Chronology of First World War
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Alexandra and Mariesha Klos with the
Portuguese Copy of the Treaty of Versailles
at the 106th Pennsylvania Society Dinner, Waldorf=Astoria, New York. |
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28th
June, 1914
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of The
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
Austria triggers the war.
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23rd
July, 1914
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Austra-Hungary demands Serbia arrest the leaders of the Black Hand
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24th
July, 1914
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Serbia appeals to
Russia for help
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28th
July, 1914
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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29th
August 1914
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Russian
mobilization ordered.
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1st
August, 1914
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Germany declares
war on Russia
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2nd
August, 1914
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Germany demands free passage through Belgium.
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3rd
August, 1914
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Germany declares
war on France, Belgium rejects Germany's demand
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4th
August, 1914
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Moltke orders the Schlieffen Plan to proceed; Troops under Gen.
Von Kluck cross border. Halted at Liege, Great Britain at war with Germany.
Kitchener becomes Secretary of War.
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6th
August, 1914
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Troops under Gen.
Von Kluck cross border. Halted at Liege, Great Britain at war with Germany.
Kitchener becomes Secretary of War.
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7th
August, 1914
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French and British troops
invade the German protectorate of Togoland,
French forces invade Alsace. Gen. Joffre in supreme command of French
army, Montenegro at war with Austria; Lord Kitchener calls for 100,000 men to
join British Army
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8th
August, 1914
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Serbia at war
with Germany
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10th
August, 1914
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German forces in South-West Africa attacked South Africa,
Britain's Expeditionary Force lands at Ostend, Calais and Dunkirk.
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12th
August, 1914
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Montenegro at war
with Germany; Great Britain at war with Austria-Hungary; Big Bertha used
against Liege Forts; Austro-Hungarian troops invade Serbia
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14th
August, 1914
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French troops enter Lorraine
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17th
August, 1914
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Belgian capital
removed from Brussels to Antwerp
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19th
August, 1914
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Canadian Parliament authorizes raising expeditionary force.
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20th
August, 1914
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Germans occupy
Brussels
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22nd
August, 1914
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British Expeditionary Force arrives in France
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23rd
August, 1914
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Japan at war with
Germany; Begins attack on Tsingtau; Battle of Mons begins
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24th
August, 1914
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French Army abandons Plan 17; Germans enter France near Lille
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25th
August, 1914
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Viviani becomes
premier of France; Austria at war with Japan
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26th
August, 1914
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Battle of Tannenberg begins
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28th
August, 1914
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Austria declares
war on Belgium; Battle of Heligoland
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30th
August, 1914
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Amiens occupied by Germans.
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31st August,
1914
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Russian army of
invasion in East Prussia defeated at Tannenberg by Germans under Von
Hindenburg
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2nd
September, 1914
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War Propaganda
Bureau Writers Conference
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3rd
September, 1914
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Paris placed in state of siege: Government transferred to Bordeaux.
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6-10th
September, 1914
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Battle of the
Marne begins; Von Kluck is beaten by Gen. Joffre, and the German army
retreats from Paris to the Soissons-Rheims line
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11th
September, 1914
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the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force landed on
the island of Neu Pommern, which formed part of German New Guinea. Japan
seized Germany's Micronesian colonies and, after the Battle of Tsingtao, the
German coaling port of Qingdao in the Chinese Shandong peninsula.
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13th
September, 1914
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French troops
attack German Army at the River Aisne
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14th
September, 1914
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Opening of the First Battle of the Aisne; start of trench
warfare29th Antwerp bombardment
begins.
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25th
September, 1914
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Battle of Albert
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1st
October, 1914
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Battle of Arras
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2nd
October, 1914
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British Admiralty
announces intention to mine North Sea areas.
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5th
October, 1914
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First German
aircraft shot down by Allied plane
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9th
October, 1914
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Antwerp surrenders to Germans. Government removed to Ostend.
