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Timeline
1914
June 28- Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria
and his wife at Sarajevo.
July 28 – Austria- Hungary declares war on Serbia.
July 30 – Russia begins to mobilise.
July 31 – London Stock Exchange closed.
Aug 1 – Germany declares war on Russia
Aug 2 – Germany invades France.
Aug 4 – Germany invades Belgium. Britain declares war.
Aug 8 – British expeditionary force lands in France.
Sept 6 – Battle of Marne begins
Sept 15 – Battle of Aisne begins
Sept 24 – Trench warfare begins.
Oct 29 – Turkey enters the war.
Nov 5 – Britain declares war on Turkey.
Dec 16 – German bombardment of Hartlepool, Scarborough
and Whitby.
Dec 24 – Air Raid on Dover.
Dec 25 – Christmas truce on Western Front. Hostilities
resumed at midnight.
1915
Jan 19 – Yarmouth
bombed by German Zeppelins.
Feb 2 – Turks defeated on the Suez canal.
Feb 19 – Bombardment of the Dardanelles begins.
March 10 – Britain takes Neuve Chapelle.
April 14 – Tyneside bombed by German Zeppelins.
April 23 – Death of Rupert Brooke aged 27.
April 25 – Allies land at Gallipoli.
May 23 – Italy declares war on Austria.
May 25 – Coalition announced by prime minister Asquith.
Sept 25 – Beginning of the great Allied offensive on
the Western Front.
Dec 15 – Sir Douglas Haig succeeds Sir John French in
France.
Dec 19 – Withdrawal from the Dardanelles begins.
1916
Jan 5 – Conscription
Bill introduced.
Feb 3 – Compulsory military service for single men 19-
30.
Feb 21 – Battle of Verdun begins.
July 1 – British/French offensive on the Somme begins.
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