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Political and Technological Developments Through Time [13-18]
United Kingdom
- (23 Jul) - Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia provokes a crisis in Europe
- (04 Aug) - Britain declares war on Germany in response to the invasion of Belgium
- (23 Aug) - British Expeditionary Force meets the German army at Mons
- (31 Aug) - First Battle of Ypres exhausts the British Army
- (05 Nov) - Britain declares war on the Ottoman Empire
1915 AD - (25 Apr) - British and allied troops land on the Gallipoli peninsula
- (07 May) - ‘Lusitania’ is sunk by a German submarine
- (25 May) - Herbert Asquith forms a coalition Government
- (25 Sept) - First British use of poison gas. At Loos, France
1916 AD - (27 Jan) - Conscription is introduced in Britain
- (24 Apr) - Irish rebels of the ‘Easter Rising’ seize the post office in Dublin
- (29 Apr) - British Garrison at Kut-el-Amara surrenders to the Turks
- (31 May) - Battle of Jutland results in a bruising British Victory over the German fleet
- (11 Dec) - Battle of the Somme begins with a British and French attack
- (15 Sept) - Tanks are used for the first time, by British at Flers, France
- (06 Dec) - David Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister
- (18 Dec) - General Douglas Haig assumes command of the British Expeditionary Force
1917 AD - (01 Feb) - Germans declare unrestricted submarine warfare
- (31 Jul) - General Douglas Haig launches the Third Battle of Ypres
- (02 Nov) - ‘Balfour Declaration’ gives British support to a Jewish homeland in Palestine
- (07 Nov) - Bolsheviks, under Vladimir Lenin, create a communist revolution in Russia
- (11 Dec) - General Edmund Allenby leads British forces into Jerusalem
1918 AD - (06 Feb) - Limited numbers of women are given the vote for the first time
- (03 Mar) - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk takes Russia out of World War One
- (21 Mar) - German offensive makes massive gains on the Western Front
- (31 Jan) - Massive rally in Glasgow sparks fears of a Russian-style revolution
- (May) - Massive flu epidemic reaches Britain
- (08 Aug) - British make major advances at the Battle of Amiens
- (26 Sept) - General Ferdinand Foch launches an Allied offensive on the Western Front
- (26 Oct) - Turkey opens armistice talks with Britain
- (11 Nov) - World War One ends when Germany signs an armistice
- (14 Dec) - David Lloyd George’s coalition wins the post-war election
1919 AD - (13 Jan) - Sir Satyenda Prassano Sinha becomes the first Indian peer
- (18 Jan) - Paris peace conference, to draw up treaties to end World War One, opens
- (21 Jan) - Sinn Fein sets up its own parliament, the ‘Dail Eireann’, in Dublin
- (31 Jan) - Massive rally in Glasgow sparks fears of a Russain-style revolution
- (18 Mar) - Rowlatt Act extends the suspension of civil liberties in India
- (09 Apr) - Second major German offensive causes crisis on the Western Front
- (10 Apr) - British soldiers kill hundreds of unarmed Indian civilians at Amristsar, India
- (11 Sept) - British Government declares Sinn Fein’s ‘Dail Eireann’ (Parliament) illegal
- (12 Oct) - British troops are withdrawn from the civil war in Russia
- (01 Dec) - Lady Astor becomes the first woman to take her seat in Parliament
- (23 Dec) - Government of India Act fails to meet demands for greater independence
- (23 Dec) - Exclusion of women from many jobs is made illegal
1920 AD - - Women at Oxford University are allowed to receive degrees
- (25 Apr) - Britain is given mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine
- (01 Jul) - First British high commissioner of Palestine is appointed
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