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13thOctober,
1914
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British occupy
Ypres
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14th
October, 1914
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Canadian Expeditionary Force of 32,000 men lands at Plymouth.
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15th
October, 1914
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Battle of Ypres;
Germans occupy Ostend; Belgian government removed to Havre, France
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16th
October, 1914
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Canadian troops arrive in Britain
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29th
October, 1914
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Turkey joins Central
Powers
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5th
November, 1914
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Great Britain and
France declare war on Turkey; Cyprus annexed by Great Britain
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21st
November, 1914
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Anglo-Indian invasion of Mesopotamia
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8th
December, 1914
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Off the Falkland Isles, British squadron under command of Rear-Admiral
Sturdee, sinks three of the German cruisers which had destroyed the Good Hope
and Monmouth on Nov. 1st The Dresden
escapes.
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16th December, 1914
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German squadron
bombards Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby on east coast of England.
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21st
December, 1914
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Farman MF-11 carries out first night bombing raid
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25th
December, 1914
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Christmas Truce
on the Western Front
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14th
January, 1915
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South African
forces occupy Swakopmund
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24th
January, 1915
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Battle of Dogger Bank
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4th
February, 1915
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Germany announces "war zone" in British waters
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10th
February, 1915
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Prussians
defeated by Germans in Battle of Masurian Lakes
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18th
February, 1915
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German submarine 'blockade' of British Isles begins
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19th
February, 1915
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British begin
naval action against the Dardenelles
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25th
February, 1915
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Allied fleet destroys outer forts of Dardanelles
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1st
March, 1915
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American citizen dies in sinking of first passenger ship, the
British liner, Falaba
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2nd
March, 1915
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Allied troops
land at Kum-Kale, on Asiatic side of Dardanelles.
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10th
March, 1915
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British take Neuve Chapelle in Flanders battle
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18th
March, 1915
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Allied naval
attack on the Dardanelles
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22nd
March, 1915
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Austrian fortress of Przmysl surrenders to Russians
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1st
April, 1915
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Roland Garros uses deflector plates
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22nd
April, 1915
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Second Battle of
Ypres begins the Germans (in violation of the Hague Convention) used chlorine
gas for the first time on the Western Front., Poison gas first used by
Germans in attack on Canadians at Ypres, Belgium.
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25th
April, 1915
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Allied landings at Gallipoli Peninsula
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26th
April, 1915
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France, Russia,
Italy and Britain conclude secret Treaty of London
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1st May, 1915
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American steamer
Gulflight torpedoed off Scilly Isles by German submarine; 3 lives lost.
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2nd
May, 1915
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British South Africa troops under General Botha capture
Otymbingue, German Southwest Africa.
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7th
May, 1915
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Germans capture
Libau, Russian Baltic port, Lusitania sunk by German U-boat off Irish coast
with loss of 1152 lives; 102 Americans.
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9th
May, 1915
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Artois Offensive
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23rd
May, 1915
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Italy declares
war on Austria-Hungary and begins invasion on a 60 mile front.
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25th
May, 1915
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Germany abandons Ypres offensive
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25th
May, 1915
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Asquith forms
coalition government
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31st
May, 1915
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German Zeppelins bombard suburbs of London
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4-6th
June, 1915
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German aircraft bomb English towns
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15th
June, 1915
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Allied aircraft
bombs Karlsruhe, Baden, in retaliation
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22nd June, 1915
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Lemberg recaptured by Austrians
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23rd
June, 1915
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Isonzo Offensive
begins
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26th
June, 1915
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Montenegrins enter Scutari, Albania
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9th
July, 1915
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German Southwest African surrenders to British South African
troops under Gen. Botha.
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5th
August, 1915
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Warsaw captured by Germans
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6th
August, 1915
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Gallipoli
Peninsula campaign enters a second stage with the debarkation of a new force
of British troops in Suvla Bay, on the west of the peninsula.
