Chronology of the First World War

First World War or war of 14-18 (1914-1918)

Year 1914

July 28th:

Declaration of war of the Austria to the Serbia and bombardment of Belgrade.
the Serb government accepts 9 requirements out of the 10 of the Austrian ultimatum.

July 29th: The International office Socialiste meets in Brussels to define the position of the Second International vis-a-vis the crisis.
July 30th:

General mobilization in Russia.
General mobilization in Austria in the night of the 30 with the July 31st.

July 31st:

the Belgian government issues the general mobilization after having refused the passage on its territory of the German troops.
the French socialist director Jean Jaurès, favorable to peace, is assassinated by Raoul Villain. The pacifist ones lose their best leader.

August, Poland: The Socialist Józef Piłsudski organizes and takes the head of the legions of Polish volunteers who will fight at the sides of the Austro-Hungarians. In Russian Poland, the national-democrats and their chief Romance Dmowski, hostile with the central Empires, are combined in Russia against the promise of the unit and the autonomy of Poland within the Russian Empire.
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the Germany declares the war with the Russia .
General mobilization in Germany.

August 2nd:

General mobilization in France.
German Ultimatum with the Belgium.

August 3rd:

First air raid (Lunéville).

August 4th:

Invasion of the Belgium and the Luxembourg by the German troops which penetrate in Belgium by Aachen. The King of the Belgians lance a call in France and Great Britain.
the the United Kingdom declares the war with the Germany after the violation by the German troops of Belgian neutrality.
the French president calls with the Sacred union with the room and the Senate which votes the appropriations of war unanimously.
the German deputies social democrat, majority, unanimously vote the appropriations of the war to the Reichstag in spite of their engagements against the arms race.
the evening, Germany declares the war in France and Russia .

August 6th: the Austria-Hungary declares the war in Russia .
August 8th:

the French troops take Mulhouse, which is taken again by the German troops two days later.
Sacred union in Russia : the Duma vote appropriations of war. Division of the Socialists (rallying to the Sacred union, internationalism, defeatism).

August 11th: France declares the war with the Austria-Hungary .
August 12th: General mobilization in Russia.
August 15th: Creation of the Office of the raw materials of war in Germany, which Walter Rathenau will direct, president of AEG.
August 16th: Catch of Liege by the German troops.
August 17th: Russian offensive in Eastern Prussia. German Victoire with the Battle of Stalluponen .
August 19th:

the German troops enter to Brussels .
Failure of the French opening in Lorraine (19 - August 20th) . Armed IIIe and IVe are folded up behind the Meuse.
the president of the United States of America proclaims the neutrality of its country in the conflict .

August 20th:

Austrian Failures on the Russian face with Gumbinnen vis-a-vis the troops of Paul von Rennenkampf.
Capitulation of Namur. The Belgian army is folded up on Antwerp.

August 21st: France loses the battle of the borders (21 - August 23rd) .
August 22nd: Massacre of Tamines
August 24th: Austrian failures of Conrad von Hötzendorf on the Serb face with the Cer.
August 25th: Fold of Combined on Large-Crowned close to Nancy. Battle of Charleroi (Belgo-Française border). The Allies must be folded up. End of the Battle of Lorraine: status quo.
August 26th:

Battle of Tannenberg: the Germans stop the Russian offensive (fine the August 31st).
Resignation of the French government which forms a Ministère of National defense . The " Sacrée" union; is concretized in France by the entry of the soccialists to the government (Delcassé with the foreign affairs and Millerand with the War).

August 29th - September 2nd: The French government leaves Paris threatened by the German projection and settles with Bordeaux leaving the capital under the military government of the general Gallieni.
August 31st: The Franco-British ones cross the Marne. The Germans enter to Senlis.

September: the German Sous-marins (U-Boot) make great devastations in the allied fleet .

September 3rd: Russian offensive in Galicie Eastern: catch of Lvov (Galicie Austrian).
September 4th: The German army occupies Rheims. Gallieni requisitions the Parisian taxis for the transport of the troops.
September 6th: First battle of the Marne, the French contain the German projection (6 - September 9th) . The German troops under the command of Alexandre von Kluck and Karl von Bülow) move back until the Aisne.
September 8th:

German Victoire of the Mazuriques lakes, which confirms the German victory of Tannenberg (fine the September 15th). the Russians fold up towards the border original Russo-allemande .
Maubeuge (France) taken by the German troops.
the Russians crush the Austrians with Lemberg (fine the September 12th). Sit of Przemysl, occupation of the Eastern Galicie until the San and controls collars of the Carpates by the Russian army in October.

