Timeline (And Broke into Pieces, My Russia)

1818-1884

 * 1818: A strange unkown famine known as the Prussian Flow killed many people in Prussia including a young jew woman, Marx's mother. Karl Marx is never born.Nocommunism.png


 * 1820: The Prussian Flow continue killing many people including baby Friedrich Engels.


 * 1821: The Famine ends.
 * 1848: The Revolutions of 1848 happen in the German states for to unify the German people, although they failed, Lenin would use this idea for creating the German Volga Republic in 1918 in the Volga River.


 * 1884: The Communist Manifesto is never published.

1901-1910

 * 1901: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) published the Ethnic Manifesto in which he states that Countries should be created in base of ethnic groups, and that the Russian Empire should be disbanded becauseEthnicmanifesto.png the Russians dominated the other ethnic groups. He state that all the land know as the Russian Empire should be know as Hapogob zemiu (People's Land in Russian). Ethnic Leninsm views colonialism as a form of enforcing exploitation and social change in other ethnic groups and as a domain of a ethnic group on the other.


 * 1902: The political party, Freedom of the Peoples of Hapogob zamiu, is created.


 * 1903: Ulyanov is chosen the Leader of the Hapogobians, (as the members of the party are know)

June-August

 * June 28: Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinates Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Duchess Sophie, in Sarajevo.


 * July 23: Austria-Hungary presents Serbia with an unconditional ultimatum.
 * July 28: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and its army bombards Belgrade. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia orders a partial mobilization against Austria-Hungary.
 * July 29: Russia orders full mobilization.


 * August 1: Germany declares war on Russia, following Russia's military mobilization in support of Serbia; Germany also begins mobilization. France orders general mobilization. New York Stock Exchange closed due to war in Europe, where nearly all stock exchanges were already closed.


 * August 2, 1914: German troops occupy Luxembourg in accordance with its Schlieffen Plan. A secret treaty between Turkey and Germany secures Turkish neutrality. At 7:00 pm (local time) Germany issues a 12-hour ultimatum to Belgium to allow German passage into France.


 * August 3: Germany declares war on Russia's ally, France. At 7:00 am (local time) Belgium declines to accept Germany's ultimatum of August 2.


 * August 4 :German troops invade neutral Belgium at 8:02 am (local time). Britain declares war on Germany for this violation of Belgian neutrality. This move effectively means a declaration of war by the whole British Commonwealth and Empire against Germany. The United States declares neutrality.


 * August 5: The German minelayer Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion.Montenegro declares war on Austria-Hungary. German zeppelins drop bombs on Liège, killing 9 civilians.


 * August 5 -16: Battle of Liège: The German Army overruns and defeats the Belgians.


 * August 6: Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.


 * August 8: German colonial forces execute Martin-Paul Samba for high treason.


 * August 12 : Battle of Haelen: Belgian troops repulse the Germans.


 * August 15: The Panama Canal is inaugurated with the passage of the steamship U.S.S. Ancon. Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza's troops under general Alvaro Obregon enter Mexico City. Edward Elgar's Sospiri, a moving adagio for strings and harp, is first performed in London.


 * August 16–August 19: Battle of Cer: Serbian troops defeat the Austro-Hungarian armies, in the first Entente victory in World War I.


 * August 17–September 2: World War I: The Battle of Tannenberg begins between German and Russian forces.


 * August 20 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.


 * August 23: Japan declares war on Germany.


 * August 26–August 27: Battle of Le Cateau: British, French and Belgian forces make a successful tactical retreat from the German advance.


 * August 26–August 30: The Russian Second Army is surrounded and defeated in the Battle of Tannenberg.


 * August 28: Battle of Heligoland: British cruisers under Admiral Beatty sink 3 German cruisers.


 * August 29–30: The Battle of St. Quentin: French forces hold back the German advance.

September-December

 * September 1: St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd. The last known passenger pigeon "Martha" dies in the Cincinnati Zoo.449px-St_Petersburg_church.jpg


 * September 2: Moronvilliers is occupied by the Germans.


 * September 5: London Agreement: No member of the Triple Entente (Britain, France, or Russia) may seek a separate peace with the Central Powers. World War I – First Battle of the Marne: Northeast of Paris, the French 6th Army under General Maunoury attacks German forces nearing Paris. Over 2 million fight (500,000 killed/wounded) in the Allied victory.


 * September 6: A French and British counterattack at the Marne ends the German advance on Paris.


 * September 13: South African troops open hostilities in German South-West Africa (today Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.


 * September 13–28: The First Battle of the Aisne ends indecisively.


 * September 17: Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.


 * September 26: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.


 * September 30: The Flying Squadron is established to promote the temperance movement.


 * October 3: World War I: 33,000 Canadian troops depart for Europe, the largest force to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean at the time.


 * October 7: Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. marries Rose Fitzgerald in Boston.


 * October 9: World War I – Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.


 * October 27: World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.


 * October 28: World War I – Battle of Penang, Malaya: The German cruiser Emden sinks a Russian cruiser and French destroyer before escaping.


 * October 29: World War I: Ottoman warships shell Russian Black Sea ports; Russia, France, and Britain declare war on November 1–November 5.


 * November 1: World War I – Battle of Coronel: A Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock is met and defeated by superior German forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee, in the first British naval defeat of the war, resulting in the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.


 * November 4: Britain and France declare war on Turkey.


 * November 5: The United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire.


 * November 7: The Japanese seize Jiaozhou Bay in China, the base of the German East Asia Squadron.


