| 01/19: |
First
Zeppelin raid against Britain, striking Yarmouth and King's
Lynn. |
| 01/24: |
Battle
of Dogger Bank. British battle-cruisers sink German armored
cruiser Blücher. |
| 02/19: |
Royal
Navy and French ships begin bombardment of outer forts
of the Dardanelles. |
| 04/22-05/24: |
Second
Battle of Ypres. Germans launch new offensive using poison
gas for the first time, breaching the British line. Repeated
German assaults are driven off. |
| 04/25: |
British,
Anzac, and French operations combine together at Gallipoli. |
| 05/07: |
British
liner Lusitania torpedoed and sunk off the Irish
coast. |
| 05/24: |
Italy
joins the war, siding with the Allies. |
| 09/25-10/15: |
Battle
of Loos. British use poison gas for the first time. Germans
retain the line. Casualties: 50,000 British, 140,000 Germans,
190,000 French. |
| 09/28: |
Anglo-Indian
force captures Kut-al-Amara, Mesopotamia. |
| 11/22: |
Allies
under Townshend attack Cresiphon, but are forced to retire
into Kut-al-Amara. |
| 12/20-01/09/16: |
Gallipoli
beaches evacuated. British and Commonwealth losses: 41,000
killed and missing, 78,500 wounded; French: 9,000 killed,
13,000 wounded; Turks: 66,000 killed and missing. |
| 12/XX-04/29/16: |
Townshend's
troops surrender; 8,000 prisoners taken by Turks. |