September 28th: Sit of Antwerp by the German troops.

October 3rd: a first Canadian battalion (of 32 000 men) is chartered to go to fight in Europe .
October 4th: Publication in Germany of the Proclamation of the 93 which shows the univocal support of the German intellectuals for the imperial policy.
October 5th: First air duel of the war close to Rheims: a two-seater German Aviatik is cut down with the rifle by French.
October 9th: Capitulation of Antwerp.
October 19th:

“ Race with the sea ” between the armies German, French and British (Oct. - Nov.), the Germans seeking to reach Dunkirk, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais.
Battle of Yser (fine the November 17th).

October 20th: The Germans beat a retreat in front of the Russians in the loop of the the Vistula.
October 27th, Belgium: German massive onslaught started in north, the east and the south of Ypres.
29 - November 20th: The Turks bombard the Russian coasts of the Black Sea.

November 1st: Von Hindenburg becomes commander-in-chief of the German armies on the face of the East.
November 2nd: the Serbia declares the war with the Ottoman Empire which joined the Germans and the Austrians .
November 3rd: the Amirauté makes undermine the the North Sea declared “zone of war” . The the United Kingdom makes confidence in its navy to protect the country and to establish an economic blockade. It has indeed only one professional army of 250 000 men dispersed throughout the world of which 60 000 only are ready to leave for the France.
November 5th: The British annex Cyprus, which they up to that point managed under Othoman sovereignty.
November 6th: economic Blockade of the Germany .
November 10th: The Russians must cease the offensive in front of the push of the German troops on Lodz.
November 15th: Fray of the Flandres. Victoire of the French Armies, British and Belgian around Ypres and of Dixmude .

December: 6 550 000 Russian soldiers are mobilized (15 million in 1917).
December 6th: Catch of Lodz by the Germans. The German offensive in Russian Poland is stopped in front of Warsaw.
December 7th: Serb Victoire of the Putnik mounts: the Austro-Hungarians must fold up themselves towards Belgrade.
December 8th: Return of the French government to Paris .
December 15th:

IVe French Army lance the offensive in Champagne. War of Distinct (650 km), of the the North Sea to the Swiss .
the king de Serbie returns to Belgrade .

After being itself opposite with the war, (Hungarian political leaders) supports the Austrian effort of war mainly because they fear that a Russian victory does not involve the secession of the Slavic minorities of Hungary, then the dismantling of the country. 3 800 000 soldiers will be mobilized in Hungary; 661 000 will be killed, more 700 000 wounded and made captive as much.