 * November 9: World War I – Battle of Cocos: The German cruiser Emden is sunk by the Australian cruiser Sydney.


 * November 16: World War I – The Battle of Kolubara begins: Serbian forces engaged by Austro-Hungarian forces.


 * November 23: U.S. troops withdraw from Veracruz. Venustiano Carranza's troops take over and Carranza makes the town his headquarters.


 * November 24: Benito Mussolini is expelled from the Italian Socialist Party.


 * November 28: World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.


 * December 8: Battle of the Falkland Islands, between Doveton Sturdee and Maximilian von Spee squadrons.


 * December 12: The New York Stock Exchange re-opened, having been closed since 1 Aug 1914 except for bond trading. The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average 24.39%.


 * December 19: The Battle of Kolubara ends, resulting in a decisive Serbian victory over Austria-Hungary.


 * December 24: World War I: British and German soldiers interrupt World War I to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce.

January-April

 * January 1: World War I: The battleship HMS Formidable is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by a German U-Boat.
 * January 19: German zeppelins bomb the cities of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom for the first time, killing more than 20.
 * January 31 – World War I: Germany uses poison gas against the Russians.
 * March: The 1915 locust plague breaks out in Palestine; it continues until October.
 * March 14: World War I: Off the coast of Chile, the Royal Navy force SMS Dresden to scuttle. Britain, France and Russia agree to give Constantinople and the Bosporus to Russia in case of victory (the treaty is later nullified by the Hapogobian Revolution).
 * March 18: World War I: A British attack on the Dardanelles fails.
 * April 24: The murder of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks; the Armenian Genocide, started. Lasted until approximately 1918.
 * April 25: World War I: Start of the Gallipoli Campaign. Lasted until January 1916.

May-August

 * May 5: World War I: The Turks begin shelling Anzac Cove from a new position behind their lines.800px-RMS_Luisitania.jpg
 * May 7: World War I: The RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat, killing 1,198.
 * May 9: World War I –Second Battle of Artois: German and French forces fight to a standstill.
 * May 23: World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.
 * June 9: U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding his nation's handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking.
 * August 6: World War I –Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
 * August 16: The Entente promises the Kingdom of Serbia, should victory be achieved over Austro-Hungary and its allied Central Powers, the territories of Baranja, Srem and Slavonia from the Cisleithanian part of the Dual Monarchy; Bosnia and Herzegovina; and eastern Dalmatia (from the river of Krka to Bar).

September-December

 * September 6: The first prototype tank is tested for the British Army for the first time.
 * October 12: World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium.
 * October 15: World War I: Austria-Hungary invades the Kingdom of Serbia. Kingdom of Bulgaria enters the war, invading Kingdom of Serbia. The retreat of the Serbian First Army towards Greece begins the Serbian Campaign (World War I).
 * November: Sykes-Picot Agreement: The governments of Britain and France secretly agree to overtake the Middle-Eastern regions of the Ottoman Empire (mostly Syria and Iraq), and establish their own zones of influence.
 * December 23: The HMHS Britannic, the largest individual British loss in World War I, departs Liverpool on her maiden voyage.
 * December 25: In World War I, British and German forces declare a Christmas truce, get out of the trenches and have a free-for-all kick-around football game in no-man's land.
 * December 26: The Irish Republican Brotherhood Military Council decides to stage a rising on Easter Sunday 1916.

January-April

 * January 29: World War I: Paris is bombed by German zeppelins for the first time.
 * February 21: World War I: The Battle of Verdun begins in France.
 * April 27: World War I –Battle of Hulluch: The 47th Brigade, 16th Irish Division is decimated in one of the most heavily concentrated German gas attacks of the war.

May-August

 * May 16: Britain and France conclude the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement, which is to divide Arab areas of the Ottoman Empire, following the conclusion of World War I, into French and British spheres of influence.
 * May 31: June 1 –Battle of Jutland: The British Navy and the German Navy battle to a draw.
 * June 4: The Brusilov Offensive, the height of Russian operations in WWI, begins with their breaking through Austro-Hungarian lines.
 * July 1: November 18 –World War I – More than 1 million soldiers die during the Battle of the Somme, including 60,000 casualties for the British Commonwealth on the first day.
 * July 2: Battle of Erzincan: Russian forces defeat troops of the Ottoman Empire in Armenia.
 * August 7: World War I: Portugal joins the Allies.

September-December

 * September: Bulgaria takes Dobruja from Romania.
 * September 2: British pilot William Leefe-Robinson becomes the first to shoot down a German airship over Britain.
 * October 14: Perm State University is founded in Russia.
 * October 21: Friedrich Adler shoots Karl von Stürgkh, Prime Minister of Austria.
 * November 1: Paul Miliukov delivers the famous "stupidity or treason" speech in the Russian State Duma, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
 * November 5: The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by a joint act of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
 * November 18: World War I –Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle, which started on July 1.
 * November 21: The White Star Liner HMHS Britannic, sister ship of the RMS Olympic and the legendary RMS Titanic, sinks in the Mediterranean Sea after hitting a mine. 30 lives are lost.
 * November 23: World War I –Eastern Front: Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is occupied by troops of the Central Powers.
 * December: The British Sopwith Camel aircraft is introduced to combat the German-built Fokker fighter aircraft.
 * December 12: In the Dolomites, an avalanche buries 18,000 Austrian and Italian soldiers.
 * December 23: World War I –Battle of Magdhaba: In the Sinai desert, Australian and New Zealand mounted troops capture the Turkish garrison.
 * December 29: Grigori Rasputin is murdered by two Romanov family members.