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1278 Kings Rudolph I of Germany
and Ladislaus IV of Hungary
defeat King Otakar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield, a match of over 80,000 men and the largest battle of knight
s in the Middle Ages. The battle ends a power struggle between Rudolph and Otakar over the fate of central Europe
, and Rudolph's Habsburg
family will continue to rule Austria
and other captured territories until the end of World War I in 1918.
1914 World War I (1914-1918)
1914 World War I begins: Austria-Hungary
declares war on Serbia
after it fails to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the Sarajevo assassination.
1914 World War I: German
forces occupy Brussels
.
1914 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins - Northeast of Paris
, the French
6th Army under General Michel-Joseph Maunoury
attack German
forces who are advancing on the capital. Over 2 million troops will fight in the battle and 500,000 will be killed or wounded in this significant Allied
victory.
1914 World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp
, Belgium
falls to German
troops.
1915 World War I: Germany
uses poison gas against Russia
ns.
1915 World War I: Off the coast of Chile
, the Royal Navy
sinks the German battleship SMS ''Dresden''.
1915 World War I: Second Battle of Ypres - German
troops introduce poison gas at Ypres, Belgium
.
1915 The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli
on the Turkish
coast.
1915 World War I: The RMS ''Lusitania'' is sunk by a German
U-boat
killing 1,198.
1915 World War I: Italy
joins the Allies
after they declare war on Austria-Hungary
.
1915 World War I: British
nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German
firing squad for helping Allied
soldiers escape from Belgium
.
1916 World War I: Paris
is bombed by German
zeppelin
s for the first time.
1916 World War I: In France
the Battle of Verdun begins.
1916 Mary, a circus elephant, is hanged in the town of Erwin, Tennessee for killing her handler, Walter "Red" Eldridge.
during World War I.]]
1916 World War I: First Battle of the Somme ends - In France
, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
1916 World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - In the Sinai
desert, Australia
n and New Zealand
mounted troops capture the Turkish
garrison.
1917 World War I: President
Woodrow Wilson
calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
1917 World War I: The Selective Service Act passes the U.S. Congress giving the President
the power of conscription
.
1917 World War I: Conscription
begins in the United States
as "Army registration day."
1917 World War I: First major German
bombing raid on London
left 162 dead and 432 injured
1917 The Green Corn Rebellion, an uprising by several hundred farmers against the World War I draft, takes place in central Oklahoma
.
1917 World War I: The Military Service Act is passed in the Canadian House of Commons
giving the Canadian government the right to conscript men into the army.
1917 World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris
, Dutch dancer Mata Hari
is executed by firing squad for spying
for Germany
.
1917 World War I: Brazil
declared in state of war with Germany
.
1918 March 3 — World War I: Germany, Austria
and Bolshevist Russia
sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in the war.
1919 January 18 — World War I: A peace conference opens in Versailles
, France
.
1919 June 28 — The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending World War I.
1919 September 10 — Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, ending World War I with Austria.
1921 The United States
formally ends World War I, declaring a peace with Germany
1923 The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey
, is signed in Switzerland
by Greece
, Bulgaria
and other countries that fought in the First World War
1930 Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans mass at the United States Capitol
as the U.S. Senate
considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1932 15,000 World War I veterans march in Washington, DC
1932 US President Herbert Hoover
orders the United States Army
to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, DC. US troops dispersed the last of the "Bonus Army" the next day.
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