Year 1915

January 19th: first air Bombardment of civilians by a Zeppelin with the the United Kingdom.
January 21st: Russian offensive in the Carpates.
January 24th: Victoire of the British fleet close to the Dogger Bank on the German squadron.
February: The first planes armed with a machine-gun, the Vickers BFR equip a British fighter squadron with the Royal Flying Corp .
February 4th: The German government proclaims “zone of war”, the British territorial water: beginning of the underwater war.
February 7th: German offensive in the south-east of the Lakes Mazures, directed by Hindenburg. Encircled, the Russians fold up on the Niémen the February 22nd.
February 16th: Second allied offensive in Champagne to prevent any transfer of German troops in Russia.
February 19th: Forwarding of Darnanelles (end in February 1916).
February 20th: Bombardment of Rheims.
February 26th: Failure of the German offensive to the Lakes Mazures: the Russians make 10 000 prisoners in the north of Warsaw.
March 1st: The allies extend the blockade to the totality of the German goods.
March 9th: The Italian government presents to the governments of the agreement a memorandum containing the claims of the Italy in exchange of its intervention in the conflict (Trentin, the Tyrol of the South, Trieste, the Istrie and part of the Dalmatie).
March 11th and April 10th: Agreement of the governments British and French on the principle of an annexation of Constantinople by the Russia.
March 16th: End of the battles of Champagne. Failure of the attempt at French Champagne opening (February-March).
March 21st: A Zeppelin bombards Paris.
March 22nd: Capitulation of the Austrian place of Przemysl in front of Russian.
April 22nd: First use of asphyxiating gases with Strenstraate and Ypres by the Germans.
April 24th: Arrest and deportation of more than 600 Armenian intellectuals of Constantinople by the Young person-Turks. Date regarded symbolically as marking the beginning from the Génocide of the Armenians.
April 25th: Unloading of a task force combined with the Dardanelles. Failure of the forwarding of Gallipoli, which costs the life more 200 000 British soldiers on 400 000 engaged, coming for the majority from the the Commonwealth (end in July).
April 26th: secret Treaty of London between the Agreement and the Italy which is committed entering in war against the central Empires within one month. The Allies accept the claims of the March 9th.
May 2nd: Offensive austro-allemande in Galicie to avoid the invasion of the Hungary by the Russians.
May 3rd: Italy denounces the treaty of the Triple Alliance, which bound it to the central Empires.
May 6th: The Russians beat a retreat on a face of 160 km.
May 7th: Torpedoing by the Germans of the British steamer Lusitania in the south of the Irish coasts by a German submarine. 1198 people are drowned, including 124 Americans. The ship would have transported ammunition.
May 9th: French offensive in Artois. Failure ( June).
May 13rd, Italy: Following an ultimate attempt at Giovanni Giolitti aiming at preventing the war, Antonio Salandra resigns, leaving to the king the decision of the war. The king points out it.
May 14th: With Rome, Gabriele d' Annunzio lance a nationalist call which falls under a vast movement favorable to the entry in war of the Italy. Mussolini, favorable to the entry in war of Italy, is driven out PSI and founds the autonomous Faisceau of revolutionary action .
May 15th: The Russians are beaten in the Carpates by XIe armed with the marshal August von Mackensen.
May 23rd: The Italy declares the war with the Austria-Hungary.
In May, German offensives against Russia (May-Oct.).
June 3rd: Rupture of the Russian face with Gorlice in Galicie. The Russians evacuate Przemysl.
June 9th: In Germany, 750 social democrats led by Karl Liebknecht protest against the policy of the government.
June 10th: Offensive Italian on Isonzo against the Austrian lines. Twelve battles on the Isonzo of June 1915 to October 1917 cost enormous losses as men and material.
June 11th: The Serb troops invade the Albania and occupy Tirana.
June 22nd: Taken Lemberg (Lvov) by the Germans on the Russians, who beat a retreat.

July 7th: First interallied conference with Chantilly where are examined the offensives on the face of the West, the Italian face and in Serbia.
July 13rd: German offensive on the Niémen and the Narew with an aim of encircling the Russians stationed in the loop of the the Vistula
July 18th:

First six days permission granted by bearing to all the French combatants.
Italian Failure of the second offensive on the Isonzo.

August 5th: The German troops take Warsaw, Lublin and Cholm.
August 21st: The Italy declares the war with the Ottoman Empire.
August 23rd: Pushed back on Brest-Litovsk, the Russians give up the line of the Bug. The Poland is with the hands of the central empires.
September 6th: Secret treaty between the central Bulgaria and Empires, according to which Bulgaria would obtain the Macedonia and an outlet on the Adriatique if she declares the war with the Serbia and with the Agreement.
September 25th: Failure of a Franco-British attempt at opening in Champagne and Artois (fine the October 11th).

Octobre: After the loss of Wilno in September by the Russians, the face Is stabilized on a line Rīga - Pinsk - Tarnopol.
October 5th: Entry in war of the Bulgaria against the Serbia.
October 6th: Invasion of the Serbia by the Bulgaria.
October 19th: The Italy declares the war with the Bulgaria.
October 28th: The president of the Rumanian Council Ion Bratianu refuses the unrestricted passage on the Rumanian territory of the Russian army which would come to reinforce the Serb ones.

November: Austrian offensive in Bucovine. Occupation of the Serbia and the Montenegro. Offensive austro-allemande of Görlitz-Tarnov on the face Is.
November 10th: Fourth Italian offensive on the Isonzo that the troops still do not manage to cross.
November 23rd: Beaten on all fronts, the Serb army beats a retreat towards the Albania, from where it is evacuated towards Corfou.
December 2nd: The allied troops of Salonique receive the order to be folded up beyond the Vardar.
December 4th: With Calais, the staffs of France and Great Britain examine the question of Salonique, hesitant between evacuation and maintenance of the troops.
6 - December 8th: Conference of Chantilly. The Allies coordinate their plan of offensive for 1916.

