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Cardiff 1917

Members of the Royal Army Medical Corps marching along

Queen Street on their way to Cardiff Central Station.

Picture taken between Park Lane and Park Place

 

 

Theosophy and the Great War

 

 

The First World War

Chronology

 

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Theosophy and The Great War Index

 

 

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

28th June, 1914

 

Austra-Hungary demands that Serbia arrest the leaders of the Black Hand

23rd July, 1914

 

Serbia appeals to Russia for help

24th July, 1914

 

Serbia refuses to hand over leaders of the Black Hand group

25th July, 1914

 

Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

28th July, 1914

 

Germany declares war on Russia

1st August, 1914

 

Germany declares war on France

3rd August, 1914

 

Moltke orders the Schlieffen Plan to proceed

4th August, 1914

 

German troops enter Belgium

4th August, 1914

 

Great Britain declares war on Germany

4th August, 1914

 

Lord Kitchener calls for 100,000 men to join British Army

7th August, 1914

 

Big Bertha used against Liege Forts

12th August, 1914

 

Austro-Hungarian troops invade Serbia

12th August, 1914

 

French troops enter Lorraine

14th August, 1914

 

British Expeditionary Force arrives in France

22nd August, 1914

 

Battle of Mons begins

23rd August, 1914

 

French Army abandons Plan 17

24th August, 1914

 

Battle of Tannenberg begins

26th August, 1914

 

Battle of Heligoland

28th August, 1914

 

War Propaganda Bureau Writers Conference

2nd September, 1914

 

Battle of the Marne begins

6th September, 1914

 

French troops attack German Army at the River Aisne 13th September, 1914

 

Battle of Albert

25th September, 1914

 

Battle of Arras

1st October, 1914

 

First German aircraft shot down by Allied plane

5th October, 1914

 

Battle of Ypres

15th October, 1914

 

Canadian troops arrive in Britain

16th October, 1914

 

Turkey joins Central Powers

29th October, 1914

 

 

Anglo-Indian invasion of Mesopotamia

21st November, 1914

 

Farman MF-11 carries out first night bombing raid 21st December, 1914

 

Christmas Truce on the Western Front

25th December, 1914

 

South African forces occupy Swakopmund

14th January, 1915

 

Battle of Dogger Bank

24th January, 1915

 

BEF attacks at Neuve Chapelle

10th March, 1915

 

Allied naval attack on the Dardanelles

18th March, 1915

 

Roland Garros uses deflector plates

1st April, 1915

 

German gas attack at Ypres

22nd April, 1915

 

Drilling First World War recruits

on the beach at Llandudno, North Wales.

 

Allied landings at Gallipoli

25th April, 1915

 

Sinking of the Lusitania

7th May, 1915

 

Artois Offensive

9th May, 1915

 

Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary

23rd May, 1915

 

Germany abandons Ypres offensive

25th May, 1915

 

Asquith forms coalition government

25th May, 1915

 

First Zeppelin raid on London

31st May, 1915

 

Isonzo Offensive begins

23rd June, 1915

 

Suvla Bay Offensive at Gallipoli

6th August, 1915

 

Grand Duke Nikolai sacked as Commander-in-Chief 5th September, 1915

 

First tank demonstrated to British military leaders

11th September, 1915

 

Anglo-French Offensive at Artois-Loos

25th September, 1915

 

Allied troops land at Salonika

5th October, 1915

 

Edith Cavell executed

12th October, 1915

 

Sir Douglas Haig, new BEF commander

19th December, 1915

 

Britain introduces conscription

2nd February, 1916

 

German Verdun Offensive

21st February, 1916

 

Germany declares war on Portugal

9th March, 1916

 

Battle of Jutland

31st May, 1916

 

Russian Brusilov Offensive

4th June, 1916

 

Lord Kitchener killed at sea

5th June, 1916

 

British Troops attack on The Somme

 

 

Start of Anglo-French Somme Offensive

1st July, 1916

 

Italian Gorizia Offensive

9th August, 1916

 

Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff

29th August, 1916

 

First use of British tanks at Flers-Courcelette

15th September, 1916

 

French recapture Douaumont Fort at Verdun

24th October, 1916

 

Somme Offensive ends

18th November, 1916

 

Beatty replaces Jellicoe as C-in-C of Grand Fleet

29th November, 1916

 

Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister

6th December, 1916

 

Nivelle becomes French Western Front C-in-C

12th December, 1916

 

Zimmermann Telegram intercepted by Britain

19th January, 1917

 

Battle of Gaza begins

26th March, 1917

 

United States declares war on Germany

6th April, 1917

 

Start of Nivelle Offensive

9th April, 1917

 

Start of Arras offensive

9th April, 1917

 

Canadian Army captures Vimy Ridge

12th April, 1917

 

2nd Battle of the Aisne begins

16th April, 1917

 

French tanks used for the first time in battle

17th April, 1917

 

Petain becomes French Western Front C-in-C

15th May, 1917

 

Maria Bochkareva forms the Women's Battalion

16th May, 1917

 

John Pershing given command of AEF

19th May, 1917

 

British attack at Messines

7th June, 1917

 

United States troops arrive in France

25th June, 1917

 

Greece declares war on the Central Powers

29th June, 1917

 

King George V changes name to Windsor

17th July, 1917

 

British Offensive at Passchendaele

12th October, 1917

 

Italian Caproretto Offensive

24th October, 1917

 

Sir Frederick Maude dies in Mesopotamia

18th November, 1917

 

Massed tank attack at Cambrai

20th November, 1917

 

Bolshevik government disbands Women's Battalion

21st November, 1917

 

Wilson announces 14 Points Peace Programme

8th January, 1918

 

Start of German Spring Offensive

21st March, 1918

 

Foch appointed Allied Co-ordinator in France

29th March, 1918

 

3rd Battle of the Aisne begins

27th May, 1918

 

Battle of Le Hamel

4th July, 1918

 

2nd Battle of the Marne

15th July, 1918

 

German retreat at the Marne

20th July, 1918

 

Amiens Offensive

8th August, 1918

 

Allied breakthrough at Albert

21st August, 1918

 

United States St Mihiel Offensive

12th September, 1918

 

Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins

26th September, 1918

 

Canal du Nord Offensive

27th September, 1918

 

Max von Baden appointed Chancellor of Germany

3rd October, 1918

 

Allied forces capture the Hindenburg Line

5th October, 1918

 

Italian Vittorio Veneto Offensive

23rd October, 1918

 

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates

9th November, 1918

 

Armistice

11th November, 1918

 

Lloyd George wins British General Election

14th December, 1918

 

Paris Peace Conference

12th January, 1919

 

Treaty of Versailles signed

28th June, 1919

 

 

 

 

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