1914.
June 28.--Francis Ferdinand shot at Sarajevo.
July 5.--Kaiser’s War Council at Potsdam.
July 23.--Austro-Hungarian Note to Serbia.
July 23.--Austria declared war on Serbia.
July 31.--State of war in Germany.
August 1.--Germany declared war on Russia.
August 2.--German ultimatum to Belgium.
August 3.--Germany declared war on France.
August 4.--Great Britain declared war on Germany.
August 10.--France declared war on Austria.
August 12.--Great Britain declared war on Austria.
August 15.--Fall of Liége.
August 16.--British Army landed in France.
August 20.--Germans occupied Brussels.
August 23.--Japan declared war on Germany.
August 24.--Fall of Namur.
August 25.--Sack of Louvain.
August 26.--Battle of Tannenberg.
August 28.--British Victory in the Bight.
August 29.--New Zealanders in Samoa.
September 2.--Russians took Lemberg.
September 3.--Paris Government at Bordeaux.
September 5.--End of Retreat from Mons.
September 6.--First Marne Battle begun.
September 15.--First Aisne Battle begun.
September 16.--Russians evacuated Prussia.
September 23.--First British Air Raid in Germany.
October 9.--Fall of Antwerp.
October 13.--Belgian Government at Havre.
October 20.--First Battle of Ypres begun.
November 1.--Naval Action off Coronel.
November 5.--Great Britain declared war on Turkey.
November 7.--Fall of Tsingtau.
November 10.--Emden sunk.
November 21.--British occupied Basra.
December 2.--Austrians in Belgrade.
December 8.--Naval Battle off the Falklands.
December 14.--Serbians retook Belgrade.
December 16.--Germans bombarded West Hartlepool.
December 18.--Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt.
December 24.--First Air Raid on England.
1915.
January 24.--Naval Battle off Dogger Bank.
February 2.--Turks defeated on Suez Canal.
February 18.--U Boat “Blockade” of England.
February 25--Allied Fleet attacked Dardanelles.
March 10.--British capture Neuve Chappelle.
March 22.--Russians took Przemysl.
April 22.--Second Battle of Ypres begun.
April 25.--Allied Landing in Gallipoli.
May 3.--Battle of the Dunajec.
May 6.--Battle at Krithia, Gallipoli.
May 7.--Lusitania torpedoed.
May 8.--Germans occupied Libau.
May 11.--German repulse at Ypres.
May 12.--General Botha occupied Windhuk.
May 16.--Russian Retreat to the San.
May 23.--Italy declared war on Austria.
May 25.--Coalition Cabinet formed.
June 2.--Italians crossed Isonzo.
June 3.--Russians evacuated Przemysl.
June 22.--Austro-Germans recaptured Lemberg.
July 2.--Pommern sunk in Baltic.
July 9.--German South-West Africa conquered.
July 24.--Nasiriyeh, on Euphrates, taken.
August 4.--Fall of Warsaw.
August 5.--Fall of Ivangorod.
August 6.--New Landing at Suvla Bay.
August 8.--General Birdwood’s advance at Anzac.
August 9.--British success near Hooge.
August 15.--National Registration.
August 17.--Fall of Kovno.
August 18.--Russian victory in Riga Gulf.
August 19.--Fall of Novo-Georgievsk.
August 21.--Cotton declared contraband.
August 25.--Fall of Brest-Litovsk.
September 1.--General Alexeieff as Chief of Staff.
September 2.--Fall of Grodno.
September 5.--Tsar as Generalissimo.
September 7.--Russian victory near Tarnopol.
September 18.--Fall of Vilna.
September 21.--Russian Retreat ended.
September 25.--Battle of Loos and in Champagne.
September 28.--Victory at Kut-el-Amara.
October 4.--Russian ultimatum to Bulgaria.
October 5.--Allied landing at Salonika.
October 6.--Austro-German invasion of Serbia.
October 9.--Belgrade occupied.
October 14.--Bulgaria at war with Serbia.
October 17.--Allied note to Greece.
