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In the face of a threatened Japanese invasion, Chinese president Yuan Shih-k'ai accepts the conditions laid down in Japan's Twenty-One Demands of 18 January. The terms expand Japanese commercial and political privileges in China and seriously erode Chinese sovereignty.
The British Liberal and Conservative Parties enter into a coalition government for the duration of the war, with Herbert Asquith staying on as prime minister.
Austrian forces bombard Venice, Italy.
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