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8th
August, 1915
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Russians defeat German fleet of 9 battleships and 12 cruisers at
entrance of Gulf of Riga.
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19th
August, 1915
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Arabic, White
Star liner, sunk by submarine off Fastnet; 44 lives lost; 2 Americans.
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21st
August, 1915
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The Washington Post carries story that General Staff is planning
to send a force of 1 million soldiers overseas.
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24th
August, 1915
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War College
Division denies allegations in Washington Post
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25th
August, 1915
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Brest-Litovsk, Russian fortress, captured by Austro-Germans.
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28th
August, 1915
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Italians reach
Cima Cista, north-east of Trent.
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30th
August, 1915
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British submarine attacks Constantinople and damages the Galata
Bridge.
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31st
August, 1915
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Lutsk, Russian
fortress, captured by Austrians
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4th
September, 1915
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Henry Ford's
peace ship, Oskar II, begins voyage to Europe
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5th
September, 1915
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Grand Duke Nikolai sacked as Commander-in-Chief
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6th
September, 1915
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Czar Nicholas of
Russia assumes command of Russian armies. Grand Duke Nicholas is transferred
to the Caucasus.
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11th
September, 1915
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First tank demonstrated to British military leaders
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25th
September, 1915
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Allies open
offensive on Western front and occupy Lens -- Anglo-French Offensive at
Artois-Loos
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5th
October, 1915
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Franco-British
force lands at Salonika and Greek ministry resigns.
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9th
October, 1915
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Belgrade again occupied by Austro-Germans.
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12th
October, 1915
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Edith Cavell,
English nurse, shot by Germans for aiding British prisoners to escape from
Belgium.
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13th
October, 1915
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London bombarded by Zeppelins; 55 persons killed; 114 injured.
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14th
October, 1915
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Bulgaria at war
with Serbia
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15th
October, 1915
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Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
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17th
October, 1915
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France at war
with Bulgaria
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19th October,
1915
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Italy and Russia at war
with Bulgaria.
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29th
October, 1915
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Briand becomes
premier of France, succeeding Viviani.
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5th
November, 1915
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Nish, Serbian war
capital, captured by Bulgarians.
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24th
November, 1915
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Serbian government transferred to Scutari, Albania.
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4th
December, 1915
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Henry Ford, with large party of peace advocates, sails for
Europe on chartered steamer Oscar II, with the object of ending the war.
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13th
December, 1915
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Serbia in hands
of enemy, Allied forces abandoning last positions and retiring across Greek
frontier.
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15th
December, 1915
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Gen. Sir Douglas Haig succeeds Field Marshal Sir John French as
Commander-in-Chief of British forces in France.
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20th
December, 1915
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Dardanelles
expedition ends; British troops begin withdrawal from positions on Suvla Bay
and Gallipoli Peninsula.
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22nd
December, 1915
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Henry Ford leaves his peace party at Christiania and returns to
the United States.
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11st
January, 1915
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Greek island of Corfu occupied by French
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13th
January, 1915
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Cettinje, capital
of Montenegro, occupied by Austrians.
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27th January, 1915
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Wilson launches nationwide whistle-stop campaign to generate
support for Preparedness with three speeches in New York
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29-31st
January, 1915
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German Zeppelins
bomb Paris and towns in England.
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2nd
February, 1916
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Britain
introduces conscription
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3rd
February, 1916
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Wilson delivers final speech of Preparedness campaign in St.
Louis
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10th
February, 1916
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British
conscription law goes into effect.
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19th
February, 1916
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Kamerun, German colony in Africa, conquered by British forces
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21st
February, 1916
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Beginning of ten
month Battle of Verdun. Germans take Haumont.
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25th
February, 1916
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Fort Douaumont falls to Germans in Verdun battle.
