Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07
100 Most Important
Events In Great War

4 July 2S.-Captaih Charles Fryatt. oI
British merchant ship which had
sunk U-boat, executed by Germany
August 9.-Italians take Gorilla.
August 10 Russians takr Staislau
Galicia.
/ August 2S Roumauia enters war on
side of Entente. and mades Transyl
vania. .
September G.-Germany begins great
squeeze of Roumania.
November To- First great air bat
tie of worlds history: ~ British
French ana German aeroplanes
brought down.
December 5.-Teutons take Buchar
est.
/ December 1l.-Germany openly prof
fers peace TO her enemies
December 21.-President Wilson
asks both sides to define their war
aims.
January II. l9l7.-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 3l.-Germany declares ruth
less submarine warfare on all ship.
whatever nationality, in the war zones
FEBRUARY 3--Uhited States sewers
diplomatic relations with Germany.
February 2g.-President asks Con
gress for authority to arm all Amer
lean vessels.
February 26 British capture Kut-
el-Amara.
February 2S.-Zinmerman note
suggesting alliance of Mexico and ia
pan with Germany against United
States made public.
March ll.-British capture Bagdad.
March II. - Russian revolution
starts.
March 15.--Czar abdcates.
March II - Germans begin big
strategic retirement on west front
April Wilson asks Congress to
declare a state of war with Germany
April president signs Congress
resolution proclaiming war
April Cuba declares war on Ger
many.
April Austria Hungary breaks
diplomatic relations with the United
States.
April British storm vimy Ridge.
April 10.-Brazl breaks diplomatic
relations with Germany.
April l6.-French in great offensive
near Aisne River.
April -. American freighter Mon
goia sinks a submarine, this being
the first American success in the war
April 2S.-Both Houses of Congress
pass Selective Draft Army Bill.
May 15.-Big Italian offensive in
tuIso ueSfHS.
May l6.-News received that Amer
lean destroyers are assisting British
off Ireland
June 3-Chinese Royalists name
Chang Hsun dictator; Germans assist
plot.
June Americans register for
army draft without disorder.
July 7.--Twenty-two German aero
Ridge; explosion heard in London.
June S.-General Pershing reaches
England.
June Fixing Constantine of
Greece abdicates; nation prepares to
Join Allies.
June 13.--l53 killed, 43O injured in
London by German aeroplane raid.
June l5.-'United States Liberty
Loan closes, with billion oyersubscrip.
ton.
June 10 Admiral Sims, of L. s.
navy, commands allied feet off Ire.
land.
June G--Announce arrival of first
American army in France
June 2S.--'Brazil joins in war
June 3G.-Russans begin big often.
slve In Galicia led by War Minister
Kerensky in person.
July 2.-ChineGe Empire declared re
established Republicans prepare to
resist.
July twenty-five German aero
planes Of immense new type kill 43, in.
lure 1877. in London.
July l2.--Chinese Empire falls;
hang Hsun fees to Dutch legation in
peking.
July l3.--In biggest afr battle so far
3ritish claim downing OF thirty Ger.
nan planes on west front.
July l4.-Von Belhmann-Hollweg,
'erman Imperial chancellor. resigns
md the Kaiser appoints DR.. George
liehaelis in his place.
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