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bia.
December 9.-Germany announces
Serbia is entirely conquered.
December 19.-Allies evacuate Gal
lipoli.
February II, 1916.-Russians capture
Erzerum, Turkey.
February 23.-Germans open Verdun
offensive.
April 1S.-Russians take TrebIzond,
Turkey.
April 24.-Irish revolt In Dublin.
April 2S-Britlsh besieged in Kut-el-
Amara, Mesopotamia, surrender.
May 30.-Battle of Jutland; IA Brit
ish and Is German warships sunk.
June 5.-Lord Kitchener drowned
when cruiser Hampshire is torpedoed
north of Scotland.
June 17.-Russians retake Czerno-
WITT, capital of Bukowina, in great Of
fensive.
June 20-Arabs rebel from Turkey,
capture Mecca; new kingdom estab-
lished.
June 27-British and French In
great drive in west.
July 9.-Submarlne merchantmen
Deutschland reaches Baltimore.
July 27.-Russians retake Brody,
northern Galicia.
August Galatians take Gorilla.
July 10.-Russians take Stanislau,
Galicia.
August 2S.-Roumania enters war on
side of the entente, and invades Tran
sylvanla.
September 6.-Germany begins great
squeeze on Roumana.
November 10-First great air bat
tie of worlds history; 81 British,
French and German airplanes brought
down.
December 5.-Teutons take Bu-
charest.
December 11.-Germany openly prof
fers peace to her enemies.
December 81 President Wilson
asks both sides to define their war
aims.
January II, 1917.-News received
German cruiser Moewe has taken "a
ships In South Atlantic.
January 22.-Wilson asking "peace
without victory" demands United
States enter world league at close Of
war.
January 31.-Germany declares ruth
less submarine warfare on all ships,
whatever nationality, In the war zones.
February 3.-United States sewers
diplomatic relations with Germany.
February 26.-President asks con-
gress for authority to arm all Ameri-
can vessels.
February 26.-Brltish capture Kut-
el-Amara.
February 2S.-Zimmermann note
suggesting alliance of Mexico and
Japan with Germany against United
States made public.
March 11.-British capture Bagdad.
March 11.-Russian revolution starts.
March 15.-CZar Indicates.
March 17.-Germans begin big
strategic retirement" on west front.
April 3.-Wilson asks congress to
declare a state of war with Germany.
April 6.-President signs congress
resolution proclaiming war.
April Cuba declares war on Ger
many.
April 9.-AustrIa-Hungary breaks
diplomatic relations with United
States.
April 9.-British storm Vimy Ridge.
April 10.-Brazil breaks diplomatic
relations with Germany.
April 16.-French in great offensive
near Aisne river.
April 19.-American freighter Mon
golia sinks q submarine, this being
the first American victory of the war.
April 2S.-Both houses of congress
pass selective draft army bill.
May 15.-Big Italian offensive in
Carso begins.
June 3.-Chinese royalists name
Chang Hsun dictator; Germans assist
plot.
June 5.-Amerlcans register for
army draft without disorder.
June british blow up Messines
ridge; explosion heard in London.
June S.-General Pershing reaches
England.
June liking Constantine of
Greece abdicates; nation prepares to
join allies.
June 13.-153 killed, 430 injured in
London by German airplane raid.
June 15.-United States Liberty
Loan closes, with billion oversub-
scription.
June 27.-Announce arrival of first
American army in France.
June 2S.-Brazil joins in war.
June 30.-Russians begin big offen-
sive in Galicia led by War Minister
Kerensky in person.
July 2.-Chinese empire declared re-
established; republicans prepare to re-
sist.
July 7.-Twenty-two German air.
planes of immense new type kill 43,
lnjure 1877, in London.
July S.-Wilson orders export en-