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This list includes all officers noted by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) as holding flag officer rank and who died between the British entry into the war on 4 August 1914 and the armistice of 11 November 1918. A large number of retired naval officers, including many admirals, volunteered for service during the war.
Anti-Serbian rioting breaks out in Sarajevo, June 29, 1914. Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo – Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina Oskar Potiorek declared a state of siege in Sarajevo as violent pogroms were carried out against ethnic Serbians. Over 1,000 Serbian homes, businesses and churches were vandalized with little or no intervention by law ...
The imperial couple were dead by 11:30 a.m on 28 June 1914; [101] Sophie was dead on arrival at the Governor's residence, and Franz Ferdinand died 10 minutes later. [ 102 ] There is a myth which states that Princip had eaten a sandwich at Schiller's delicatessen just prior to the shooting, but there are no primary sources from the time which ...
The immediate cause of the war was the June 28, 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb citizen of Austria-Hungary and member of the Black Hand. The retaliation by Austria-Hungary against Serbia activated a series of alliances that set off a chain reaction of war ...
Maritz Rebellion (1914–15) United States occupation of Veracruz (1914) Ypiranga incident (1914) United States occupation of Haiti (1915-1934) Easter Rising (1916) Warlord Era (1916–1928) National Protection War (1915-1916) Manchu restoration (1917) Palace Coup against Lij Iyasu (1916–1921) (Zewditu victory) Battle of Segale (1916 ...
May 16 – June 23 Eastern: Battle of Konary. May 23 Politics: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. [24] May 24–25 Western: Battle of Bellewaarde, final phase of the Second Battle of Ypres. May 31 – June 10 African, Kamerun: Second Battle of Garua. June–September Eastern: The Russian Great Retreat from Poland and Galicia. June 4
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot dead after a wrong turn by two gun shots [10] in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak) co-ordinated by Danilo Ilić, a Bosnian Serb and a member ...
The crisis began on 28 June 1914, when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb nationalist, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. A complex web of alliances, coupled with the miscalculations of numerous political and military leaders (who either regarded war as ...