Effort of considerable war, animated in Germany by Rathenau, in Great Britain by Lloyd George and in France by Albert Thomas and Louis Squinter.
Appearance of the tanks to caterpillar on the battle fields.

Year 1916

January 9th: German offensive in Champagne.
January 11th: The Austro-Hungarians occupy the Montenegro.
January 16th: French occupation of Corfou. The Serb troops unload in the island
February 8th: The German government fixes at March 1st the beginning of the underwater war without restriction: the trading vessels equipped with guns will be torpedoed.
February 13rd: The 1st Russian brigade made up (2 regiments), leaves Moscow by the Transsibérien and arrives in Mandchourie at Dairen the February 28th, from where it embarks for the France on French ships.
February 21st: Beginning of the Battle of Verdun (fine on December 11th at 11 o'clock in the morning).
February 29th, Verdun: After having taken Beaumont and the fort of Douaumont, the Germans suspend the offensive in front of the fort of Douaumont which they did not succeed in occupying.
February 29th: The British cruiser Alcantara and the German ship Grief are run mutually after a combat epic in the Manche.
February: The the United Kingdom request with the Portugal to hail and requisition the German tradind ships present in its ports.
March 9th: The act of requisition causes the declaration of war of the Germany to the Portugal. A government of Sacred union is organized in Portugal with mission of preparing a task force and of reinforcing the troops which fight in Africa.

March 9th, Verdun: Catch of Douaumont: the Germans run up against the resistance of the fort of Are worth.
March 16th: The French Minister for the war Gallieni resigns for health reasons.
March 18th: Victoire of the Russians on the Germans in Latvia, in the south of Dwinsk.
March 24th: A German submarine torpedoes in the Manche without summation the British steamer Sussex .
April 9th: Failure of the German general offensive on the face of Verdun.
April 11th: Arrived at Marseilles, where it receives a triumphal reception, 1st Russian brigade (2 regiments) part of Moscow by the Transsibérien the February 13rd, via the Mandchourie, where it embarked on ships French.
April 27th: A law creates a diploma of “dead for France” delivered with each man killed with the combat, to recall that their sacrifice was not vain.
May 1st: Pétain, named ordering armies of the Center, leaves the direction of the Bataille of Verdun to Nivelle.
May 15th: The Austro-Hungarian army bores the first Italian lines of defense in the Trentin.
May 31st: Undecided naval battle enters the fleets German and British to the Jutland.
June 3rd: The Allies proclaim the state of siege to Salonique following the catch of the fort of Rupel by the germano-Bulgarian troops.
June 4th: Offensive Russian of the general Broussilov against the German forces of Mackensen (fine in August).
June 7th: German offensive with Verdun. Fall of the Fort of Are worth then Thiaumont, Fleury-in front of-Douaumont.
June 21st, Verdun: The Germans reach the accesses of Froideterre.
June 22nd: Greek the Prime Minister Zaïmis orders the demobilization of the army following dissensions with the Allies.

July 1st: Beginning of the Battle of the Sum , allied offensive towards Bapaume and Fibula (fine in October). More 600 000 victims in the two camps. The British forces (voluntary) begin in the battle of the Sum.
July 4th: The First Rumanian minister Ion Bratianu reminds the allies that its country will intervene at their sides if they do not withdraw Dardanelles and if they start an offensive against the Bulgarian ones starting from Salonique.
July 27th, Somme: The British take Contalmaison, progress quickly towards Péronne and seize Longueval.
August 4th: Serb offensive in the area of the Lake Prespa in Macedonia.
August 8th: In Italy, taken Gorizia by the 3rd Italian Army under the orders of the Duke of Aoste after the sixth battle of the Isonzo.
August 17th: Treaty of alliance enters the Agreement and the Romania signed to Bucharest: in exchange of its entry in war against the Austria, the Rumanian one will annex the Bucovine, the Transylvania and the Banat.
August 23rd: On the face of the Balkans, the Bulgarian Armée hustles the Serb troops in the west of the allied device of Greece.
August 24th, Somme: The French take Maurepas.
August 27th:

Solicited by the Allies and to reinforce its position at the time them negotiations which must decide division of the Ottoman Empire, the Italy declares the war with the Germany.
the Romania declares the war with the Austria-Hungary. After an offensive in Transylvania quickly stopped, the country of finds insulated by 600 000 austro-German supported by the Turks and the Bulgarian ones. Bucharest falls in autumn and the Romania concluded an armistice. The invasion of the country by the Germans puts in difficulty the southernmost Russian face.

