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next turn year 1917

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January[edit] Main article: January 1917 January 3 – Ratho rail crash in Scotland: An Edinburgh to Glasgow express train collides with a light engine leaving 12 people dead and 46 seriously injured; the cause is found to be inadequate signalling procedures.[1]

January 11 – Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day Lyndhurst, New Jersey), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI.

January 16 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million.

January 19 – Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400; the resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.

January 25 WWI: British armed merchantman SS Laurentic is sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard.

An anti-prostitution drive in San Francisco occurs, and police close about 200 prostitution houses.

January 26 – The sea defences at the English village of Hallsands are breached, leading to all but one of the houses becoming uninhabitable.

January 28 – The United States ends its search for Pancho Villa.

January 30 – Pershing's troops in Mexico begin withdrawing back to the United States. They reach Columbus, New Mexico February 5.

February[edit] Main article: February 1917

February 5 – The new constitution of Mexico is adopted.

February 13 Mata Hari is arrested in Paris for spying.

WWI – Raid on Nekhl: Units of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force completely reoccupy the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula.

February 21 – British troopship SS Mendi is accidentally rammed and sunk off the Isle of Wight, killing 646, mainly members of the South African Native Labour Corps.[2]

March[edit] Main article: March 1917 March 1

March 2 – The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship. March 4

Woodrow Wilson is sworn in for a second term, as President of the United States. Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman member of the United States House of Representatives.

March 7 – "Livery Stable Blues", recorded with "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" on February 26, by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in the United States, becomes the first jazz recording commercially released. On August 17 the band records "Tiger Rag".

March 8

The United States Senate adopts the cloture rule, in order to limit filibusters.

March 10 – The Province of Batangas is formally founded, as one of the Philippines' first encomiendas.

March 11 – Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza is elected president of Mexico; the United States gives de jure recognition of his government.

March 12 – The Russian Duma declares a Provisional Government.

March 30 – Hjalmar Hammarskjöld steps down as Prime Minister of Sweden; he is replaced by right-wing businessman and politician Carl Swartz.

April[edit] Main article: April 1917 April – Imokawa Mukuzo Genkanban no Maki, the first anime, is released in Japan.

April 8 (N.S.) (March 26, O.S.) – In Petrograd, 40,000 ethnic Estonians demand national autonomy within Russia.

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.

April 9–12 – WWI: Canadian troops win the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

April 10 – An ammunition factory explosion in Chester, Pennsylvania kills 133.

April 11 – WWI: Brazil severs diplomatic relations with Germany.

WWI: The Nivelle Offensive commences.

April 17 (N.S.) (April 4, O.S.) – Vladimir Lenin's April Theses are published.[3] They become very influential in the following July Days and Bolshevik Revolution.

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.

The Times and the Daily Mail (London newspapers both owned by Lord Northcliffe) print atrocity propaganda of the supposed existence of a German Corpse Factory processing dead soldiers' bodies.[4][5][6][7]

other things war exhaustion begins taking hold on both sides with the exception of us Portugal and japan