1917

	Cp	19th century
	C	20th century
	Cf	21st century
	Yp1	1914
	Yp2	1915
	Yp3	1916
	Year	1917
	Ya1	1918
	Ya2	1919
	Ya3	1920
	Dp3	1880s
	Dp2	1890s
	Dp1	1900s
	D	1910s
	Dn1	1920s
	Dn2	1930s
	Dn3	1940s

1917 (''' MCMXVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday of the Gregorian Calendar (see link for calendar) or a Common Year Starting On Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian Calendar .

EVENTS

January-February

January 2 - The Royal Bank Of Canada takes over Quebec Bank .

Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.

January 25 - The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million

January 25 - Anti- Prostitution drive in San Francisco attracts huge crowds to public meetings. At one meeting attended by 7000 people, 20000 are kept out for lack of room. In a conference with Rev. Paul Smith, an outspoken foe of prostitution, 300 prostitutes make a plea for toleration explaining they had been forced into the practice by poverty. When Smith asked if they would take other work at $8 to $10 a week, the ladies laughed derisively, which lost them public sympathy. The police close about 200 houses of prostitution shortly thereafter {Link without Title}

January 26 - The sea defences at the village of Hallsands, Devon are breached, leading to all but one of the houses becoming uninhabitable

January 28 - The United States ends search for Pancho Villa

January 30 - Pershing 's troops in Mexico begin to withdraw to USA. They reach Columbus, New Mexico February 5

announces its U-boat s will engage in unrestricted Submarine warfare.

February 3 - World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany

February 5 - The constitution of Mexico is adopted.

February 13 - Mata Hari is arrested for Spy ing

Walter H. Page is given the Zimmermann Telegram , in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico if Mexico will declare war on the United States.

March-April

March 1 - U.S. government releases the Plaintext of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public

March 1 - Japanese city Omuta, Fukuoka is founded

March 2 - The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Rican s United States citizenship.

March 4 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman member of the United States House Of Representatives .

March 8 (N.S.) ( February 23 , O.S.) - The Russian Revolution begins with the overthrow of the Tsar .

March 8 - The United States Senate adopts the Cloture rule in order to limit Filibuster s.

March 11 - Mexican Revolution - Venustiano Carranza elected president of Mexico - USA gives recognition of his government '' De Jure ''

March 15 (N.S.) ( March 2 , O.S.) - Tsar Nicholas II Of Russia abdicates.

March 17 (N.S.) ( March 4 , O.S.) - Grand Duke Michael refuses the throne and power in Russia passes to the newly-formed Provisional Government under Prince Georgy Lvov .

March 21 - The Danish West Indies become the Virgin Islands when Denmark transfers control over the islands to the United States after the purchase of the islands on January 25 .

- British cavalry troops retreat after 17,000 Turks block their advance.

March 31 - The United States takes possession of the Virgin Islands after paying $25 million to Denmark.

for a Declaration Of War on Germany.

April 6 - World War I: United States declares war on Germany. text

April 10 - Ammunition factory explodes in Chester, Pennsylvania - 133 dead.

severs relations with Germany.

April 16 - Lenin arrives in Petrograd .

April 16 - The Nivelle Offensive commences.

May-October

May 9 - The Nivelle Offensive was abandoned.

May 13 - Three peasant children claim to see the Virgin Mary above a Holm Oak tree in Cova Da Iria near Fatima , Portugal .

May 13 - The Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII , is consecrated Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV L'Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, 12/19 August 1998, page 9

passes the U.S. Congress giving the President the power of Conscription .

May 21 - Over 300 acres (73 blocks) destroyed in Great Atlanta Fire Of 1917

May 26 - Tornado strikes Mattoon , Illinois causing devastation and killing 101 persons.

May 27 - Over 30.000 French troops refuse to go to the trenches in Missy-aux-Bois

June 1 - French infantry regiment seizes Missy-aux-Bois and declares anti-war military government. French army soon apprehend them

begins in the United States as "Army registration day."

June 13 - World War I: First major German bombing raid on London left 162 dead and 432 injured

June 15 - The United States enacts the Espionage Act .

July 1 - Labor Dispute ignites a Race Riot in East St. Louis, Illinois . Over 250 dead.

July 6 - Arabian troops led by T.E. Lawrence capture Aqaba from the Turks.

July 12 - Phelps Dodge Corporation deports over 1000 suspected IWW members from Bisbee, Arizona

July 17 - King George V Of The United Kingdom issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor .

July 20 - Corfu Declaration that enabled post-war Kingdom Of Yugoslavia was signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia

July 20 (N.S.) ( July 7 , O.S.) - Alexander Kerensky becomes Premier of the Russian Provisional Government , replacing Prince Georgy Lvov .

July 25 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first Income Tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).

July 28 - The Silent Protest was organized by the NAACP in New York to protest the East St. Louis Massacre of July 2nd, as well as lynchings in Texas and Tennessee.

August 17 - One of literature's most important and most famous meetings takes place when Wilfred Owen introduces himself to Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh .

is passed in the Canadian House Of Commons giving the Canadian government the right to conscript men into the army.

outside of Paris , Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by Firing Squad for Spying for Germany.

October 19 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.

declared in state of war with Germany.

November

November - Don Republic declares Independence from Soviet Russia

proclaims British support for Jew ish settlement in Palestine .

in Belgium .

, with leaders the Bolsheviks and the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin attacked against the ineffective Kerensky Provisional Government (Russia was still using the Julian Calendar at the time, so period references show a October 25 date. The Soviets of Workers, Farmers and Soldiers took for the first time in history the economy and the administration of a country.

ends - United Kingdom forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire .

November 15 - Finland takes a step towards full Sovereignty recognizing the Personal Union with Russia finished after the Tsar being dethroned.

November 16 - British troops occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa in Palestine .

November 16 - Georges Clemenceau becomes prime minister of France

begins - British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are soon beaten back.

November 20 - Ukraine is declared a republic.

November 22 - In Montreal , Canada , the National Hockey Association breaks up (on November 26 it was replaced with the National Hockey League ).

November 26 - The National Hockey League is formed.

November 29 - Striking coal miners at Rostov declare Don Soviet Republic - it lasts two weeks.

December

December 3 - After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on August 29 1907 and September 11 1916 ).

December 6 - Finland's Declaration Of Independence .

and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1963 people, injures 9000 and destroys part of the city. Until Hiroshima , this was the biggest manmade explosion.

December 11 - British troops take Jerusalem from the troops of the Ottoman Empire

December 25 - '' Why Marry? '', first dramatic play to win a Pulitzer Prize , opens at the Astor Theatre in New York City .

December 26 - United States president Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession And Control Act to take control of nearly all American Railroad s under the United States Railroad Administration so they can be more efficiently used to transport troops and materials for the war effort.