
Events 1910s – Panama Canal is completed
1914 Panama Canal is completed Wars World War I (1914–1918) The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo leads to the outbreak of the First World War. The Armenian genocide during and just after World War I. It was characterized by the use of massacres and deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of Armenian deaths generally held to have been between one and one-and-a-half million. The Arab Revolt was an armed uprising of Arabs against the Ottoman Empire. Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles after losing the First World War. Wadai War (1909–1911) Italo-Turkish War (1911–1912) First Balkan Wars (1912–1913) – two wars that took place in South-eastern Europe in […]