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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina. -
Germany invades Belgium
Germany declared war on France. The troops had to cross Belgium and attack the French Army by the north to avoid the French fortifications along the French-German border. Of course, Belgians refused to let them through. -
Battle of Marne
was a pivotal battle in World War I where the Allied forces successfully halted the German advance towards Paris. -
Gallipoli Campaign
A disastrous military operation during World War I where Allied forces, primarily British, French, and Australian and New Zealand troops, attempted to capture the Gallipoli Peninsula in Ottoman Turkey to gain control of the Dardanelles Strait and ultimately reach Constantinople (now Istanbul), resulting in a major defeat for the Allies with heavy casualties and a forced withdrawal after several months of fighting. -
Battle of Verdun
It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most ferocious battles of the war; French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000. -
Death of Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, a confidant of Tsar Nicholas and his wife, was murdered by Prince Yussupov and his co-conspirators in the cellar of the prince's Moika Palace in St Petersburg, Russia.