Serbia's conciliatory reply falls short
1914 · Event
Minutes before the deadline, Serbia accepts almost every Austrian demand — the Kaiser himself later calls it 'a great moral victory for Vienna; every reason for war falls away'. But it hedges on foreign investigators, Austria severs relations within the half hour, and both countries mobilise.
On these timelines: World War I, July Crisis & Outbreak of WW1, Master, Eastern Europe & the Balkans
More from World War I
- July Crisis 1914 (1914)
- Trench warfare on the Western Front (period) (1914)
- Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
- Fourteen Points speech (1918)
- Hundred Days Offensive (1918)
- Spring Offensive (Kaiserschlacht) (1918)
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)
- Paris Peace Conference (1919)
Around 1914
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)