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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Personal Volume

War Events. — The Principal Dates

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War Events.

The Principal Dates.

A full diary of the war, doing justice to all the important events, would be of inordinate length. The following are some of the most important dates:—

1914.

  • June 28.—Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the Duchess of Hohenberg at Serajevo.
  • July 23.—Austrian ultimatum delivered to Serbia.
  • July 28.—Austria declared war on Serbia.
  • August 2.—Germans entered France and Luxemburg; Russians entered Germany.
  • August 4.—Britain declared war on Germany.
  • August 9.—British army landed in France.
  • August 23.—Battle of Mons.
  • August 26.—Battle of Le Cateau. Battle of Tannenberg.
  • August 28.—Battle of Heligoland Bight. Samoa occupied.
  • September 6-10.—Battle of the Marne.
  • October 9.—Fall of Antwerp.
  • October 15.—Front extended to English Channel.
  • October 21.—First battle of Ypres.
  • November 1.—Battle of Coronel.
  • November 3.—First shelling of Dardanelles forts.
  • November 7.—Fall of Tsingtau. British landed in Mesopotamia. November. 9.—Destruction of the Emden.
  • December 8.—Battle of Falkland Islands.
  • December 25.—German defeat in second battle of Warsaw.

1915.

  • January 1.—Turks routed in Caucasus by Russians.
  • January 24.—Battle of the Dogger Bank.
  • February 2.—First Turkish attack on Suez Canal.
  • February 18.—German "blockade" of England begun. Naval attack on the Dardanelles.
  • March 18.—End of Dardanelles naval attack.
  • April 14.—First Zeppelin raid on England.
  • April 22.—Second battle of Ypres; poison gas used.
  • April 25.—British landing on Gallipoli.
  • April 28.—Macken sen's great offensive in Galicia began.
  • May 7.—Sinking of the Lusitania.
  • May 31.—First Zeppelin raid on London.
  • June .4.—Attack on Krithia and Achi Baba.
  • July 2.—First battle of the Isonzo.
  • July 9.—Surrender of German South-West Africa.
  • August 5.—Fall of Warsaw.
  • August 6.—Lone Pine taken; troops landed at Suvla Bay.
  • August 8.—New Zealanders reached Chunuk Bair.
  • September 23.—Allied offensive at Vimy, Loos, and the Champagne. September 29.—British entered Kut-el-Amara.
  • October 3.—British landed at Salonika.
  • October 13.—Murder of Nurse Cavell.
  • November 12.—Germans in control of Sofia-Constantinople railway British reach Ctesiphon.
  • November 22.—Battle of Ctesiphon.
  • December 3.—Townshend besieged in Kut.
  • December 5.—French succeeded by Haig as Commander-in-Chief. December 8.—Evacuation of Gallipoli begun.