Sequence of Events?

[Twotribes]

I know a lot less about the beginnings of the " Great War". I am intersted in a timeline of Declarations of War.

I would assume that something similiar happened...

Austria- Hungry Invades Serbia
Russia Declares war on Austria-Hungary
Germany Declares war on Russia
France declares war on Germany
Germany invades Belgium and Luxemburg
England Declares war on Germany
Gets fuzzy after that.

I know eventually Italy declares war on Austria- Hungary
I also know the Allies invade Turkey drawing her into the war ( dont know when she sided with Germany. ( actually wasnt it the Ottoman Empire back then?)

Think somewhere along the way Japan got in the war On the allied side.

And the US came aboard in 1917.

[SMK-at-work]

Wiki hasas good a summary as you're likely to get at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_timeline
but essentially you have got it mostly wrong!

The main sequence is:

[ol][*]AH declares war on Serbia July 28, and bombards Belgrade with artillery July 29
[*]AH & Russia mobilise July 30
[*] Germany demands Russia stops mobilisation July 31, then declares war on August 1 - Russia actually didn't declare war on anyone - it "just" mobilised (although you can get plenty of arguments about what that really meant!!)
[*]August 2 - Germany invades Luxembourg and presents ultimatum to Belgium demanding free passage for its troops
[*]On August 3 Germany declares war on France
[*]4 August Germany invades Belgium, Britain declares war on Germany as a result
[*]August 6 - AH declares war on Russia
[*]August 11 - France declares war on AH
[*]August 12 Britain declares war on AH
[*]August 23 - Japan declares war on Germany
[*]Italy refuses to join the CP saying its alliance is "defensive", and it is not bound because AH attacked Serbia.
[*]29 October - Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia by virtue of its ships bombarding Odessa. Edited to add that this was the Goeben and Breslau IRC, but now Turkish-flagged - there is some doubt as to whether the turks actually ordered this or the German commanders did it 'cos they felt like it!
[*]russia formally declares war on Ottomans 1 November, France and UK on 5 November
[*]25 April - French, British and Empire (Australian & New Zealand) troops land on Gallipoli Peninsular
[*]26 April 1915 - Italy signs "London Pact" and declares war on AH on May 23.  Declares war on Germany 15 months later on August 27 1916
[*]US declares war on Germany April 6 1917, and on AH in December 1917[/ol]