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| 1917 |
| | | Foreign Secretary A.J. Balfour declares Britain's conditional support for a homeland in Palestine for the Jews | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Chequers, in the Chilterns, is privately donated to the nation to become the British prime minister's country residence | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Otto Klemperer starts a seven-year spell as music director of Cologne opera, and begins to acquire an international reputation | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Paul Valéry wins praise for his long symbolic poem La Jeune Parque | |
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| 1917 |
| | | A massive explosion devastates Halifax, in Canada, after a collision involving a French munitions ship | |
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| 1917 |
| | | The US Congress passes the Eighteenth Amendment, legislating for the introduction of Prohibition | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Anti-German feeling causes the British royal family to adopt the name Windsor instead of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha | |
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| 1917 March |
| | | German troops on the western front begin withdrawal to the recently constructed defences of the Hindenburg Line | |
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| 1917 March 1 |
| | | A deciphered telegram, from the German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann, inflames US public opinion by promising Texas and more to Mexico | |
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| 1917 March 10 |
| | | A mutiny by soldiers, in support of Petrograd demonstrators, proves a turning point in Russia's February revolution | |
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