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Collection Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914 to 1919

1917

  • Jan. 1

    Turkey denounced Berlin Treaty.

  • Feb. 1

    "Unrestricted" U-Boat war begun.

  • Feb. 3

    America broke with Germany.

  • Feb. 24

    British recaptured Kut-el-Amara.

  • March 11

    British entered Bagdad.

  • March 12

    Revolution in Russia.

  • March 15

    Abdication of the Czar.

  • March 18

    British entered Péronne.

  • March 21

    First British Imperial War Cabinet.

  • April 6

    America declared war on Germany.

  • April 9

    Battle of Vimy Ridge begun.

  • May 4

    French took Craonne.

  • May 14

    New Italian offensive.

  • May 15

    General Petain French Commander in Chief.

  • May 18

    Selective draft law passed in United states.

  • June 7

    British victory at Messines Ridge.

  • June 12

    Abdication of King Constantine.

  • June 26

    First American troops in France.

  • June 29

    General Allenby commander in Egypt.

  • July 1

    Last Russian offensive begun.

  • July 14

    Bethmann Hollweg dismissed.

  • July 17

    British Royal House styled "Windsor."

  • July 10

    Reichstag "peace" resolution.

  • July 21

    Kerensky in power at Petrograd.

  • July 24

    Russian defeat in Galicia.

  • July 31

    Great allied attack around Ypres.

  • Aug. 20

    President Wilson's note to the Pope.

    [Detail] "Londoners scoot for the nearest cellar when they see a bobby wearing this Zeppelin card."  New York Tribune, August 12, 1917, [6].

  • Sept. 4

    Germans occupied Riga.

  • Sept. 15

    Russian Republic proclaimed.

  • Sept. 28

    British victory at Ramadieh.

  • Oct. 9

    Allied attack in Flanders.

  • Oct. 24

    Italian defeat at Caporetto.

  • Oct. 20

    Fall of Udine.

  • Oct. 30

    Chancellor Michaelis dismissed.

  • Oct. 31

    British captured Beersheba.

  • Nov. 1

    German retreat on Chemin des Dames. Hertling German Chancellor.

  • Nov. 4

    British troops in Italy.

  • Nov. 6

    British stormed Passchendaele Ridge.

  • Nov. 7

    Lenine and Trotzky in power; Bolshevist coup d'etat in Russia.

  • Nov. 8

    Italian stand on the Plave.

  • Nov. 16

    Clemenceau Ministry.

  • Nov. 17

    British in Jaffa.

  • Nov. 18

    General Maude's death in Mesopotamia.

  • Nov. 20

    British victory at Cambrai.

  • Nov. 29

    First plenary session of Interallied War Council.

  • Nov. 29

    German success at Cambrai.

  • Dec. 9

    Armistice on Russian front.

  • Dec. 10

    British enter Jerusalem.

  • Dec. 22

    Brest-Litovsk Conference opened.

  • Dec. 26

    Sir R. Wemyss First Sea Lord.

Excerpted from The War of the Nations: Portfolio of Rotogravure Etchings, 526-27.