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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

	1917 July 17
	An armed uprising in Petrograd disperses after Lenin declines to give support

	1917 July
	Trotsky is imprisoned and Lenin flees to Finland as Russia's Provisional Government cracks down on the Bolsheviks

	1917 July 21
	Prince Lvov steps down as head of the Provisional Government in Russia and is replaced by Alexander Kerensky

	1917 July 31
	Haig sends British troops over the top in the third battle of Ypres

	1917 August
	Kerensky dismisses Kornilov as commander-in-chief, antagonizing the right wing in Russia

	1917 September
	Russian opinion polarizes, with support growing for left-wing Bolsheviks and right-wing Kadets

	1917 September
	Trotsky, released from prison, stages a coup to win Bolshevik control of the Petrograd Soviet

	1917 October
	Lenin, in disguise, returns from Finland to Petrograd, where he hides in the flat of a party worker

	1917 October 23
	Lenin persuades the Bolshevik central committee to vote for an armed insurrection

	1917 October 15
	The dancer Mata Hari is executed in France as a German spy

	1917
	Ocxtober 24 - a victory at Caporetto enables the Austrian army to penetrate far into northeast Italy

	1917 November
	Women are enlisted into Britain's army (Women's Auxiliary Corps) and navy (Women's Royal Naval Service)

	1917 November 3
	The soldiers of the Petrograd garrison mutiny on being ordered to the front

	1917 November 5
	The Peter and Paul fortress is taken, giving the Bolsheviks control of Petrograd

	1917 November 6
	British and Canadian infantry, slithering through a morass of mud, capture the village of Passchendaele

	1917 November 7
	Edmund Allenby takes the Palestinian town of Gaza, at the third British attempt

	1917 November 7
	Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace in Petrograd and arrest the ministers of the Provisional Government

	1917 November 8
	Lenin issues a Decree of Peace, inviting Russia's enemies to enter into immediate peace negotiations

	1917 November 8
	Lenin's Decree on Land abolishes private ownership of large estates and promises the land to the peasants

	1917 November 8-12
	The Bolsheviks attempt to stifle opposition in the run-up to the election for Russia's new Constituent Assembly

	1917 November 20
	Suitable ground is selected by the British at the battle of Cambrai for the first serious deployment of their new tanks

	1917 December
	The Cheka (origin of the KGB) is established to suppress political dissent in Russia

	1917 December
	Wartime scarcity causes sugar rationing to be imposed in Britain, to be followed soon by meat and butter and related products

	1917 December 9
	The British commander Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem from its Turkish defenders

	1918
	Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle is finally staged in Budapest, nine years after its composition

	1918
	The British viceroy in Dublin imprisons 73 Sinn Fein leaders, including Eamon de Valera, on allegations of a German plot

	1918
	British women are at last given the right to vote, but only if aged 30 or over

	1918
	Wafd, a national party, is formed in Cairo with the purpose of ending Egypt's enforced link with Britain

	1918
	Lytton Strachey fails to show conventional respect to four famous Victorians in his influential volume of short biographes entitled Eminent Victorians

	1918
	In Alexander Blok's poem The Twelve, Christ leads his apostles in support of Russia's revolution

	1918
	Rebecca West publishes her first novel, The Return of the Soldier

	1918
	The Russian artist Kasimir Malevich begins a series of White on White paintings

	1918
	Marie Stopes, a committed advocate of birth control, publishes Married Love, a frank discussion of sexual relations

	1918
	Eric Gill completes his Stations of the Cross for Westminster Cathedral

	1918
	Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld produces his 'Red and Blue Chair', under the influence of the De Stijl movement

	1918
	Wilfred Owen, having returned to the front, is killed by machine-gun fire a week before the end of the war

	1918
	In My Antonia Willa Cather's heroine survives setbacks on the Nebraska frontier

	1918
	Countess Markiewicz, an Irish republican, is elected a member of Britain's House of Commons but refuses to take her seat

	1918
	Lloyd George, fighting the British general election as head of a coalition, devastates the Liberal opposition

	1918 January
	Supporters of the old regime within the Russian army prepare to use force against the new Bolshevik regime

	1918 January 8
	President Woodrow Wilson formulates fourteen detailed proposals as a basis for world peace once the conflict has ended

	1918 January I9
	Lenin dissolves the elected assembly in Petrograd to establish a one-party Soviet state

	1918 March
	Lavr Kornilov leads the heroic Ice March which boosts the morale of the White Russians

	1918 March
	The Bolsheviks, now in power, change their name to the more resounding Russian Communist Party

	1918 March 3
	At Brest-Litovsk Lenin signs a peace treaty with Germany and Austria, ceding vast territories and valuable resources

	1918 March 10
	Lenin moves the capital of Russia from Petrograd back to Moscow

	1918 March 13
	Trotsky, given the task of creating an army for the Bolsheviks, conscripts peasants from the villages

	1918 April 21
	The German air ace Baron von Richthofen is finally shot down, after himself destroying 80 Allied planes

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