August 28th:

the Germany, then the Turkey, declare the war with the Romania.
the Rumanian troops of the general Averescu enter in Transylvania and take Braşov.
In Germany, Von Falkenhayn is replaced by the marshal Paul von Hindenburg with the head of the Supreme Management of the German Armée.

September 1st: The Bulgaria declares the war with the Romania.
September 13rd:

the general Joffre, who always has an eye on Verdun request with Pétain and Nivelle, to prepare on Right Bank the resumption of the forts of Vaux and Douaumont.

September 14th:

Offensive Italian in the Eastern Carso.
the troops bulgaro-allemande of August von Mackensen launch an offensive to the east of Silistraie against the Romania

September 15th: First use of the tanks ( tanks ) by the British army.
September 18th:

Broussilov stops the Russian offensive vis-a-vis the German .
the Greek go without resistance to Bulgarian to Kavala (Greece).

September 25th, Somme: French and British take Combles, to 12 km of Péronne.
October 3rd: The Serb troops launch an offensive on Monastir, in Macedonia.
October 7th: The Germans force the Roumanians to evacuate the Transylvania.
October 9th: Eleftherios Venizelos constitutes with Salonique a provisional government favorable to the Allies.
October 23rd: The king Constantin Ier of Greece proposes a complete disarmament of the Greek forces provided that the army of Eleftherios Venizelos is used only against the Bulgarian ones.
October 24th, Verdun: The French troops of the Mangin grouping have taken again, in four hours, the Fort of Douaumont and re-occupy until Vaux all the territory conquered for eight month by the Germans.
November 11th: The Greek government of Eleftherios Venizelos declares the war with the Bulgaria.
15 and November 16th: Meeting with Chantilly (Oise), on the initiative of the general Joffre, of a new interallied military conference to stop the plan of the operations of 1917.
November 19th: Catch of Monastir in Macedonia by Sarrail and free-Serb forces
November 25th: The Greek provisional government declares the war with the Germany and the Bulgaria.
December 2nd: The army of the East of the general Sarrail occupies Athens after severe confrontation with the Greeks
the German army of Falkenhayn crosses the Valachie, makes the junction with theBulgarian ones of Mackensen come from Dobroudja and enters to Bucharest the December 6th, evacuated the day before by the government Bratianu which is withdrawn in Moldavie.
December 12th: End of the Battle of Verdun. The Germans are pushed back by the French troops. More 300 000 allied and German soldiers die in the battle.
December 25th: The general Joseph Joffre is named Marshal of France, and is replaced by Robert Nivelle with the head of the armies.

Year 1917

January: The armies austro-allemandes and Bulgarian control the major part of the Romania. Their advance is stopped on the Siret thanks to the support of the Russian troops.
January 22nd: The President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, pleads for a peace without winners.
January 31st: Beginning of the underwater War total.
February 3rd: Rupture of the diplomatic relations between the the United States and the Germany, after the advertisement by this one of a widening of the underwater war and the interception of a German message incentive Mexico to enter in war against the United States.
February 24th: Victoire allied on the Anchor (Somme): the Germans beat a retreat in front of the British.

