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| 1914 |
| | | British troops are driven to the western front in London Transport double-deckers | |
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| 1914 |
| | | from November - with the battle lines stablized to the coast, the German and Allied armies settle in for years of gruesome trench warfare | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Canadian army surgeon John McCrae writes 'In Flanders Fields' after a friend is killed in the trenches | |
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| 1915 April 22 |
| | | The Germans attempt an advance on the western front, launching the second battle of Ypres | |
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| 1915 April 22-3 |
| | | The Germans gain ground at Ypres after the first significant use of chlorine gas | |
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| 1915 July 30 |
| | | The Germans make their first effective use of a new weapon, the flame thrower, in an attack on the British in the second batte of Ypres | |
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| 1915 October 12 |
| | | The English nurse Edith Cavell is court-martialled and executed by German forces in Belgium | |
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| 1917 July 31 |
| | | Haig sends British troops over the top in the third battle of Ypres | |
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| 1918 May |
| | | US troops are by now fighting in large numbers on the western front | |
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| 1924 |
| | | The League of Nations grants Belgium a mandate to administer the former Germany colony of Ruanda-Urundi | |
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