1914 Event

Violation of neutrality

Name: Violation of neutrality
Start: 1914

The German invasion brings the United Kingdom into the war and freezes the Yser front.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1914 — the context national timelines leave out.

same year Sarajevo assassination Serbia
6 years later Treaty of Trianon Hungary
9 years later Founding of the Republic Türkiye
15 years later Lateran Accords Vatican City
18 years later Holodomor Ukraine
25 years later Winter War Finland
25 years later Invasion and occupation Poland
2 years earlier Independence of Albania Albania

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Concert of Europe 1815 – 1914 A century without general war, and the empires preparing one.
World wars 1914 – 1945 Thirty years that undo Europe and its place in the world.

Countries involved

Belgium

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What was written of it

Owing to the morbid estrangement which the madness of nationality has set between the peoples of Europe, the clearest signs are overlooked: Europe wants to become one.

Friedrich Nietzsche 1886

Beyond Good and Evil

Translated by the site, not by the author.