April: Conference austro-allemande of Kreuznach. Charles Ier of Austria, to resolve the situation, proposes to yield the Galicia to the Poland provided that the Germany yields the Alsace-Lorraine to France. The German chancellor Michaelis refuses. Charles Ier then entrusts a secret mission to the prince Sixte Ier of Bourbon-Parma to obtain a peace of compromise with the France. The departure of Briand and the pressure of the militarist parties prevent the conclusion of it.
April 2nd: Entry in war of the United States at the side of the Allies.
April 9th: the British launch the offensive in Artois, between Arras and Lens.
April 16th: Beginning of the offensive Bubble of the Way of the Ladies. The offensive which appears very fatal involves mutinies within the French Army. Combat of the plate of Craonne: Ve (Mazel) and Life (Mangin) French Armies launch the offensive on the Aisne.
April 17th: Entry in action of the French armoured tanks, tanks Schneider and Saint-Chamond on the face between Laffaux and the north of Rheims.
May 4th: Failure of the offensive Bubble with the Way of the Ladies.
May 15th: Philippe Pétain replaces Nivelle as commander-in-chief of the French Armies after his resignation. Foch is named chief of staff.
May 20th: Mutinies in the French Army: 68 of 112 divisions are touched; 629 soldiers are judged and condemned and 50 of them are carried out (April-June).
June 4th: The Italian forces of the general Luigi Cadorna beat a retreat on the face of the Carso.
June 29th: The Greece enters the war to the side of the allies.
June 30th: Unloading with Saint-Nazaire of the first American troops .

July 19th:

Motion of peace to the German Reichstag on initiative of Matthias Erzberger.
the German army obliges the Russians to evacuate the Galicie.

July 31st: British offensive in the Flandres directed by the general Douglas Haig.
: Call of the pope Benoit XV with a “white peace”.
August 16th: Success of the Franco-British offensive in the Flandres in the north of Ypres.
August 19th: Success of the Italian offensive of the troops of the Capello general and the duke of Aoste on the plate of Bainsizza. The engagements make 200 000 died in two months during the summer. The mutinies and the desertions multiply while the back country revolts.
August: Negotiation Armand-Revertera, on the initiative of France, in Swiss, with Austria (end in February 1918).
September 3rd: The German troops take Rīga.
September 11th: Disappearance in flight of Georges Guynemer.
September 17th: Mutiny of the Russian soldiers with Courtine
September 20th: Second battle of the Flandres: the troops of Haig seize the wood of Inverness and launch the offensive between Ypres and Menin.

October 15th: the Dutch Subdued Hari, condemned to died for espionage in favor of Germany, is shot with the Fort of Vincennes.
October 24th: Pétain lance an offensive against the fort of Malmaison which allows the reconquest of the North-West of the Chemin of the Ladies.
October 24th - November 9th: Austrian offensive victorious surprise in Italy. The imperial army crosses the Tagliamento, reached the Piave and made 300 000 prisoners. Italian defeat of Caporetto in the valley of Isonzo by the Austrians. The face is inserted on 50 km and the losses are considerable. Luigi Cadorna is replaced with the high command by the Diaz general. The army holds Piave, helped by Franco-British divisions.
November 7th: Joined together with Rapallo, the Allies decide to create an interallied Superior council of war.
November 8th: At an interallied meeting with Peschiera, Victor-Emmanuel III of Italy is opposed to the withdrawal Italian forces on a new line. A main effort begins to reorganize the army and to mobilize the nation.
November 22nd: Beginning of the Cambric battle. the British use the tanks and cross defenses of the Hindenburg line. One of the episodes is Bourlon Wood, battles for the catch of the village of Bourlon and its wood.
November 26th: Following the Revolution Bolshevik, the Russia sign a cease-fire separated with the Germany.
December 9th: Armistice of Focşani between the Germany and the Romania.
December 15th: The Germans and the Bolsheviks sign an armistice with Brest-Litovsk. The Germans help Lénine to leave his Swiss exile.

the adoption of a system of convoys reduces the naval losses of the allies caused by the German submarines.

Year 1918

January 8th: The president Wilson announces his programme of peace in “Fourteen points”: sovereignty of the Russia, release of the France, autonomous development of the people of the Austria-Hungary, creation of a Company of the Nations. It aims transposing the liberal democracy to the international scales and at sitting the commercial expansion on an international order mutually authorized.
Rectification of the Italian army to the beginning of the year.
February: Failure of the negotiation Armand-Revertera.
February 9th: Peace separated between the Germany and the Ukrainian government with Kiev.
March 3rd: Peace separated between Lénine and central empires signed with Brest-Litovsk. the Russia gives up the Russian Poland, the Lithuania, the Courlande. It is committed to evacuate the Livonie, the Estonia, recognizing the independence of the Finland and the Ukraine.
March 18th: The Romania sign a preliminary peace treaty with the central powers with Buftea.
March-July: Great battle of France.
March 21st: Beginning of the battle of Picardy. German offensive against the British between Arras and the Fère-in-Tardenois (Luddendorff and Hindenburg).
March 23rd: Paris is bombarded by the Pariser Kanonen (and not the Grosse Bertha).
March 30th: The general Pershing places the American forces at the disposal of Foch.

