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Events relating to asia
The Balkan states and the Ottoman empire agree an armistice in Bucharest, ending the Second Balkan War
A coup led by Enver Pasha brings the Young Turks to power in Istanbul
Yuan Shikai outlaws the Guomindang party in the republic of China, to give himself unchallenged power as president
Construction begins on the government buildings in New Delhi, designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert 1Baker
Germany and the Ottoman empire sign a secret treaty of alliance
Japan, with her own local agenda in the far east, declares war on Germany
from August - the German cruiser Emden carries out successful raids on British shipping in the seas around India
Turkey, launching an attack on Russian ports in the Black Sea, enters the war on the German side
Russia declares war on the Ottoman empire
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman empire
The German cruiser Emden is sunk off the Cocos-Keeling islands by an Australian cruiser, the Sydney
The German enclave of Qingdao, in China, falls to the Japanese after a two-month siege
A British force seizes the Turkish port of Basra, to safeguard the supply of Persian oil
Mahatma Gandhi returns to India after more than twenty years in South Africa
Winston Churchill is heavily involved in a bold plan to secure Allied access through the Dardanelles to the Black Sea
British and French battleships are sunk by mines in the Dardanelles, with the loss of 620 French sailors on one of them
British and French troops, together with the Australian and New Zealander Army Corps (ANZAC), land in Gallipoli
from May - hundreds of thousands of Armenians die as the Turks forcibly remove them from their homelands
from July - the Russians advance through Turkish Armenia and push west into Anatolia as far as Trabzon
A British and Indian force is defeated by the Turks at Ctesiphon, on the bank of the Tigris
Allied troops begin a withdrawal from the Dardanelles after the abject failure of the Gallipoli campaign
Britain and France sign the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement, dividing up spheres of influence in the Middle East
The British garrison at Kut, on the Tigris, surrenders to the Turks after a five-month siege
Sharif Hussein, the emir of Mecca, proclaims himself the leader of the Muslim world, thus launching an Arab revolt against the Ottoman empire
Foreign Secretary A.J. Balfour declares Britain's conditional support for a homeland in Palestine for the Jews
