The Western Front Association

Timeline 1914-1918

  

Timeline

1914
Date General Western
Front

Eastern
Front

Italian Mesopotamia Egypt/Palestine Sea Balkans etc.
June. Map of Europe              
28th June. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand              
28th June - 23rd August Countdown to War              
5th - 16th August   Battle of Liège            
7th - 10th August   Battle of Mulhouse            
12th - 21st August               Battle of Jadar River
22nd - 23rd August                
14th - 25th August.   Battle of the Frontiers, Mons            
20th August     Battle of Gumbinnen          
20th - 25th August   Siege of Namur            
23rd August -September   The Advance from Mons, a German account            
26th August   Battle of Le Cateau            
26th - 30th August     Battle of Tannenberg          
28th August             Battle of Heligoland Bight  
5th - 9th September   First Battle of the Marne            
9th - 14th September     First Battle of the Masurian Lakes          
14th - 18th September  

First Battle of the Aisne

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28th September - 9th October   Siege of Antwerp            
28th September - 31st October     Warsaw Offensive          
30th October - 24th November   First Battle of Ypres            
1st November             Battle of Coronel  
11th November - 6th December     Battle of Lodz          
3rd - 9th December               Battle of Kolubra River
8th December             Battle of the Falkland Islands  
20th December - 17th March 1915   First Battle of Champagne            
29th December - 3rd January 1915               Battle of Sarikamish
1915
Date General Western
Front

Eastern
Front

Italian Mesopotamia Egypt/Palestine Sea Balkans etc.
                 
24th January             Battle of the Dogger Bank  
7th - 21st February     Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes          
19th February - 18th March               Dardanelles Operation
10th - 13th March   Battle of Neuve Chapelle            
25th April - 9th January 1916               Operations in Gallipoli
1st May - 19th September     Gorlice - Tarnow Offensive          
1915 -1917             The Battle of the Atlantic  
22nd April - 25th May   Second Battle of Ypres            
9th - 15th May   Battle of Artois            
25th September - 6th October   Second Battle of Champagne            
25th September - 4th November   Battle of Loos            
28th September         Capture of Kut Al Amara      
22nd - 25th November 1915         Battle of Ctesiphon      
3rd December - 29 April 1916         Siege of Kut Al Amara      
1916
Date General Western
Front

Eastern
Front

Italian Mesopotamia Egypt/Palestine Sea Balkans etc.
                 
21st February - 18th December   Battle of Verdun            
18th March     Battle of Naroch Lake          
15th May - 25th June       Battle of Asiago        
31st May - 1 June             Battle of Jutland  
4th June - 20th September     Brusilov Offensive          
5th June - 31st October 1918           The Arab Revolt    
1st July - 18th November  

First Battle of the Somme.

Battle of Albert

Flers

Attack on La Boisselle - Fricourt

            
25th July               Battle of Erzincan
3rd August           Battle of Romani    
1917
Date General Western
Front

Eastern
Front

Italian Mesopotamia Egypt/Palestine Sea Balkans etc.
                 
9th January           Battle of Rafa    
17th February - 11th March         Capture of Baghdad      
26th - 27th March & 17th - 19th April           First and Second Battles of Gaza    
9th April - 16th May   Battle of Arras            
16th April - 9th May   Second Battle of the River Aisne            
7th - 14th June   Battle of Messines            
1st - 19th July     Kerensky Offensive          
31st July - 10th November   Third Battle of Ypres            
1st September     Riga Offensive          
28th - 29th September         Battle of Ramadi      
12th October   1st Battle of Passchendaele            
24th October - 12th November       Battle of Caporetto        
31st October - 7th November           Third Battle of Gaza    
20th November - 7th December   Battle of Cambrai            
8th - 9th December           Fall of Jerusalem    
1918
Date General Western
Front

Eastern
Front

Italian Mesopotamia Egypt/Palestine Sea Balkans etc.
21st March - 5 April   The Somme Offensive            
9th - 29th April   Lys Offensive            
23rd April             Zeebrugge Raid  
27th May - 6th June   Third Battle of the Aisne            
28th May   Battle of Cantigny            
6th June - 1st July   Battle of Belleau Wood.            
15th - 22nd June       Battle of the Piave River        
15th July - 5th August   Second Battle of the Marne            
8th August - 4th September   Amiens Offensive            
12th - 16th September   St. Mihiel Offensive            
19th - 21st September           Battle of Megiddo    
26th September - 11th November   Meuse - Argonne Offensive            
27th September - 11th November   Cambrai - St. Quentin Offensive            
1st October           Seizure of Damascus    
23rd October - 3rd November       Battle of Vittorio Veneto        
29th - 30th October         Battle of Sharqat      
11th November   Armistice            

 
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