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1914 AD - 1920 AD

1914 AD The assassination in Sarajevo: Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, the Archduchess Sophie are killed by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip

1914-1918 AD First World War

1914 AD Battle of Tannenberg

1914 AD Battle of the Marne

1915 AD landing of the Allied Powers at Gallipoli

1916 AD Paris was bombed by German zeppelins for the first time

1916 AD the Battle of Verdun

1916 AD Easter Rising in Ireland

1916 AD Kingdom of Poland was proclaimed by Austria and Germany

1916 AD The Battle of the Somme

1916 AD Llyod George became British prime minister

1917 AD The February Revolution in Russia, the overthrow of the Tsar

1917 AD United States declared war on Germany

1917 AD the Virgin Islands were bought by USA from Denmark

1917 AD October Revolution in Russia

1917 AD Georges Clemenceau became prime minister of France

1917 AD Finland declared independence

1918 AD Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points

1918 AD Estonia declared independence from Russia

1918 AD the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Russia ended war

1918 AD Moscow became the capital of Soviet Russia

1918 AD Bolsheviks executed Tsar Nicholas II. and his family

1918 AD Lawrence of Arabia captured Damascus

1918 AD Spanish Flu: over twenty-five million death

1918 AD Czechoslovakia was founded

1918 AD Poland became a republic

1918 AD the German Revolution: Wilhelm II. abdicated

1918 AD Austria became a republic

1918 AD Latvia declared independence

1918 AD Lithuania declared independence

1918 AD First Word War ended on 11. November

1918 AD Hungary declared independence from Austria

1918 AD Habsburg Empire ceases to exist

1918 AD The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was founded

1919-1921 AD The Irish War of Independence

1919 AD Spartacist uprising in Germany

1919-1925 AD Friedrich Ebert was the President of Germany

1919 AD Annexation of Transylvania by Romania

1919 AD The 18th Amendment: Prohibition in USA

1919-1923 AD War between Greece and Turkey

1919 AD Peace Conference in Versailles

1919 AD The League of Nations was founded

1919 AD The first Communist International in Moscow

1919 AD the Weimar Constitution in Germany

1919-1921 AD The Polish-Soviet War: Polish victory

1920 AD Radio Corporation of America was founded

1920-1935 AD Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was the President of Czechoslovakia

1920 AD the German National Socialist Workers Party was founded