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Show Pinsk high tide in invasion of Russia. September 24-25. Allies In drive In France capture 25,0004 October 5. Allies land at Saloniki. October 9. Germans occupy Belgrade. Bel-grade. October 10. Bulgaria attacks Serbia. Ser-bia. December 9. Germany sr:-r.nccs Serbia Is entirely conquered. December 19. Allies evacuate Gal-lipoli. Gal-lipoli. February 14, 1916. Russians capture Erzerum, Turkey. February 23. Germans open Verdun offensive. April 18. Russians take Trebizond, Turkey. April 24. Irish revolt in Dublin. April 28. British besieged in Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender. May 30. Battle of Jutland ; 14 British Brit-ish and 18 German warships sunk. June 5. Lord Kitchener drowned when cruiser Hampshire is torpedoed north of Scotland. June 17. Russians retake Czerno-witz, Czerno-witz, capital of Bukowina, in great offensive. of-fensive. June 20. Arabs rebel froiu Turkey, capture Mecca ; new kingdom established. estab-lished. 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. Italians take Gorizia. July 10. Russians take Stanislau, Galicia. August 2S. Roumania enters war on side of the entente, and invades Transylvania. Tran-sylvania. September 6. Germany begins jtrea squeeze on Roumania. November 10. First great nlr battle bat-tle of world's history; 67 British. French and German airplanes brought down. December 5. Teutons take Bucharest. Bu-charest. December 11. Germany openly proffers prof-fers peace to her enemies. December 21. President Wilson asks both sides to define their war aims. January 17, 1917. News recerved German cruiser Moewe has taken 24 ships in South Atlantic. January 22. Wilson asking "pertea without victory." demands United States enter world league at close of war. January 31. Germany declares ruthless ruth-less submarine warfare on all ships, whatever nationality, in the war zones. February 3. United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany. February 20. President asks congress con-gress for authority to arm all American Ameri-can vessels. February 26. British capture Kut-' el-Amara. February 28. Zimmermann note suggesting alliance of Mexico and Japan with Germany against Unite J-;'- f States made public. March 11. British capture March 11. Russian revolt.' ' March 15. Czar abdicate ' March 17. Germans '' "strategic retirement" on J April 3. Wilson asks co declare a state of war with April 6. President signs resolution proclaiming war. v April 7. Cuba declares war on Germany, Ger-many, April 9. Austria-Hungary breaks diplomatic relations with United States. April 9. British storm Vimy Ridgfl. April 10. Brazil breaks diplomatic relations with Germany. April 16. French in great offensive near Aisne river. April 19. American freighter Mongolia Mon-golia sinks a submarine, this being the first American victory of the war. April 28. Both houses of congress pass selective draft army bill. May 15. Big Italian offensive In Carso begins. June 3. Chinese royalists name Chang Hsun dictator; Germans assist plot. June 5. Americans register for army draft without disorder. june 7 British blow up Messines ridge; explosion heard in London. . June 8. General rershlng reaches England. June 12. King Constantine of Greece abdicates; nation prepares to join allies. June 13.-153 killed, 430 injured In . London by German airplpie raid. June 15. United States Liberty Loan closes, with billion oversubscription. oversub-scription. June 27. Announce arrival of first American army In France. June 28. Brazil joins In war. June 30. Russians begin big offensive offen-sive in Galicia led by War Minister Kerensky in person. July 2. Chinese empire declared reestablished; re-established; republicans prepare to resist. re-sist. July 7. Twenty-two German airplanes air-planes of immense new type kill 43, injure 197, in Indon. July 8. Wilson orders export embargo. em-bargo. 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 P.ethmann-Hollweg, German Imperial chancellor, resigns and the kaiser appoints Dr. Georg Michaelis in his place. July 10. Russians In Galicia mutiny mu-tiny and are routed by Germans. July 20. Draft for American National Na-tional army held. July 20. Premier Lvoff of Russia resigns and Kerensky succeeds him. July 21. United States senate passes food control and ,G 10,000,000 aviation bills. 100 OST IKPOSTM EVEMTS M GREAT WAR June 2S, 1914. Archduke Ferdinand, heir presumptive to Austria's throne, and wife assassinated at Serajavo, Bosnia, by Slav student, Princip, giving giv-ing the pretext for war. July 23. Austria delivers famous ultimatum to Serbia, charging assassination assas-sination 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. Ger-many. August 27. Germans burn Louvain, Belgium. August 29. Russians crushed in battle near Taunenburg, Prussia. September 5-10. Germans turned back by French and British in the battle of the Marne. September 12 Battle of the Alsue begins. October 9. Germans capture Antwerp. Ant-werp. October 21-31. First battle of Ypres. October 30. Russia declares war on Turkey. November 1. Germans sink Admiral Ad-miral 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 5. Serbians defeat Austrians. Aus-trians. December 8. British sink German fleet off Falkland Islands. January 24, 1915. Naval battle In North sea; German cruiser Bluecher sunk. February 8. Russians suffer second sec-ond great defeat in East Prussia. February 17. Germans begin submarine sub-marine blockade, despite American protest. March 22. Russians take Przeraysl, Galicia after long siege. April 22. Gas first used in war by Germans at Ypres. April 25. Allies land at Dardanelles. Darda-nelles. 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. Aus-tria. June 2. Teutons retake Przemysl. August 5. Germans capture Warsaw. War-saw. September 1. Germany promises United States to 6ink no more liners without warning. September 8. Czar succeeds Grand Duke Nicholas in command of Russian armies. September 15. Germans capture |
