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Time Line of the Great War
1914:
June 28 -- Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife, Sophie, are assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb.
July 28 -- Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
July 30 -- Russia and Austria-Hungary mobilize.
August 1 -- France mobilizes; Germany mobilizes; state of war with Russia.
August 3 -- Germany declares war on France. Britain mobilizes.
August 4 -- Germany declares war on Belgium. Britain declares war on Germany. President Woodrow Wilson declares US neutrality.
August 5 -- Austria-Hungary declares war of Russia.
August 6 -- Serbia declares war on Germany.
August 10 -- France declares war on Austria-Hungary.
August 12 -- Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary.
September 5-12 -- The Battle of the Marne; German advance is halted. Trench construction begins along the Western Front.
October 19-November 22 -- The First Battle of Ypres.
October 29 -- Turkey allies with Austria-Hungary and Germany. |