Cigarette card featuring Sir Archibald Murray 1915. Image courtesy WD & HO Wills.
- General Sir Archibald Murray is appointed British commander-in-chief in the Middle East. He would later lead the Allied forces, including the Australian Light Horse, in the war against Turkey in the Sinai and Palestine.
- Fourteen people are killed and 26 injured during a German air raid on Kent
- French forces repulse German soldiers at Poivre Hill in the Battle of Verdun
- Russian forces are successful to the north-west of Uscieczko in the River Dniester district of the Ukraine
- Russian forces enter Ispahan in Persia
