6 August

1914

 * - Liège: Forts Barchon, Chaudefontaine and Evequee are silenced.
 * Longwy invested by the Germans.
 * - Obrenovats (Serbia) vainly attacked by Austrians, who lose guns in the retreat.
 * No - HMS Amphion, British cruiser, sunk by German mine in North Sea. The Goeben and Breslau escape.
 * - Great Britain: Mr. Asquith speaks in House of Commons on the War; Parliament votes £100,000,000.

1915

 * - Germans repulsed at Osovyets (Neuve Chapelle). Archduke Joseph Frederick enters Lyublin.
 * - Two divisions effect surprise landing at Suvla Bay and attack with Anzacs on right, and southern force on Achi Baba.
 * - 345 British establishments declared "Controlled" under Munitions of War Act.
 * Combined Entente Note to Balkan States.