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1914 November 1
 
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Maximilian von Spee sinks two British cruisers off Coronel, on the Pacific coast of south America      
1914 November 2
 
    
Russia declares war on the Ottoman empire       
1914 November 5
 
     
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman empire        
1914 November 9
 
    
The German cruiser Emden is sunk off the Cocos-Keeling islands by an Australian cruiser, the Sydney       
1914 November 16
 
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The German enclave of Qingdao, in China, falls to the Japanese after a two-month siege      
1914 November 23
 
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A British force seizes the Turkish port of Basra, to safeguard the supply of Persian oil      
1914
 
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from November - with the battle lines stablized to the coast, the German and Allied armies settle in for years of gruesome trench warfare       
1914 December
 
  
German planes cross the Channel and bomb Dover     
1914 December
 
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Roger Casement travels to Germany to persuade Irish prisoners of war to change sides and invade Ireland      
1914 December 7
 
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Maximilian von Spee's squadron of cruisers is sunk by the British off the Falkland Islands