August von Mackensen

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1915

May

01
- Key eventStart of the Battle of GorliceOn 1 May 1915 German and Austro-Hungarian guns began shelling the Russians at Gorlice, and on 2 May Mackensen's army attacked and broke through the front.

July

16
- Battle of Krasnystaw beginsOn 16 July 1915 the German 11th Army, led by the Prussian Guard, attacked at Krasnystaw. It took Russian trenches and 6,000 prisoners but did not break through.
18
- End of the Battle of KrasnystawOn 18 July 1915 the Germans held Krasnystaw and the Wieprz bridgehead despite Russian Guards counter-attacks. At night the Russians fell back near the railway.

August

25
- Germans take Brest-LitovskOn 25 August 1915 Austro-Hungarian and German troops broke through the ring of forts at Brest-Litovsk. That night the Russians gave up the burning fortress.

September

16
- Germans take PinskIn mid-September 1915 the German Army of the Bug took Pinsk in Polesia. The Russians fell back behind the Yaselda and the Ogiński Canal into the Pripet marshes.

October

November

01
- Capture of KragujevacOn 1 November 1915 the Germans and Austrians entered Kragujevac. The Serbs left without a fight, having blown up the country's only arsenal the day before.

1916

September

October

November

23
- Mackensen crosses the DanubeOn 23 November 1916, in fog, German, Bulgarian and Austro-Hungarian troops crossed the Danube from Svishtov to Zimnicea and set off for Bucharest.

December

1917

January

05
- Germans take BrăilaOn 5 January 1917 German cavalry and Bulgarian infantry entered Brăila, the great grain port on the Danube. The Russians withdrew behind the Siret.
- End of the fighting in DobrujaOn 5 January 1917 the last Russians from the bridgehead at Măcin crossed the Danube. All of Dobruja except the delta was now in the hands of the Central Powers.

August

06
- Start of the Battle of MărășeștiOn 6 August 1917 the German Ninth Army broke the Russian Fourth Army's front on the Putna. The Romanian 5th Division, rushed over the Siret, closed the gap.

September

03
- End of the Battle of MărășeștiOn 3 September 1917 Eben and Grigorescu ordered attacks halted and positions dug in. That evening Ecaterina Teodoroiu, the heroine of the Jiu, fell at Muncelu.

December

09
- Armistice of FocșaniOn 9 December 1917 at Focșani the armies of the Romanian Front signed an armistice with the Central Powers. Isolated, unbeaten Romania stopped fighting.

1918

February

06
- German ultimatum to RomaniaIn early February 1918 Mackensen gave Romania four days to open peace talks. The Brătianu government, which had taken the country into the war, resigned.

November

10
- Romania re-enters the warOn 10 November 1918 French battalions crossed the Danube at Ruse, and King Ferdinand called on the Romanians to take up arms against the Germans again.

December

16
- Internment of MackensenOn 16 December 1918 Field Marshal Mackensen's train from Romania was stopped in Budapest. At French insistence the Hungarians interned him at Fót.