March 4—­Landing of allied troops on both sides of Dardanelles straits reported; German U-4 sunk by French destroyers.  March 10—­Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins.  March, 14—­German cruiser Dresden sunk in Pacific by English.  March 18—­British battleships Irresistible and Ocean and French battleship Bouvet sunk in Dardanelles strait.  March 22—­Fort of Przemysl surrenders to Russians.  March 23—­Allies land troops on Gallipoli peninsula.  March 25—­Russians victorious over Austrians in Carpathians.

April 8—­German auxiliary cruiser, Prinz Eitel Friedrich, interned at Newport News, Va.  April 16—­Italy has 1,200,000 men mobilized under arms; Austrians report complete defeat of Russians in Carpathian campaign.  April 23—­Germans force way across Ypres canal and take 1, prisoners.  April 25—­Allies stop German drive on Ypres line in Belgium.  April 29—­British report regaining of two-thirds of lost ground in Ypres battle.

May 7—­Liner Lusitania torpedoed and sunk by German submarine off the coast of Ireland with the loss of more than 1,000 lives, 102 Americans.  May 9—­French advance two and one-half miles against German forces north of Arras, taking 2,000 prisoners.  May 23—­Italy declares war on Austria.

June 3—­Germans recapture Przemysl with Austrian help.  June 18—­British suffer defeat north of La Bassee canal.  June 28—­Italians enter Austrian territory south of Riva on western shore of Lake Garda.

July 3—­Tolmino falls into Italian hands.  July 9—­British make gains north of Ypres and French retake trenches in the Vosges.  July 13—­Germans defeated in the Argonne.  July 29—­Warsaw evacuated; Lublin captured by Austrians.

August 4—­Germans occupy Warsaw.  Aug. 14—­Austrians and Germans concentrate 400,000 soldiers on Serbian frontier.  Aug. 21—­Italy declares war on Turkey.

September 1—­Ambassador Bernstorff announces Germans will sink no more liners without warning.  Sept. 4—­German submarine torpedoes liner Hesperian.  Sept. 9—­Germans make air raid on London, killing twenty persons and wounding 100 others; United States asks Austria to recall Ambassador Dumba.  Sept. 20—­Germans begin drive on Serbia to open route to Turkey.  Sept. 22—­Russian army retreating from Vilna, escapes German encircling movement.  Sept. 25-30—­Battle of Champagne, resulting in great advance for allied armies and causing Kaiser Wilhelm to rush to the west front; German counter attacks repulsed.

October 5—­Russia and Bulgaria sever diplomatic relations; Russian, French, British, Italian, and Serbian diplomatic representatives ask for passports in Sofia.  Oct. 10—­Gen. Mackensen’s forces take Belgrade.  Oct. 12—­Edith Cavell executed by Germans.  Oct. 13—­Bulgaria declares war on Serbia.  Oct. 15—­Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria.  Oct. 16—­France declares war on Bulgaria.  Oct. 19—­Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria.  Oct. 27—­Germans join Bulgarians in northeastern Serbia and open way to Constantinople.  Oct. 30—­Germans defeated at Mitau.