20.—Germans occupy Brussels.
23.—Japan at war with Germany. Begins attack on Tsingtau.
24.—Germans enter France near Lille.
25.—Austria at war with Japan.
26.—Louvain sacked and burned by Germans. Viviani becomes premier of France.
28.—British fleet sinks three German cruisers and two destroyers off Heligoland.
28.—Austria declares war on Belgium.
29.—Russians invest Konigsberg, East Prussia. New Zealanders seize German Samoa.
30.—Amiens occupied by Germans.
31.—Russian army of invasion in East Prussia defeated at Tannenberg by Germans under Von Hindenburg.