A Century On: A Diary of the Great War

- South of Plava, just after dark a counterattack by the Austro-Hungarian 18th Division retakes another portion of the ground at Zagora lost...

- The formation of the new coalition government in Britain is completed, and the new cabinet formally takes office today.  Prime Minister As...

- For the past several days, Churchill has been bombarding Asquith with letters begging to remain as First Lord of the Admiralty, using ever...

- Continuing his desperate bid to remain First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill contacts Fisher through an intermediary and offers to meet w...

- This morning a letter reaches Andrew Bonar Law, the Canadian-born leader of the British Conservative Party, from Admiral Fisher, in which ...

- Realizing that Admiral Fisher is serious about resignation, Churchill visits the Prime Minister today.  He offers his own resignation, hop...

- At 5am this morning Admiral Fisher arrives at his desk in the Admiralty building, where he comes across Churchill's revision to the re...

- This morning the fuse lit by Sir John French five days earlier explodes on the pages of The Times newspaper, which runs an extensive repo...

- Prime Minister Asquith gives a speech today to armaments workers in Newcastle, attempting to calm public and press concerns over a shortag...

- In Britain Prime Minister Asquith announces the formation of yet another committee: the Treasury Munitions of War Committee.  This new bod...

- 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...

- This morning the heavy-damaged battlecruiser Seydlitz  limps into the harbour at Wilhelmshaven, and after pumping out six hundred tons of ...

- At 4am, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe receives orders from the Admiralty to take command of the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet as Commander-in-C...

- In many of the larger cities of Europe, enormous crowds form, in part to celebrate the coming of war (in the belief it will be both short ...

- At noon, the German ultimatum to Russia expires without a response.  The response of the German government follows through on the logic of...