1917 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1917?
- January 9, 1917 – World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
- January 17, 1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
- January 19, 1917 – Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
- January 23, 1917 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 3, 1917 – World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
- February 24, 1917 – World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
- March 8, 1917 – International Women’s Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).
- March 10, 1917 – Batangas is formally founded as one of the Philippines’s earliest encomiendas.
- April 2, 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
- July 2, 1917 – The East St. Louis Riots end.
- July 6, 1917 – World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
- July 27, 1917 – The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
- October 17, 1917 – First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
- October 26, 1917 – World War I: Brazil declared in state of war with Central Powers.
- November 7, 1917 – The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
- November 20, 1917 – Ukraine is declared a republic.
- November 25, 1917 – German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
- November 28, 1917 – The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
- December 6, 1917 – Finland declares independence from Russia.
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