HISTORIC WAR EVENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 42, 13 November 1918, Page 9

HISTORIC WAR EVENTS

;: ; f 1914, June 28.--Assassiiiation at Serajcvo of thn ■ -Archduke Frami Ferdinand ' ' (Austrian heir-apparent) aud lii's wife. July 23.—AuEtrinu ultimatum to' Serbia. 28—AuBtrift declaros war on Serbia. 30.—Partial mobilisation in Hussia.August I.—Germany declares jvar on Euasia and France. • . ' 4—British ultimatum to Germany demanding respect- for Belirittn neutrality.; Attack on. liiegc. Britain declares'war • on Germany at 11 p.m.. . 12.—Britain declares war -on Auptri'a. 16.—British Expeditionary Foriii landed'in France. Sept. S.—E'nd of fctreat from lions to 'tho • Marne. ' 6.—Battle of Jlarne besins. Nov; s.—Britain declares war on Turttey. 7.—l'iill of Tsingtau. 1915.

Jan. 24.—Jtottlo of Dogger Bank. Feb. 2— Turks defeated ou Sue/ Canal. 18.—German submarine "blockade" of England declared. ■March-lO.—Battlc of Neuve Obflpcllc. • April 25. —Allied forces land on Gallipoli. May 7.—lmsitanla torpedoed, y ' 2-s.—ltaly declares war 6n Austria. July l-Canquest of Gcrir,an South-West Africa. August 6.—Landing at Suvla Bay. 25,—Fa1l of Brest-Litovsk. Sopt. s.—Tsar assumes command of the Russian afmieß. 25.—Allied . offcn;/ive in Northern Franco and the Champagne. . Oct. 5. —Allies land Salonika. 11— Bulgarians ijivade Serbia. Nov. 2Z,—Batt-Io of C'/csiphon.. Turks routed 18 \nilcs from Basdad. Dec. 3—General (Vownsheiid at Kut-el-Aniai.ii. 15.—llais: succeeds French in commai'/d of tho British armies ' in Yrancc. 19—Withr>awal from Anzac and S'avla, Bay. 1916.

Jan. 8— Br/tish evacuation of Gallipoli ' completed. Feb. 21.—Battle of Verdun begins. April 29.—-JTall of Kut-el-Amara. May. 31.— .Battle of Jutland. Juno 5.-.l'joss of Ijord Kitchenor and Staff. July 1.--Sommc Battle begins August, n.~ltumania enters tho war. Dec. 7^ —Mr. Lloyd George Prime Minister. 1917. Jan. 31— Germany announces "unrestricted" submarine warfare. Feb.. 3.—United States severs diplomatic ro-' lations with Germany. Mrtroh 11.—British take Bacdad. 12.—Revolution in Russia. s.—United States declares war on Germany. June 7.—Battle of Mcssincs. 26—Arrival of first American con- ( tingent in France. ■ ■ Jnly I.—Russian offensive in Galicia. 19.—Wholesale rotreat of ■ Russian Army. August 14.—China declares war on Germany and Austria. 25.-Grccce at war with Germany. Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey.

