" This quotation was incorrectly attributed to Allenby, and throughout his life he vehemently protested against his conquest of Palestine in 1917 having been called a " Crusade ".

Few protested against military service: for example, out of 837 Russian Court Martial cases against conscientious objectors recorded between the beginning of World War I and April 1, 1917, merely 16 had Doukhobor defendants-and none of those hailed from the Transcaucasian provinces.

On March 1917, the Petrograd Soviet was actually opposed to the workers, which protested its deliberations with strikes.

However, for the inhabitants of Bessarabia living under the Russian rule, the term gained an ethnic connotation by the beginning 20th century: in May 1917, at a congress of Bessarabian teachers, a dispute arose over the identification of the native population ; a group protested against being called " Romanians ", affirming they were " Moldovan ", while another group, led by the poet Alexei Mateevici, supported the view that the Moldovans are also Romanians.

* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.

Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ) is credited as having been the first professor to successfully establish the field of sociology, institutionalizing a department of sociology at the Université de Bordeaux in the 1890s.

Trotsky had previously suggested that Lenin's method of organisation would lead to a dictatorship, but it is important to emphasise that after 1917 orthodox Trotskyists argue that the loss of democracy in the Soviet Union was caused by the failure of the revolution to successfully spread internationally and the consequent wars, isolation and imperialist intervention, not the Bolshevik style of organisation.

In 1917, open pit mining was successfully introduced to meet the heavy copper demand due to World War I.

In 1916 Johnson ran successfully for the U. S. Senate, assuming office on March 16, 1917.

In 1917, Archibald Low as head of the RFC Experimental Works, was the first person to use radio control successfully on an aircraft.

In 1917, D ' Aquila successfully absorbed the two Camorra gangs.

He successfully completed the course and was designated a naval aviator in June 1917.

The committee did gain jurisdiction over veterans ’ benefits when it successfully passed the War Risk Insurance Act of 1917.

However it was temporarily broken through in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917 by British and Canadian forces including tanks, and was successfully permanently breached in a number of locations during the Allied Hundred Days Offensive in September 1918.

He served from March 4 until December 13, 1917, when he was succeeded by Democrat Samuel W. Beakes, who successfully contested the election.

He successfully contested the election of Mark R. Bacon to the Sixty-fifth Congress and served from December 13, 1917, to March 3, 1919.

It is also significant in the history of Australian unionism — in 1892 unions successfully negotiated to establish a six-day working week, and the 1917 General Strike, which began with the 3000 workers at Eveleigh, eventually spread across Australia, involving almost 100, 000 nationwide.

Flynn gained recognition in 1911 when he successfully reorganized the New York City Detective force and returned to the Secret Service as Chief ( 1912 – 1917 ).

The division's single action of 1916 was the capture of Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme — it was so badly mauled that it did not return to major action for over a year, when it successfully captured the Pilckem Ridge on 31 July 1917, during the Battle of Pilckem Ridge.

Green concluded that when the volume was published in 1948 there was much to awaken controversy, particularly the contrast between the effect of flawed tactics and the methods used successfully earlier in 1917.

On 27 November 1917 at Fontaine Notre Dame, France, when all his officers had become casualties, Sergeant McAulay assumed command of the company and under shell and machine-gun fire successfully held and consolidated the objectives gained.

Nearly nine million acres ( 36, 000 km² ) were successfully claimed by " Kinkaiders " between 1910 and 1917.

Between October 21 – 24, 1917, they successfully deposed the standing commissars of the Central Executive Committee of the First Congress of Soviets, who were mostly Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries, and thereby ensured that the military would be under their command.

From October to November 1917 his 60, 000 Army Corps successfully defended the railway corridor stretching through Podolie to Polissya, Vapniarka – Zhmerynka – Koziatyn – Shepetivka and defended against the attacks from the Romanian front particularly the 2nd Guard Corps that was headed by Yevgenia Bosch.

The Germans mounted major naval attacks on the Gulf of Riga, unsuccessfully in August 1915 and successfully in October 1917, when they occupied the islands in the Gulf ( Operation Albion ) and damaged Russian ships departing from Riga ( Battle of Moon Sound ), which had recently been captured by Germany.

" After 1917, when Storyville was shut down, separate black and white underground dens of prostitution emerged around the city.

* 1912-1924 Baltimore & Ohio purchased the rail line servicing Gilboa in 1912 and shut it down sometime between 1917 & 1924 ( Railroad records say by 1919 but a 1922 map shows the railroad while a 1924 ODOT map does not ).

From 1791 to 1835, and until 1917, there were differing reconfigurations of the boundaries of the Pale, such that certain areas were variously open or shut to Jewish residency, such as the Caucasus.

