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1915
- Template:HF Aeroplane air raid on East Suffolk. There are no casualties.
- Template:EF Russians leave Gnila Lipa for Zlota Lipa (Galicia).
- Template:SF Dardanelles: Turks lose 5,159 k. and 15,000 prisoners in last five days.
- Template:NO South Africa's offer of volunteer contingent announced by General Smuts.
1916
- Template:WF - Fierce fighting continues; British capture La Boiselle and part of Ovillers. French capture Chapitre Wood, Feuillères, Buscourt, Flaucourt; also Assevillers to the South. Germans gain and lose Damloup work (Verdun). North of Ancre actions indecisive. 12,300 prisoners to date.
- Template:EF - Battle of Baranovichi continues south of Vilna. Russian sea-attack on German lines near Riga.
- Template:SF - French air-raid on Sofia from Salonika.
- Template:AE - Russians again resume offensive in Armenia, west of Erzerum.
- Template:NO - British advance in East Africa, in region between Lake Tanganyika and Victoria Nyanza.
- Template:PO - Report of Royal Commission on the causes of the Irish Rebellion issued. Russo-Japanese treaty re the Far East signed.
1917
- Template:WF - German offensive on a front of 11 miles north of the Aisne repulsed with heavy loss. German attacks towards Verdun repulsed. British air-raid on Belgian towns.
- Template:EF - Russian attack of Brzezany (Galicia) fails. Artillery activity growing in the Stokhod area (Volhynia).
- Template:PO - Riots in Amsterdam. Statement in House of Lords by Lord Hardinge (Ex-Viceroy of India) on report of Mesopotamia Commission.
1918
- Template:WF - French advance north of Aisne between Autrèches on east and Moulin sous Touvent on west; 1,000 prisoners.
- Template:EF - Germans prepare to advance on Murman railway. New Provisional Government established at Vladivostok.
- Template:NO - Retreat of Germans at Nhamacurra.
- Template:PO - Proclamation of Sinn Fein as dangerous organisation. Death of Lord Rhondda (British Food Controller). Death of Mohammed V., Sultan of Turkey; succeeded by Mohammed VI (Vahid-ed-Din).
References/notes
Lord Edward Gleichen (1918–1920). Chronology of the War. Volumes I, II & III. Constable & Company, London. (Copyright expired)