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                              - (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