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Bound by treaty to defend Belgium, Britain declares war on Germany
With five major European nations committed within a few days to hostilities, World War I begins
The new republican government of Portugal offers Britain support in the war
Spain declares a policy of neutrality in the rapidly developing European war
A small British Expeditionary Force is rushed across the Channel to Boulogne
France declares war on the empire of Austria-Hungary
Britain declares war on the empire of Austria-Hungary
A Germany army reaches and enters the Belgian capital, Brussels
The British Expeditionary Force fights a rearguard action to escape encirclement by the Germans at Mons
A German army encircles and almost annihilates a larger Russian force at Tannenberg
British and French forces invade the German colony of Togoland
from August - Serbian forces repel two Austrian invasions of their territory
A Germany army crosses the river Marne in an advance towards Paris
A French army halts the German advance, just 30 miles from Paris
After a four-day battle, the French drive the German forces back over the river Marne
The Germans adopt a defensive position at the river Aisne in northern France, in the first sign of the trench warfare that will characterize the entire war in the west
from September - the German and French armies, attempting to outflank each other, engage in a race to the sea
British planes, taking off from Dunkirk, bomb Cologne railway station and destroy Germany's latest Zeppelin in its great shed at Düsseldorf
from October - there are heavy casualties on both sides, and a small advantage to the Allies, in the fighting round Ypres during the 'race to the sea'
British troops are driven to the western front in London Transport double-deckers
H.G. Wells publishes The War that will end War, offering an optimistic prediction of the present conflict leading to a future world state
Russia declares war on the Ottoman empire
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman empire
from November - with the battle lines stablized to the coast, the German and Allied armies settle in for years of gruesome trench warfare
German planes cross the Channel and bomb Dover