October 19.--Lord Derby on the 46 Groups.
October 22.--Bulgarians occupy Uskub.
October 28.--M. Briand French Premier.
November 5.--Fall of Nish.
November 22.--Battle of Ctesiphon.
November 29.--British withdraw from Ctesiphon.
December 2.--Fall of Monastir.
December 3.--General Townshend at Kut.
December 9.--Allied retreat in Macedonia.
December 13.--Salonika lines fortified.
December 15.--Sir D. Haig C.-in-C. in France.
December 19.--Withdrawal from Gallipoli.
December 25.--Turkish defeat at Kut.
1916.
January 6.--Gallipoli evacuation complete.
January 13.--Fall of Cettigne.
February 9.--General Smuts appointed to East Africa.
February 16.--Russians entered Erzerum.
February 18.--German Kamerun conquered.
February 21.--Battle of Verdun begun.
February 24.--Germans took Ft. Douaumont.
March 16.--Admiral von Tirpitz dismissed.
April 9.--German assault at Verdun.
April 17.--Russians entered Trebizond.
April 24.--Rebellion in Ireland.
April 29.--Fall of Kut-el-Amara.
May 24.--British Conscription Bill passed.
May 31--Battle of Jutland.
June 4.--General Brusiloff’s offensive.
June 5.--Lord Kitchener lost at sea.
June 14.--Allied Economic Conference in Paris.
June 21.--Mecca taken by Grand Sherif.
July 1.--Somme Battle begun.
July 25.--Russians occupied Erzinjan.
August 6.--Italian offensive on Isonzo.
August 10.--Russians at Stanislau.
August 27.--Rumania entered the war.
August 29.--Hindenburg Chief of Staff.
September 3.--Zeppelin destroyed at Cuffley.
September 26.--British took Thiepval and Combles.
October 10.--Allied Ultimatum to Greece.
November 1.--Italian Advance on Carso.
November 13.--British Victory on the Ancre.
November 18.--Serbians and French took Monastir.
November 29.--Grand Fleet under Sir D. Beatty.
December 1.--Anti-Allied Riot in Athens.
December 5.--Resignation of Mr. Asquith.
December 6.--Germans entered Bukarest.
December 7.--Mr. Lloyd George Prime Minister.
December 12.--German “Peace Proposals.”
December 15.--French Victory at Verdun.
December 20.--President Wilson’s Peace Note.
1917.
January 1.--Turkey denounced Berlin Treaty.
February 1.--“Unrestricted” U-Boat War begun.
February 3.--America broke with Germany.
February 6.--British captured Grandcourt.
February 24.--British took Kut-el-Amara.
March 11.--British entered Baghdad.
March 12.--Revolution in Russia.
March 15.--Abdication of the Tsar.
March 18.--British entered Peronne.
March 21.--First British Imperial War Cabinet.
April 6.--America declared war on Germany.
April 9.--Battle of Vimy Ridge begun.
May 4.--French took Caronne.
May 14.--New Italian offensive.
May 15.--General Petain Generalissimo.
June 7.--British Victory at Messines Ridge.
June 12.--Abdication of King Constantine.
June 26.--First American troops in France.
June 27.--Mesopotamia Report issued.
June 29.--General Allenby commander in Egypt.
July 1.--Last Russian offensive begun.
July 14.--Bethmann-Hollweg dismissed.
July 17.--British Royal House styled “Windsor.”
July 19.--Reichstag “Peace” Resolution.
July 24.--Russian defeat in Galicia.
July 31.--Great Allied attack around Ypres.
August 29.--President Wilson’s Note to the Pope.
September 4.--Germans occupied Riga.
September 15.--Russian Republic proclaimed.
September 28.--British Victory at Ramadieh.
October 9.--Allied attack in Flanders.
October 24.--Italian defeat at Caporetto.
October 29.--Fall of Udine.
October 30.--Chancellor Michaelis dismissed.
October 31.--British capture Beersheba.
November 1.--German retreat on Chemin des Dames.
