6 July

Events preceding British Declaration of War

 * Kaiser leaves Kiel for a cruise in Northern waters.

1915

 * - German success at Vaux Fery (Meuse). French recapture position on heights of the Meuse.
 * British capture trenches near Pilkem.
 * - Archduke Josef Ferdinand beaten near Krasnik. Russians take 15,000 prisoners between Krasnik and Lyublin.
 * - Battle for Carso plateau developing.
 * No - South Africa's offer of Imperial Contingent gratefully accepted by Government.
 * - Anglo-French Conference at Calais.

1916

 * - British win ground on slopes of Thiepval; two successful raids on Loos salient.
 * French again repel attacks at Belloy; lose a small wood north of Hem. Artillery active at Verdun.
 * - Between the Styr and Stokhod Germans fall back in disorder from Chartorysk salient.
 * - Italian pressure on the Trentino and Isonzo fronts continued.
 * - Ministerial changes: Mr. Lloyd George becomes Secretary of State for War. Lord Derby, Under Secretary for War.  Sir Edward Grey raised to Peerage as Viscount Grey of Falldon.

1917

 * - Aerial activity south of Ypres. German towns bombed by French aeroplanes.
 * - Russian attack in Galicia spreading in region of Stanislau. Heavy fighting near Brzezany.
 * No - British destroyer torpedoed in North Sea, 8 lost.
 * - Crisis in Germany owing to the demand in the Reichstag for reforms in domestic and foreign policy and a peace without annexations or indemnities.
 * Second reading of Conscription Bill in Canada carried.

1918

 * - Cossacks fight Bolsheviks north-west of Nikolsk (between Vladivostok and Khabarovsk) and Czecho-Slovaks take Nikolsk.
 * Assassination of Count Mirbach (German Ambassador at Moscow).
 * - Piave delta cleared of Austrians by 23rd Italian Corps; 21,000 men and 63 guns, etc., taken by Italians since 15 June.
 * - Publication of Mantagu-Chemsford Report re Indian Constitutional Reforms.
 * U.S. first large aeroplane launched near New York.
 * Silver Wedding of Their Majesties.