WWI · TURNING POINT · 1914

July Ultimatum (1914)

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23 Jul 1914 — Vienna gives Serbia a 48-hour ultimatum drafted to be refused. Serbia accepts nearly all its terms, but Austria-Hungary declares war on 28 July anyway. The next day it shells Belgrade.

When: 23 Jul 1914
Type: Turning point
Chapter: July Crisis and outbreak of WWI (chapter 3 of WWI)
Atlas: The Great War, 1871–1923

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Map showing July Ultimatum (1914), turning point in The Great War, 1871–1923 — TURNING POINT · THE GREAT WAR, 1871–1923

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · Anglo-Russian Convention, 31 August 1907, articles I–II

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Source polygons retained with original identities; geographic selections and corrections by Maps of History.. CC BY 4.0
Made with Natural Earth; geographic reference and physical land only. No modern political boundary is used as a historical boundary.. Public domain
US Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States; convention’s named places define the two concession spheres.. Historical treaty facts, independently reconstructed

Annual source features can describe claims, legal territory or military control. Occupied extensions are separated from the prewar Central Power homelands, while the original source names and shapes remain available.

The displayed state is iss 14 jul. Geographic reference dates and reconstruction methods are recorded for each feature.

reconstruction: 1871–1918 · reconstruction: 31 August 1907 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1864–1921 · vector: 1871–1914 · vector: 1871–1916 · vector: 1873–1914 · vector: 1890–1914 · vector: 1895–1917 · vector: 1898–1914 · vector: 1900–1918 · vector: 1905–1914 · vector: 1905–1915 · vector: 1905–1921 · vector: 1908–1935 · vector: 1912–1914 · vector: 1912–1915 · vector: 1912–1919 · vector: 1912–1921 · vector: 1912–1955 · vector: 1913–1914 · vector: 1913–1915 · vector: 1914–1914 · vector: 1914–1915 · vector: 1914–1916

Layer records and reconstruction methods