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9th
March, 1916
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Germany declares war on Portugal on the latter's refusal to give
up seized ships, Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico
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15th
March, 1916
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Austria-Hungary
at war with Portugal, Pershing starts pursuit of Villa into Mexico
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24th
March, 1916
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French passenger ship, Sussex, torpedoed with many Americans aboard,
sunk by submarine off Dieppe. No Americans lost.
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31st
March, 1916
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Melancourt taken
by Germans in Verdun Battle
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4th
April, 1916
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merican naval and
military attaches in Paris and London draft plan for mobilizing US shipping
to carry an American army to Europe, but their plan is ignored
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19th
April, 1916
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President Wilson publicly warns Germany not to pursue submarine
policy.
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20th
April, 1916
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Russian troops
landed at Marseilles for service on Frenchfront.
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24th
April, 1916
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Rebellion begins in Ireland on Easter Monday. Republic declared.
Patrick Pearse announced as first President.
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27th
April, 1916
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Marshal Lord
Kitchener, British Secretary of State for War, asking for American military
participation in Europe
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29th
April, 1916
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British force of 9000 men, under Gen. Townshend, besieged in
Kut-el-Amara, surrenders to Turks.
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30th
April, 1916
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Irish rebellion ends with unconditional
surrender of Pearse and other leaders, who are tried by court-martial and
executed.
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4th
May, 1916
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Germany renounces
submarine policy "Sussex Pledge"
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8th
May, 1916
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Cymrio, White Star liner, torpedoed off Irish coast.
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14th
May, 1916
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Italian positions
penetrated by Austrians
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15th
May, 1916
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Vimy Ridge gained by British
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26th
May, 1916
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Bulgarians invade
Greece and occupy forts on the Struma.
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31st
May, 1916
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Jutland naval battle; British and German fleets engaged; heavy
losses on both sides.
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3rd
June, 1916
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National Defense Act authorizes five-year expansion of US Army,
but at the same time drastically limits size and authority of US War
Department General Staff
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4th
June, 1916
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Russian Brusilov
Offensive
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5th
June, 1916
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Lord Kitchener British Secretary of War, loses his life when the
cruiser Hampshire, on which he was voyaging to Russia, is sunk off the Orkney
Islands, Scotland.
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6th
June, 1916
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Germans capture
Fort Vaux in Verdun attack.
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21st
June, 1916
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Allies demand Greek demobilization
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27th
June, 1916
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King Constantine
orders demobilization of Greek army.
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1st
July, 1916
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Start of
Anglo-French Somme Offensive and British suffer approximately 60,000
casualties on the first day, British
and French attack north and south of the Somme.
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14th
July, 1916
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British penetrate German second line, using cavalry
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15th
July, 1916
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Longueval
captured by British
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25th
July, 1916
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Pozieres occupied by British
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29th
July, 1916
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29 US Marines
land in Haiti
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30th
July, 1916
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British and French advance between Delville Wood and the Somme,
Jersey City, N.J. munitions plant destroyed; German sabotage suspected
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3rd
August, 1916
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French recapture Fleury.
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9th
August, 1916
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Italian Gorizia
Offensive
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27th
August, 1916
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Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary
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28th
August, 1916
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Italy at war with
Germany, Germany at war with Romania
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29th
August, 1916
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Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff
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31st
August, 1916
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Bulgaria at war
with Romania. Turkey at war with Romania, Germany suspends submarine assaults
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2nd
September, 1916
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Bulgarian forces
invade Romania along the Dobrudja frontier.
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13th
September, 1916
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Italians defeat Austrians on the Carso.
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15th September,
1916
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British capture
Flers, Courcelette, and other Germans positions on Western front, using tanks
for the first time
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26th
September, 1916
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Combles and Thiepval captured by British and French.
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29th
September, 1916
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Romanians begin
retreat from Transylvania.
