Anniversaries – Page 7 – First World War Centenary News Archive

March 5, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: Imperial War Museum founded during WW1

5th March 1917: The Imperial War Museum was founded when the British War Cabinet approved a proposal for a national museum to record events taking place while the First World War was still being fought.

March 11, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: Baghdad falls to British/Indian forces

11th March 1917: British and Indian troops entered Baghdad as part of the renewed Mesopotamia campaign led by Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude.

March 15, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: Tsar Nicholas II abdicates

15th March 1917: Nicholas II of Russia was the first of Europe’s imperial rulers to be toppled in WW1, abdicating amid mass protests in his capital, Petrograd.

March 18, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line

February-March 1917: German troops pulled back to new defensive positions on the Western Front as they prepared to face renewed Allied onslaughts in France.

April 6, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: USA declares war

6th April 1917: The United States of America declares war on Germany.

April 9, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: Battle of Arras & Vimy Ridge

9th April 1917: British and Commonwealth forces attacked the German lines at Arras, in a renewed attempt to break the deadlock on the Western Front.

April 16, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: France falters at Battle of Chemin des Dames

16th April 1917: French forces launched a disastrous attack on the Chemin des Dames, triggering a crisis of morale and a controversial First World War legacy.

April 19, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: The Chinese Labour Corps arrives

19th April 1917: Chinese workers recruited to support Britain’s war effort started arriving in France – the first group disembarked at the port of Le Havre.

May 10, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: UK forms convoys to protect merchant shipping

May 1917: Britain introduced transatlantic convoys to protect merchant ships from an increasingly dangerous German U-boat campaign.

July 1, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: The Kerensky Offensive

1st July 1917: Russia’s last major WW1 operation is launched by Alexander Kerensky, War Minister in the new Provisional Government.