August 25—­Italian Second army breaks through Austrian line on Isonzo front.  Aug. 28—­President Wilson rejects Pope Benedict’s peace plea.

September 10—­Gen. Korniloff demands control of Russian government.  Sept. 11—­Russian deputies vote to support Kerensky.  Korniloff’s generals ordered arrested.  Sept. 16—­Russia proclaims new republic by order of Premier Kerensky.  Sept. 20—­Gen. Haig advances mile through German lines at Ypres.  Sept. 21—­Gen. Tasker H. Bliss named chief of staff, U.S. army.

October 16—­Germans occupy islands of Runo and Adro in the Gulf of Riga.  Oct. 25—­French under Gen. Petain advance and take 12,000 prisoners on Aisne front.  Oct. 27—­Formal announcement made that American troops in France had fired their first shots in the war.  Oct. 29—­Italian Isonzo front collapses and Austro-German army reaches outposts of Udine.

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.