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- World War I: July 28, 1914
- World War I: August 1-28 1914
- World War I: May 7, 1915
- World War I begins when Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia
- World War I: May 31, 1916
- Germany dclares war on Russia France, and Belgium, Britain declares war on Russia.Montenegro declares war on Austria. France declares war on Austria. Britain declares war on Austria. Montenegro declares war on Germany. Japan declares war on Germany. Austria declares war on Belgium.
- World War I: April 6, 1917
- It sinks in just 18 minutes, and nearly 1,200 people are killed, including 128 U.S. citizens. The ship had been carrying over 170 tons of rifle ammunition and artillery shells, and Germany felt fully justified in treating the Lusitania as a legitimate target in a declared war zone.
- World War I: November 11, 1918
- The British and German fleets meet 60 miles off the coast of Jutland, Denmark, in the war’s only major encounter between the world’s two largest sea powers. Although a naval arms race between Britain and Germany had been one of the causes of World War I, the clash of the battleships is largely indecisive.
- The United States declares war on Germany. In his address to Congress four days earlier, U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson had cited Germany’s practice of unrestricted submarine warfare and the “Zimmermann Telegram” as key reasons behind the abandonment of his long-standing policy of neutrality.
- All nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated.
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