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Timeline of Events

1911

3.8.1911

International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.

1914

8.1.1914

Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I

8.3.1914

World War I: Germany declares war against France.

8.4.1914

World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.

8.4.1914

World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.

8.6.1914

World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.

8.20.1914

World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.

8.22.1914

World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.

8.23.1914

World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.

8.24.1914

World War I: German troops capture Namur.

8.26.1914

World War I: the British Expeditionary Force fights a rear-guard action at the Battle of Le Cateau that briefly checks the German advance.

8.28.1914

World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

9.11.1914

Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.

9.13.1914

World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.

9.13.1914

World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.

10.18.1914

The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.

11.7.1914

The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.

12.25.1914

World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.

1915

1.19.1915

World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.

1.31.1915

World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia

2.22.1915

World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.

3.14.1915

World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS ''Dresden'' is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.

4.18.1915

French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.

5.1.1915

The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.

5.7.1915

World War I: German submarine SMU U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.

5.9.1915

World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.

10.12.1915

World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium

1916

1.1.1916

German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.

1.29.1916

World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.

6.24.1916

World War I: the Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line.

8.4.1916

World War I: Liberia declares war on Germany.

9.17.1916

World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

11.5.1916

The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

1917

1.31.1917

World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.

2.3.1917

World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

2.24.1917

World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.

4.6.1917

World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).

6.26.1917

The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany, and Austria-Hungary in World War I.

10.17.1917

First British bombing of Germany in World War I.

10.24.1917

Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo).

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