Belgium.

29.--Russians invest Konigsberg, East Prussia. New Zealanders seize
German Samoa.

30.--Amiens occupied by Germans.

31.--Russian army of invasion in East Prussia defeated at Tannenberg by
Germans under Von Hindenburg.

31.--St. Petersburg changed to Petrograd by imperial decree.

September

3.--Paris placed in state of siege; government transferred to Bordeaux.

3.--Lemberg, Gallicia, occupied by Russians.

4.--Germans occupy Rheims.

6-10.--Battle of Marne. Von Kluck is beaten by Gen. Joffre, and the
German army retreats from Paris to the Soissons-Rheims line.

10.--Emden, German cruiser, carries out raids in Bay of Bengal.

14.--French reoccupy Amiens and Rheims.

19.--British forces begin operations in Southwest Africa.

20.--Rheims cathedral shelled by Germans.

24.--Allies occupy Peronne.

25.--Australians seize German New Guinea.

28.--Anglo-French forces invade German colony of Kamerun.

29.--Antwerp bombardment begins.

October

2.--British Admiralty announces intention to mine North Sea areas.

6.--Japan seizes Marshall Islands in Pacific.

9.--Antwerp surrenders to Germans. Government removed to Ostend.

13.--British occupy Ypres.

14.--Canadian Expeditionary Force of 32,000 men lands at Plymouth.

15.--Germans occupy Ostend. Belgian government removed to Havre, France.

November

1.--Monmouth and Good Hope, British cruisers, are sunk by German
squadron off Chile under command of Admiral Von Spee.

5.--Great Britain and France declare war on Turkey.

5.--Cyprus annexed by Great Britain.

7.--German garrison of Tsingtau surrenders to Japanese.

9.--Emden, German cruiser, which had carried out raiding operations for
two months, is destroyed by Australian cruiser Sydney off the Cocos
Islands, southwest of Java.

16.--Prohibition of sale of intoxicants in Russia enforced.

27.--Czernowitz, capital of Bukowina, captured by Russians.

December

2.--Belgrade occupied by Austrians.

3.--Cracow bombarded by Russians.

8.--Off the Falkland Isles, British squadron under command of
Rear-Admiral Sturdee, sinks three of the German cruisers which had
destroyed the Good Hope and Monmouth on Nov. 1. The Dresden escapes.

14.--Austrians evacuate Belgrade.

16.--German squadron bombards Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby on east
coast of England.

23.--Siege of Cracow raised. Russians retire.

1915

January

24.--British fleet puts to flight a German sq