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Cardiff 1917
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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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