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| 1917 |
| | | New York responds with enthusiasm when the Original Dixieland Jazz Band performs a new kind of music in Reisenweber's restaurant | |
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| 1917 |
| | | The Jones Act gives Puerto Ricans US citizenship and a popularly elected Senate and House of Representatives | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Jeeves and Bertie Wooster make their first appearance in P.G. Wodehouse's The Man with Two Left Feet | |
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| 1917 |
| | | John Ireland's Second Violin Concerto meets with immediate approval | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Silent film comedian Harold Lloyd adopts the glasses and the straw hat that become his familiar props | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Wounded at the front on the Somme, the poet Wilfred Owen is invalided home to Britain | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Amedeo Modigliani's first Paris exhibition is immediately closed by the police because it contains paintings of nudes | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Parade brings together Massine (choreography), Satie (music), Cocteau (libretto) and Picasso (sets and costumes) | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Piet Mondrian and other Dutch artists establish the movement known as De Stijl, together with a magazine of the same name | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Eamon de Valera, newly released from prison, is elected to lead Sinn Fein | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat is produced by Diaghilev with choreography by Massine and designs by Picasso | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Comedian Buster Keaton makes his first appearance in a film, The Butcher Boy | |
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| 1917 |
| | | The first annual prizes are awarded, under the terms of Joseph Pulitzer's will, for the best new US novel, play, history and biography | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Australia Felix is the first in Henry Handel Richardson's trilogy of novels about her father | |
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| 1917 |
| | | Race riots against migrant southern blacks in East St Louis, Missouri, leave forty-eight dead | |
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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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| 1917 March 11 |
| | | The British commander Stanley Maude captures Baghdad from the Turks | |
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| 1917 March 11 |
| | | Crowds demonstrating in Petrograd are fired on after tsar Nicholas II sanctions the use of force | |
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| 1917 March 12 |
| | | An uprising in Petrograd brings the Peter and Paul fortress into the hands of the rebels | |
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| 1917 March 15 |
| | | With his capital city in the hands of rebels, tsar Nicholas II abdicates | |
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| 1917 March 1 |
| | | The Petrograd Soviet demands drastic reforms in return for supporting the proposed Provisional Government in Russia | |
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| 1917 March 15 |
| | | Prince Georgi Lvov becomes prime minister in Russia's new Provisional Government | |
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| 1917 April |
| | | The German authorities allow Lenin to travel home from Switzerland through Germany, hoping for Communist disruption of the Russian war effort | |
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| 1917 April |
| | | Lenin expounds in Petrograd the new theory of his April Theses, predicting the possibility of imminent revolution | |
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| 1917 April 6 |
| | | Woodrow Wilson, president of the USA, declares war on Germany | |
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| 1917 April |
| | | Trotsky hurries back to Russia from exile in the United States | |
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| 1917 April |
| | | German U-boats sink 430 Allied and neutral merchant ships in this month alone | |
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| 1917 April 12 |
| | | Canadian troops take Vimy Ridge, subsequently the site of Canada's most important war memorial | |
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| 1917 June |
| | | The Allies frustrate the German U-boats by introducing the convoy system | |
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| 1917 June |
| | | A Russian summer offensive against the Germans results in massive loss of life and territory | |
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