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Assassination of the Archduke of Austria
Gavrilo Principle fires two shots to kill the archduke and his wife which sparks the first world war -
Archduke and Archduchess visit Sarajevo
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo -
Britain declares war on Germany
Belgium's ports were close to the British coast and German control of Belgium would have been seen as a serious threat to Britain. I -
Canada is automatically at war against Triple Alliance
Canada was a self-governing dominion of the British Empire, but it did not control its own foreign affairs -
Russia mobilizes to defend Serbia
Reacting to the Austrian attack on Serbia, Russia begins full mobilisation of its troops. -
Serbia agrees to two of the three terms of the ultimatum
Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by a young Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Baron Giesl von Gieslingen, ambassador of the Austro-Hungarian -
Austria-Hungary sends ultimatum to Serbia
Austro-Hungarian Empire to Serbia, delivers an ultimatum to the Serbian foreign -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, -
Germany Declares War on Russia
Germany honours it's alliance with Austria-Hungary and declares war on Russia in support. -
Germany orders France and Russia to stop mobilizing
Reacting to the Austrian attack on Serbia, Russia begins full mobilization of its troops -
Germany orders France and Russia to stop mobilizing
Reacting to the Austrian attack on Serbia, Russia begins full mobilization of its troops -
France mobilizes to support its Russian ally
The Schrieffer Plan concentrated German forces in the west for an attack on Russia's ally France. -
Germany begins the Schrieffer Plan and attacks France through neutral Belgium Battle of Ypres
Germany declares war on France, and invades neutral Belgium. Britain then sends an ultimatum, rejected by the Germans, to withdraw from Belgium. -
Gavrilo Principe is arrested
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Germany invades Belgium
Before the Germans declared war on France, they needed free passage across Belgium. -
Battle of Ypres
Flemish town of Ypres in western Belgium after the First Battle of Ypres the previous autumn. -
Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and France against the German Empire. -
Battle of Vimy Ridge
The Battle of Vimy Ridge was part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. -
Beginning of Conscription Crisis in Canada
One of the main issues with a mandatory military service in Canada is the political viability of such a program -
Battle of Passchendaele
The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire -
Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Germany had formally surrendered on the 11th off November and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. -
Armistice
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I -
Germany declares war on France
after German forces invaded Poland.
