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"World War One Timeline". UK: BBC. "New Zealand and the First World War (timeline)". New Zealand Government. "Timeline: Australia in the First World War, 1914-1918". Australian War Memorial. "World War I: Declarations of War from around the Globe". Law Library of Congress. "Timeline of the First World War on 1914-1918-Online.
World War I was the first war to see major use of planes for offensive, defensive and reconnaissance operations, and both the Entente Powers and the Central Powers used planes extensively. Almost as soon as they were invented, planes were drafted for military service. Battles: Aviation in World War I (1914–1918)
World War I – major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers , [ 1 ] which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (centred on the Triple Entente of Britain , France and Russia ) and the Central Powers (originally centred on the Triple Alliance of ...
Battle of Formigny, 1450. 1400–1415 Glyndŵr Rising; 1401–1429 Appenzell Wars; 1407–1468 Georgian-Turkoman War; 1409–1411 Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War; 1410–1435 War of Slesvig; 1414 Hunger War; 1419–1434 Hussite Wars; 1422 Gollub War; 1422 Battle of Arbedo; 1424 Aragonese expedition to Tunisia; 1425–1454 Wars in Lombardy
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
1450 First Margrave War: Imperial City of Nuremberg: Principality of Ansbach: 1449 1453 Revolt of Ghent (1449–53) Duchy of Burgundy: Ghent: 1449 1454 Kotte conquest of the Jaffna kingdom Kingdom of Kotte: Jaffna kingdom: 1450 1450 Jack Cade Rebellion: Kingdom of England: English peasants 1451 1455 Navarrese Civil War: John II of Aragon and ...
Among the major subjects that historians have long debated regarding the war include: Why the war began; why the Allies won; whether generals were responsible for high casualty rates; how soldiers endured the poor conditions of trench warfare; and to what extent the civilian home front accepted and endorsed the war effort. [3] [4]
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history