1917.

• Jan. 1.—Turkey denounced Berlin Treaty of 1878.
• Feb. 1.—"Unrestricted" U-Boat War begun.
• 3.—America broke with Germany.
• 6.—British captured Grandcourt.
• 24.—British took Kut-el-Amara.
• Mar. 11.—British entered Baghdad.
• 12.—Revolution in Russia.
• 15.—Abdication of the Tsar.
• 18.—British entered Peronne.
• 21.—First British Imperial War Cabinet.
• April 6.—America declared war on Germany.
• 9.—Battle of Vimy Ridge begun.
• May 4.—French took Craonne.
• 14.—New Italian Offensive.
• 15.—General Petain French C.-in-C.
• June 7.—British Victory at Messines Ridge.
• 12.—Abdication of King Constantine.
• 26.—First. American troops in France.
• 27.—Mesopotamia Report issued.
• 29.—General Allenby commander in Egypt.
• July 1.—Last Russian offensive begun.
• 14.—Bethmann-Hollweg dismissed.
• 17.—British Royal House styled "Windsor."
• 19.—Reichstag "Peace" Resolution.
• 24.—Russian defeat in Galicia.
• 31.—Great Allied attack around Ypres.
• Aug. 29.—President Wilson's Note to the Pope.
• Sept. 4.—Germans occupied Riga.
• 15.—Russian Republic proclaimed.
• 28.—British Victory at Ramadieh.page 585
• Oct. 9.—Allied attack in Flanders.
• 24.—Italian defeat at Caporetto.
• 29.—Fall of Udine.
• 30.—Chancellor Michaelis dismissed.
• 31.—British captured Beersheba.
• Nov. 1.—German Retreat on Chemin des Dames.
• 4.—British troops in Italy.
• 6.—British stormed Passchendaele Ridge.
• 7.—British captured Gaza.
• 8.—Bolshevist coup d'etat in Russia.
• 9.—Italian stand on the Piave.
• 17.—British in Jaffa.
• 18.—General Maude's death in Mesopotamia.
• 20.—British Victory at Cambrai.
• 30.—German reaction at Cambrai.
• Dec. 6.—Armistice on Russian Front.
• 9.—British captured Jerusalem.
• 22.—Brest Conference opened.
• 26.—Sir R. Wemyss First Sea Lord.