Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1917 — 100 MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN GREAT WAR [ARTICLE]

100 MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN GREAT WAR

June 28, 1914. —Archduke Ferdinand, heir presumptive to Austria’s throne, and wife assassinated at Serajavo, Bosnia, by Slav student, Prlqcip, giving the pretext for war. July 23. —Austria delivers famous ultimatum to Serbia, charging assassination plot was hatched on Serb soil.

July 28. —Serbia having agreed to all Austria demands save one, Austria declares war. August 1. —Germany declares war on Russia. August 3. —Germany declares war on France and invades Belgium. August 4. —Great Britain declares a state of war by act of Germany. «August 21-24 —Battle of Mons-Char-leroi; Germans victorious. August 23. —Japan at war with Germany. August 27. —Germans bum Louvain, Belgium. August 29. —Russians crushed in battle near Tannenburg, Prussia. September 5-10. —Germans turned back by French and British in the battle of the Marne, September 12. —Battle of the Aisne begins. October 9. —Germans capture Antwerp. October 21-31. —First battle of Ypres. October 30. —Russia declares war on Turkey. —November 1. —Germans sink Admiral Cradlock’s British fleet off Chili.

November 10-12.—Second battle at Ypres. December 1. —German General De Wet captured, ending South African revolt. December s.—Serbians defeat Austrians. December 8. —British sink German fleet off Falkland islands. January 24, 1915. —Naval battle in North sea; German cruiser Bluecher sunk. February B.—Russians suffer second great defeat in East Prussia. February 17. —Germans begin submarine blockade, despite American protest. , Mfirch 22. —Russians take Przemysl, Galicia after long siege. April 22. —Gas first used in war by Germans at Ypres. April 25. —Allies land at Dardanelles.

May 4. —Beginning of great German offensive against Russia. May 7. —Lusitania sunk unwarned by U-boat; 1,000 die, of whom more than 100 are Americans. May 22. —Italy declares war on Austria. \ June 2. —Teutons retake Przemysl. August 5. —Germans capture Warsaw. • s September 1. —Germany promises United States to sink no more liners without warning. September 8. —Czar succeeds Grand Duke Nicholas in command of Russian armies. September 15. —Germans capture

Pinsk —high tide in invasion of Russia. September 24-25. —Allies in drive Ln France'"Capture 25.000. October 5. —Allies land at Salonlki. October 9.—Germans occupy Belgrade. October 10. —Bulgaria attacks Serbia. December 9. —Germany announces Serbia is entirely conquered. December' 19.—Allies evacuate Gallipoli. February 14,1916. —-Russians capture Erzerum. Turkey. February 23.—-Germans open Verdun offensive. April IS. —Russians take Treblzond, Turkey. - April 24. —Irish revolt in Dublin. April 2s.—British besieged in Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender. May 30—Battle of Jutland; 14 British and 18 German warships sunk. June s.—Lord Kitchener drowned when cruiser Hampshire is torpedoed' north of Scotland. /. June 17. —Russians retake Czernowitz, capital of Bukowina, in great offensive. June 20.—Arabs rebel from Turkey, capture Mecca; new kingdom established. June 27. —British and French in great drive in west, July 9. —Submarine merchantman Deutschland reaches Baltimore. July 27.—Russians retake Brody, northern Galicia. August 9.—ltalians take Gorizia. July 10. —Russians take Stanislau, Galicia. August 28.- —Roumania enters war on side of the entente, and invades Transylvania. ■ September 6. —Germany begins great squeeze on Roumania. , tle of world’s history; 67 British. French and German airplanes brought down. December 5. —Teutons take Bucharest. December 11.—Germany openly proffers peace to her enemies. December 2L President Wilson asks both sides to define their war aims. January 17, 1917.—News received German cruiser Moewe has taken 24 ships in South Atlantic. January 22—Wilson asking “peace without victory,” demands United States enter world league at close of war. . . January 31. —Germany declares ruthless submarine warfare on all ships, whatever nationality, in the war zones. February 3. —United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany. . ■ February 26. —President asks congress for authority to arm all American vessels. v February 26. —British capture Kut-el-Amara. February 28. —Zimmermann note suggesting alliance of Mexico and Japan with Germany against United States made public. March 11. —British capture Bagdad. March 11. —Russian revolution starts. March 15. —Czar abdicates. March. 17. —Germans begin big “strategic retirement” on “west front. April 3.—Wilson asks congress to declare a state of war with Germany. April 6. —President signs congress resolution proclaiming war. April 7. —Cuba declares war on Germany. April 9. —Austria-Hungary breaks diplomatic relations with United States. April 9. —British storm Vlmy Ridge. April 10.—Brazil breaks diplomatic relations with Germany. April 16. —French in great offensive near Aisne river. April 19. —American freighter Mongolia sinks a submarine, this being the first American victory of the war. April 28. —Both houses of congress pass selective draft army bllL • 9 v-?Aww.w«>-- • , May 15.—Big Italian offensive in Carso begins. June 3. —Chinese royalists name Chang Hsun dictator; Germans assist P June 5. —ArSericans register for army draft without disorder. June 7. —British blow up Messines ridge; explosion heard in London. June B.—General Pershing reaches England. ; - June 12. —King Constantine of Greece abdicates; nation prepares to join allies. June 13. —153 killed, 430 injured in London by German airplane raid. June 15. —United States Liberty Loan closes, with billion oversubscription. June 27. —Announce arrival of first American army in France. June 28.—Brazil joins In war. June 30. —Russians begin big offensive in Galicia led by War Minister Kerensky in person. * July 2. —Chinese empire declared reestablished ; republicans prepare to resist. July 7.—Twenty-two German airplanes of immense new type kill 43, injure 197, in London. July 8. —Wilson orders export embargo. July 12.—Chinese empire falls; Chang Hsun flees to Dutch legation in Peking. . July 13. —In biggest air battle so far British claim downing of 30 German planes on west front. July 14.—Von Bethinann-Hollweg, German imperial chancellor, resigns and the kaiser appoints Dr. Georg Michaelis in his place. July 19.—Russians in Galicia mutiny and are routed hy Germans. July 20.—Draft -for American National army field. July 20.—Premier Lvoff of Russia resigns and Kerensky succeeds film. July 2L —United States senate passes food control and $640,000,000 aviation bills.