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.