World War I Begins
World War I, also known as the Great War, began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The conflict quickly escalated, drawin...
World War I, also known as the Great War, began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The conflict quickly escalated, drawin...
On March 31, 1492, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, issued the Alhambra Decree, ordering all Jews in Castile and Aragon to leave by July 3...
July–November 1918 — Allied forces increasingly coordinate artillery, infantry, tanks, aircraft, communications and logistics. Strategic coordination also improves under Ferdinand Foch. T...
28 June 1914 — Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie are assassinated during an official visit to Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb as...
March–November 1918 as Allied supreme commander — French General Ferdinand Foch receives increasingly broad authority to coordinate Allied armies during Germany's final offensives. He hel...
Bosnian Serb nationalist who assassinated Franz Ferdinand and Sophie in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914.
28 June 1919 — Germany and the Allied powers sign the Treaty of Versailles exactly five years after Franz Ferdinand's assassination. Germany accepts territorial losses, military restricti...