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15th
October, 1916
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Germany resumes
U-boat attacks under search and destroy rules
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24th
October, 1916
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French recapture Douaumont Fort at Verdun
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2nd
November, 1916
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Fort Vaux evacuated by Germans
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7th
November, 1916
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Wilson wins
reelection, which was in doubt until the California returns
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13th
November, 1916
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British advance along the Ancre
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18th
November, 1916
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Somme Offensive
ends
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21st
November, 1916
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Britannic, mammoth British hospital ship, sunk by mine in Aegean
Sea.
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22nd
November, 1916
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Emperor Franz
Josef of Austria-Hungary, dies. Succeeded by Charles I.
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23rd
November, 1916
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German warships bombard English coast.
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28th
November, 1916
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Romanian
government is transferred to Jassy, First Germany airplane raid on London.
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29th
November, 1916
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Beatty replaces Jellicoe as C-in-C of Grand Fleet
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1st
December, 1916
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Allied troops enter Athens to insist upon surrender of Greek
arms and munitions.
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6th
December, 1916
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Bucharest,
capital of Romania, captured by Austro-Germans.
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7th
December, 1916
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David Lloyd George succeeds Asquith as Prime Minister.
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12th
December, 1916
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Germans issue
peace note suggesting compromise peace'; Nivelle becomes French Western Front
C-in-C
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15th
December, 1916
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French complete recapture of ground taken by Germans in Verdun battle.
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18th
December, 1916
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President Wilson
makes peace overtures to belligerents.
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26th
December, 1916
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Germany replies to President's note and suggests a peace
conference.
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30th
December, 1916
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French government
on behalf of Entente Allies replies to President Wilson's note and refuses to
discuss peace till Germany agrees to give restitution, reparation and
guarantees.
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1st
January, 1917
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Turkey declares
its independence of suzerainty of European powers; Ivernia, Cunard liner, is
sunk in Mediterranean.
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9th
January, 1917
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German leaders decide to launch unrestricted U-boat warfare.
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19th
January, 1917
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Battle of Gaza
begins; United States declares war on Germany; Start of Arras offensiveStart
of Nivelle Offensive;
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31st
January, 1917
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Germany announces resumption of unrestricted U-boat warfare
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1st
February, 1917
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Germany resumes unrestricted U-boat warfare
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3rd
February, 1917
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United States
severs diplomatic relations with Germany. Count Von Bernstorff is handed his
passports.
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7th February, 1917
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California, Anchor liner, is sunk off Irish coast.
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13th
February, 1917
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Africa, White
Star liner, sunk by submarine.
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17th
February, 1917
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British troops on the Ancre capture German positions.
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24th February, 1917
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Great Britain
releases Zimmermann Note to US
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25th February, 1917
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Laconia, Cunard liner, sunk off Irish coast.
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26th
February, 1917
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Kut-el-Amara
recaptured from Turks by new British Mesopotamian expedition under command of
Gen. Sir Stanley Maude, Wilson requests authority from Congress to arm US
merchant ships
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28th
February, 1917
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United States government makes public a communication from
Germans to Mexico proposing an alliance, and offering as a reward the return
of Mexico's lost territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona; Submarine
campaign of Germans results in the sinking of 134 vessels
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1st
March, 1917
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Zimmermann Note released to press by State Department; Armed
Ship Bill passes House
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3rd
March, 1917
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British advance
on Bapaume, Mexico denies having received an offer from Germany suggesting an
alliance.
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4th
March, 1917
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Senate adjourns without passing Armed Ship Bill; "Little group of willful men"
successfully filibuster
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10th
March, 1917
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Russian Czar
suspends sittings of the Duma
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11th
March, 1917
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Bagdad captured by British forces under Gen. Maude.
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12th
March, 1917
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Wilson announces
arming of merchant ships by executive order
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14th
March, 1917
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China breaks with Germany
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15th
March, 1917
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Culmination of "February Revolution"; Czar
Nicholas II abdicates, Prince Lvoff heads new cabinet.
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17th
March, 1917
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Bapaume falls to British. Roye and Lassigny occupied by French.
