DIARY OF THE WAR.

1914.
June 28.—Francis Ferdinand shot at Sarajevo.
July 5.—Kaiser’s War Council at Potsdam.
July 23.—Austro-Hungarian Note to Serbia.
July 23.—Austria declared war on Serbia.
July 31.—State of war in Germany.
August 1.—Germany declared war on Russia.
August 2.—German ultimatum to Belgium.
August 3.—Germany declared war on France.
August 4.—Great Britain declared war on Germany.
August 10.—France declared war on Austria.
August 12.—Great Britain declared war on Austria.
August 15.—Fall of Liége.
August 16.—British Army landed in France.
August 20.—Germans occupied Brussels.
August 23.—Japan declared war on Germany.
August 24.—Fall of Namur.
August 25.—Sack of Louvain.
August 26.—Battle of Tannenberg.
August 28.—British Victory in the Bight.
August 29.—New Zealanders in Samoa.
September 2.—Russians took Lemberg.
September 3.—Paris Government at Bordeaux.
September 5.—End of Retreat from Mons.
September 6.—First Marne Battle begun.
September 15.—First Aisne Battle begun.
September 16.—Russians evacuated Prussia.
September 23.—First British Air Raid in Germany.
October 9.—Fall of Antwerp.
October 13.—Belgian Government at Havre.
October 20.—First Battle of Ypres begun.
November 1.—Naval Action off Coronel.
November 5.—Great Britain declared war on Turkey.
November 7.—Fall of Tsingtau.
November 10.—Emden sunk.
November 21.—British occupied Basra.
December 2.—Austrians in Belgrade.
December 8.—Naval Battle off the Falklands.
December 14.—Serbians retook Belgrade.
December 16.—Germans bombarded West Hartlepool.
December 18.—Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt.
December 24.—First Air Raid on England.
1915.
January 24.—Naval Battle off Dogger Bank.
February 2.—Turks defeated on Suez Canal.
February 18.—U Boat “Blockade” of England.
February 25—Allied Fleet attacked Dardanelles.
March 10.—British capture Neuve Chappelle.
March 22.—Russians took Przemysl.
April 22.—Second Battle of Ypres begun.
April 25.—Allied Landing in Gallipoli.
May 3.—Battle of the Dunajec.
May 6.—Battle at Krithia, Gallipoli.
May 7.—Lusitania torpedoed.
May 8.—Germans occupied Libau.
May 11.—German repulse at Ypres.
May 12.—General Botha occupied Windhuk.
May 16.—Russian Retreat to the San.
May 23.—Italy declared war on Austria.
May 25.—Coalition Cabinet formed.
June 2.—Italians crossed Isonzo.
June 3.—Russians evacuated Przemysl.
June 22.—Austro-Germans recaptured Lemberg.
July 2.—Pommern sunk in Baltic.
July 9.—German South-West Africa conquered.
July 24.—Nasiriyeh, on Euphrates, taken.
August 4.—Fall of Warsaw.
August 5.—Fall of Ivangorod.
August 6.—New Landing at Suvla Bay.
August 8.—General Birdwood’s advance at Anzac.
August 9.—British success near Hooge.
August 15.—National Registration.
August 17.—Fall of Kovno.
August 18.—Russian victory in Riga Gulf.
August 19.—Fall of Novo-Georgievsk.
August 21.—Cotton declared contraband.
August 25.—Fall of Brest-Litovsk.
September 1.—General Alexeieff as Chief of Staff.
September 2.—Fall of Grodno.
September 5.—Tsar as Generalissimo.
September 7.—Russian victory near Tarnopol.
September 18.—Fall of Vilna.
September 21.—Russian Retreat ended.
September 25.—Battle of Loos and in Champagne.
September 28.—Victory at Kut-el-Amara.
October 4.—Russian ultimatum to Bulgaria.
October 5.—Allied landing at Salonika.
October 6.—Austro-German invasion of Serbia.
October 9.—Belgrade occupied.
October 14.—Bulgaria at war with Serbia.
October 17.—Allied note to Greece.
October 19.—Lord Derby on the 46 Groups.
October 22.—Bulgarians occupy Uskub.
October 28.—M. Briand French Premier.
November 5.—Fall of Nish.
November 22.—Battle of Ctesiphon.
November 29.—British withdraw from Ctesiphon.
December 2.—Fall of Monastir.
December 3.—General Townshend at Kut.
December 9.—Allied retreat in Macedonia.
December 13.—Salonika lines fortified.
December 15.—Sir D. Haig C.-in-C. in France.
December 19.—Withdrawal from Gallipoli.
December 25.—Turkish defeat at Kut.
1916.
January 6.—Gallipoli evacuation complete.
January 13.—Fall of Cettigne.
February 9.—General Smuts appointed to East Africa.