Sept-. 16.—Russia- proclaimed a Republic. ZO.-Ha.yti-declares war on Germany. Oct.. 24.—Italian disaster, at Cayoretto. Nov. I.—British'offensive in Palestine. S.—British and French reinforccnientß reach Italy, j. 6.—ltalians retiring on the Pia-ve; - . Austro-Germmiß claim 250.000 prisoners and 2300 EunF. 7.—Bolshevik coup d'etat in Itueßia. Capture of (iaia. 12.—Allied War Council aet up at Versailles. 17.—Capture of Jaffa. 21.—'Battle of Oambrai. 22— British three miles from G'ambrai. Dee. I.—German counter-attack at. Oambrai— British line forced hack. 4.—German East Africa cleared. s—America declares war on Austria B.—liumania compelled to acccpt enemy torms. —Jerusalem occupied. • • 1915. Jan. 10.-ODicial statement that an American army was in Prance and ready for service. 20.-6ca fight, at Dardanelles. Breslau sunk. Goebon badly damaged. British lose two monitors. Feb. It.—End of Brest-Litovsk negotiations. ■: ■ 16,-Sir William. Itobcrtson resigns and ig succeeded as Chief of tho Imperial General' Staff by Sir Henry' Wilson. March 14-Ocrmans in Odessa. IS.—Four hundred Allied and Gcrman divisions ready for • battle on the West front. 2t.—Germans open an offensive on a fifty-mito front in the Western theatre' from the Scarpe to tile Oise, ■■ 26.—Foch minointed Generalissimo. 31.—Mr. Lloyd George appeals to the. dominions to increase their reinforcements; April 1. —The United Htates agrees to brigade it's troops with French and British units so as to make, them at onco . available, v ; 12.—With uie ..British armies thrust back towards Amiens and'in Flanders, and opposing much more numerous' forces, Haig I , calls upon Mb troops to fipht "with their backs to the wall.". 22.—Naval- attack on Zeebruggo and Ostond, Zcebrugge blocked. Hay . 6.—AustValians advance their lines on the Somme and the Ancrc. 10— Second attack 1 on Oatend. 16.—Austrian lireaatiougtlt torpedood in l'oia Harbour. 27—German attack on the Aisne and Cheiniu-dcs-Dames. 31-Gcrmans reach the Jlarne. June 2.—U-boats oil tho Aiiierican coast. A number of ships sunk. 10.—German attack on Montdider-No-yon front. Two Austrian Droadnoughls sunk . off tho Dalmotion coast. 16.—Austrian intensive in Italy on 150- ' mile front. 17.—Austrians held at all points and 'suffer stupendous losses. 24.—Austrians in disorderly retreat across the I'iave. July 4.—British advance on the Somme. 7.—German Ambassador at Moscow assassinated. 12—Allio land on the Jlurman coast, lo.—Germans attack on a fifty-mile : front east and north from , Chateau Thierry. 10.—Allies open a counter-offensive west of Soissons ■ and attack with brilliant success. Aug. ■I.—, Allied captures on the Marne- - Champagne front, 35,000 prisoners and 700 cjannon. Statement by Mr. bloyd George: 150 German submarines sunk, 76 during the past year. • B.—British and tfronch, under Haig, attach east of Amiens. 18-26.—Successful Allied attacks on several sections of the West ' ■ :front. 23.—Extensive German retirement from - -.the Lys salient. British east , of Arras reach ground not trodden, by the Allies since 1914. 29.—New Zealanders capture Bapaumc. Sopt.2.—Anglo-Canndian troops break -through the Drocourt-Queant switch line. • .. 11.—Americans' drive in- the St. Mi. . . liiel salient. 15.—'Austrian Peace Note. Bolshevik dealings with '.'Ger- '] many exposed. Franco-Serbian .offensive launched in-the Balkans. 1 -' 19.—Himlenburg line deeply invaded. Turkish . armfes in Palestine ... smashed. 27.—Bulgars in full flight. 27.—Bulgaria seeks an armistice. Anglo-Belgian offensive in Flanders. Simultaneous drive towards Cambrai. 30.—Bulgaria surrenders. Oct.. I.—pamascus captured.. ..Six battles "raging " oil West '''.'front. British through the Hlndcnburg line.'' French in St. Quentin. . 4.—1.340.000 Americans overseas. s.—German Chancellor (Prince Maximilian) proposes 'an armis- ' ' '• t ice. 1 - 6— French compel a German retreat : . _. in the Champagne. 7.—Allies everywhere past, the line ... from which the. 'Germans attacked on March 21. IS.—German Government intimates that it'-aci'ecpt's President Wilson's • terms. 14. —''all of liaon-.-

President Wilson replies to Ocrmflnp, practically dennndIII? unconditional surrender. J7.-Lille recaptured.' -Allies -at Ostond. 21.—Geriiiauv replies to : Wllami—her objections to .''peace , by vio- - . .' . . lencc.'/ . 26.—Alenpo captured. 27.—Italian oHenslve on the Fiave. 31.—Ttirkey ' surrenders'. Allied Fleet pauses tlie Dardanelles. ffoT. I.—Franco-American attack on the Aisne-Argonnc front." Sorbs recover Belgrade. .. . Austrian . .Dreadnought sunk in ...- Tola. Revolution in Bulgaria 3.—Armistice with -'Austria; Total • captures by tho Italians in . their offensive'3oo,ooo' prisoners and five thousand tnins. .I—Great victory ' by the franco- » .. . Americans west, of the Meuae. Nov. s.—Versailles Council intimates Germany must apply to Marshal Pooh if she wants an armistice. Bolshevik Government requests peace' negotiations. . Now Zealanders storm-I.*: Quesnoy. ■ 6.-Germ(in armies iu general retreat. .. 7.—Germany seeks an armistice. • B.—Widespread revolution in Germany. Jlevolt ul the German Navy. Bavaria proclaimed a republic. German nrmisticc delegates confer with Marshal Poch at French Headquarters. Gerjnan given until Monday night (New Zealand time) to surrender or not. 9.—Kaiser abdicates and Crown Vnnuo rcnouncefl Buecc3sio». Germans driven back on the : French frontier; I 11.-Germany signs an armistice in terms tantamount to surrender /our years, three months, and elcvon days after declaring war on Franco and Jiussia.