page_title: Timeline of Paris
section_title: 1914–1918 – First World War
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Paris / 20th century / 1914–1918 – First World War
caption_attribution_description: English: Modigliani, Picasso and André Salmon in front the Café de la Rotonde, Paris. Image taken by Jean Cocteau in Montparnasse, Paris in 1916.
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Paris, France.
context_section_description: 1914
  31 July – Jean Jaurès, leader of the French socialists, assassinated by mentally disturbed man in the Café du Croissant on rue du Croissant in  Montmartre.
  1 August – Mobilization of army reservists.
  3 August – France declares war on Germany. The beginning of the First World War. 
  29 August – As German army approaches, French government and National Assembly depart Paris for Bordeaux.
  September 6–9 – Army requisitions 600–1000 Paris taxis to transport six thousand soldiers fifty kilometers to the front lines in the First Battle of the Marne.
  December 9 – Government and National Assembly return to Paris. 
  El Ajedrecista automaton introduced at University of Paris.
  1915
  10 September – the Satirical magazine  Canard enchaîné begins publication.
  30 October – official prices of food are posted on doorways of public schools, to deter speculation.
  1916
  20 January – Frozen meat goes on sale in two Paris butcher shops.
  29 January – First bombing of Paris by a German Zeppelin. Twenty-six persons are killed and thirty two wounded at Belleville.
  27 August – 1,700 Chinese workers arrive at the Gare de Lyon to work in Paris armaments factories, replacing men mobilized into the army. One of the Chinese workers was Chou en Lai, future Communist leader in China, who worked in the Renault factory at Boulogne-sur-Seine, town renamed Boulogne-Billancourt in 1924.
  15 December – The first woman conductor is hired for the Paris tramways.
  The Renault factory at Boulogne-sur-Seine begins manufacturing the first French tanks.
  1917
  9 February –  Shortage of coal and grain. Bakers are permitted to sell only one kind of bread, sold the day after it is baked.
  15 May – Wave of strikes in Paris workshops and factories, demanding a five-day week and an extra franc a day to compensate for higher prices. Most demands are granted.
  1 September – Rationing of coal begins.
  25 November – Seats are reserved on Paris public transportation for the blind and those wounded in the war.
  15 October – Execution by firing squad of the Dutch Mata Hari, a spy for the Germans, in the moat of the Château de Vincennes. 
  1918
  29 January – Rationing of bread is imposed; a card allows three hundred grams per day per person.
  30 January – Night bombing raid by twenty-eight German aircraft kills sixty-five persons and injures two hundred. Further raids took place on 8 and 11 March.
  11 March –  German bombing raid causes a panic in the Bolivar metro station, killing seventy one persons.
  21 March – German long-range artillery fires eighteen shells into Paris, killing fifteen and wounding sixty-nine. The shelling continued until 16 September.
  29 March – a German shell hits the Saint-Gervais church during mass, killing eighty-two persons and injuring sixty-nine.
  October – Epidemic of Spanish influenza, which began at the start of the year, kills 1,778 persons in one week.
  11 November – Signing of armistice ends the war. Victory celebrations on the Champs-Élysées.
  16 December – U.S. President Wilson addresses crowd at the Hôtel-de-Ville.
caption: During the First World War, Montparnasse became the new gathering place for Paris artists and writers. Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso and André Salmon in front of the café Le Dôme, photographed by Jean Cocteau (1916).
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