Historical place archive

Eren Key Bay in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Eren Key Bay in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

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Historical events in Eren Key Bay

1915

8 March 1915
Battle of Gallipoli
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill · World War, 1st

The event that decided the battle took place on the night of March 8 when the Ottoman minelayer Nusret laid a line of mines in Eren Key Bay, a wide bay along the Asian shore just inside the entrance to the straits

Provenance

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