Evening star., 1918-11-18
LEADING EVENTS IN HISTORY
OF TINE RECENT WORLD WAR.
1914.

1914.
June 2s-Archduke Francis Ferdi.
nand, heir to the Austrian throne
murdered at Sarajeuo.
July 5-Kaisers CROWN council a
Pottsdam resolves upon war.
July 23-Austria sends ultimatun
to Serbia.
July 2s-Austria declares war OF
Serbia
July s1-Russia .mobilizes ne'
armies. "
August Germany declares war or
Russia and inyades .Euxemburg an6
August 3GermanT declares wa,
on France.
August 4-Great Britain declare.
war on Germany.
August 2o-Germans occupy Brus.
sells.
August 23-Ja p csc bombard
Tsingtau.
August 25-Germans burn Louvain
September 2Russiansp Capture Lem
berg.
September 5-Great Britain. France
and Russia sign agreement to make
no separate peace. japan and Italy
adhering later.
September 6-s-Battle Of the Marne
in which the French turned back the
tide of invasion and forced the Cor
mans to retreat to the Afsne-
September 11-AustrAlians capture
New Guinea and Bismarck archipelago
September 16--Russians under Rem
nenkampf retreat from East Prussia
September 22-Br itish cruisers
Aboukir. Hague and Creasy sunk by
submarines in North Sea
October 9-Germans occupy Ant
werp.
October 14-AnAes occupy Ypres
halt Germans on tile User.
November British cruisers Mon
mouth and Good Hope sunk in action
off the Chilean coast
November Great, Britain declares
war on Turkey and ahne1.es Cyprus.
November = Japanese capture
Tsingtau.
den caught and destroyed at Cocos
Island by the British.
December 2-Austrianss capture Bel
grade.
December s-British naval victory
off the Falkland Islands; South Africa
can rebellion collapses.
December 1+Serbiana recapturs
Belgrade.
December 17-Egpt declared q
British protectorate.
December 24.-First German air raid
on England.
January 2-British naval victory
in North sea off Dogger Bank.
February 1S-German submarine
blockade of Great Britain b sgun.
February 1s-Anglo-Fren ch squad
ron begins attack on Dardarelles.
March British order in council
issued to prevent commodities of any
kind reaching or leaving Germany.
March 17-RussianS capture Pre-
April 17-Second battle of Ypres
begun. Gas used by Germans for first
time.
Nav e-Russians defeated in battle
of the Dunajec, begin retirement In
May The Lusitania sunk by sub.
marine.
June italians cross the Isonzo.
June - Austro-Germans retake
June 22-Austro-Germans reeapturt
july s-conquest of German South.
west Africa completed.
August 4-Gsrmans capture War
August 1s-The Arabic sunk b,
August 2o-Italy declares war OF
| September 21Turks defeated a
October 5-AIlies land at Saloniki
! october 11-Burgarians invade Ser
tbia.
Germans in Brussels.
| October 14|Great Britain declare:
war on Bulgaria.
November 22-Battle of Cresiphor
| in MeSopotamia.
December 9 FAN of Monastir anG
Austro- conquest OF Serbia
completed.
January s-Allies evacnate Gallipoli
January 13-Austro-9eFmana cap
ture Cettinje.
February 1s-Russians capture Gr'
February 1s-The c.mesoens ON
i February al-Rattls Of vssaun b.
gun.
Aprii 1s-Amsrican ultimAtum T.
Germany threatening to break on re.
Iations unless Germany modified hal
submarine policy.
! April 29-Gen. Townshend at Kut'
let-Amara surrendsrs To Turks
May 31-Naval battle or Jutland.
+ june Third battle OF Ypfes BE-
gun.
June 21-Grand Sheriff Of Mecca pro
claims himself king Of tho HedJax
July battle of the Somme.
| July s-German submarine mer'
chairman arrives at Baltimore.
| August 27-Rumania enters war el
the side Of the alliea-Italy 6eolaPo,
| war on Germany.
[ September 1k-Rritiah capturA Cour
tcelletto: 6E6- APPEARANCE ct thA tanks
! September 2s-VepiSslos feFms I
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