on Suvla Bay and Gallipoli Peninsula.

22.--Henry Ford leaves his peace party at Christiania and returns to the
United States.

1916

January

11.--Greek island of Corfu occupied by French.

13.--Cettinje, capital of Montenegro, occupied by Austrians.

23.--Scutari, Albania, taken by Austrians.

29-31.--German Zeppelins bomb Paris and towns in England.

February

1.--Appam, British liner, is brought into Norfolk, Va., by German prize
crew.

10.--British conscription law goes into effect.

16.--Erzerum, in Turkish Armenia, captured by Russians under Grand Duke
Nicholas.

19.--Kamerun, German colony in Africa, conquered by British forces.

21.--Battle of Verdun begins. Germans take Haumont.

25.--Fort Douaumont falls to Germans in Verdun battle.

27.--Durazzo, Albania, occupied by Austrians.

March

5.--Moewe, German raider, reaches home port after a cruise of several
months.

9.--Germany declares war on Portugal on the latter's refusal to give up
seized ships.

15.--Austria-Hungary at war with Portugal.

24.--Sussex, French cross-channel steamer, with many Americans aboard,
sunk by submarine off Dieppe. No Americans lost.

31.--Melancourt taken by Germans in Verdun Battle.

April

18.--Trebizond, Turkish Black Sea port, captured by Russians.

19.--President Wilson publicly warns Germany not to pursue submarine
policy.

20.--Russian troops landed at Marseilles for service on French front.

24.--Irish rebellion begins in Dublin. Republic declared. Patrick Pearse
announced as first president.

29.--British force of 9000 men, under Gen. Townshend, besieged in
Kut-el-Amara, surrenders to Turks.

30.--Irish rebellion ends with unconditional surrender of Pearse and
other leaders, who are tried by court-martial and executed.

May

8.--Cymric, White Star liner, torpedoed off Irish coast.

14.--Italian positions penetrated by Austrians.

15.--Vimy Ridge gained by British.

26.--Bulgarians invade Greece and occupy forts on the Struma.

31.--Jutland naval battle; British and German fleets engaged; heavy
losses on both sides.

June

5.--Kitchener, British Secretary of War, loses his life when the cruiser
Hampshire, on which he was voyaging to Russia, is sunk off the Orkney
Islands, Scotland.

6.--Germans capture Fort Vaux in Verdun attack.

8.--Lutsk, Russian fortress, recaptured from Germans.

17.--Czernowitz, capital of Bukowina, occupied by Russians.

21.--Allies