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18th
March, 1917
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Peronne, Chaulnes, Nesle and Noyon evacuated
by Germans, who retire on an 85-mile front. City of Memphis, Illinois, and
Vigilancia, American ships, torpedoed.
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19th
March, 1917
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Alexander Ribot becomes French premier, succeeding Briand.
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21st
March, 1917
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Healdton,
American ship, bound from Philadelphia to Rotterdam, sunk without warning; 21
men lost.
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26-31st
March, 1917
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British advance on Cambrai.
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29th
March, 1917
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Wilson publicly
calls for a national army to be "raised and maintained exclusively by
selective draft"
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1st
April, 1917
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Aztec, American
armed ship, sunk in submarine zone, German submarine campaign exacts heaviest
damage of war: 881,027 gross tons, 500,000 of which are British.
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2nd
April, 1917
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Wilson delivers war address to Congress at 8:32 pm
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5th
April, 1917
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Missourian,
American steamer sunk in Mediterranean.
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6th
April, 1917
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US declares war on Germany
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7th
April, 1917
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Cuba and Panama at war with Germany.
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8th
April, 1917
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Austria-Hungary breaks with United States
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9th
April, 1917
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Germans retreat
before British on long front- Bolivia breaks with Germany
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12th
April, 1917
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Canadian Army captures Vimy Ridge
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13th
April, 1917
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Vimy, Givenchy,
Bailleul and positions about Lens taken by Canadians.
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16th
April, 1917
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2nd Battle of the Aisne begins, Lenin arrives in Russia
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17th
April, 1917
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French tanks used
for the first time in battle
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20th
April, 1917
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Turkey breaks with United States.
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22nd
April, 1917
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President Wilson
suggests to the belligerents a peace without victory.
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31st
April, 1917
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Germany announces intention of sinking all vessels in war zone
around British Isles.
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9th
May, 1917
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Liberia breaks with Germany
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11th
May, 1917
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Russian Council
of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates demands peace conference.
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15th
May, 1917
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Petain becomes French Western Front C-in-C
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16th
May, 1917
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Maria Bochkareva
forms the Women's Battalion
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17h
May, 1917
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Honduras breaks with German
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18th
May, 1917
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Selective Service
Act signed by Wilson.
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19th
May, 1917
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John Pershing given command of AEF; Nicaragua breaks with
Germany.
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22-26th
May, 1917
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Italians advance
on the Carso
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5th
June, 1917
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Registration day
for new draft army in United States
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7th
June, 1917
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British attack at Messines, Messines-Wytschaete ridge in English
hands, General Staff issues plan to ship American forces at a rate of 120,000
per month beginning in August; this rate of dispatch would not be realized
until April 1918
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8th
June, 1917
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Gen. Pershing,
Commander-in-Chief of American expeditionary force, arrives in England en
route to France.
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15th
June, 1917
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Espionage Act
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18th
June, 1917
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Haiti breaks with
Germany
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25th
June, 1917
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United States troops arrive in France
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26th
June, 1917
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First US troops
(1st Division) arrive in France
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29th
June, 1917
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Greece declares war on the Central Powers
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1st
July, 1917
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Russians begin offensive in Gallicia, Kerensky, Minister of War,
leading in person.
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6th
July, 1917
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Canadian House of
Commons passes Compulsory Military Service Bill.
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7th
July, 1917
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King George V changes name to Windsor
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6th
July, 1917
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Canadian House of
Commons passes Compulsory Military Service Bill.
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12th
July, 1917
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King Constantine of Greece abdicates in favor of his second son,
Alexander.
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12-23rd
July, 1917
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Retreat of
Russians on a front of 155 miles
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20th
July, 1917
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Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian premier, succeeding Lvoff. -
Drawing of draft number for American conscript army begins.
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22nd
July, 1917
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Siam at war with
Germany and Austria
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31st July, 1917
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Franco-British attack penetrates German lines on a 20-mile
front.
