Mitchell Families Online

GENEALOGY OF MY MITCHELL FAMILIES - AND A LOT MORE BESIDES!

1917 - 1917 (0 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1913	4 Mar 1913—3 Mar 1921: Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson
2	1916	7 Dec 1916—19 Oct 1922: David Lloyd George, UK Prime Minister (Liberal) David Lloyd George
3	1917	1917: Battle of Cambrai 1917: Ministry of Labour is established in Britain Feb 1917: February revolution in Russia; Tsar Nicholas abdicates 6 Apr 1917: World War I 16 Apr 1917: Lenin returns to Russia after exile 17 Apr 1917: USA declares war on Germany 26 May 1917: George V changes surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor (Royal proclamation on 17 July) Jul 1917: Battle of Passchendaele 7 Nov 1917: 'October' Revolution in Russia 6 Dec 1917: Halifax (Nova Scotia) Explosion, one of the world's largest artificial non-nuclear explosions to date: a ship loaded with wartime explosives blew up after a collision, obliterating buildings and structures within two square kilometres of the explosion 9 Dec 1917: British forces capture Jerusalem