Two million American soldiers is sent in Europe starting from April (50 000 victims). This continuous reinforcement (200 000 men per month) shift balance with the profit of the Agreement.

April 2nd: Incident caused by Czernin between Vienna and Clemenceau.
April 9th: German offensive in Flanders towards Hazebrouck. Battle of the Lily, fatal with the Portuguese task force, whose survivors are enlisted in the British army (end the April 29th).
April 13rd: The German troops (Mannerheim) seize Helsingfors (Helsinki), occupied by the Bolsheviks since the January 28th.
April 14th: Foch is named commander-in-chief of the allied armies.
April 26th: The German forces cease their offensive in Picardy without success.
May 7th: Peace treaty of Bucharest: the Romania yields the Dobroudja to the Bulgaria and part of the Carpates to the Hungary. It receives the Bessarabia with the detriment of the Russia.
May 27th: German offensive of the Way of the Ladies.
allied Counter-offensive in Picardy: the May 28th, the first division American removes the village of Cantigny.
May 30th: The Germans reach the Marne with Castle-Thierry. Last nine shells are launched on Paris.
June 9th: German offensive between Montdidier and Boundary-line towards Compiegne.

Offensive of the Austria in Venezia during the summer. The Italian troops take again their positions between Venezia and the Piave the July 8th.
July 15th: German offensive in Champagne.
July 18th: Second battle of the Marne. Beginning of the great allied counter-offensive. The Allies (French and American) oblige the Germans to be folded up in the North of the Marne. The Germans must give up the offensive envisaged in Flandres.
August 8th: Allied offensive in Picardy. Victoire of combined on the Sum.
August 9th: Gabriele D' Annunzio, with the head of a flotilla of eight planes, accomplishes a flight on Vienna and launches leaflets.
September 15th: Allied offensive with Salonique.
September 15th: Release of Nancy.
September 18th: opening of the Line Hindenburg
September 19th: The Bulgaria sign the armistice.
September 19th: The Belgium pushes back the offer of separate peace of Germany.
September 26th: Foch lance a convergent massive onslaught in Lorraine in direction of Wall and Belgium towards Bruges.
27 - September 30th: The line of Hindenburg is broken.
September 29th:

Meeting with Spa of the government, the high command and the emperor of Germany: the generals, vis-a-vis the exhaustion of the army, suggest asking for the armistice on the basis of Fourteen points of Wilson.
the Bulgarian staff requires an armistice following the offensive of the French Army of the East (Franchet d' Esperey) in Bulgaria.

October: The forces of Franchet d' Esperey go towards the Hungary.
October 3rd: max von Baden form a new government in Germany. The request for armistice is addressed to the the United States in the evening.
24 - October 29th: Victorious Italian victorious offensive with Vittorio Veneto. The Austrians ebb on all fronts.
October 29th: Armistice of Salonique. The Austrian government requests the armistice from the Italy.
October 31st: Turkey signs the armistice with Moudros.
November 3rd: The Austria - Hungary sign the armistice with Villa Guisti in Italy.
November 7th: A delegation led by Károlyi is received with Belgrade by Franchet d' Espeyrey to sign an armistice on the Balkan face.
November 9th: Revolution in Germany, abdication of Kaiser Guillaume II.
November 10th: Benefitting from the victory from Allied, the Romania enters again in war and re-occupies the Transylvania.
November 11th: Signature of the Armistice to Rethondes between the Germany and the allies, marking the end of the First World War.
November 13rd: The armistice of Belgrade signed by the general Franchet d' Esperey with the government of Mihály Károlyi fixes the line of demarcation between Hungarian and Roumanians in Transylvania. The Banat is occupied by the Serbia.

November: Occupation of Fiume by the Italian troops and a French quota
German Retirement under the pressure of the French, British and American troops.
Comes then long time from the Reconstruction and the treatment of the after-effects of war. After a short period with dominant pacifist, a Second world war prepares already.

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