On the 23rd July 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia specifically designed to be rejected and lead to war between the two countries.
The ‘Final Act’ of the Congress of Vienna was signed on the 9th June 1815, nine days before Napoleon’s final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of Ireland.
On the 22nd April 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres began in Belgium.
On 8th April 1904, a series of agreements between Britain and France known as the Entente Cordiale were signed.
The United States entered the First World War after Congress declared war on the German Empire.
Although her rating was only temporary, it marked in important step towards the Army-Navy Nurse Act of 1947 that made such appointments permanent.
The Paris Peace Conference convened to establish the terms of the peace after the First World War.
The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.
Shortly after 8am on the 16th December 1914, the German Imperial Navy attacked the British seaside towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
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