Ottoman Empire Timeline

Ottoman Empire Timeline

By Payton, Laura, and Kelby

1914

1915

1916

1917

1918

1919

The Allied Powers start advancing into the Ottoman Empire

The Paris Peace conference is held in 1919 and the Treaty of Sevres is made and discussed and eventually signed in 1920 allowing occupation in Constantinople for Allied troops.

The Ottoman Empire allied with Germany and joined the Central Powers to form the Triple Alliance on August 2, 1914

The Battle of Aleppo was fought on October 25, 1918 and was one of the final battles that lead to the Ottoman Empire leaving the war when Prince Faisal's Sherifial Forces captured the city of Aleppo.

The Ottoman Empire carried out the Armenian Genocide during 1915 in which 1.5 million people were killed.

The Arab Revolt started in 1916. Sharif Hussein and his troops attacked the Ottoman garrison at Medina.

January 13th 1916 was the Battle of Wadi. Ottoman Empire forces defeated the allied British during the Mesopotamia campaign in modern day Iraq.

In April 1918 the Trabzon peace conference held among the Ottoman Empire and the delegation of the Transcaucasian Diet (Sejm).

In March Sir Stanley Maude of Britain pushed his forces into Baghdad and captured it.

The Ottoman Empire Parliament passes the Tehcir Law on May 27th 1915. The law authorized the deportation of the Ottoman Empire's Armenian population.

The Ottoman Empire lost the places of Yemen, Asir, the city of Medina, portions of northern Syria, and portions of northern Iraq part of the Arabian Peninsula. These were taken by the British in January of 1919.

The Ottoman Empire entered the war on October 28, 1914 by carrying out a surprise attack on Russia's Black Sea coast with Russia responding by declaring war on 5 November 1914.

April 29th 1916, Siege of Kut ends with the surrender of British forces to the Ottoman Empire at Kut-al-Amara on the Tigris in Basra Vilayet during the Mesopotamian campaign.

In November of 1919, very little was left of the Ottoman army. The last two groups were defeated by the British in Palenstine and Syria.

Greece declares war on Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria on June 29th 1917.

Ottoman Empire declares a holy war (Jihad) on November 14th, 1914 in Constantinople. The war urged Muslims all over the world-including in the Allied countries to rise up and defend the Ottoman Empire, as a protector of Islam, against its enemies.

The Gallipoli Campaign started on April 25, 1914 where the Ottoman soldiers took on British and Australian soldiers that landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula and were trying to get to Constantinople and take the Ottomans out of the war. Eventually on January 1916 the British and Australian soldiers were evacuated and kept the dying Ottoman Empire alive.

On October 30th, 1918 the Ottoman Empire signed the armistice treaty on the British Battleship Agamemnon. This ended the Ottoman Empire's participation in World War I.

On July 2nd 1916 the Battle of Erzincan took place and Russian forces defeated troops of the Ottoman Empire in Armenia.

The Ottoman Empire is dying and it starts to break apart and crumble. Eventually Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and other countries emerged from the dead Empire.

The Battle of Megiddo started on September 19, 1918 and the British easily defeated the Ottomans and allowed the British to push further into the Ottoman Empire.

On February 19, 1915 The Royal Navy starts a huge bombardment of Turkish forts at the mouth of the Dardanelles.

The Battle of Sarikamis started on December 22, 1914 the Ottman Empire lead an attack on the fortress of Kars and the port of Batum and were defeated on January 17, 1915. This was the most costly defeat the Ottomans endured during WWI.

In March of 1917 an attack on Gaza was in place with infantry and Calvary by Murray's forces. It failed but a second attack was happening, this time with artillary. It was a disaster and failed again and the Allied Forces were in a tough spot in Europe.

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