1917

The year 1917 AD
==Events==
* C. S. Lewis enlists in the British Army.
* Communist revolution in Russia establishes the Soviet Union, whose official religion is Atheism. Orthodox Church in America separates from the Russian Orthodox Church.
* Vernon L. Kellogg's Headquarters Nights discusses Darwinism.
* Pope Benedict XV offers the encylical, Humani Generis Redemptionem.
* 'April: Pope Benedict XV appoints Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII) as papal nuncio to Bavaria.
* May 13: Pope Benedict XV appoints Pacelli as the archbishop of Sardis
* May 27: Pope Benedict XV promulgates the Codex Iuris Canonici, which unifies the canon law of the Latin Rite into a single code. 
* August: Pope Benedict XV offers the seven-point Papal Peace proposal in an attempt to end World War I. Only Woodrow Wilson responds directly, calling the proposal premature.
==Births and Deaths==
* October 1: Birth of Cahal Brendan Cardinal Daly of Ireland, Retired Archbishop of Armagh. Member of the College of Cardinals in 1991. 
* November 25: Birth of Luigi Cardinal Poggib of Italy, retired Librarian and Archivist of the Holy Roman Church. Member of the College of Cardinals in 1994.
==See also==
* 20th century
Category:20th century