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1912
-April 14: S.S. Titanic sinks.
-Arizona becomes the 48th state.
-First Balkan War begins; Montenegro declares war on Turkey, soon joined by Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia
-Woodrow Wilson defeats Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft in the U.S. presidential election .
1913
-July 29 - Anglo-Turkish understanding supporting German efforts in Turkey to build Bagdad railway.
-Aug 23 - Churchill prepares contingency plans paper for Britain to send troops to aid France in war against Germany.
- Nov - Liman von Sanders given total command of Turkish army and in charge at Istanbul resulting in open Russian animosity towards Germans in Turkey; Russia becoming increasingly more anti-German and belligerent.
1914
AUGUST
01 - |WW I| France orders mobilization.
01 - |WW I| Germany declares war on Russia
02 - |WW I| Germany demands free passage through Belgium.
03 - |WW I| Germany declares war on France.
03 - |WW I| Belgium rejects Germany's demand to allow troops to cross its borders.
04 - |WW I| Germany declares war with Belgium.
04 - |WW I| Troops under Gen. Von Kluck cross Belgium border; Halted at Liege.
04 - |WW I| Great Britain declares war on Germany.
04 - Kitchener becomes Secretary of War.
04 - President Woodrow Wilson + proclaims US neutrality
04 - |WW I| Liberia declares war on Germany.
05 - President Wilson tenders good offices of United States in interests of peace.
05 - |WW I| Montenegro Declares war on Austria-Hungary.
06 - |WW I| Austria Hungary declares war against Russia.
06 - |WW I| Serbia declares war with Germany
07 - |WW I| French forces invade Alsace. Gen. Joffre in supreme command of French army.
07 - |WW I| Great Britain's Expeditionary Force lands at Ostend, Calais and Dunkirk.
08 - |WW I| Montenegro declares war with Austria.
12 - |WW I| Great Britain declares war on Austria-Hungary.
12 - |WW I| France declares war on Austria-Hungary.
14 - |WW I| Battle of the Frontiers begins
17 - Belgian capital removed from Brussels to Antwerp.
19 - |WW I| Canadian Parliament authorises raising expeditionary force.
20 - |WW I| Germans occupy Brussels.
23 - |WW I| Japan declares war on Germany.
23 - |WW I| Japan begins attack on Tsingtau.
24 - |WW I| Germans enter France near Lille.
25 - |WW I| Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
26 - Viviani becomes premier of France.
26 - |WW I| Opening of the Battle of Tannenberg
28 - |WW I| Austria declares war on Belgium.
30 - Amiens occupied by Germans.
31 - |WW I| Russian army of invasion in East Prussia defeated at Tannenberg by Germans under Von Hindenburg.
SEPTEMBER
03 - |WW I| Paris placed in state of siege: Government transferred to Bordeaux.
05-10 - |WW I| Opening of the First Battle of the Marne. Von Kluck is beaten by Gen. Joffre, and the German army retreats from Paris to the Soissons-Rheims line.
14 - |WW I| French reoccupy Amiens and Rheims.Opening of the First Battle of the Aisne; start of trench warfare.
29 - |WW I| Antwerp bombardment begins.
OCTOBER
02 - |WW I| British Admiralty announces intention to mine North Sea areas.
09 - |WW I| Antwerp surrenders to Germans. Government removed to Ostend.
13 - |WW I| British occupy Ypres.
14 - |WW I| Canadian Expeditionary Force of 32,000 men lands at Plymouth.
15 - |WW I| Germans occupy Ostend. Belgian government removed to Havre, France.
NOVEMBER
02 - |WW I| Russia declares war with Turkey.
02 - |WW I| Serbia declares war on Turkey.
05 - |WW I| Great Britain and France declare war on Turkey.
05 - Cyprus annexed by Great Britain.
DECEMBER
02 - |WW I| Austria occupies Belgrade
03 - |WW I| Serbia launches counterattack
07 - |WW I| Serbia government declares war aims to Serbian National Assembly at Nis, including aim for "liberation and union of all our Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene brothers enslaved by foreign domination"
08 - |WW I| Off the Falkland Isles, British squadron under command of Rear-Admiral Sturdee, sinks three of the German cruisers which had destroyed the Good Hope and Monmouth on nov 01. The Dresden escapes.
16 - |WW I| German squadron bombards Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby on east coast of England.
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