November 4.--British troops in Italy.
November 6.--British stormed Passchendaele Ridge.
November 7.--British captured Gaza.
November 8.-Bolshevist coup d’état in Russia.
November 9.--Italian stand on the Piave.
November 17.--British in Jaffa.
November 18.--General Maude’s death in Mesopotamia.
November 20.--British Victory at Cambrai.
November 30.--German reaction at Cambrai.
December 6.--Armistice on Russian front.
December 9.--British captured Jerusalem.
December 22.--Brest Conference opened.
December 26.--Sir R. Wemyss First Sea Lord.
1918.
January 5.--Mr. Lloyd George on War Aims.
January 20.--Breslau sunk: Goeben damaged.
February 1.--Germany recognised Ukraine.
February 9.--First Brest Treaty Signed.
February 16.--General Wilson Chief of Staff.
February 18.--German invasion of Russia.
February 21.--British capture Jericho.
February 24.--Turks recovered Trebizond.
February 25.--Germans at Reval.
March 3.--Second Brest Treaty.
March 7.--German peace with Finland.
March 11.--Turks recovered Erzrum.
March 13.--Germans at Odessa.
March 14.--Brest Treaty ratified at Moscow.
March 21.--German offensive in the West.
March 24.--Bapaume and Peronne lost.
April 5.--Allied landing at Vladivostok.
April 9--New Military Service Bill.
April 11.--Armentieres lost.
April 13.--Turks occupied Batum.
April 14.--General Foch, Allied Generalissimo.
April 15--Bailleul lost.
April 18.--Lord Milner War Secretary.
April 22.--Naval raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend.
April 26.--Kemmel Hill lost.
April 27.--Turks occupied Kars.
April 30.--Germans at Viborg.
May 1.--Germans at Sebastopol.
May 9.--Second raid on Ostend.
May 27.--Second German offensive.
May 29.--Soissons lost. Reims held.
May 31.--Germans reached Marne.
June 1.--Attacks towards Paris held.
June 9.--New German assault.
June 15.--Austrian offensive in Italy.
June 23.--Great Austrian defeat.
July 2.--1,000,000 Americans shipped to France.
July 15.--Third German offensive. Second Marne Battle begun.
July 18.--General Foch’s counter-attack.
July 20.--Germans recrossed the Marne.
August 2.--Soissons recovered.
August 8.--British attack at Amiens.
August 29.--Bapaume and Noyon regained.
September 1.--Peronne recovered.
September 2.--Drocourt-Queant line breached.
September 12.-American attack at St. Mihiel.
September 15.--Austrian Peace Note.
September 17.--New Macedonian offensive.
September 19.--British advance in Palestine.
September 25.--Bulgaria proposed Armistice.
September 27.--Hindenburg line broken.
September 29.--Bulgaria surrendered.
September 30.--Fall of Damascus.
October 1.--St. Quentin regained.
October 9.--Cambrai regained.
October 10.--British took Le Cateau.
October 13.--French recovered Laon.
October 14.--British troops at Irtkutsk.
October 15.--British in Homs.
October 17.--Ostend. Lille, Douai regained.
October 20.--Belgian Coast clear.
October 25.--Ludendorff resigned.
October 26.--Aleppo fell to the Allies.
October 27.--Austria sued for Peace.
October 28.--Italians crossed Piave.
October 29.--Serbians reached the Danube.
October 30.--Turkey granted Armistice.
November 1.--Versailles Conference opened.
November 2.--British at Valenciennes.
November 3.--Austrian surrender. Kiel Mutiny.
November 4.--Versailles Armistice Agreement.
November 5.--Full Powers for Marshal Foch. Mr. Wilson’s last
Note to Germany.
November 6.--Americans reached Sedan.
November 7.--Bavarian Republic Proclaimed.
November 9.--Foch received German Envoys.
November 9.--Abdication of the Kaiser.
November 10.--Kaiser’s flight to Holland. British at Mons.
November 11.--Armistice Terms Accepted.
1919.
June 19.--Peace signed.