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1st
August, 1917
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Pope Benedict XV makes plea for peace on a basis of no
annexation, no indemnity.
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7th
August, 1917
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Liberia at war
with Germany.
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8th
August, 1917
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Canadian Conscription Bill passes its third reading in Senate.
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14th
August, 1917
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China at war with
Germany and Austria-Hungary
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15th
August, 1917
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Canadian troops capture Hill 70, dominating Lens
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19th
August, 1917
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Italians cross
the Isonzo and take Austrian positions.
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28th
August, 1917
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Pope Benedict's peace plea rejected by President Wilson.
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3rd
September, 1917
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Riga captured by Germans.
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14th
September, 1917
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Paul Painleve
becomes French premier, succeeding Ribot.
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16th
September, 1917
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Russia proclaimed a republic by Kerensky.
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20th
September, 1917
|
Costa Rica breaks
with Germany.
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21st
September, 1917
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General Tasker H. Bliss
named Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
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26th
September, 1917
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Zonnebeke,
Polygon Wood and Tower Hamlets, east of Ypres, taken by British.
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29th
September, 1917
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Turkish Mesopotamian army, under Ahmed Bey, captured by British.
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3rd
October, 1917
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War Revenue Act; graduated income tax authorized
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6th
October, 1917
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Peru and Uruguay
break with Germany.
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9th
October, 1917
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Poelcapelle and other
German positions captured in Franco- British attack.
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12th
October, 1917
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British Offensive
at Passchendaele
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17th
October, 1917
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Antilles, American transport, westbound from France, sunk by
submarine; 67 lost.
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23rd
October, 1917
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American troops
in France fire their first shot in trench warfare, French advance northeast
of Soissons
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24th
October, 1917
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Italian Caproretto Offensive
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25th
October, 1917
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Italians retreat
across the Isonzo and evacuate the Bainsizza Plateau.
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26th
October, 1917
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Brazil at war with Germany.
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31st
October, 1917
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Beersheba, in
Palestine, occupied by British
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1st
November, 1917
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Germans abandon
position on Chemin des Dames
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3rd
November, 1917
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Americans in trenches suffer 20 casualties in German attacks.
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6th
November, 1917
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Passchendaele
captured by Canadians, British Mesopotamian forces reach Tekrit, 100 miles
northwest of Bagdad.
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7th
November, 1917
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The Russian Bolsheviki, led by Lenin and Trotzsky, seize
Potrograd and depose Kerensky.
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8th
November, 1917
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Gen. Diaz
succeeds Gen. Cadorna as Commander-in-Chief of Italian armies
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10th
November, 1917
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Lenin becomes Premier of Russia, succeeding Kerensky.
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15th
November, 1917
|
Georges
Clemenceau becomes Premier of France, succeeding Painlove.
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18th
November, 1917
|
Sir Frederick Maude dies in Mesopotamia
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20th
November, 1917
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Massed tank
attack at Cambrai
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21st
November, 1917
|
Bolshevik government disbands Women's Battalion, Ribecourt,
Flesquieres, Havrincourt, Marcoing and other German positions captured by
British.
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23rd
November, 1917
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Italians repulse
Germans on the whole front from the Asiago Plateau to the Brenta River.
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24th
November, 1917
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Cambrai menaced by British, who approach within three miles,
capturing Bourlon Wood.
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1st
December, 1917
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German East Africa reported completely conquered, Allies' Supreme
War Council, representing the United States, France, Great Britain and Italy,
holds first meeting at Versailles.
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3rd
December, 1917
|
Russian
Bolsheviki arrange armistice with Germans.
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5th
December, 1917
|
British retire from Bourlon Wood, Grain court and other
positions west of Cambrai.
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7th
December, 1917
|
Finland declares
independence, United States and Austria-Hungary at war
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9th
December, 1917
|
Jerusalem, held by the Turks for 673 years, surrenders to
British, under Gen. Allenby.
