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| 1905 |
| | The first German submarine, or U-boat, is constructed in a programme to catch up with Britain and France in this area | |
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| 1906 |
| | Britain launches HMS Dreadnought, the first of a massive new class of battleship | |
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| 1906 |
| | In direct response to Britain's new Dreadnought, Germany increases the production of battleships | |
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| 1911 |
| | Germany causes international alarm by sending a warship to Agadir, a port in French-controlled Morocco | |
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| 1912 |
| | The Kaiser and his advisers decide to postpone a preventive war against France and Russia | |
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| 1912 |
| | By a prearranged plan Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia together launch the First Balkan War against Turkey | |
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| 1912 |
| | An armistice agreed between the Ottoman empire and three of the Balkan states ends the war in the Balkans | |
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| 1913 |
| | The Vickers Fighting Biplane No 1 is unveiled in London at the Olympia Aero Show as the world's first purpose-built fighter plane | |
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| 1913 |
| | The Treaty of London, ending the First Balkan War, allows Albania, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia to divide up much of European Turkey | |
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| 1913 |
| | Bulgaria launches the Second Balkan War, in the end to the great detriment of Bulgarian interests | |
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