February French Lieutenant Roland Garros mounts a machine gun on his aircraft, shot down first the German aircraft. Anthony H. G. Fokker perfects his design for a synchronizing gear to allow machinegun fire through a rotating propeller. British begin naval action against the Dardenelles 10. Prussians defeated by Germans in Battle of Masurian Lakes. German submarine 'blockade' of British Isles begins.
Allied fleet destroys outer forts of Dardanelles.
American citizen dies in sinking of first passenger ship, the British liner, Falaba. George Van Horn Moseley of War College Divison suggests a plan for universal military training to Chief of Staff 2. Allied troops land at Kum-Kale, on Asiatic side of the Dardanelles. British take Neuve Chapelle in Flanders battle. Britain announces blockade of German ports 22.