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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 06 2018 YORKSHIRE POST NOSTALGIA
Armistice 100
COMMEMORATING THE CENTENARY OF THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
GREAT WAR TIMELINE
June 28, 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne,
is shot dead in Sarajevo by a political dissident.
July 20, 1914: Austria-Hungary sends troops to the Serbian border.
July 25, 1914: Serbia and Russia mobilise their armies.
July 28, 1914: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
August 1, 1914: Germany declares war on Russia.
August 3, 1914: Germany declares war on France.
August 4, 1914: Britain declares war on Germany after they invade Belgium. USA declares neutrality.
August 6, 1914: A Royal Navy cruiser
is sunk by German mines in the North
Sea, killing 150 men and inflicting the first casualties on Britain.
August 7, 1914: First members of the British Expeditionary Force arrive in France to assist with the land campaign. Lord Kitchener makes his first call for more men to enlist in the military.
August 8, 1914: Defence of the Realm
Act (DORA) gives the UK government sweeping powers to suppress
public criticism and imprison
people without trial in order
to aid the war effort.
August 12, 1914: Britain
declares war on Austria-
Hungary.
August 23, 1914: Japan
declares war on Germany
and British Army troops
see their first land action in
the Battle of Mons.
October 19, 1914: First battle
of Ypres begins as Allied and
German troops attempt to reach sea
ports in Belgium.
November 5, 1914: Britain and the Ottoman Empire declare war on each other. December 16, 1914: German battleships bombard Hartlepool, Whitby and Scarborough, killing 137 civilians.
April 25, 1915: Allied troops land at Gallipoli under heavy fire.
May 7, 1915: German U-boat torpedoes British liner Lusitania, drowning around 1,200 people.
May 31, 1915: The first Zeppelin raid on London kills seven.
July 17, 1915: Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst organises the ‘Right to Serve’ march in London calling for women to be allowed to work to help with the war effort. September 25, 1915: Battle of Loos begins and the British forces use gas for the first
time, however wind blows it back onto their own troops, killing seven and injuring 2,625. September 27, 1915: The third day of the Battle of Loos sees the highest British death toll of any battle so far, with 8,246 men being killed.
February 21, 1916: The Battle of Verdun, which causes almost a million casualties over 10 months, begins.
May 31, 1916: The Battle of Jutland begins between German and Royal Navy fleets of dreadnoughts. Neither side claims decisive victory and no other naval battles are fought for the rest of the war.
July 1, 1916: The Battle of the Somme begins, with 750,000 Allied soldiers going over the top of their trenches. September 15, 1916: British tanks used for the first time in the Battle of Flers- Courcelette.
December 7, 1916: David Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister.
March 15, 1917: Tsar Nicholas II abdicates as Moscow falls to the Russian Revolution. April 6, 1917: America declares war on Germany and begins to mobilise troops immediately.
June 13, 1917: Germany launches the first major bombing raid on
London, killing 162 people.
November 10, 1917:
The Battle of Passchendaele ends
with the Allies having advanced five miles and suffering half a million casualties.
March 3, 1918: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
sees Russia agree a peace deal with Germany and its
allies.
July 18, 1917: The Royal Family
drops its Germanic name Saxe-Coburg- Gotha in favour of Windsor.
October 29, 1918: Sailors in the German High Seas Fleet mutiny and refuse to fight the Royal Navy.
November 8, 1918: Armistice negotiations begin.
November 9, 1918: The King of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II, abdicates and flees to Holland.
November 11, 1918 5:00am: The Armistice is signed, ending the war between Germany and the Allies. 10:59am: Henry Gunther, a US soldier of German descent, is the last man to be killed in action in the First World War. 11:00am: The Armistice comes into effect.
June 28, 1919: The Treaty of Versailles is signed.
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