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ceeds Sir John French as chief o
English armies on west front.

1916
Jan. s-British troops at Kut-el-
Amara surrounded.
Jan. 9-British evacuate Gallipoli
peninsula.
Jan. 13-Austrians capture Cetinje,
capital of Montenegro.
Jan. 23-Scutari, capital Of Albania.
captured by Austrtans.
Feb. 22-Crown princes army begins
attack on Verdun.
March @Germany declares war on
Portugal.
March 15-Austria- Hungary declares
war on Portugal.
March A-Steamer Sussex torpedoed
and sunk.
April 1s-President Wilson sends
note to Germany.
April 19-President Wilson speaks to
congress, explaining diplomatic situa-
ton.
April 24-1nsurrection in Dublin.
April 29-British troops at Kut-el-
Amara surrender to Turks.
April 3O-1rish revolution sup
pressed.
May 3-Irish leaders Of insurrection
executed.
May 4-Germany makes promise to
change methods Of submarine warfare.
May 13-Austrians begin great often
sive against Italians in Trentino.
May 31-Great naval battle off Dan
ish coast.
June 5Lord Kitchener lost with
cruiser Hampshire.
June 11-Russians capture Dubno.
June 29-Sir Roger Easement SEN
fenced to be hanged for treason.
July british and French begin
great offensive on the Somme.
July 6-David Lloyd George appoint
ed secretary of war.
July 9-German merchant submarine
Deutschland arrives at Baltimore.
July 23-General Kuropatkin's army
wins battle near Riga.
July 27-English take Delville wood ;
Serbian forces begin attack on Bull
CARS in Macedonia.
Aug. 2-French take Fleury.
Aug. 3-Sir Roger Easement execut-
ed for treason.
Aug. 4EFrench recapture Thiau-
mont for fourth time; British repulse
Turkish attack on Suez canal.
Aug. Italians on Isonzo front cap
ture Monte Sabotino and Monte San
Michele.
Aug. 8-Turks force Russian evacu-
alton Of Bitlis and Mush.
Aug. Galatians cross Isonzo river
and occupy Austrian city Of Goeritz.
Aug. 1O-Austrians evacuate Stanis,
lau; allies take Dorian. near Saloniki,
from Bulgarians.
Aug. 19-German submarines sink
British light cruisers Nottingham and
Falmouth
Aug. 24-French occupy Maurepas'
north Of the Somme; Russians recap
ture Mush in Armenia.
Aug. 27-Italy declares war on Ger
many; Roumania enters war on side
Of allies.
Aug. 29.-Ffeld Marshal Won linden
burg made chief Of staff Of German
armies. succeeding Gen. Won Falken
hayn.
Aug. 3O-Russian armies seize all
five passes in Carpathians into Hun
gary.
Sept. eAllies renew offensive north
Of Somme; Bulgarian and German
troops invade Dobrudja, in Roumania
Sept. 7-Germans and Bulgarians
capture Roumanian fortress of Tutra
kan; Roumanians take Orsova, Bull
garian city,
Sept. 1O-German-Bul army
captures Roumanian fortress of Sill
trfa.
Sept. 14-British for first time use
"tanks."
Sept. 15-Italians begin new often.
sive on Carso.
Oct. 2-RoumanRn army Of inva'
sion in Bulgaria defeated by Germans
and Rulgarians under Won Mackensen
Oct. 46erman sn1yaRrines sink
French cruiser Ga1lia and Cunard liner
FRpconia.
Oct. s-Gernan subaparines sink slz
merchant steamships OH Nantucket
Mass.
Oct. 11-Greek seacoast forts dis.
mantled and turned over to allies on
demand of England and France.
Oct. 23-German-Bulgar armies cap
ture Constanza, Roumania.
1917
Jan. 1-Submarine sinks British
transport Ivernia.
Jan. eRussian premier, Trepohf, re-
signs. Golitzin succeeds him.
Jan 31-Germany announces unre-
stricted submarine warfare.
Feb. @President Wilson reviews
submarine controversy before con-
gress; United States sewers diplomatic
relations with Germany; American
steamer Housatonic sunk without
warning.
Feb. 7-Senate indorses presidents
act of breaking of diplomatic rela-