November 1—Secretary Lansing makes public the Luxburg "spurlos versenkt" note. Nov. 7—Austro-German troops capture? Nov. 9—Permanent interallied military commission created. Nov. 24—Navy department announces capture of first German submarine by American destroyer. Nov. 28—Bolsheviki get absolute control of Russian assembly in Russian elections.
December 6—Submarine sinks the Jacob Jones, first regular warship of American navy destroyed. Dec. 7—Congress declares war on Austria-Hungary. Dec. 8—Jerusalem surrenders to Gen. Allenby's forces.
January 5—President Wilson delivers speech to congress giving "fourteen points" necessary to peace. Jan. 20—British monitors win seafight with cruisers Goeben and Breslau, sinking latter. Jan. 28—Russia and Roumania sever diplomatic relations.
February 2—United States troops take over their first sector, near Toul. Feb. 6—United States troopship Tuscania sunk by submarine, lost. Feb. 11—President Wilson, in address to congress, gives four additional peace principles, including self-determination of nations; Bolsheviki declare war with Germany over, but refuse to sign peace treaty. Feb. 13—Bolo Pasha sentenced to death in France for treason. Feb. 25—Germans take Reval, Russian naval base, and Pskov; Chancellor von Hertling agrees "in principle" with President Wilson's peace principles, in address to reichstag.
March 1—Americans repulse German attack on Toul sector. March 2—Treaty of peace with Germany signed by Bolsheviki at Brest-Litovsk. March 4—Germany and Roumania sign armistice on German terms. March 13—German troops occupy Odessa. March 14—All Russian congress of soviets ratifies peace treaty. March 21—German spring offensive starts on fifty mile front. March 22—Germans take 16,000 British prisoners and 200 guns.
March 23—German drive gains nine miles. "Mystery gun" shells Paris. March 24—Germans reach the Somme, gaining fifteen miles. American engineers rushed to aid British. March 25—Germans take Bapaume. March 27—Germans take Albert. March 28—British counter attack and gain; French take three towns; Germans advance toward Amiens. March 29—"Mystery gun" kills seventy-five churchgoers in Paris on Good Friday.
April 4—Germans start second phase of their spring drive on the Somme. April 10—Germans take 10,000 British prisoners in Flanders. April 16—Germans capture Messines ridge, near Ypres; Bolo Pasha executed. April 23—British and French navies "bottle up" Zeebrugge. April 26—Germans capture Mount Kemmel, taking 6,500 prisoners.
May 5—Austria starts drive on Italy. May 10—British navy bottles up Ostend. May 24—British ship Moldavia, carrying American troops, torpedoed; 56 lost. May 27—Germans begin third phase of drive on west front; gain five miles. May 28—Germans take 15,000 prisoners in drive. May 29—Germans take Soissons and menace Reims. American troops capture Cantigny. May 30—Germans reach the Marne, fifty-five miles from Paris. May 31—Germans take 45,000 prisoners in drive.
June 1—Germans advance nine miles; are forty-six miles from Paris. June 3—Five German submarines attack the coast and sink eleven ships. June 5—U. S. marines fight on the Marne near Chateau Thierry. June 9—Germans start fourth phase of their drive by advancing toward Noyon. June 10—Germans gain two miles. U. S. marines capture south end of Belleau wood.
June 12—French and Americans start counter attack. June 15—Austrians begin another drive on Italy and take 16,000 prisoners. June 17—Italians check Austrians on Piave river. June 19—Austrians cross the Piave, June 22—Italians defeat Austrians on the Piave. June 23—Austrians begin great retreat across the Piave.