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<noinclude>{{CalendarGWCalendar|December}}{{Date-introtext-GW}}<br>{{year-day|Friday|Saturday|Monday|Tuesday|Wednesday intro}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__
==[[1914]] (Friday)==
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===Western Front===
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*Indian [[troops]] begin an attack on the Germans round [[Givenchy]] ([[La Bassée]]); a five days' battle commenced.
===|'''Western Front==='''
*French pressure towards [[Péronne]].
*|{{tb}} Indian [[troops]] begin an attack on the Germans round [[Givenchy]] ([[La Bassée]]); a five days' battle commenced.
===Eastern Front===
*|{{tb}} French pressure towards [[Péronne]].
*[[Galicia]]: Austrians recover [[Lupkow Pass]] over the [[Carpathians]].
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===Naval and Overseas Operations===
===|'''Eastern Front==='''
*German cruiser {{SMS|Friedrich Karl}} reported lost in Baltic.
*|[[Galicia]]: Austrians recover [[Lupkow Pass]] over the [[Carpathians]].
===Political===
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*[[Egypt]]: Hussein I proclaimed Sultan.<ref>British Protectorate declared in [[Egypt]]; abolition of Turkish suzerainty. Deposition of Khedive Abbas Hilmi owing to anti-British intrigues; Khediviate with title of Sultan of Egypt offered to, and accepted by, his uncle, Prince Hussein Kamel, second son of Ismail Pasha.</ref>
===|'''Naval and Overseas Operations==='''
*Meeting of three Scandinavian Kings at Malmo.
*|German cruiser {{SMS|Friedrich Karl}} reported lost in Baltic.
*[[Great Britain]]: Conviction of [[Adolf Ahlers]] quashed.<ref>[[Adolf Ahlers]], naturalised British subject and German Consul at Sunderland, had been sentenced to death for high treason for having incited and assisted German reservists to return to [[Germany]].</ref>
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===|'''Political==='''
==References/notes==
*|{{tb}} [[Egypt]]: Hussein I proclaimed Sultan.<ref group="lower-alpha">British Protectorate declared in [[Egypt]]; abolition of Turkish suzerainty. Deposition of Khedive Abbas Hilmi owing to anti-British intrigues; Khediviate with title of Sultan of Egypt offered to, and accepted by, his uncle, Prince Hussein Kamel, second son of Ismail Pasha.</ref>
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*|{{tb}} Meeting of three Scandinavian Kings at Malmo.
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*|{{tb}} [[Great Britain]]: Conviction of [[Adolf Ahlers]] quashed.<ref>[[Adolf Ahlers]], naturalised British subject and German Consul at Sunderland, had been sentenced to death for high treason for having incited and assisted German reservists to return to [[Germany]].</ref>
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[[Category:Great War events by day|353]]
[[Category:Great War events in December|18]]
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