February 16.—Russians entered Erzerum.
February 18.—German Kamerun conquered.
February 21.—Battle of Verdun begun.
February 24.—Germans took Ft. Douaumont.
March 16.—Admiral von Tirpitz dismissed.
April 9.—German assault at Verdun.
April 17.—Russians entered Trebizond.
April 24.—Rebellion in Ireland.
April 29.—Fall of Kut-el-Amara.
May 24.—British Conscription Bill passed.
May 31—Battle of Jutland.
June 4.—General Brusiloff’s offensive.
June 5.—Lord Kitchener lost at sea.
June 14.—Allied Economic Conference in Paris.
June 21.—Mecca taken by Grand Sherif.
July 1.—Somme Battle begun.
July 25.—Russians occupied Erzinjan.
August 6.—Italian offensive on Isonzo.
August 10.—Russians at Stanislau.
August 27.—Rumania entered the war.
August 29.—Hindenburg Chief of Staff.
September 3.—Zeppelin destroyed at Cuffley.
September 26.—British took Thiepval and Combles.
October 10.—Allied Ultimatum to Greece.
November 1.—Italian Advance on Carso.
November 13.—British Victory on the Ancre.
November 18.—Serbians and French took Monastir.
November 29.—Grand Fleet under Sir D. Beatty.
December 1.—Anti-Allied Riot in Athens.
December 5.—Resignation of Mr. Asquith.
December 6.—Germans entered Bukarest.
December 7.—Mr. Lloyd George Prime Minister.
December 12.—German “Peace Proposals.”
December 15.—French Victory at Verdun.
December 20.—President Wilson’s Peace Note.
1917.
January 1.—Turkey denounced Berlin Treaty.
February 1.—“Unrestricted” U-Boat War begun.
February 3.—America broke with Germany.
February 6.—British captured Grandcourt.
February 24.—British took Kut-el-Amara.
March 11.—British entered Baghdad.
March 12.—Revolution in Russia.
March 15.—Abdication of the Tsar.
March 18.—British entered Peronne.
March 21.—First British Imperial War Cabinet.
April 6.—America declared war on Germany.
April 9.—Battle of Vimy Ridge begun.
May 4.—French took Caronne.
May 14.—New Italian offensive.
May 15.—General Petain Generalissimo.
June 7.—British Victory at Messines Ridge.
June 12.—Abdication of King Constantine.
June 26.—First American troops in France.
June 27.—Mesopotamia Report issued.
June 29.—General Allenby commander in Egypt.
July 1.—Last Russian offensive begun.
July 14.—Bethmann-Hollweg dismissed.
July 17.—British Royal House styled “Windsor.”
July 19.—Reichstag “Peace” Resolution.
July 24.—Russian defeat in Galicia.
July 31.—Great Allied attack around Ypres.
August 29.—President Wilson’s Note to the Pope.
September 4.—Germans occupied Riga.
September 15.—Russian Republic proclaimed.
September 28.—British Victory at Ramadieh.
October 9.—Allied attack in Flanders.
October 24.—Italian defeat at Caporetto.
October 29.—Fall of Udine.
October 30.—Chancellor Michaelis dismissed.
October 31.—British capture Beersheba.
November 1.—German retreat on Chemin des Dames.
November 4.—British troops in Italy.
November 6.—British stormed Passchendaele Ridge.
November 7.—British captured Gaza.
November 8.-Bolshevist coup d’état in Russia.
November 9.—Italian stand on the Piave.
November 17.—British in Jaffa.
November 18.—General Maude’s death in Mesopotamia.
November 20.—British Victory at Cambrai.
November 30.—German reaction at Cambrai.
December 6.—Armistice on Russian front.
December 9.—British captured Jerusalem.
December 22.—Brest Conference opened.
December 26.—Sir R. Wemyss First Sea Lord.
1918.
January 5.—Mr. Lloyd George on War Aims.
January 20.—Breslau sunk: Goeben damaged.
February 1.—Germany recognised Ukraine.
February 9.—First Brest Treaty Signed.
February 16.—General Wilson Chief of Staff.
February 18.—German invasion of Russia.
February 21.—British capture Jericho.
February 24.—Turks recovered Trebizond.
February 25.—Germans at Reval.
March 3.—Second Brest Treaty.
March 7.—German peace with Finland.
March 11.—Turks recovered Erzrum.
March 13.—Germans at Odessa.
March 14.—Brest Treaty ratified at Moscow.
March 21.—German offensive in the West.
March 24.—Bapaume and Peronne lost.
April 5.—Allied landing at Vladivostok.
April 9—New Military Service Bill.
April 11.—Armentieres lost.
April 13.—Turks occupied Batum.
April 14.—General Foch, Allied Generalissimo.
April 15—Bailleul lost.
