-Stanislav Offensive |
June 3 - September 30, 1916 |
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| Lutsk, Battle of |
June 4, 1916 |
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| Brusilov Offensive |
June 4, 1916 |
A pyrrhic victory for the Russians; a sixty-mile advance which cost a million casusalties |
| HMS Hampshire sinks off Orkney |
June 5, 1916 |
HMS Hampshire sinks off Orkney after striking a mine. Lord Kitchener, conqueror of Sudan, is drowned. |
| Somme, Battle of |
July 1 - November 18, 1916 |
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| Bazentin Ridge, Battle of |
July 14-17, 1916 |
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| Delville Wood, Battle of |
July 15 - September 3, 1916 |
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| Pozieres Ridge, Battle of |
July 23, 1916 |
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| Romani, Battle of |
August 3, 1916 |
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| Isonzo, 06 Sixth Battle of the |
August 6, 1916 |
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| Gorizia, Battle of |
August 6, 1916 |
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| Rumania, Battle of |
August 27 - December 6, 1916 |
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| Guillemont, Battle of |
September 3, 1916 |
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| Isonzo, 07 Seventh Battle of the |
September 14, 1916 |
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| Flers-Courcelette, Battle of |
September 15, 1916 |
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| Isonzo, 08 Eighth Battle of the |
October 10, 1916 |
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| Isonzo, 09 Ninth Battle of the |
November 1, 1916 |
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| Germany proposes peace talks |
December 12, 1916 |
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| Kut, Second Battle of |
December 13, 1916 |
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| Wilson seeks peace terms from both sides |
December 20, 1916 |
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| Khadairi Bend, Battle of |
January 9, 1917 |
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| Wilson calls for an association of nations and peace without victory |
January 22, 1917 |
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| Germany resumes unrestricted sub warfare |
February 1, 1917 |
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| U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Germany |
February 3, 1917 |
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| Zimmerman Telegram revealed |
February 24, 1917 |
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| Liner Laconia is Sunk by U-boat |
February 25, 1917 |
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| Nahr-al-Kalek, Battle of |
February 26, 1917 |
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| Wilson arms merchant ships |
March 9, 1917 |
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| Baghdad, Capture of |
March 11, 1917 |
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| American merchant ship Algonquin is sunk by shellfire from submarine |
March 12, 1917 |
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| Samarrah Offensive |
March 13, 1917 |
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| Czar Nicholas II abdicates |
March 15, 1917 |
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| Falluja, Seizure of |
March 19, 1917 |
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| Jebel Hamlin, Battle of |
March 25, 1917 |
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| Gaza, Battle of |
March 26/27, 1917 |
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| Wilson asks for war declaration |
April 2, 1917 |
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| United States declares war on Germany |
April 6, 1917 |
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| Vimy Ridge, Battle of |
April 9-12, 1917 |
The Battle of Vimy Ridge was the first successful operation against the German Hindenburg Line during World War I. |
| Arras Offensive |
April 9, 1917 |
Largely a diversionary attack. |
| Shiala, Battle of |
April 11, 1917 |
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| Aisne, Second Battle of the |
April 16, 1917 |
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| French troops begin a series of mutinies |
April 17, 1917 |
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| Gaza, Battle of |
April 17-19, 1917 |
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| Istabulat, Battle of |
April 21, 1917 |
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| Boot, Battle of the |
April 30, 1917 |
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| Isonzo, 10 Tenth Battle of the |
May 12, 1917 |
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| Otranto Straits, Battle of |
May 14-15 1917 |
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| U.S. Selective Service Act |
May 18, 1917 |
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| Pershing heads AEF |
May 19, 1917 |
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| Messines, Battle of |
June 7, 1917 |
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| Espionage Act passed |
June 15, 1917 |
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| U.S. soldiers arrive in France |
June 25, 1917 |
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| Greece enters the war on the side of the Allies |
June 27, 1917 |
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| Pershing makes first request for army of 1,000,000 men |
July 2, 1917 |
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| Aquaba, Battle of |
July 6, 1917 |
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| T.E. Lawrence heads Arab revolt |
July 6, 1917 |
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| Pershing revises army request figures upwards to 3,000,000 |
July 11, 1917 |
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| Major British offensive launched at Ypres |
July 31, 1917 |
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| Ypres, Third Battle of |
July 31 - November 6, 1917 |
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| Isonzo, 11 Eleventh Battle of the |
August 19, 1917 |
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| Germany takes the northernmost end of the Russian front in the Riga offensive |
September 1, 1917 |
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| Ramadi, Battle of |
September 28, 1917 |
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| Passchendaele, British Offensive at |
October 12, 1917 |
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| Caporetto, Battle of |
October 24 - November 7, 1917 |
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| Lansing-Ishii Agreement |
November 2, 1917 |
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| Tikrit, Capture of |
November 5, 1917 |
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| Bolshevik Revolution in Russia |
November 6, 1917 |
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| Austria-Germany breakthrough at Caporetto on Italian front |
October 24, 1917 |
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| Bolshevik Revolution in Russia results in Communist government under Lenin taking office |
November 7, 1917 |
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| Balfour Declaration |
November 8, 1917 |
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| Mughar Ridge, Battle of |
November 13, 1917 |
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| Cambrai, Battle of |
November 20, 1917 |
British launch surprise tank attack at Cambrai: another failure |
| United States declares war on Austria-Hungary |
December 7, 1917 |
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| Jerusalem, Battle of |
December 8/9, 1917 |
