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World War One
1914
June 28 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo.
July 28 - Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.
August 1 - Germany declares war on Russia.
August 3 - Germany declares war on France.
August 4 - Great Britain declares war on Germany.
August 4 - Germany invades neutral Belgium.
August 26-30 - Battle of Tannenberg.
August - Battle of Togoland.
August - The Pursuit of the Goeben and the Breslau.
September - First Battle of Aisne.
September - Battle of Lemberg.
September 5-10 - First Battle of the Marne.
October-November - First Battle of Ypres.
November - Battle of Lodz.
December 25 - Unofficial Christmas Truce on the Western Front.
1915
January 19 - First German zeppelin air raid on England.
February 4 - Any ship approaching Britain is considered a legitimate target as Germany declares a submarine blockade of England.
February - Battle of Masuria.
March - Battle of Neuve-Chapelle.
March-December - Battles of Aubers Ridge and Festubert.
April 22-May 5 - Second Battle of Ypres. First use of chemical weapons.
April 23 - Allied assault on Gallipoli.
May 7 -
Lusitania
sunk.
May - Battle of Gorlice-Tarnow.
August 30 - Responding to American demands, Germany stops sinking ships without warning.
September 5 - Tsar Nicholas commander of Russian armies.
September-October - Battle of Artois & Champagne.
September-October - Battle of Loos.
December 7 - David Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister of Britain.
December 28 - Allied withdrawal from Gallipoli.
December-April, 1916 - Siege of Kut.
1916
February 21-December 18 - Battle of Verdun.
May-June - Trentino Offensive.
May 31 - Battle of Jutland.
June 4 - The Brusilov Offensive.
July 1-November 18 - Battle of the Somme.
November 7 - Woodrow Wilson re-elected.
December 31 - Rasputin murdered.
1917
February 1 - Unrestricted submarine warfare declared by Germany, again.
February 24 - The Sinking of the
Laconia
.
March 15 - Tsar Nicholas abdicates.
March-September - Russia collapses.
April 6 - United States declares war on Germany.
April 16-29 - Chemin des Dames Offensive.
April - Battle of Arras & Vimy Ridge.
April - Nivelle Offensive.
May 13 - W. D. Merrill Letter
June - Battle of Messines.
July 6 - Aquaba captured by Arabs led by T.E.Lawrence.
July 16-November 10 - Third Battle of Ypres.
August 6 - Aleksander Fyodorovich Kerensky appointed Prime Minister of Russia.
October - Battle of Caporetto.
November 7 - Kerensky's government overthrown by Bolsheviks.
November 10 - British reach Passchendaele.
November - Battle of Cambrai.
November 21 - Samuel G. A. Rogers Letter
December 3 - German-Russian armistice.
December 9 - Jerusalem captured by British.
1918
January 8 - President Wilson presents 14-point plan.
March-June - Ludendorff Offensive.
March 2 - Alan Ash, Letter One
March 22 - Alan Ash, Letter Two
April - Zeebruggge Raid.
April 27 - Margaret Rowland, Letter One
April 27 - Lawrence S. Wheeler Letter
April 30 - Ed Hopkins Letter
May 16 - Alan Ash, Letter Three
June-July - Piave Offensive.
July 10 - Margaret Rowland, Letter Two
July 16-17 - Bolsheviks murder Tsar Nicholas and his family.
August 3 - Helen C. Bulovsky Letter
August 8 - Allied counter-offensives on the Somme.
August 13 - Richard H. Marshall, Letter One
August 28 - Margaret Rowland, Letter Three
September [ND] - Alfred H. G. Smith Letter
September 3 - Richard H. Marshall, Letter Two
September 29 - Allies break through the Hindenberg Line.
September-October - Battle of Megiddo.
September - St. Mihiel Offensive.
September-November - Battle of Meuse-Argonne.
October 28 - German sailors mutiny.
November 9 - Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates.
November 10 - German republic founded.
November 11 - Armistice signed.
November 12 - Richard H. Marshall, Letter Three
November 17 - Ladislaw Dvorak Letter
November 27 - Paul W. Chase Letter
1919
May 31 - A. L. Tund Letter
June 28 - Treaty of Versailles signed.