Austria Declares War on Serbia: World War I Begins
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Belgrade rejects the harsh terms of an ultimatum, transforming a regional dispute into a continental conflagration. This single act triggers a chain reaction of alliances that drags Russia, Germany, France, and Britain into a four-year global conflict redrawing borders and empires for decades.
July 28, 1914
112 years ago
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What Else Happened on July 28
Pépin le Bref est sacré roi des Francs à Saint-Denis par le pape Étienne II.
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en Kyustendil (en el extremo oeste de Bulgaria), el ejército serbio vence al ejército búlgaro en la batalla de Velbazhd.
Florentine forces crushed the Pisan army at the Battle of Cascina, ending Pisa’s territorial ambitions in Tuscany. By securing this victory, Florence consolidat…
se produce el Sitio de Algeciras, con el cual rey Muhammed V del Reino de Granada con el objetivo de recuperar la ciudad de Al-Yazirat Al-Hadra (Algeciras), al …
Timur's cavalry shatters Bayezid I's army at Ankara, capturing the Ottoman Sultan and plunging his realm into a decade-long civil war known as the Interregnum. …
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