- Conscription begins in Britain as the Military Service Act comes into effect
- US Secretary of War Lindley M. Garrison resigns following disagreements with President Woodrow Wilson over America’s national defense strategies
- The Germans are repulsed south of Frise on the Western Front
- The remaining 75,000 troops of the Serbian army arrive in Corfu
- The German Government advises the US Government that defensively armed merchantmen will be considered belligerents from 1 March
