A Century On: A Diary of the Great War

- Just three days after the German ambassador in Washington delivered the Arabic Pledge to not attack passenger ships without warning, the G...

- Kitchener issues orders today for the Indian Corps in France to remain part of the British Expeditionary Force through the next winter.  T...

- Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg convenes a conference at Pless today to discuss the diplomatic crisis that has ensued from the sinking of the ...

- Recently-promoted Brigadier-General Hugh Trenchard is appointed today to command the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front.  Having lear...

- Despite the order from the Kaiser on May 10th to avoid the targeting of neutral ships, steamers from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have been...

- This morning the passenger liner Lusitania approaches the Irish coast en route to Liverpool, carrying 1265 passengers and 700 crew.  Buil...

- As the campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare continues, Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg remains concerned at its impact on neutral opinio...

- Yesterday evening the German XXVI Reserve Corps, having assembled sufficient gas cylinders, launched an attack between Pilkem and St. Juli...

- In the first month of the German campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare, twenty-five merchant ships have been sunk, sixteen of which h...

- The Dutch merchant ship Medea is halted by a U-boat today, and after searching the vessel it is sunk by the Germans.  This is the first ti...

- Today the Swedish merchant ship Hanna, carrying coal from the Tyne to Las Palmas, is sunk by a German U-boat off of Scarborough, the first...

- Sir John French replies today to Joffre's letter of the 16th regarding British operations in the near future, and the BEF commander ou...

- Admiral Pohl receives another telegram from the Kaiser today: 'H.M. the Emperor has commanded that the U-boat campaign to destroy comm...

- Preparations for the imminent French attack in Champagne have not gone unnoticed by the Germans, and today a report arrives at the headqua...

- The United States issues a strong condemnation of the recent German proclamation that starting on the 18th a war zone would exist around t...

- This morning the following declaration is published in Germany: The waters surrounding Great Britain and Ireland including the whole of ...

- The French launch a counterattack against the line north of Massiges seized by the Germans yesterday.  Advancing at 440a, though the Frenc...

- Admiral Hugo von Pohl, Chief of the German Naval Staff, had interpreted the British declaration of November 1914 that the entire North Se...