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The Battle of Coronel was a First World War naval battle that led to an Imperial German Navy victory over the Royal Navy on 1 November 1914, off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel.
General Joseph Gallieni, the military governor of Paris in at the start of World War I in 1914. The outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 saw patriotic demonstrations on the Place de la Concorde and at the Gare de l'Est and Gare du Nord as the mobilized soldiers departed for the front.
The prestige of Germany and German culture in Chile remained high after the First World War but did not return to its pre-war levels. [2] [3] Indeed in Chile, the war bought an end to a period of scientific and cultural influence which writer Eduardo de la Barra scornfully called "the German bewitchment" (Spanish: el embrujamiento alemán). [4]
Influence peaked in the decades before World War I, and the prestige of Germany and German things in Chile remained high after the war but did not recover to its pre-war levels. [1] [2] Institutions like the Chilean Army and Instituto Pedagógico were also heavily influenced by Germany. [1]
The following lists events that happened during 1914 in Chile. Incumbents ... 1 November – World War I ... 7 May – Radomiro Tomic (d. 1992) [1] 11 May ...
The Belle Époque was so named in retrospect, when it began to be considered a continental European "Golden Age" in contrast to the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. The Belle Époque was a period in which, according to historian R. R. Palmer , " European civilisation achieved its greatest power in global politics, and also ...
Stacie Peterson, director of exhibitions and collections at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, shows an historical office memo during the unveiling ceremony of a 100-year-old time capsule at ...
This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Chile from its birth in the first decades of the 19th century to the present. Chilean victory : in case of being an international war or that has an international scope due to the quality of the belligerents.