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| 1914 November 5 |
| | | Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Britain and France sign the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement, dividing up spheres of influence in the Middle East | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Foreign Secretary A.J. Balfour declares Britain's conditional support for a homeland in Palestine for the Jews | |
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| 1918 |
| | | Rebecca West publishes her first novel, The Return of the Soldier | |
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| 1918 October 30 |
| | | An armistice is signed between Turkey and the Allies on the warship Agamemnon in the Greek port of Mudros | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is elected president of Turkey's new Grand National Assembly | |
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| 1920 August |
| | | A punitive peace treaty, negotiated at Sèvres, is designed to dismember the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The nationalist government in Turkey abolishes the sultanate and the last Ottoman emperor, Mehmed VI, goes into exile | |
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| 1923 |
| | | The Treaty of Lausanne, with more favourable terms than those negotiated at Sèvres, finally brings peace between Turkey and the Allies | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Turkey becomes a republic with Atatürk as president and Ankara as its new capital | |
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