{"id":322,"date":"2015-07-22T18:12:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/ten-most-bloodiest-battles-of-ww1\/"},"modified":"2022-04-30T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T11:49:02","slug":"ten-most-bloodiest-battles-of-ww1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"WW1 Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This World War 1 timeline covers all the key WW1 dates, all the way from the start, to the end of the war.<\/p>\n

1914<\/h2>\n

28 June:<\/strong>\u00a0Franz Ferdinand (Archduke of Austria) is assassinated in Sarajevo.
\n28 July:<\/strong>\u00a0Austria declares war with Serbia.
\n1 August:<\/strong>\u00a0Germany declares war with Russia.
\n3 August:<\/strong>\u00a0Germany declares war with France. On the same day the country\u2019s armed forces invade Belgium.
\n4 August:<\/strong>\u00a0Britain declares war with Germany.
\n7 August:<\/strong>\u00a0The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) arrives in France. Two weeks later they are defeated by the German Army at the Battle of the Frontiers.
\n18 October:<\/strong>\u00a0the first Battle of Ypres begins
\n29 October:<\/strong>\u00a0trench warfare is beginning to dominate across the Western Front. Turkey enter the war on the German side.<\/p>\n

1915<\/h2>\n

25 April:<\/strong>\u00a0Allied forces land in Gallipoli (Turkey)
\n23 May:<\/strong>\u00a0Italy declares war on German and Austrian and enters the war on the side of the Allies.
\n5 August:<\/strong>\u00a0Germany captures Warsaw (the Polish capital) from Russian forces.
\n19 December:<\/strong>\u00a0the Allies begin their evacuation of Gallipoli. The campaign is a disaster and more than 44,000 Allied soldiers are killed.<\/p>\n

1916<\/h2>\n

27 January:<\/strong>\u00a0Britain introduces military conscription.
\n1 July:<\/strong>\u00a0The Battle of the Somme begins. In just 4 months the British suffered around 420,000 casualties the French had 200,000 but the Germans suffered the most coming away with 500,000 casualties.
\n7 December:<\/strong>\u00a0David Lloyd George becomes the new Prime Minister of Britain.<\/p>\n

1917<\/h2>\n

6 April:<\/strong>\u00a0the United States enter the conflict by declaring war on Germany.
\n16 April:<\/strong>\u00a0A major French offensive on the Western Front is unsuccessful.
\n6 November:<\/strong>\u00a0Britain launches a major offensive on the Western Front and their forces begin to make some progress. Later that month British tanks are victorious at the Battle of Cambrai.
\n5 December:<\/strong>\u00a0Germany and Russia sign armistice agreement.
\n9 December:<\/strong>\u00a0British troops capture Jerusalem from Turkish forces.<\/p>\n

1918<\/h2>\n

3 March:<\/strong>\u00a0The treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed with officially brings an end to the war between Russia and Germany.
\n21 March:<\/strong>\u00a0German forces make a breakthrough on the Somme.
\n9 April:<\/strong>\u00a0A German offensive begins at Flanders.
\n8 August:<\/strong>\u00a0A crucial Allied advance is successful.
\n4 October:<\/strong>\u00a0Germany ask the Allies to sign an armistice agreement.
\n30 October:<\/strong>\u00a0Turkey surrender by signing the Armistice of Mudros.
\n3 November:<\/strong>\u00a0Austria-Hungary make peace.
\n9 November:<\/strong>\u00a0Kaiser William II of Germany abdicates and Germany is declared a republic.
\n11 November:<\/strong>\u00a0Germany sign armistice agreement and the First World War is officially ended. Fighting on the Western Front ceases at 11 am.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This World War 1 timeline covers all the key WW1 dates, all the way from the start, to the end of the war. 1914 28 June:\u00a0Franz Ferdinand (Archduke of Austria) is assassinated in Sarajevo. 28 July:\u00a0Austria declares war with Serbia. 1 August:\u00a0Germany declares war with Russia. 3 August:\u00a0Germany declares war with France. On the same … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,10031],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics","category-stats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33844,"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/33844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ww1hull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}