25 June

Events preceding British Declaration of War

 * Kiel Canal reopened (owing to its having been deepened) by the Kaiser. Visit of the British Fleet under Sir G. Warrender. Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought HMS King George V.

1915

 * Continued fighting north of Arras and on the heights of the Meuse. French airmen bomb railway station at Douai.
 * Russians fight a rearguard action at Bobrka.
 * Austrians repulsed in the Carnic Alps.
 * No Bukoba (German port on Lake Victoria Nyanza), destroyed by British column.

1916

 * Battle of Verdun: Heavy fighting at Fleury and west of Thiaumont. Preliminary British bombardment along Somme front and northwards.
 * Russian advance from Bukovina; fighting on Dniester.
 * Great Italian advance from Brenta to the Adige. Asiago retaken.
 * Roger Casement trial begins.

1917

 * British advance on Souchez river continues. French carry crest near Hurtebise ("Drangon's Cave"). First fighting contingent of American troops lands in France.
 * Austrian counter-attackson Mt. Ortigara.
 * No Raid in Black Sea by SMS Breslau; Russian wireless station and lighthouse on island of Fidonisi destroyed.
 * M. Venizelos returns to Athens and succeeds M. Zaimis as Premier. Recall of German Minister to Norway, consequent or bomb-plot.

1918

 * American success near Belleau Wood. British air attacks on Saabrücken, Offenburg (13 miles south east of Strassburg) and Karlsruhe.
 * M. Markiewicz (Socialist) forms cabinet in Ukraine, vice M. Lyshub resigns.
 * Italians take bridge-head of Capo Sile.
 * Speech of Chief Secretary for Ireland in House of Commons.

1919

 * Post Armistice: Bolsheviks 20 Miles from Perm, and advancing east of Ufa.