WW1 Daily

WW1 Daily answers two questions. What happened today in the First World War? Where did it happen? Show me a map!

Flip through pages showing important events of the first 'total war'. World War One affected the entire globe for it's duration and arguably for the century that followed.

Each page shows the date, a succinct description, a zoomable map for the event and a link to the a detailed Wikipedia article. After a particular event? Use the search button to find it.

The data for WW1 Daily comes from the World War One Timeline Project at Cannonade.Net. This is a community contributed project to collect time and place data for the war. You can come to the site to browse the timeline or even log in and contribute new data.

The Timeline Project currently indexes over 200 data points with new entries being added daily. If a significant event isn't in the database yet, it soon will be. Show More