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| 1917 July 6 |
| | T.E. Lawrence and an Arab force surprise the Turkish garrison at Aqaba and win an overwhelming victory | |
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| 1917 July 17 |
| | An armed uprising in Petrograd disperses after Lenin declines to give support | |
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| 1917 July |
| | Trotsky is imprisoned and Lenin flees to Finland as Russia's Provisional Government cracks down on the Bolsheviks | |
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| 1917 July 21 |
| | Prince Lvov steps down as head of the Provisional Government in Russia and is replaced by Alexander Kerensky | |
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| 1917 July 31 |
| | Haig sends British troops over the top in the third battle of Ypres | |
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| 1917 August |
| | Kerensky dismisses Kornilov as commander-in-chief, antagonizing the right wing in Russia | |
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| 1917 September |
| | Russian opinion polarizes, with support growing for left-wing Bolsheviks and right-wing Kadets | |
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| 1917 September |
| | Trotsky, released from prison, stages a coup to win Bolshevik control of the Petrograd Soviet | |
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| 1917 October |
| | Lenin, in disguise, returns from Finland to Petrograd, where he hides in the flat of a party worker | |
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| 1917 October 23 |
| | Lenin persuades the Bolshevik central committee to vote for an armed insurrection | |
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| 1917 October 15 |
| | The dancer Mata Hari is executed in France as a German spy | |
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| 1917 |
| | Ocxtober 24 - a victory at Caporetto enables the Austrian army to penetrate far into northeast Italy | |
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| 1917 November |
| | Women are enlisted into Britain's army (Women's Auxiliary Corps) and navy (Women's Royal Naval Service) | |
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| 1917 November 3 |
| | The soldiers of the Petrograd garrison mutiny on being ordered to the front | |
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| 1917 November 5 |
| | The Peter and Paul fortress is taken, giving the Bolsheviks control of Petrograd | |
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| 1917 November 6 |
| | British and Canadian infantry, slithering through a morass of mud, capture the village of Passchendaele | |
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| 1917 November 7 |
| | Edmund Allenby takes the Palestinian town of Gaza, at the third British attempt | |
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| 1917 November 7 |
| | Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace in Petrograd and arrest the ministers of the Provisional Government | |
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| 1917 November 8 |
| | Lenin issues a Decree of Peace, inviting Russia's enemies to enter into immediate peace negotiations | |
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| 1917 November 8 |
| | Lenin's Decree on Land abolishes private ownership of large estates and promises the land to the peasants | |
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| 1917 November 8-12 |
| | The Bolsheviks attempt to stifle opposition in the run-up to the election for Russia's new Constituent Assembly | |
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| 1917 November 20 |
| | Suitable ground is selected by the British at the battle of Cambrai for the first serious deployment of their new tanks | |
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| 1917 December |
| | The Cheka (origin of the KGB) is established to suppress political dissent in Russia | |
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| 1917 December |
| | Wartime scarcity causes sugar rationing to be imposed in Britain, to be followed soon by meat and butter and related products | |
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| 1917 December 9 |
| | The British commander Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem from its Turkish defenders | |
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| 1918 |
| | Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle is finally staged in Budapest, nine years after its composition | |
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| 1918 |
| | The British viceroy in Dublin imprisons 73 Sinn Fein leaders, including Eamon de Valera, on allegations of a German plot | |
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| 1918 |
| | British women are at last given the right to vote, but only if aged 30 or over | |
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| 1918 |
| | Wafd, a national party, is formed in Cairo with the purpose of ending Egypt's enforced link with Britain | |
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| 1918 |
| | Lytton Strachey fails to show conventional respect to four famous Victorians in his influential volume of short biographes entitled Eminent Victorians | |
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| 1918 |
| | In Alexander Blok's poem The Twelve, Christ leads his apostles in support of Russia's revolution | |
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| 1918 |
| | Rebecca West publishes her first novel, The Return of the Soldier | |
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| 1918 |
| | The Russian artist Kasimir Malevich begins a series of White on White paintings | |
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| 1918 |
| | Marie Stopes, a committed advocate of birth control, publishes Married Love, a frank discussion of sexual relations | |
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| 1918 |
| | Eric Gill completes his Stations of the Cross for Westminster Cathedral | |
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| 1918 |
| | Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld produces his 'Red and Blue Chair', under the influence of the De Stijl movement | |
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| 1918 |
| | Wilfred Owen, having returned to the front, is killed by machine-gun fire a week before the end of the war | |
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| 1918 |
| | In My Antonia Willa Cather's heroine survives setbacks on the Nebraska frontier | |
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| 1918 |
| | Countess Markiewicz, an Irish republican, is elected a member of Britain's House of Commons but refuses to take her seat | |
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| 1918 |
| | Lloyd George, fighting the British general election as head of a coalition, devastates the Liberal opposition | |
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| 1918 January |
| | Supporters of the old regime within the Russian army prepare to use force against the new Bolshevik regime | |
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| 1918 January 8 |
| | President Woodrow Wilson formulates fourteen detailed proposals as a basis for world peace once the conflict has ended | |
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| 1918 January I9 |
| | Lenin dissolves the elected assembly in Petrograd to establish a one-party Soviet state | |
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| 1918 March |
| | Lavr Kornilov leads the heroic Ice March which boosts the morale of the White Russians | |
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| 1918 March |
| | The Bolsheviks, now in power, change their name to the more resounding Russian Communist Party | |
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| 1918 March 3 |
| | At Brest-Litovsk Lenin signs a peace treaty with Germany and Austria, ceding vast territories and valuable resources | |
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| 1918 March 10 |
| | Lenin moves the capital of Russia from Petrograd back to Moscow | |
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| 1918 March 13 |
| | Trotsky, given the task of creating an army for the Bolsheviks, conscripts peasants from the villages | |
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| 1918 April 21 |
| | The German air ace Baron von Richthofen is finally shot down, after himself destroying 80 Allied planes | |
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