After the October Revolution of 1917, the zemstvo system was shut down in most of Russia, only remaining where the Bolsheviks failed to take power.

* Brockley Lane ( opened 1872: shut to passengers 1917: closed 1970 )

* October 26 O. S., 1917: The party's newspapers were shut down by the new Soviet regime

On October 26, 1917, the MRC in Petrograd shut down seven newspapers that had supported the Provisional Government.

It was turned into a women's penal camp in 1911 and was finally shut down after the February Revolution of 1917.

* In 1917 the school was shut down and was re-opened in May 1920. to provide another two class rooms and the student population by 2010 is expected to hit 220 +.

For example, the Central Committee voted for or against signing a peace treaty with the Germans between 1917 and 1918 during World War I ; the majority voted in favour of peace when Trotsky backed down in 1918.

Amanullah came to power just as the entente between Russia and Britain broke down following the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Continuous persecution in the 1930s resulted in its near-extinction as a public institution: by 1939, active parishes numbered in the low hundreds ( down from 54, 000 in 1917 ), many churches had been leveled, and tens of thousands of priests, monks and nuns were persecuted and killed.

The original fever of patriotic excitement, which had caused the name of St. Petersburg to be changed to the less German sounding Petrograd, may have subsided a little in the subsequent years, but it had not turned to defeatism and during the initial risings in Petrograd in February 1917, the crowds in the streets clearly objected to the banners proclaiming " down with the war ".

* La Rotonde Terasza, Paris ( 1917 ), by Marie Vorobieff-Stebelska ( Marevna ) ( scroll down to 5th painting ).

Osceola County reached all the way down to Lake Okeechobee until 1917 when Okeechobee County was formed.

The originals, some dating from 1391 were removed in 1917 during World War I by the occupying German forces, who intended to melt them down for the metal.

The Great Depression of the late 1920s and two major floods ( 1917, 1937 ) devastated the city to the point that most if not all the city's industries had closed down for good.

The first post office was opened in 1917, and in 1919 a 2-story brick school was built after the original school burned down.

In July 1917 his aircraft was shot down over France and he was taken prisoner.

In 1917 a new two story brick school was built, and later torn down to make room for the O ' Henry School.

Its conductor Karl Muck had been forced to step down in 1917 by anti-German agitation.

When the District was closed down in 1917 he went on tour with Billy & Mary Mack's Merrymakers Review.

On August 28, 1917, while driving near Ossining, New York in the company of her co-worker and fiance, screenwriter Daniel Carson Goodman, the brakes on La Badie ’ s car failed and the vehicle plunged down a hill, overturning at the bottom.

* Ranger ( CC-5 ) was a renamed Constitution on 10 December 1917 and laid down in 1921, but canceled in 1923 and scrapped prior to completion.

On the canonical age for confirmation in the Latin or Western Catholic Church, the present ( 1983 ) Code of Canon Law, which maintains unaltered the rule in the 1917 Code, lays down that the sacrament is to be conferred on the faithful at about the age of discretion ( generally taken to be about 7 ), unless the Episcopal Conference has decided on a different age, or there is a danger of death or, in the judgement of the minister, a grave reason suggests otherwise ( canon 891 of the Code of Canon Law ).

In August 1917, while serving with No. 23 Squadron, Kingsford Smith was shot down and received injuries which required amputation of a large part of his left foot.

The hotel fell into disrepair and was torn down in 1917.

The style remained the official one for all his successors down to the end of the Russian Empire in 1917, though the Russian rulers continued to be colloquially known as tsar ( a word derived from " Caesar "), which they had begun to use c. 1480 to likewise assert their contention to be the heirs to the Byzantine state ( see: Third Rome.

Wilson was sent as Senior Military Representative ( Robertson had refused to go ) on a British mission to Russia in January 1917 ( delayed from November 1916 ), the object of which was to keep the Russians holding down at least the forces now opposite them, to boost Russian morale and see what equipment they needed with a view to coordinating attacks.

With the Third Battle of Ypres, to which the War Cabinet had reluctantly agreed on condition that it did not degenerate into a long-drawn out fight like the Somme, already bogged down in unseasonably early wet weather, French ( 14 August 1917 ) told Riddell ( managing director of the News of the World, and likely to pass on French's views to Lloyd George ) that Henry Wilson ’ s talents were being wasted, and that the government was not ascertaining “ the views of our leading soldiers ”.

The Fort Bliss buildings burned down, however, and in 1917 the school was rebuilt on its present site on land donated by wealthy El Paso residents.