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| 1851 | Birth |  |
| 2nd Oct Tarbes Birth of Ferdinand Foch
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| 1874 | Lieutenant | |
| Appointed Lieutenant in the artillery
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| 1903 | Publication | |
| Publication of, "Principles of War"
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| 1907 | Brigadier General | |
| Appointed Brigadier-General
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| 1907 | Chief of Staff | |
| Appointed Chief-of-Staff to V Corps
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| 1908 | War College | |
| Appointed Head of the War College
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| 1912 | Major | |
| Appointed Major-General
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| 1914 | Battle of Artois | |
| May Artois Conducts an offensive in Artois
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| Sep Artois Conducts an offensive in Artois
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| 1914 | Battle of Frontiers | |
| Aug Morhange Attacks Morhange but forced to retreat to Nancy
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| 1914 | Commander | |
| Lorraine Appointed Commander of the XX Corps
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| 28th Aug River Marne Appointed Commander of the 9th Army, to fill the gap on the Marne front
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| 4th Oct Appointed Commander of the Army Group Nth, during the "Race to the Sea"
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| 4th Oct Appointed Commander of the Army Group Nth
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| 1914 | Mobilization | |
| Coordinate the Allied forces between the Oise & the Nth Sea
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| 1915 | Commander | |
| Jan Appointed Commander of the Army Group Nth, given full command
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| 1916 | Dismissal | |
| Dec Moved to an advisory post after the failure of the Somme offensive
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| 1917 | Battle of Caporetto | |
| Oct Caporetto Made adviser to the Italian government after the Italian disaster at Caporetto
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| 1917 | Chief of General Staff | |
| May Appointed Chief of the General Staff
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| 1917 | Supreme Allied War Council | |
| Nov Versailles Appointed Member of the Supreme Allied War Council
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| 1918 | Armistice | |
| Nov Compiegne Heads the Allied armistice negotiations with the Germans
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| 1918 | Battle of Marne, 1st | |
| 15th July Marne Mounts a counter-offensive along the Marne
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| 1918 | Battle of Marne, 2nd | |
| 25th July Marne The Allies advance 2 miles
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| 25th July Marne The Allies capture Fere Forest, La Croise Range, Oulchy-le-Chateau & Villemontoire
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| 30th July Romigny The Allies capture Romigny-St Gemme
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| 1918 | Capture | |
| 27th Mar Montdidier The French 3rd Army loses Montdidier
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| 1918 | Commander | |
| 26th Mar Picardy Appointed Commander for Allied operations on the Western Front
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| 1918 | Conference of Bombon | |
| 24th July Bombon Conference of all the commanders-in-chief to consider allied operations, all present proposals for the employment of allied armies
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| 24th July Bombon Decides to free the Paris-Verdun, Paris-Amiens & Verdun-Arricourt routes
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| 1918 | Conference of Doullens | |
| 26th Mar Doullens Foch becomes the de facto Allied Generalissimo
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| 1918 | Conscription | |
| 20th July Asks Clemenceau to call up the 1920 conscripts in 1918
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| 1918 | General in Chief | |
| 14th April Appointed General-in-Chief, extending his powers to "strategic direction"
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| 14th April Appointed General-in-Chief of the Allied Armies, extending his powers
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| 1918 | Mobilization | |
| July July-August, launches counter-attacks after the arrival of 300,000 Americans a month
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| 1918 | Offensive | |
| Meuse Argonne General advance along most of the Western Front, resulting in the German Army's final defeat and the signing of an armistice on November 11 to bring hostilities between the Allies and Central Powers to an end
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| Meuse Argonne Launched as part of Mar‚chal Ferdinand Foch's Grand Offensive, comprising attacks by the AEF and French Fourth Army on September 26, the British Fourth Army from September 27 and the British and Belgiums at Ypres
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| 1918 | Peace | |
| Nov Compiegne Heads the Allied armistice negotiations with the Germans
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| 1919 | Conference of Peace | |
| Nov Paris Advocates that the Rhine becomes France's eastern border
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| 1929 | Death | |
| 20th Mar Death of Ferdinand Foch
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