Marshal Foch
1851–1929 · Person
Allied Generalissimo at the end of WW1; signed the Armistice.
On these timelines: World War I, Master, People
More from World War I
- July Crisis 1914 (1914)
- Trench warfare on the Western Front (period) (1914)
- Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia (1914)
- Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
- Fourteen Points speech (1918)
- Hundred Days Offensive (1918)
- Spring Offensive (Kaiserschlacht) (1918)
- Sinking of the Lusitania (1915)
Around 1851
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)