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1914

August

06
- Auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich sails from TsingtaoIn early August 1914 the armed liner Prinz Eitel Friedrich left the German base of Tsingtao in China to join Admiral von Spee's squadron.
- Admiral von Spee's squadron leaves PohnpeiOn 6 August 1914 Admiral von Spee's German East Asia Squadron sailed from Pohnpei in the Carolines. Its odyssey across the Pacific had begun.
30
- New Zealanders occupy SamoaOn 29–30 August 1914 New Zealand troops occupied German Samoa without a fight. Germany lost its second colony of the war after Togoland.

September

October

November

December

1915

March

14
- Sinking of the cruiser DresdenOn 14 March 1915 British ships cornered the cruiser Dresden in Chile's Cumberland Bay. Her crew scuttled the ship, the last German cruiser on the high seas.

1917

January

14
- Explosion of the cruiser TsukubaOn 14 January 1917 the magazine of the Japanese battlecruiser Tsukuba blew up in Yokosuka harbour. The ship sank and more than 150 men were killed.

February

16
- British–Japanese agreement on the German islandsIn mid-February 1917 London secretly promised to back Japan's claims to Shantung and the islands north of the equator. In return Japan sent destroyers.

August

02
- Seeadler wreckedOn 2 August 1917 the German sailing ship Seeadler was wrecked on the reef of Mopelia atoll in Polynesia, ending the cruise of Felix von Luckner's raider.

1918

July

12
- Explosion aboard the KawachiOn 12 July 1918 in Tokuyama Bay a magazine explosion capsized the Japanese dreadnought Kawachi. She sank in four minutes and more than 600 men were killed.