World War 1 timeline
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Sea Battle Of the Falkland Islands
British Squadron, 10 Vessels Admiral F. D. Sturdee German Squadron, Five Vessels Admiral von Spee England took immediate steps to revenge... Read more
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Serbia Retakes Belgrade
Serbian Army, 200,000 Field Marshal Putnick Austrian Army, 300,000 Archduke Frederick After clipping the wings of the Austrian eagle at... Read more
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Battle Of Givenchy
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... Read more
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Montenegro Surrenders to Austria-Hungary
Montenegrin Army, 40,000 General Yukovitch King Nicholas Austrian Army, 60,000 General Ermolli General Koevess Montenegro, the poorest... Read more
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Zeppelin Raids of England, France, Italy and Poland
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... Read more
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Battle of Dogger Bank
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,... Read more
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Battle of the Suez Canal
British Force, 40,000 Major General Sir John Maxwell, Commander Turkish Force, 65,000 General Djemal Pasha, Commander The German... Read more
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Battle Of Bolimow
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... Read more
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Armenian Genocide - 1,000,000 Massacred by the Turks and Kurds
Russian Forces, 180,000 General Yuclenitch, Commander-in-Chief General Woronozov, Erzerum Army Turkish Forces, 200,000 General Enver Pasha,... Read more
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Third Assault on Warsaw
Russian Force, 100,000 General Russky German Force, 150,000 Gen. Mackensen Hindenberg, on February 1, 1915, launched his third drive on... Read more
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Battle of Koziowa
Russian Army, 300,000 General Ivanoff Austro-German Army, 350,000 General von Linsingen The Second Austrian Army, under General von... Read more
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Russian Disaster in East Prussia
Russian Forces, 160,000 General Sievers General Bulgakoff German Forces, 300,000 General von Eichhorn General von Below General von... Read more
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Bombardment of the Dardanelles
Allied Army and Navy, 300,000 General Sir Ian Hamilton General Monroe General Gouraud General Marshall General D'Amade Major-General... Read more
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Winston Churchill Establishes The Landships Committee
It was Churchill who, on Colonel Swinton's urging (and backed by Hankey), sponsored the establishment of the Landships Committee to investigate the... Read more
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Battle of Przasnysz
Russian Force, 50,000 General Sievers German Forces, 100,000 General Gallwitz General Scholz While the Russians were being driven out of... Read more
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Battle of Neuve Chapelle
British Army, 80,000 General Douglas Haig General Smith-Dorrien Sir Henry Rawlinson German Army, 50,000 General Falkenhayn Crown Prince... Read more
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Second Battle of Ypres
Canadian Forces, 30,000 First Brigade, Gen. Mercer Second Brigade, Gen. Currie Third Brigade, Gen. Turner Artillery, Gen. Burstall British... Read more
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Battle Of Anzac Cove
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... Read more
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Battle of Gallipoli
The Gallipoli Campaign was one of the greatest Ottoman victories during the war and a major Allied failure. In Turkey, it is regarded as a defining... Read more
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First Battle Of Krithia
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... Read more
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Battles of Dunajec, Przemysl, Krasnik and Przasnysz, and the Evacuations of Warsaw and Fort Grodno
Russian Forces, 2,500,000 Grand Duke Nicholas, Commander-in-Chief General Yanushkevitch, Chief of Staff General Ivanoff General... Read more
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Second Battle of Krithia
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... Read more
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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... Read more
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Second Battle of Artois and the Battle of Aubers Ridge
Allied Forces, 430,000 General Joffre, Commander-in-Chief French Army Group—280,000 General Foch, Commander General Petain General... Read more
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Battle Of Festubert
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... Read more