World War 1 Events

British Squadron, 10 Vessels Admiral F. D. Sturdee German Squadron, Five Vessels Admiral von Spee England took immediate steps to revenge the disaster to Cradock's squadron. Rea...

Serbian Army, 200,000 Field Marshal Putnick Austrian Army, 300,000 Archduke Frederick After clipping the wings of the Austrian eagle at Jadar in August, and compelling its fli...

Battle of Givenchy (December 18-December 22, 1914) was a battle fought during World War I as part of the First Battle of Champagne, that saw an initially advancing British force face stro...

Montenegrin Army, 40,000 General Yukovitch King Nicholas Austrian Army, 60,000 General Ermolli General Koevess Montenegro, the poorest kingdom in the Balkans, had declared war...

The war in the air, during 1915, carried the flaming sword through the skies hundreds of miles beyond the battle lines, striking terror among the non- combatant populations of cities in a...

I might mention that we were well within range of the Germans during this time, who apparently could not spare one of their 11-inch guns for us, which was a good thing, as one from them w...

British Force, 40,000 Major General Sir John Maxwell, Commander Turkish Force, 65,000 General Djemal Pasha, Commander The German intriguants at Constantinople (Istanbul) had bee...

The Battle of Bolimov was an inconclusive battle of World War I fought on January 31, 1915 between Germany and Russia and considered a preliminary to the Second Battle of the Masurian Lak...

Russian Forces, 180,000 General Yuclenitch, Commander-in-Chief General Woronozov, Erzerum Army Turkish Forces, 200,000 General Enver Pasha, Commander General Djevet Pasha General ...

Russian Force, 100,000 General Russky German Force, 150,000 Gen. Mackensen Hindenberg, on February 1, 1915, launched his third drive on Warsaw, using for the purpose an army of...

Russian Army, 300,000 General Ivanoff Austro-German Army, 350,000 General von Linsingen The Second Austrian Army, under General von Linsingen, after traversing three of the Carpat...

Russian Forces, 160,000 General Sievers General Bulgakoff German Forces, 300,000 General von Eichhorn General von Below General von Falck The scene of battle now shifts to the ...

Allied Army and Navy, 300,000 General Sir Ian Hamilton General Monroe General Gouraud General Marshall General D'Amade Major-General Hunter-Weston Major-General Douglas Lieutenant...

It was Churchill who, on Colonel Swinton's urging (and backed by Hankey), sponsored the establishment of the Landships Committee to investigate the potential of constructing what amounted...

Russian Force, 50,000 General Sievers German Forces, 100,000 General Gallwitz General Scholz While the Russians were being driven out of East Prussia, a German Army, commanded ...

British Army, 80,000 General Douglas Haig General Smith-Dorrien Sir Henry Rawlinson German Army, 50,000 General Falkenhayn Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria Barrage Fire Used...

Canadian Forces, 30,000 First Brigade, Gen. Mercer Second Brigade, Gen. Currie Third Brigade, Gen. Turner Artillery, Gen. Burstall British Cavalry, Gen. Allenby, Gen. Rivington Brit...

ANZAC Cove (Turkish: Anzak Koyu) is a small cove on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. It became famous as the site of World War I landing of the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Co...

Allied Forces, 128,000 General Hamilton, Commander British, 63,000 Russian, 47,000 French, 18,000 Cavalry, 36,000 Turkish Line Troops, 250,000 General Liman von Sanders, Command...

The First Battle of Krithia was the first Allied advance of the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I. Starting at Helles on April 28, three days after the initial landings, the attack b...

Russian Forces, 2,500,000 Grand Duke Nicholas, Commander-in-Chief General Yanushkevitch, Chief of Staff General Ivanoff General Alexeieff General Brusiloff General Dmitrieff Gene...

The Second Battle of Krithia continued the Allies' attempts to advance on the Helles battlefield during the Battle of Gallipoli of World War I. The village of Krithia and neighbouring hil...

On May 7, 1915, the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the 1,959 men, w...

Allied Forces, 430,000 General Joffre, Commander-in-Chief French Army Group—280,000 General Foch, Commander General Petain General D'Urbal British Army—150,000 General Sir...

The Battle of Festubert was an attack by the British army in the Artois region of France on the western front during World War I. It began on May 15, 1915 and continued until May 25.

