6 July

1914

Events preceding British Declaration of War

• Kaiser leaves Kiel for a cruise in Northern waters.

1915

• Template:WF - German success at Vaux Fery (Meuse). French recapture position on heights of the Meuse.
  •  British capture trenches near Pilkem.
• Template:EF - Archduke Josef Ferdinand beaten near Krasnik. Russians take 15,000 prisoners between Krasnik and Lyublin.
• Template:SF - Battle for Carso plateau developing.
• Template:NO - South Africa's offer of Imperial Contingent gratefully accepted by Government.
• Template:PO - Anglo-French Conference at Calais.

1916

• Template:WF - British win ground on slopes of Thiepval; two successful raids on Loos salient.
  •  French again repel attacks at Belloy; lose a small wood north of Hem. Artillery active at Verdun.
• Template:EF - Between the Styr and Stokhod Germans fall back in disorder from Chartorysk salient.
• Template:SF - Italian pressure on the Trentino and Isonzo fronts continued.
• Template:PO - Ministerial changes: Mr. Lloyd George becomes Secretary of State for War. Lord Derby, Under Secretary for War. Sir Edward Grey raised to Peerage as Viscount Grey of Falldon.

1917

• Template:WF - Aerial activity south of Ypres. German towns bombed by French aeroplanes.
• Template:EF - Russian attack in Galicia spreading in region of Stanislau. Heavy fighting near Brzezany.
• Template:NO - British destroyer torpedoed in North Sea, 8 lost.
• Template:PO - Crisis in Germany owing to the demand in the Reichstag for reforms in domestic and foreign policy and a peace without annexations or indemnities.
  •  Second reading of Conscription Bill in Canada carried.

1918

• Template:EF - Cossacks fight Bolsheviks north-west of Nikolsk (between Vladivostok and Khabarovsk) and Czecho-Slovaks take Nikolsk.
  •  Assassination of Count Mirbach (German Ambassador at Moscow).
• Template:SF - Piave delta cleared of Austrians by 23rd Italian Corps; 21,000 men and 63 guns, etc., taken by Italians since 15 June.
• Template:PO - Publication of Mantagu-Chemsford Report re Indian Constitutional Reforms.
  •  U.S. first large aeroplane launched near New York.
  •  Silver Wedding of Their Majesties.

References/notes

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