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Chronology Of World War 1
NAVAL OPERATIONS
1914
Aug. 2-Germans bombard Liepaja, Latvia.
Aug. 24-Allied warships bombard Kotor on the Adriatic.
Aug. 28-Battle takes place in Bight of Helgoland.
Oct. 29-Turkish warships raid Odessa, Sevastopol, Feodosiya, and Novorossisk.
Nov. 1-British squadron is defeated off Coronel, Chile.
Nov. 2-British declare North Sea a war zone; it is mined.
Nov. 3-German cruisers bombard Yarmouth and Lowestoft; British bombard
outer Dardanelles forts.
Nov. 18-Russo-Turkish engagement occurs in Black Sea.
Dec. 8-Vice Adm. Maximilian von Spee's German squadron is destroyed
in Battle of the Falkland Islands.
Dec. 16-German cruisers bombard Scarborough, Hartlepool, and Whitby,
England.
1915
Jan. 24-Naval battle takes place in North Sea.
Feb. 4-Germans declare war zone around Great Britain, effective Feb.
18.
Feb. 10-United States protests German war zone.
Feb. 19-British bombard outer Dardanelles forts.
Feb. 25-Bombardment of Dardanelles forts is renewed.
March 1-Allies establish undeclared blockade of Central Powers.
March 4-Great naval attack on Dardanelles begins.
March 18-Dardanelles attack fails; 3 British and French warships are
sunk.
May 13-First United States note to Germany protests sinking of Lusitania
on May 7 with loss of 128 American lives.
Aug. 16-Russo-German action occurs in Gulf of Riga.
Aug. 20-Russians defeat German landing operations on Gulf of Riga.
Aug. 21-Germans evacuate Gulf of Riga.
Aug. 23-Allied fleet bombards Zeebrugge.
Sept. 6-Allied fleet bombards Ostend.
Oct. 5-German government promises to avoid attacking passenger vessels.
Oct. 21-British bombard Bulgarian coast; United States protests undeclared
Allied blockade.
1916
Jan. 18-Bulgarian coast is bombarded by Allies.
Feb. 6-Austro-Italian action occurs in Adriatic.
March 25-British destroyers and seaplanes raid zeppelin sheds in Schleswig.
March 31-British warship bombards Smyrna.
April 18-United States demands assurances that Germans will not sink
ships without warning.
April 20-German auxiliary cruiser and submarine attempt to land arms
in Ireland; cruiser is sunk.
April 25-German squadron and zeppelins raid Lowestoft and Yarmouth.
May 4-Germany replies to United States that it has ordered submarine
commanders to suspend operations against merchant shipping.
May 31-Battle of Jutland begins between major British and German forces;
ends June 1 in drawn battle. Oct. 26-German destroyer attack is made
in English Channel.
Nov. 4-Russian Fleet bombards Constanta, Rumania.
Nov. 10-Germans shell Baltic port near Tallinn; 6 to 9 destroyers are
sunk by Russians.
Nov. 26-German naval raid is made on Lowestoft.
1917
Jan. 23-German destroyers engage light British force off Netherlands.
Jan. 31-Germany announces resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare,
effective Feb. 1.
Feb. 25-German destroyers bombard Broadstairs and Margate, England.
April 20-Six German destroyers raid Dover; 3 are sunk.
April 26-German naval raid is made on Ramsgate, England.
May 10-Eleven German destroyers sally from Zeebrugge, but are forced
back by British.
May 12-British air and naval bombardment is made on Zeebrugge.
Oct. 17-Two British destroyers and 9 escorted ships are sunk off Shetland
Islands by 2 German raiders.
Nov. 17-Light cruiser fight occurs off Helgoland.
1918
April 22-23-British naval raids are made on Zeebrugge and Ostend, blocking
Bruges Canal and Ostend harbor.
May 9-10-British again raid Ostend.
July 7-British naval air forces bombard Constantinople.
July 19-United States cruiser is sunk by torpedo off Fire Island, N.Y.
Nov. 3-German sailors begin to mutiny.
Nov. 21-German High Seas Fleet surrenders to British.
1919
June 21-German crews sink most of the German fleet at Scapa Flow.
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