Ottoman infantry surrendered at Basra. The British would control the port city for the remainder of the war.
Zeppelins of the German Navy bombed England resulting in two casualties.
The Armenian Druzhina seized the lake side city of Van, Turkey.
Ernest Shackleton wrote in his log that the Endurance was at risk of being "crushed like an eggshell" by the piling mass of ice.
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Ernest Shackleton ordered his crew to build ice kennels for the expeditions dogs and covert teh interior of The Endurance, now stuck in the ice for the winter, into winter quarters.
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While the rest of the world was fighting tooth and nail with each other, the Ross Sea Party established a shore base at Cape Evans, Antarctica, in support of the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition.
Greek King Constantine created the Order of George, named after his father, in honor of Greek citizens who had given exceptional public service to Greece. In 1973 it was succeeded by the Order of Honour.
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The French Fourth Army launched attacks from Artois and Champagne-Ardenne.
British Indian troops were dealt a setback by the Germans at Givenchy.
The Aurora arrived at Hobart, Tasmania, Australia to take on final stores before journeying to the Antarctic before proceeding to the same to set out a base for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, still proceeding in spite of the outbreak of World War One.
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Wars within wars, a feature of World War One and World War Two, commenced with a battle between the Austro Hungarian backed Polish Legion and the Imperial Russian Army. The Russians prevaled in the action at at the villages of Laski and Anielin.
Both the Austro Hungarians and the Russians would back different bands of Polish nationalists.
British and French colonial troops captured Edéa in German Cameroon.
The Norwegian schooner Endurance, carrying members of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition arrived at the South Georgia Islands.
In another expedition, this one much further north, Captain Robert Bartlett and eight survivors of Karluk arrived in Victoria, British Columbia on USS Bear.
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The UK passed the first Defence of the Realm Act authorizing wartime censorship.
French forces took Muhouse in Alsace, although they'd be pushed back out two days later.
German colonial authorities executed Cameroonian resistance leaders Martin-Paul Samba and Rudolf Duala Manga Bell for treason.
The Shackleton Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition left the UK for Antarctica, seemingly out of context and now out of their own times.
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