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10th
December, 1917
|
Panama at war
with Austria-Hungary.
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11th
December, 1917
|
United States at war with Austria-Hungary.
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15th
December, 1917
|
Armistice signed
between Germany and Russia at Brest-Litovsk.
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17th
December, 1917
|
Coalition government of Sir Robert Borden is returned and
considered confirmed in Canada.
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22nd
December, 1917
|
Central Powers
and Soviets open peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk
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8th
January, 1918
|
Wilson announces
14 Points Peace Programme
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3rd
March, 1918
|
Soviet Russia and
Central Powers make peace with Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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21st
March, 1918
|
Start of German Spring Offensive
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23rd
March, 191i
|
German offensive
redirects towards Amiens and Paris.
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28th
March, 1918
|
German Operation 'Mars' repulsed at Arras
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29th
March, 1918
|
Foch appointed
Allied Coordinator in France
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4-5th
April, 1918
|
Australians halt
German advance at Villers Bretonneux.
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9th
April, 1918
|
German launch 'Georgette' offensive against British at Lys.
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23-24th
April, 1918
|
British attempt
to blockade Ostend harbor fails.
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1st
May, 1918
|
Sedition Act;
amendment to Espionage Act of 1917
|
25th
May, 1918
|
German U-boats make their first appearance in US waters
|
27th
May, 1918
|
German offensive
'Blucher' launched - 3rd Battle of the Aisne begins
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29th
May, 1918
|
German troops advance to the Marne but are stopped by US
Divisions.
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15th-16th
June, 1918
|
Austrian offensive at Asiago defeated by combined British and
French force.
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2nd
July, 1918
|
Allied Supreme War Council supports intervention in Siberia
|
4th
July, 1918
|
Battle of Le
Hamel
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6th
July, 1918
|
Wilson agrees to American intervention in Siberia
|
15th
July, 1918
|
Opening of last
phase of Ludendorff launches final German offensive - 2nd Battle of the Marne
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18th
July, 1918
|
Allied counterattack seizes strategic initiative from Germans; nine US divisions
participate15th
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20th
July, 1918
|
German retreat at
the Marne
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8th
August, 1918
|
Anglo-French
counter-attack at Amiens supported by heavy artillery and 400 tanks achieves
major successes. Ludendorff describes it as 'the Black Day' for the German
Army
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21st
August, 1918
|
Allied breakthrough at Albert
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4th
September, 1918
|
American troops land at Archangel in North Russia
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12th
September, 1918
|
United States
launches St. Mihiel offensive
|
23rd
September, 1918
|
British 15th Cavalry Brigade attacks Haifa
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26th
September, 1918
|
Allied offensive
at Meuse
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28th
September, 1918
|
Kiel mutiny by German sailors
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3rd
October, 1918
|
Germans and Austrians send notes to Wilson requesting an
armistice; Max von Baden appointed Chancellor of Germany
|
5th October,
1918
|
Allied forces
capture the Hindenburg Line
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21st
October, 1918
|
Germany ceases unrestricted U-boat warfare
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26th
October, 1918
|
Ludendorff is
dismissed
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28th
October, 1918
|
Kiel mutiny by German sailors
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1st
November, 1918
|
Americans breakthrough German defenses at Meuse
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3rd
November, 1918
|
Mutiny of the
German fleet at Kiel, Americans cut vital Lille-Metz rail link.
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5th
November, 1918
|
Congressional elections result in Republican control of Congress
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9th
November, 1918
|
Kaiser Wilhelm II
of Germany abdicates
|
11th
November, 1918
|
On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh
month, the Armistice is signed effectively halting the War.
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18th
November, 1918
|
Wilson announces
that he will attend peace conference personally
|
28th
November, 1918
|
The final Treaty of Versailles, is signed.
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14th
December, 1918
|
Lloyd George wins British General Election
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12th
January, 1919
|
Paris Peace Conference
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