April 18.—Lord Milner War Secretary.
April 22.—Naval raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend.
April 26.—Kemmel Hill lost.
April 27.—Turks occupied Kars.
April 30.—Germans at Viborg.
May 1.—Germans at Sebastopol.
May 9.—Second raid on Ostend.
May 27.—Second German offensive.
May 29.—Soissons lost. Reims held.
May 31.—Germans reached Marne.
June 1.—Attacks towards Paris held.
June 9.—New German assault.
June 15.—Austrian offensive in Italy.
June 23.—Great Austrian defeat.
July 2.—1,000,000 Americans shipped to France.
July 15.—Third German offensive. Second Marne Battle begun.
July 18.—General Foch’s counter-attack.
July 20.—Germans recrossed the Marne.
August 2.—Soissons recovered.
August 8.—British attack at Amiens.
August 29.—Bapaume and Noyon regained.
September 1.—Peronne recovered.
September 2.—Drocourt-Queant line breached.
September 12.-American attack at St. Mihiel.
September 15.—Austrian Peace Note.
September 17.—New Macedonian offensive.
September 19.—British advance in Palestine.
September 25.—Bulgaria proposed Armistice.
September 27.—Hindenburg line broken.
September 29.—Bulgaria surrendered.
September 30.—Fall of Damascus.
October 1.—St. Quentin regained.
October 9.—Cambrai regained.
October 10.—British took Le Cateau.
October 13.—French recovered Laon.
October 14.—British troops at Irtkutsk.
October 15.—British in Homs.
October 17.—Ostend. Lille, Douai regained.
October 20.—Belgian Coast clear.
October 25.—Ludendorff resigned.
October 26.—Aleppo fell to the Allies.
October 27.—Austria sued for Peace.
October 28.—Italians crossed Piave.
October 29.—Serbians reached the Danube.
October 30.—Turkey granted Armistice.
November 1.—Versailles Conference opened.
November 2.—British at Valenciennes.
November 3.—Austrian surrender. Kiel Mutiny.
November 4.—Versailles Armistice Agreement.
November 5.—Full Powers for Marshal Foch. Mr. Wilson’s last Note to Germany.
November 6.—Americans reached Sedan.
November 7.—Bavarian Republic Proclaimed.
November 9.—Foch received German Envoys.
November 9.—Abdication of the Kaiser.
November 10.—Kaiser’s flight to Holland. British at Mons.
November 11.—Armistice Terms Accepted.
1919.
June 19.—Peace signed.
POLITICAL.
1914.
June 28—Murder of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo.
July 23—Austrian Note to Serbia.
July 28—Austria declares war on Serbia.
Aug. 1—Germany declares war on Russia.
Aug. 3—Germany declares war on France.
Aug. 4—Britain declares war on Germany.
Sept. 9—Turkey denounces the capitulations.
1915.
May 23—Italy declares war on Austria.
Oct. 12—Greek Government refuses to help Serbia.
Oct. 14—Bulgaria enters the war.
1916.
Aug. 27—Roumania enters the war.
Nov. 21—Death of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria.
Dec. 7—Mr. Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister.
Dec. 12—Germany’s first peace proposal.
Dec. 30—Allies give negative answer.
1917.
Feb. 3—Diplomatic relations between United States and Germany ruptured.
Mar. 12—Outbreak of Russian Revolution.
Mar. 13—China breaks off relations with Germany.
Mar. 15—Czar Nicholas abdicates.
April 5—United States declares war on Germany.
June 12—King Constantine of Greece abdicates.
Sept. 15—Russia becomes Republic, with Kerensky as Premier.
1918.
Jan. 19—Bolsheviks dissolve Russian Constituent Assembly.
Mar. 2—Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed.
Sept. 25—Bulgaria seeks armistice.
Oct. 3—Prince Max of Baden appointed German Chancellor. Germany suggests armistice to President Wilson.
Oct. 30—Turkey surrenders.
Nov. 3—Austria sues for peace.
Nov. 11—Germany signs armistice.
MILITARY.
1914.
Aug. 16—British Expeditionary Force lands in France.
Aug. 23—Battle of Mons.
Sept. 6—First Battle of the Marne.
Oct. 11—First Battle of Ypres.
1915.
Mar. 10—Battle of Neuve Chapelle.
Aug. 4—Germans capture Warsaw.
Aug. 6—Allies land at Suvla Bay.
Nov. 23—Great Serbian Retreat begins.
Dec. 15.—Sir Douglas Haig made Commander-in-Chief.
1916.
Jan. 8—Gallipoli evacuated.
Feb. 16—Russians capture Erzeroum.
Feb. 21—Battle of Verdun begins.
April 29—Kut surrenders.
May 15—Battle of Vimy Ridge.
June 2—Second Battle of Ypres begins.
