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Events relating to the first world war
Britain launches HMS Dreadnought, the first of a massive new class of battleship
The Treaty of London, ending the First Balkan War, allows Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia to divide up much of European Turkey
Bulgaria launches the Second Balkan War, in the end to the great detriment of Bulgarian interests
The Balkan states and the Ottoman empire agree an armistice in Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War
Erskine Childers sails his own yacht from Germany to Ireland with 900 rifles and 14,000 rounds of ammunition for the Irish Volunteers
Germany and the Ottoman empire sign a secret treaty of alliance
Bound by treaty to defend Belgium, Britain declares war on Germany
A small British Expeditionary Force is rushed across the Channel to Boulogne
France declares war on the empire of Austria-Hungary
Britain declares war on the empire of Austria-Hungary
The Germans adopt a defensive position at the river Aisne in northern France, in the first sign of the trench warfare that will characterize the entire war in the west
from September - the German and French armies, attempting to outflank each other, engage in a race to the sea
British planes, taking off from Dunkirk, bomb Cologne railway station and destroy Germany's latest Zeppelin in its great shed at Düsseldorf
British troops are driven to the western front in London Transport double-deckers
H.G. Wells publishes The War that will end War, offering an optimistic prediction of the present conflict leading to a future world state
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman empire
from November - with the battle lines stablized to the coast, the German and Allied armies settle in for years of gruesome trench warfare
German planes cross the Channel and bomb Dover
Roger Casement travels to Germany to persuade Irish prisoners of war to change sides and invade Ireland
A Zeppelin airship makes a night-time bombing raid on the English port of Great Yarmouth
The German battle cruiser Blücher is sunk by the British off the Dogger Bank
Two passenger liners are sunk by German U-boats
Winston Churchill is a firm supporter of a new invention, the tank, encouraging its initial development while still at the Admiralty
Two German Zeppelin airships bomb Paris, causing 23 deaths
In a secret pact, signed in London, Italy is promised territorial gains if she joins the Allied side
