[Magnum PEI]

Capturing a hill while the British snatched up more colonies and starved civilians. Then the Germans simply ignored it and nearly marched to Paris again a year later.
Ironically it did help Canada gain more autonomy, but we stupidly went to war again even though we had a say in the matter.

Some big centennials coming up. Jutland on June 1st. Largest naval battle of the era, nearly 10,000 dead. I feel bad for the Danish and Norwegian fishermen who went out to sea the day after. Many of the peaks near here are named after sunken ships in that battle. Beatty and Jelicoe even get mountains. They might be the least deserving of that honour except Petain, that mountain should definitely be renamed. (There is a Mt. Haig in the Crowsnest but it's named for a different Haig.)

Also The Somme on July 1st, a holiday of mixed feelings in Newfoundland where that date was known as Memorial Day before N.L. joined Confederation.


Edit:
It was called the Great War because of the size and scale of it and the amount of nations and combatants involved. I doubt anybody thought of it as the "Awesome War of Epicness" except maybe Churchill.

Franz Ferdinand wasn't a nobody, he was heir to the throne and the holder was the aged Franz Jozef who ended up dying in 1916.