February 3 – WWI: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany.
February 12:
Club Deportivo Toluca F.C. was founded on February 12, 1917 in the house of the Ferrat-Solá family, located at number #37 on the avenue Juárez the charter of Deportivo Toluca was lifted; forming a board of directors that was joined by personalities such as Leonardo and Joaquín Sánchez, Abel Moreno and Manuel Lara.
February 24 – WWI:
Walter Hines Page, United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, is shown the intercepted
Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico, if Mexico will take sides with Germany, in case the United States declares war on Germany.
April 9–
May 16 – WWI:
Battle of Arras – British Empire troops make a significant advance on the Western Front but are unable to achieve a breakthrough.
WWI: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force begins the
Second Battle of Gaza. This unsuccessful frontal attack on strong
Ottoman defences along with the first battle, results in 10,000 casualties, the dismissal of force commander General
Archibald Murray, and the beginning of the
Stalemate in Southern Palestine.
A month of civil violence in
Milan, Italy ends, after the Italian army forcibly takes over the city from anarchists and anti-war revolutionaries; 50 people are killed and 800 arrested.[12]
June 7 – WWI:
Battle of Messines opens with the British Army detonating 24
ammonalmines under the German lines, killing 10,000 in the deadliest deliberate non-nuclear man-made explosion in history.
July – The first
Cottingley Fairies photographs are taken in
Yorkshire, England, apparently depicting fairies (a hoax not admitted by the child creators until
1981).
July 8–
13 – WWI:
First Battle of Ramadi – British troops fail to take
Ramadi from the Ottoman Empire; a majority of British casualties are due to extreme heat.
July 16–
17 –
Russian troops mutiny, abandon the
Austrian front, and retreat to
Ukraine; hundreds are shot by their commanding officers during the retreat.
The
Parliament of Finland, with a
Social Democratic majority, passes a "Sovereignty Act", declaring itself, as the representative of the Finnish people, sovereign over the
Grand Principality of Finland. The Russian Provisional Government does not recognize the act, as it would have devolved Russian sovereignty over Finland, formerly exercised by the Russian Emperor as Grand Prince of Finland, and alter the relationship between Finland and Russia into a real union, with Russia solely responsible for the defence and foreign relations of an independent Finland.
October 12 – WWI:
First Battle of Passchendaele: – Allies fail to take a German defensive position, with the biggest loss of life in a single day for New Zealand, over 800 men and 45 officers are killed, roughly 1 in 1,000 of the nation's population at this time.
Carl Swartz leaves office as Prime Minister of Sweden, after dismal election results for the right-wing in the Riksdag elections in September. He is replaced by liberal leader and history professor
Nils Edén.
October 23 – A
Brazilian ship is destroyed by a German U-boat, encouraging Brazil to enter World War I.
November 2 –
Zionism: The
British Foreign SecretaryArthur Balfour makes the
Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the "establishment in
Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..., it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
Militants from Trotsky's committee join with trusty Bolshevik soldiers, to seize government buildings and pounce on members of the provisional government.
"Night of Terror" in the United States: Influential suffragettes from the
Silent Sentinels are deliberately subjected to physical assaults by guards while imprisoned.
The
Parliament of Finland passes another "Sovereignty Act", dissolving Russian sovereignty over Finland and effectively declaring Finland independent.
November 19 – WWI:
Battle of Caporetto ends with Austrian and German forces driving the Italian army to retreat 150 kilometres south to the Piave river. The Italians lose 13,000 killed, 30,000 wounded, around 270,000 taken prisoner (mostly willingly) and 50,000
deserted; the government of
Paolo Boselli collapses on November 29.
December 26 – United States President
Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U.S. railroads under the
United States Railroad Administration, hoping to transport troops and materials for the war effort more efficiently.
The first edition of the
World Book Encyclopedia – simply known as The World Book – is published by the Hanson-Roach-Fowler Company,[18] and is one of the first American encyclopedias to cover the major areas of knowledge to a mass audience.
Women are permitted to stand in national elections in the Netherlands.
^Badsey, Stephen (2014). The German Corpse Factory: a Study in First World War Propaganda. Solihull: Helion.
ISBN9781909982666.
^Neander, Joachim (2013). The German Corpse Factory: The Master Hoax of British Propaganda in the First World War. Saarbrücken: Saarland University Press.
ISBN9783862231171.
^Evanier, Mark; Sherman, Steve; et al. (March 20, 2008).
"Jack Kirby Biography". Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center.
Archived from the original on September 17, 2013. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
February 3 – WWI: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany.
