First World War Index

First World War Index

Chronology	Outbreak of War
Allied Armed Forces	Central Powers
Important Battles	Technology
Political Leaders	British Home Front
Military Leaders	Trench War
The Soldiers	Major Offensives

The Faces of World War I

We Will Not Fight

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