17 August

1914

• Template:WF Alsace: Renewed French advance, take Marsal and Chateau-Salins. Sir John French takes up his headquarters at Le Cateau.
• Template:EF East Prussia: Russians defeat Germans at Stallupönen: Germans fall back on Gumbinnen.
• Template:SF Battle of the Jadar (between Shabats and Loznitsa) continued.
• Template:NO Adriatic: Austrian cruiser sunk near Antivari.
• Template:PO Belgium: Government transferred from Brussels to Antwerp. Great Britain: Enrolment of Special Constables begins.

1915

• Template:HF Zeppelin air raid on Kent, Essex and London begins.
• Template:WF French gain footing on ridge in Vosges (Sondernach crest). Night attack on Sondernach by Germans.
• Template:EF Novo-Georgievsk furiously attacked and outlying forts captured. Austrians approach Brest-Litovsk.
  •  Russians driven across the Bug at Konstantinov.
  •  Enemy approaches Byelostok-Byelsk railway and cuts Kholm-Brest-Litovsk railway.
  •  Fall of Kovna.
• Template:SF Italian advance on Bacher valley (Dolomites), Vrsik crest, Sta Maria and Sta Lucia hills (Julian).
• Template:AE 1,200 Bunerwal rebels attack camp at Rustam (Peshawar); one officer killed.
• Template:NO Austrians attack Pelagosa Island (Centre Adriatic).
• Template:PO Germans claim two million prisoners to date: 330,000 British, French and Belgian; rest Russian.
  •  Proposals of Entente examined by Serbian cabinet.
  •  Italian war loan totals 4 million.

References/notes

Lord Edward Gleichen (1918–1920). Chronology of the War. Volumes I, II & III. Constable & Company, London. (Copyright expired)