A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War. R. P. P. Rowe
the Dardanelles forts.
Mar. 7 (Sun.)
Lemnos, in the Ægean Sea, is occupied by the British.
Mar. 8 (Mon.)
The British Government announces that a separate treatment will be meted out to prisoners captured in German submarines (see April 12 and June 12).
Heavy fighting near Augustovo: the Russians drive the Germans back to the frontier.
A British air-raid on Ostend.
Mar. 9 (Tues.)
East Africa:—The British defeat the Germans on the Mora River.
The German submarine U12 is rammed and sunk by the British destroyer Ariel off the Firth of Forth.
Mar. 10 (Wed.)
The Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins: the British advance (see March 13).
Mar. 11 (Thur.)
South-West Africa:—Nabas is occupied by Union forces.
H.M.S. Bayano (armed merchant cruiser) is sunk by a submarine off the Clyde.
Mar. 13 (Sat.)
The Battle of Neuve Chapelle ends: the British gains are consolidated (see March 10).
The Russians breach the defences of Przemysl.
Mar. 14 (Sun.)
The Germans attack at St. Eloi and take the village.
H.M.S. Kent and Glasgow sink the Dresden off Juan Fernandez Island.
Mar. 15 (Mon.)
The British retake St. Eloi.
H.M.S. Amethyst makes a raid up the Dardanelles.
Mar. 17 (Wed.)
A further enemy attack at St. Eloi is repulsed.
Sir Ian Hamilton arrives at Tenedos (Ægean Sea).
Mar. 18 (Thur.)
The Battle of the Narrows: an Allied naval attack on the Dardanelles is repulsed; the French battleship Bouvet and the British battleships Irresistible and Ocean are sunk.
The Russians again invade East Prussia and temporarily occupy Memel (see March 21).
A Zeppelin raid on Calais.
Mar. 20 (Sat.)
South-West Africa:—General Botha defeats the Germans at Riet on the Swakop.
Mar. 21 (Sun.)
The Germans retake Memel (see March 18).
Mar. 22 (Mon.)
Przemysl surrenders to the Russians, who claim 126,000 prisoners (see Nov. 11, 1914, and June 3, 1915).
A second Turkish attack on the Suez Canal.
Mar. 23 (Tues.)
The Turks are again driven back from the Suez Canal.
Mar. 24 (Wed.)
A British air-raid on German submarine works at Hoboken, near Antwerp.
Mar. 25 (Thur.)
The French attack the Hartmannsweilerkopf (Alsace).
The Dutch steamship Medea is sunk by a German submarine off Beachy Head.
The German fleet bombards the coast of Courland.
A French air-raid on Metz.
Mar. 27 (Sat.)
The French capture the Hartmannsweilerkopf (Alsace).
Mar. 28 (Sun.)
The British liner Falaba is sunk by the U28 south of St. George's Channel.
Libau is bombarded by German warships.
A German air-raid on Calais.
April 1 (Thur.)
South-West Africa:—Union forces seize Hasuur.
A British air-raid on Hoboken and Zeebrugge.
April 4 (Easter Sunday)
South-West Africa:—Warmbad is occupied by Union forces.
April 5 (Mon.)
The French attack at Les Eparges.
Caucasus:—Artvin is occupied by the Russians.
April 6 (Tues.)
A German counter-attack at Les Eparges.
April 8 (Thur.)
The French win the summit of Les Eparges.
April 9 (Fri.)
A final German counter-attack at Les Eparges is repulsed.
April 12 (Mon.)
Germany places 39 British officers in detention barracks as a reprisal against the treatment of submarine prisoners by Great Britain (see March 8 and June 12).
Mesopotamia:—The British are attacked at Shaiba.
April 14 (Wed.)
Mesopotamia:—The Battle at Shaiba ends in the defeat of the Turks.
A Zeppelin raid on the Tyneside.
April 15 (Thur.)
A Zeppelin raid on East Anglia.
April 16 (Fri.)
Northern Persia:—Urmia is occupied by the Turks.
April 17 (Sat.)
The British capture 'Hill 60,' near Ypres.
South West Africa:—Seeheim is occupied by Union forces.
April 18 (Sun.)
The Germans counter-attack on 'Hill 60' and regain part of it.
On the North-West Frontier of India Mohmand Inshkar is defeated by the British.
April 20 (Tues.)
Fierce fighting on 'Hill 60.' The Germans bombard Ypres.
April 21 (Wed.)
The Germans are driven from 'Hill 60' (see May 5).
April 22 (Thur.)
The Second Battle of Ypres (see May 24) begins; poison gas is used by the Germans for the first time; the Canadians suffer heavily.
April 24 (Sat.)
A second German gas attack; the Germans storm St. Julien.
April 25 (Sun.)
Alsace:—The French lose ground on the Hartmannsweilerkopf.
April 25–26 (Sun.-Mon.)
The Allies land in Gallipoli (the Battle of Cape Helles).
April 27 (Tues.)
The Baltic Provinces are invaded by the Germans.
The British positions in Gallipoli are consolidated.
The French armoured cruiser Leon Gambetta is torpedoed and sunk at the entrance of the Straits of Otranto (night of 26–27).
The British submarine E14 enters the Sea of Marmora.
April 28 (Wed.)
The German offensive is held at Ypres.
Alsace:—The French retake the Hartmannsweilerkopf, the summit of which had been lost on the 25th.
Gallipoli:—The First Battle for Krithia: the Allies are repulsed.
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