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| Jerusalem, Capture of |
December 9, 1917 |
Jerusalem captured by British forces under Allenby |
| Russia opens separate peace negotiations with Germany (Brest-Litovsk) |
December 22, 1917 |
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| President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points |
January 8, 1918 |
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| Series of collisions in the Firth of Forth involving submarines and surface ships |
January 31, 1918 |
"Battle of Isle of Mey" - 100 men died in a series of collisions in the Firth of Forth, involving submarines and surface ships. |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
March 3, 1918 |
By the the war with Russia is ended. Russia renounces any authority in Poland and the Baltic states and acknowledges the independence of Ukraine and Finland. The Central powers do not demand reparations. |
| Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of |
March 3, 1918 |
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| Somme Offensive |
March 21 - April 6, 1918 |
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| Lys, Battles of the |
April 9-29, 1918 |
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| Estaires, Battle of |
April 9-22, 1918 |
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| Lys River, Battle of |
April 9-29, 1918 |
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| Messines, Battle of |
April 10/11 1918 |
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| Hazebrouck, Battle of |
April 12-15, 1918 |
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| Bailleul, Battle of |
April 13-15, 1918 |
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| Kemmel, First Battle of |
April 17-19, 1918 |
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| Bethune, Battle of |
April 18, 1918 |
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| Zeebrugge Raid |
April 23, 1918 |
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| Kemmel, Second Battle of |
April 25/26, 1918 |
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| Scherpenberg, Battle of the |
April 29, 1918 |
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| Aisne |
May 27 - June 6, 1918 |
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| Aisne, Third Battle of |
May 27, 1918 |
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| Cantigny, Battle of |
May 28, 1918 |
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| Allied Expedition to Vladivostok |
June, 1918 - January, 1920 |
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| Château-Thierry, Battle of |
June 3, 1918 |
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| Belleau Wood, Battle of |
June 6 - July 1, 1918 |
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| Piave River, Battle of the |
June 15, 1918 |
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| La Becque, Action of |
June 28, 1918 |
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| Marne, Second Battle of the |
July 15 - August 6, 1918 |
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| Allied Expedition to Archangel - U.S. Intervention in Russia |
July 17, 1918 - September 27, 1919 |
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| Meteren, Capture of |
July 19, 1918 |
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| Soissonnais and of the Ourcq, Battle of the |
July 23 - August 2, 1918 |
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| Amiens |
August 8-11, 1918 |
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| Amiens Offensive |
August 8, 1918 |
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| Outtersteene Ridge, Action of |
August 18 - September 6, 1918 |
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| Albert |
August 21-3, 1918 |
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| Polar Bear Expedition arrives in Vladivostok |
August 21, 1918 |
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| Albert, Second Battle of |
August 21, 1918 |
Allied breakthrough |
| Scarpe, Battle of the |
August 26-30, 1918 |
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| Havrincourt, Battle of |
September 12, 1918 |
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| Havrincourt |
September 12, 1918 |
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| Saint Mihiel Offensive |
September 12, 1918 |
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| Epehy, Battle of |
September 18, 1918 |
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| Damascus, Battle of |
September 19 - October 1, 1918 |
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| Megiddo, Battle of |
September 19-21, 1918 |
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| Meuse-Argonne, Battle of |
September 26 - November 11, 1918 |
Allied victory over the Germans Decisive battle |
| Cambrai-St Quentin, Battle of |
September 27, 1918 |
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| Ypres, Battle of |
September 28 - October 2, 1918 |
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| Artois, Final Advance in |
October 2 - November 11, 1918 |
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| Hindenburg Line captured by Allied forces |
October 6, 1918 |
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| Passenger ship Leinster torpedoed with heavy loss of life |
October 12, 1918 |
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| Selle, Battle of the |
October 17-25, 1918 |
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| Vittorio Veneto, Battle of |
October 24 - November 3, 1918 |
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| German High Seas Fleet begins its final sortie |
October 29, 1918 |
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| Sharqat, Battle of |
October 29, 1918 |
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| Kiel Mutiny |
October 30 - November 9, 1918 |
The Mutiny became an outright revolt on November 9, 1918. |
| Valenciennes, Battle of the |
November 1/2, 1918 |
This action included the Tactical Incident of the Capture of Mont Houy by the 4th Canadian Division. |
| German Invasion of Rhodesia |
November 2-14, 1918 |
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| Austro-Hungarian Armistice |
November 3, 1918 |
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| Kiel Mutiny |
November 3, 1918 |
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| Proclamation of Polish Republic |
November 3, 1918 |
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| Sambre, Battle of the |
November 4, 1918 |
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| British Occupation of Armenia |
November 4-December 27, 1918 |
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| Grand Honelle, Passage of the |
November 5-7, 1918 |
The Passage of the Grand Honelle |
| Allied Acceptance of the Fourteen Points |
November 5, 1918 |
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| Serb-Croat-Slovene Union |
November 7, 1918 |
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| Munich Revolution/Bavarian Republic |
November 7-8, 1918 |
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| Compiegne/German Armistice |
November 8, 1918 |
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| Abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany |
November 9, 1918 |
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| Toulgas, Battle of |
November 11, 1918 |
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| Mons, Capture of |
November 11, 1918 |
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| German High Seas Fleet surrenders |
November 21, 1918 |
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| Trianon, Treaty of |
June 4, 1920 |
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| Sèvres, Treaty of |
August 10, 1920 |
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