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After a four-day battle, the French drive the German forces back over the river Marne
The Germans adopt a defensive position at the river Aisne in northern France, in the first sign of the trench warfare that will characterize the entire war in the west
from September - the German and French armies, attempting to outflank each other, engage in a race to the sea
British planes, taking off from Dunkirk, bomb Cologne railway station and destroy Germany's latest Zeppelin in its great shed at Düsseldorf
Turkey, launching an attack on Russian ports in the Black Sea, enters the war on the German side
from October - there are heavy casualties on both sides, and a small advantage to the Allies, in the fighting round Ypres during the 'race to the sea'
British troops are driven to the western front in London Transport double-deckers
More than 30,000 troops in the Canadian Expeditionary Force sail to fight with Britain
H.G. Wells publishes The War that will end War, offering an optimistic prediction of the present conflict leading to a future world state
Maximilian von Spee sinks two British cruisers off Coronel, on the Pacific coast of south America
Russia declares war on the Ottoman empire
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman empire
The German cruiser Emden is sunk off the Cocos-Keeling islands by an Australian cruiser, the Sydney
The German enclave of Qingdao, in China, falls to the Japanese after a two-month siege
A British force seizes the Turkish port of Basra, to safeguard the supply of Persian oil
from November - with the battle lines stablized to the coast, the German and Allied armies settle in for years of gruesome trench warfare
German planes cross the Channel and bomb Dover
Roger Casement travels to Germany to persuade Irish prisoners of war to change sides and invade Ireland
Maximilian von Spee's squadron of cruisers is sunk by the British off the Falkland Islands
Leonard and Virginia Woolf move to Hogarth House, in Paradise Road, which remains their home for ten years
Harold Macmillan sees action for the first time in the battle of Loos and is wounded
An employee of the Metropolitan Railway coins the term Metro-land when promoting the company's services in London's suburbs
Mahatma Gandhi returns to India after more than twenty years in South Africa
Alexander Graham Bell again summons his assistant Thomas Watson (as in 1876), but this time he is in New York and Watson in San Francisco
Manuel de Falla's ballet El Amor Brujo, including the 'Ritual Fire Dance', is performed in Paris
