1914

• June 28

  Francis Ferdinand shot at Serajevo.

• July 5

  Kaiser's War Council at Potsdam.

• July 23

  Austro-Hungarian note to Serbia.

• July 28

  Austria declared war on Serbia.

• July 31

  State of war in Germany.

• Aug. 1

  Germany declared war on Russia.

• Aug. 2

  German ultimatum to Belgium.

• Aug. 3

  Germany declared war on France.

• Aug. 4

  Great Britain declared war on Germany.

• Aug. 10

  France declared war on Austria.

• Aug. 12

  Great Britain declared war on Austria.

• Aug. 15

  Fall of Liége.

• Aug. 16

  British Army landed in France; Russian advance into East Prussia.

• Aug. 20

  Germans occupied Brussels.

• Aug. 23

  Japan declared war on Germany.

• Aug. 24

  Fall of Namur.

• Aug. 25

  Sack of Louvain.

• Aug. 27

  German victory of Tannenberg.

• Aug. 28

  British victory in the Bight.

• Aug. 20

  New Zealanders in Samoa.

• Sept. 2

  Russians took Lemberg.

• Sept. 3

  Paris Government at Bordeaux.

• Sept. 4

  Pact of London signed.

• Sept. 5

  End of retreat from Mons.

• Sept. 6

  First Marne battle begun.

• Sept. 15

  First Aisne battle begun.

• Sept. 16

  Russians evacuated East Prussia.

• Sept.  23

  First British air raid in Germany.

• Oct.  9

  Fall of Antwerp.

• Oct. 13

  Belgian Government at Havre.

• Oct. 20

  First battle of Ypres begun.

• Nov. 1

  Naval action off Coronel.

• Nov. 5

  Great  Britain declared war on Turkey.

• Nov. 7

  Fall of Tsing-tao.

• Nov. 10

  Emden sunk.

• Nov.  21

  British occupied Basra.

  

• Dec. 2

  Austrians in Belgrade.

• Dec. 8

  Naval battle off the Falklands.

• Dec. 14

  Serbians retook Belgrade.

• Dec. 16

  Germans bombarded West Hartlepool.

• Dec. 18

  Huessein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt.

• Dec. 24

  First air raid on England. 

Excerpted from The War of the Nations: Portfolio of Rotogravure Etchings, 526-27.