Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin von Bülow (3 May 1849 – 28 October 1929), created Prince von Bülow in 1905, was a German statesman who served as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for three years and then as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1900 to 1909. Timeline of events (from source material contemporary with the Great War from a British perspective).

Bernhard von Bülow in November 1908

1914

17 December Reaches Rome on special mission.