The Official History of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade
1914
1914.
- June 28.—Francis Ferdinand shot at Serajevo.
- July 5.—Kaiser's War Council at Potsdam.
- 23.—Austro-Hungarian Note to Serbia.
- 28.—Austria declared war on Serbia.
- 31.—State of war in Germany.
- Aug. 1.—Germany declared war on Russia.
- 2.—German ultimatum to Belgium.
- 3.—Germany declared war on France.
- 4.—Great Britain declared war on Germany.
- 10.—France declared war on Austria.
- 12.—Great Britain declared war on Austria.
- 15.—Fall of Liege.
- 16.—British Army landed in France.
- 20.—Germans occupied Brussels.
- 23.—Japan declared war on Germany.
- 24.—Fall of Namur.
- 25.—Sack of Louvain.
- 26.—Battle of Tannenberg.
- 28.—British Victory off Heligoland.
- 29.—New Zealanders in Samoa.
- Sept. 2.—Russians took Lemberg.
- 3.—Paris Government at Bordeaux.
- 5.—End of Retreat from Mons.
- 6.—First Marne Battle begun.
- 15.—First Aisne Battle begun.
- 16.—Russians evacuated East Prussia.
- 23.—First British Air Raid on Germany.
- Oct. 9.—Fall of Antwerp.
- 13.—Belgian Government at Havre.
- 20.—First Battle of Ypres begun.
- Nov. 1.—Naval Action off Coronel.
- 5.—Great Britain declared war on Turkey.
- 7.—Fall of Tsingtau.
- 10.—Emden sunk.
- 21.—British occupied Basra.page 582
- Dee. 2.—Austrians in Belgrade.
- 8.—Naval Battle off the Falklands.
- 14.—Serbians retook Belgrade.
- 16.—Germans bombarded West Hartlepool.
- 18.—Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt.
- 24.—First Air Raid on England.