01.World War I (WWI) was a global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11November 1918.02.The First World War began when Britain and Germany went to war in August 1914.
03. The world's worst train accident occured in France, in December 1917 with the deaths of over 600 soldiers.
04.Was known as the Great war before WW2.
05.58000 British soldiers were lost in the first day at the battle of the Somme (A Record).
06.An Armistice was signed ending the war at 5 AM the conflict ended at 11am on the 11.11.1918.
07. Hitler fought in ww1 in the German Army.
08. US entered the war on April 6, 1917.
09. A total of 65,038,810 troops were mobilized during the WW1, out of which 8,538,315 were either killed or they died. 21,219,452 were wounded. 7,750,919 were made prisoners.
10.The winter of 1917 was the coldest winter on record.
11.First war to be fought on 3 continents.
12.First use of chlorine & mustard gas.
13.First tank battle.
14.First use of mass airplanes.
15.First U.S. president to visit a European country while in office was Woodrow Wilson on 12/04/18.
16.First use of a blood bank.
The First World War Timeline
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Britain introduces conscription | 2nd February, 1916 |
| German Verdun Offensive | 21st February, 1916 |
| Germany declares war on Portugal | 9th March, 1916 |
| Battle of Jutland | 31st May, 1916 |
| Russian Brusilov Offensive | 4th June, 1916 |
| Lord Kitchener killed at sea | 5th June, 1916 |
| Start of Anglo-French Somme Offensive | 1st July, 1916 |
| Italian Gorizia Offensive | 9th August, 1916 |
| Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff | 29th August, 1916 |
| First use of British tanks at Flers-Courcelette | 15th September, 1916 |
| French recapture Douaumont Fort at Verdun | 24th October, 1916 |
| Somme Offensive ends | 18th November, 1916 |
| Beatty replaces Jellicoe as C-in-C of Grand Fleet | 29th November, 1916 |
| Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister | 6th December, 1916 |
| Nivelle becomes French Western Front C-in-C | 12th December, 1916 |
| Zimmermann Telegram intercepted by Britain | 19th January, 1917 |
| Battle of Gaza begins | 19th January, 1917 |
| United States declares war on Germany | 19th January, 1917 |
| Start of Nivelle Offensive | 19th January, 1917 |
| Start of Arras offensive | 19th January, 1917 |
| Canadian Army captures Vimy Ridge | 12th April, 1917 |
| 2nd Battle of the Aisne begins | 16th April, 1917 |
| French tanks used for the first time in battle | 17th April, 1917 |
| Petain becomes French Western Front C-in-C | 15th May, 1917 |
| Maria Bochkareva forms the Women's Battalion | 16th May, 1917 |
| John Pershing given command of AEF | 19th May, 1917 |
| British attack at Messines | 7th June, 1917 |
| United States troops arrive in France | 25th June, 1917 |
| Greece declares war on the Central Powers | 29th June, 1917 |
| King George V changes name to Windsor | 7th July, 1917 |
| British Offensive at Passchendaele | 12th October, 1917 |
| Italian Caproretto Offensive | 24th October, 1917 |
| Sir Frederick Maude dies in Mesopotamia | 18th November, 1917 |
| Massed tank attack at Cambrai | 20th November, 1917 |
| Bolshevik government disbands Women's Battalion | 21st November, 1917 |
| Wilson announces 14 Points Peace Programme | 8th January, 1918 |
| Start of German Spring Offensive | 21st March, 1918 |
| Foch appointed Allied Co-ordinator in France | 29th March, 1918 |
| 3rd Battle of the Aisne begins | 27th May, 1918 |
| Battle of Le Hamel | 4th July, 1918 |
| 2nd Battle of the Marne | 15th July, 1918 |
| German retreat at the Marne | 20th July, 1918 |
| Amiens Offensive | 8th August, 1918 |
| Allied breakthrough at Albert | 21st August, 1918 |
| United States St Mihiel Offensive | 26th September, 1918 |
| Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins | 26th September, 1918 |
| Canal du Nord Offensive | 27th September, 1918 |
| Max von Baden appointed Chancellor of Germany | 3rd October, 1918 |
| Allied forces capture the Hindenburg Line | 5th October, 1918 |
| Italian Vittorio Veneto Offensive | 23rd October, 1918 |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates | 9th November, 1918 |
| Armistice | 11th November, 1918 |
| Lloyd George wins British General Election | 14th December, 1918 |
| Paris Peace Conference | 12th January, 1919 |
| Treaty of Versailles signed | 28th June, 1919 |
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