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==[[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.▼
*French pressure towards [[Péronne]].▼
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===Eastern Front===▼
*[[Galicia]]: Austrians recover [[Lupkow Pass]] over the [[Carpathians]].▼
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===Naval and Overseas Operations===▼
*German cruiser {{SMS|Friedrich Karl}} reported lost in Baltic.▼
===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>▼
*Meeting of three Scandinavian Kings at Malmo.▼
*[[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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