Italian Army, 700,000 Gen. Luigi Cadorna, Commander Gen. Brusati Gen. Pecori-Giraldi Duke of Aosta King Victor Emmanuel Admiral Patris Austrian Army, 1,200,000 Gen. von Hofer, ...

While Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary on 23 May 1915, San Marino remained neutral. Italy, suspecting that San Marino could harbour Austrian spies who could be given access to its ne...

Battle was duly renewed at noon on a sunny, breezy 4 June and was the result of a joint initiative between Hunter-Weston and the newly-arrived (15 May) French commander Henri Gouraud. Go...

Italian Forces, 750,000 General Luigi Cadorna, Commander-in-Chief General Brusatti General Pecori-Giraldi Duke of Aosta Admiral Patris Austrian Forces, 750,000 General Boroev...

The Battle of Gully Ravine (Sığındere) was a World War I battle fought at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula. By June 1915 all thoughts the Allies had of a swift decisive victory over...

British-Boer Forces, 20,000 General Louis Botha, Commander-in-Chief General Lukin General Myburgh General Mackenzie General Smuts Colonel Van der Venter German Forces, 10,000 Go...

The Second Battle of the Isonzo was fought between the armies of the Kingdom of Italy and of Austria-Hungary in the Italian Front in World War I, between July 18 and August 3, 1915. Af...

Germany had mobilized an immense army of spies, dynamiters, assassins and conspirators in the United States at the outbreak of War in Europe. These assassins hesitated at no crime that mi...

The Battle of Lone Pine, was a battle between Australian and Turkish forces that took place during the Gallipoli campaign from 6–10 August 1915. It was part of a diversion to draw attenti...

The Battle of Sari Bair (Turkish: Anafartalar Savaşı or "Sarı Bayır muharebesi"), also known as the August Offensive, was the final attempt made by the British to seize control of the Gal...

The Battle of the Nek was a small World War I battle fought as part of the Gallipoli campaign. This is the battle described in the film "Gallipoli" starring Mark Lee (and would launch M...

The Battle of Hill 60 was the last major assault of the Battle of Gallipoli. It was launched on 21 August 1915 to coincide with the attack on Scimitar Hill made from the Suvla front by Ge...

The Battle of Scimitar Hill (Yusufçuk Tepe) was the last offensive mounted by the British at Suvla during the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I. It was also the largest single-day atta...

Italy had been allied with the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires since 1882 as part of the Triple Alliance. However, the nation had its own designs on Austrian territory in Trentino, Is...

Serbian Forces, 300,000 Field Marshal Putnik, Commander General Zirkovitch General Goykovitch General Mishitch General Jourishitch General Stepanovitch Salonika Army, 150,000 Gene...

British Army, 12,000 Major-General Townshend General Frye General Delamain General Houghton Turkish Army, 20,000 Nuredin Pasha Djemal Pasha From his base at Amara, on the Tigr...

British Army, 250,000 General Sir John French General Sir Douglas Haig General Sir Henry Rawlinson General Sir Hubert Gough General Sir Smith-Dorrien German Army, 250,000 Crown P...

French Army, 200,000 General Petain German Army, 215,000 General von Ditmurth The infantry attack along the 20 miles of Champagne front had been timed for 9.15 a. m., September ...

Franco-English Army, 300,000 General Ferdinand Foch General Sir John French German Army, 300,000 Crown Prince Rupprecht In concurrence with the French advance in Champagne and th...

The Battle of Es Sinn was a military engagement during the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I. The battle was fought to determine control of the lower Tigris and Euphrates rivers in wha...

Bulgaria threw off the mask of neutrality on October 11, 1915, declaring war against Serbia on the pretext that the Serbians had crossed the frontier and attacked Bulgarian troops. An arm...

The Serbians, while defending themselves so valiantly against their foes, had been buoyed up by the hope that the French and English would come to their assistance. There were promises, t...

Edith Cavell, an English nurse, who was brutally put to death by her German jailers, in Brussels, on October 13, 1915, excited the pity while drawing down upon Germany's head the condemna...

In the years following the achievement of complete independence Bulgaria became increasingly militarised: Dillon in 1920 called Bulgaria "the Prussia of the Balkans" In 1912 and 1913, Bul...

Under Nicholas I, the Principality of Montenegro vastly advanced and enlarged several times in the Montenegro-Turkish Wars and achieved recognition of independence in 1878. Modernization ...