February 12:
Club Deportivo Toluca F.C. was founded on February 12, 1917 in the house of the Ferrat-Solá family, located at number #37 on the avenue Juárez the charter of Deportivo Toluca was lifted; forming a board of directors that was joined by personalities such as Leonardo and Joaquín Sánchez, Abel Moreno and Manuel Lara.
February 24 – WWI:
Walter Hines Page, United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, is shown the intercepted
Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico, if Mexico will take sides with Germany, in case the United States declares war on Germany.
April 9–
May 16 – WWI:
Battle of Arras – British Empire troops make a significant advance on the Western Front but are unable to achieve a breakthrough.
WWI: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force begins the
Second Battle of Gaza. This unsuccessful frontal attack on strong
Ottoman defences along with the first battle, results in 10,000 casualties, the dismissal of force commander General
Archibald Murray, and the beginning of the
Stalemate in Southern Palestine.
A month of civil violence in
Milan, Italy ends, after the Italian army forcibly takes over the city from anarchists and anti-war revolutionaries; 50 people are killed and 800 arrested.[12]
June 7 – WWI:
Battle of Messines opens with the British Army detonating 24
ammonalmines under the German lines, killing 10,000 in the deadliest deliberate non-nuclear man-made explosion in history.
July – The first
Cottingley Fairies photographs are taken in
Yorkshire, England, apparently depicting fairies (a hoax not admitted by the child creators until
1981).
July 8–
13 – WWI:
First Battle of Ramadi – British troops fail to take
Ramadi from the Ottoman Empire; a majority of British casualties are due to extreme heat.
July 16–
17 –
Russian troops mutiny, abandon the
Austrian front, and retreat to
Ukraine; hundreds are shot by their commanding officers during the retreat.
The
Parliament of Finland, with a
Social Democratic majority, passes a "Sovereignty Act", declaring itself, as the representative of the Finnish people, sovereign over the
Grand Principality of Finland. The Russian Provisional Government does not recognize the act, as it would have devolved Russian sovereignty over Finland, formerly exercised by the Russian Emperor as Grand Prince of Finland, and alter the relationship between Finland and Russia into a real union, with Russia solely responsible for the defence and foreign relations of an independent Finland.
October 12 – WWI:
First Battle of Passchendaele: – Allies fail to take a German defensive position, with the biggest loss of life in a single day for New Zealand, over 800 men and 45 officers are killed, roughly 1 in 1,000 of the nation's population at this time.
Carl Swartz leaves office as Prime Minister of Sweden, after dismal election results for the right-wing in the Riksdag elections in September. He is replaced by liberal leader and history professor
Nils Edén.
October 23 – A
Brazilian ship is destroyed by a German U-boat, encouraging Brazil to enter World War I.
November 2 –
Zionism: The
British Foreign SecretaryArthur Balfour makes the
Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the "establishment in
Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people..., it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
Militants from Trotsky's committee join with trusty Bolshevik soldiers, to seize government buildings and pounce on members of the provisional government.
"Night of Terror" in the United States: Influential suffragettes from the
Silent Sentinels are deliberately subjected to physical assaults by guards while imprisoned.
The
Parliament of Finland passes another "Sovereignty Act", dissolving Russian sovereignty over Finland and effectively declaring Finland independent.
November 19 – WWI:
Battle of Caporetto ends with Austrian and German forces driving the Italian army to retreat 150 kilometres south to the Piave river. The Italians lose 13,000 killed, 30,000 wounded, around 270,000 taken prisoner (mostly willingly) and 50,000
deserted; the government of
Paolo Boselli collapses on November 29.
December 26 – United States President
Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U.S. railroads under the
United States Railroad Administration, hoping to transport troops and materials for the war effort more efficiently.
The first edition of the
World Book Encyclopedia – simply known as The World Book – is published by the Hanson-Roach-Fowler Company,[18] and is one of the first American encyclopedias to cover the major areas of knowledge to a mass audience.
Women are permitted to stand in national elections in the Netherlands.
^Badsey, Stephen (2014). The German Corpse Factory: a Study in First World War Propaganda. Solihull: Helion.
ISBN9781909982666.
^Neander, Joachim (2013). The German Corpse Factory: The Master Hoax of British Propaganda in the First World War. Saarbrücken: Saarland University Press.
ISBN9783862231171.
^Evanier, Mark; Sherman, Steve; et al. (March 20, 2008).
"Jack Kirby Biography". Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center.
Archived from the original on September 17, 2013. Retrieved February 24, 2012.