July 1—First Battle of the Somme.
Aug. 9—Italians capture Gorizia.
Aug. 29—Hindenburg made Chief of General Staff.
Dec. 1—Allied troops land at the Piræus.
1917.
Feb. 24—Kut recaptured.
Mar. 11—Bagdad occupied by British.
Mar. 17—Bapaume captured.
Mar. 27—Battle of Gaza.
April 9—Vimy Ridge captured.
April 20—French troops cross the Chemins des Dames.
June 7—Messines Ridge captured.
June 29—General Allenby commands in Palestine.
Oct. 24—Italian defeat at Caporetto.
Oct. 31—British capture Beersheba.
Nov. 7—Gaza captured.
Nov. 15—Italian retreat ends.
Nov. 20—Battle of Cambrai.
Dec. 9—British entry into Jerusalem.
1918.
Feb. 21—Jericho captured.
Mar. 21—Great German offensive begins.
Mar. 30—General Foch assumes Chief Command.
June 2—German advance stopped.
July 18—French begin their successful counter-attacks.
July 20—Second Battle of the Marne.
Sept. 2—Drocourt-Queant line broken.
Sept. 12—Americans recapture St. Mihiel Salient.
Sept. 16—Allied offensive in the Balkans begins.
Sept. 21—Franco-Serbian troops reach the Vardar.
Sept. 27—Hindenburg line broken.
Sept. 28—Anglo-Belgian offensive in Flanders begins.
Oct. 10—Le Cateau recaptured.
Oct. 17—Recapture of Ostend, Lille and Douai.
Oct. 26—Fall of Aleppo.
NAVAL.
1914.
Aug. 28—Battle of Heligoland Bight.
Nov. 1—Battle of Coronel.
Dec. 8—Battle of Falkland Islands.
Dec. 16—Bombardment of Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepools.
1915.
Jan. 24—Battle of Dogger Bank.
Feb. 13—Germany begins “submarine blockade.”
Feb. 25—Dardanelles Forts attacked.
May 7—Lusitania sunk.
1916.
Mar. 16—Fall of Admiral von Tirpitz.
May 21—Battle of Jutland.
June 5—Lord Kitchener drowned in wreck of H.M.S. Hampshire.
Sept. 1—Naval demonstration at Athens by Allies.
Oct. 7—German submarine appeared off coast of United States.
Oct. 26—German attack on Dover Patrol.
Nov. 23—German destroyer attack in Straits of Dover.
Nov. 29—Sir David Beatty succeeds Lord Jellicoe.
1917.
Jan. 22—Destroyer fight off Dutch Coast.
Feb. 1—Germany begins “unrestricted” submarine war.
April 7—Destroyer action off Zeebrugge.
May 15—Austrian raid on drifters in Straits of Otranto.
May 17—First American warships enter European waters.
June 5—Destroyer action off Belgian coast.
Oct. 17—Naval battle in Riga Gulf.
Nov. 2—Naval engagement in the Kattegat.
Nov. 17—Naval engagement off Heligoland.
1918.
Jan. 20—Raid by Goeben and Breslau at Mudros. Breslau sunk.
April 22—Zeebrugge and Ostend Harbours blocked by British Navy.
May 9—H.M.S. Vindictive sunk at entrance to Ostend Harbour.
AIR RAIDS.
1915.
Jan. 19—First Zeppelin raid on England.
June 7—Zeppelin destroyed by Lieut. Warneford.
Sept. 8—Raid on East Coast and London district; 38 killed, 124 injured.
Oct. 13—Raid on London area: 56 killed, 114 injured.
1916.
Jan. 31—Air raid on six counties: 67 killed, 117 injured.
Feb. 9—First inland raid of aeroplanes.
March 19—Allied air raid on Zeebrugge.
April 3—Damaged Zeppelin comes down in Thames estuary.
Aug. 25—Six Zeppelins raid South-East Coast.
Sept. 3—Raid by 13 Zeppelins. One brought down in flames at Cuffley.
Sept. 23—Raid on East and South-East Coasts. Two Zeppelins brought down.
Oct. 1—Zeppelin brought down in flames near London.
1917.
June 13—Daylight raid on London. Killed 97; injured 439.
June 17—Zeppelin destroyed in East Anglia.
July 7—Aeroplane attack on London; 43 killed, 197 injured.
Sept. 3—Raid on Chatham; 107 killed, 86 injured.
Oct. 19—Six Zeppelins lost in France, after raid on London.
Dec. 6—Early morning attack on London by 25 aeroplanes. Two brought down.
1918.
Jan. 31—Four enemy squadrons bomb Paris. Total casualties 252. A hospital set on fire.
Mar. 11—Paris bombed; 100 people killed. Four machines shot down.
Aug. 5—Zeppelin destroyed on East Anglia.