This article is about the specific polity Democratic Republic of Georgia and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.
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Georgia withdrew from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic and declared itself a separate republic, encouraged by a German mission. The German Empire had an influence on the country, but left the country after the military defeat of Germany at the end of World War I. Later, British occupation forces arrived in the country.
Establishment
May 1918: Georgia withdrew from the federation and declared itself a separate republic, encouraged by the German mission led by Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein and Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg.
May 1918: The Treaty of Poti was a provisional agreement between the German Empire and the Democratic Republic of Georgia in which the latter accepted German protection and recognition.
December 1918: The German protectorate in Georgia ended due to the military defeat of Germany in November 1918.
December 1918: The Armenians managed to take the towns of Vorontsovka and Privolnoye.
December 1918: On December 14, the Armenians, who had already amassed more than 6,500 regular troops, captured Sanahin and Alaverdi.
December 1918: Armenians proceeded to enter the town Bolnisi-Knachen near heavily fought Katharinenfeld and rested only a few dozen kilometers away from the Georgian capital.
December 1918: The Armenian army kept advancing and occupied most Armenian dominated villages in the Lori/Borchali province.
December 1918: The initial Armenian attack was repulsed, and in order to outflank the defenders, the town of Shulaveri was captured the next day.
December 1918: The villages Dagheti, Bolnisi, Khacheni and Samshvilde were captured by the Georgian army.
December 1918: British troops occupy Batum.
December 1918: Shulaveri was retaken by the Georgian army.
Chronology
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1.1.World War I Middle East Theatre
Was the theatre of war in the Middle East during World War I.
1.1.1.Caucasus campaign (World War I)
Was an armed conflict mainly between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire in the Caucasus area during World War I.
1.1.1.1.Transcaucasian Front of World War I
Was the theatre of war in Transcaucasia during World War I.
Was a series of military campaigns waged by the Turkish National Movement after parts of the Ottoman Empire were occupied and partitioned following its defeat in World War I. The war led to the establishment of the Republic of Turkey.
Was a Civil War in Russia that involved varios factions but mainly the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Army in the core Russian territories, as well as a multitude of local secessionist states. At the end of war the Bolsheviks were victorious and established the Soviet Union.
3.1.Pro-independence movements in the Russian Civil War
Local independence movement caused several secessions and revolts during the Russian Civil War.
3.1.1.Pro-independence and White movements in the Caucasus during the Russian Civil War
Were a series of revolts and secessions in the Caucasus during the Russian Civil War.
October 1919: The North Caucasian Emirate was a mainly Avar and Chechen Islamic state that existed in the territory of Chechnya and western Dagestan during the Russian Civil War from September 1919.
December 1919: Following the German defeat in the First World War, British occupation forces arrived in Georgia, with the permission of the Georgian government.
January 1921: British-held Batumi remained out of Georgia's control until 1920.
3.1.1.1.Sochi conflict
Was a three-party border conflict which involved the counterrevolutionary White Russian forces, Bolshevik Red Army and the Democratic Republic of Georgia, each of which sought control over the Black Sea town of Sochi.
3.1.1.2.Georgian-Armenian War
Was a border dispute that was fought in December 1918 between the newly independent Democratic Republic of Georgia and the First Republic of Armenia.
3.1.1.3.Red Army invasion of Georgia and Armenia
Was a military campaign by the Russian Red Army against secessionist states in the Caucasus.
February 1921: On the night of 11-12 February 1921, at Ordzhonikidze's instigation, Bolsheviks attacked local Georgian military posts in the predominantly ethnic Armenian district of Lori and the nearby village of Shulaveri.
February 1921: By 17 February, Soviet infantry and cavalry divisions supported by aircraft were less than 15 kilometers northeast of Tbilisi.
February 1921: The triumphant Red Army entered Tbilisi.
March 1921: Soviet forces joined by Abkhaz peasant militias, the Kyaraz, succeeded in taking Gagra.
March 1921: In 1921, New Athos was taken over by the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic on 3 March.
March 1921: Sukhumi conquered by russia.
March 1921: Surami conquered by russia.
March 1921: In 1921, during the Red Army invasion of Georgia, Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin and Sergo Ordzhonikidze ordered the advance eastward to occupy Zugdidi, a key town in western Georgia.
March 1921: On 10 March Soviet forces entered Kutaisi.
March 1921: Poti conquered by russia.
3.2.Ottoman Invasion of Armenia
Was an Ottoman military invasion of Armenia, part of the Turkish-Armenian war and also of the Caucasian theatre of the Russian Civil War.
March 1921: Treaty of Moscow: the Turkish authorities proclaimed the annexation of Batumi.
March 1921: Georgian Defense Minister Grigol Lordkipanidze and the Soviet plenipotentiary Avel Enukidze arranged an armistice on 17 March, and then, on 18 March, an agreement. The Democratic Republic of Georgia ceased to exist.
Disestablishment
January 1921: British-held Batumi remained out of Georgia's control until 1920.
February 1921: On the night of 11-12 February 1921, at Ordzhonikidze's instigation, Bolsheviks attacked local Georgian military posts in the predominantly ethnic Armenian district of Lori and the nearby village of Shulaveri.
February 1921: By 17 February, Soviet infantry and cavalry divisions supported by aircraft were less than 15 kilometers northeast of Tbilisi.
February 1921: The triumphant Red Army entered Tbilisi.
March 1921: Soviet forces joined by Abkhaz peasant militias, the Kyaraz, succeeded in taking Gagra.
March 1921: In 1921, New Athos was taken over by the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic on 3 March.
March 1921: Sukhumi conquered by russia.
March 1921: Surami conquered by russia.
March 1921: In 1921, during the Red Army invasion of Georgia, Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin and Sergo Ordzhonikidze ordered the advance eastward to occupy Zugdidi, a key town in western Georgia.
March 1921: On 10 March Soviet forces entered Kutaisi.
March 1921: Poti conquered by russia.
March 1921: Treaty of Moscow: the Turkish authorities proclaimed the annexation of Batumi.
March 1921: Georgian Defense Minister Grigol Lordkipanidze and the Soviet plenipotentiary Avel Enukidze arranged an armistice on 17 March, and then, on 18 March, an agreement. The Democratic Republic of Georgia ceased to exist.
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Democratic Republic of Georgia
