22 August

1914

 * - Belgium: Evacuation of Namur begun; French defeated at Charleroi.
 * Alsace-Lorraine: French defeat, Lunéville lost; General withdrawal.
 * - Poland: Russians evacuate Kyeltsi.
 * - Shabats and Loznitsa recovered by Serbians; Austrians defeated on Drina.
 * - Brussels: Germans levy £8,000,000.

1915

 * - French occupy Schratzmännele crest (Vosges).
 * - Russians fall back from the Bobr and Niemen; fall of Osovyets.
 * No - German destroyer sunk by two French torpedo boat destroyers near Ostend.
 * - M. Venizelos accepts Premiership.