9 August
1914
- Template:WF Belgium: French cavalry in Belgium.
- Template:EF East Prussia: Russian First Army advancing.
- Template:NO HMS Birmingham, cruiser, sinks German submarine U15.
- Template:PO Germany, by means of Holland, offers terms of peace to Belgium; they are rejected.
1915
- Template:HF Zeppelin air raid on Goole, East Riding and Dover begins. One airship is destroyed at Dunkirk.
- Template:WF British recapture trenches at Hooge. French air-raid on Saarbrücken.
- Template:EF Osovyets evacuated and destroyed by Russians. Night attack on Kovna fortress; Germans lose three battalions in Russian counter-attack. Germans advance east of Warsaw.
- Template:SF Heavy Anzac losses; Turks getting stronger.
- Template:AE Jerusalem-Beersheba railway opened. Turkish attacks at Olti and Passin (Armenia) repulsed. 255,000 Armenians from Van migrate into Transcaucasia.
- Template:NO Gadji (Cameroons) reported evacuated by Germans after French operations. HMS Lynx, destroyer, mined and sunk. Turkish battleship Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa torpedoed by British submarine.
- Template:PO Italian Consuls throughout Turkey preparing to leave.
References/notes
Lord Edward Gleichen (1918–1920). Chronology of the War. Volumes I, II & III. Constable & Company, London. (Copyright expired)