New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-11-22
1916

1916
Jan. S-British troops ut Kut-el-
Amara surrounded.
Jan. 9-Brltish evacuate GallipOli
peninsula.
jan. 13-Austrians capture Cetinje,
capital of Montenegro.
Jan. ~23-Scutari. capital OF Albania,
captured by Austrlans.
Feb. 22-Crown princes army begins
attack on Verdun.
March S-Germany declares war on
Portugal.
March l5-Austrla- Hungary declares
war on Portugal.
March 24-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-InsurrectiOn In Dublin.
April D-Brltish troops ut Kut-el-
Anara surrender to Turks.
April 30-Irish revolution sup
pressed.
May 3-Irish leaders of instruction
executed.
May 4-Germany makes promise to
change methods of submarine warfare.
May 13--Austrians begin great Often
sive against Italians In Trentino.
May 3l-Great naval battle off Dan
ish coast.
June 5-LOrd Kitchener lost with
cruiser Hampshire.
June l1-Itussians capture Dubno.
June 29-Sir Roger Easement e n
fenced to be hanged for reason.
July British and French begin
great offensive on the SOmme.
July 6pavid Lloyd George appoint
ed secretary OF war.
July 9-German merchant submarine
Deutschland arrives ut Baltimore.
July 23-General KurOpatkln'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. 4-French recapture Thinu-
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. S-Turks force Russian evacu-
alton of Bltlis and Mush.
Aug. Galatians cross IsOnzo river
and occupy Austrian city Of Goerltz.
Aug. 1O-Austrians evacuate Stanis-
lau; allies take Dorian, heal Saloniki,
from Bulgarians.
Aug. 19-German submarines sink
British light cruisers Nottingham and
Falmouth.
Aug. 24-French occupy Maurcpas,
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.-Field Marshal o linden
burg made chief Of staff Of German
armies, succeeding Gen. Won Falken-
hayn.
Aug. 3O-Itussian armies seize all
five passes in Carpathians into Hun
gary.
Sept. 3-Allies renew offensive north
of Somme; Bulgarian and German
troops invade Dobrudja, in ROumania.
Sept. 7-Germans and Bulgarians
capture ROumanian fortress of Tutra-
kan: ItOumanians take OrSOva, Bull
gariun city.
Sept. Observation-Disclosures army
captures ItOumanian fortress of sill
tria.
Sept. 14-British for first time use
"tanks."
Sept. 15-ltalians begin new often
sive on CarsO.
Oct. 2-ROumanian army of inva-
sion in Bulgaria defeated by Germans
and Bulgarians under Won Mackensen.
Oct. Herman submarines sink
French cruiser Gallia and Cunard liner
FrancOnia.
Oct. Sherman submarines sink six
merchant steamships off 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.