Seward also negotiated to purchase the Danish West Indies, but the Senate refused to approve the purchase in 1867 ( it eventually was accomplished in 1917 ).

Jefferson likely moved to Deep Ellum in a more permanent fashion by 1917, where he met Aaron Thibeaux Walker, also known as T-Bone Walker.

From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.

The pair also formed a romantic relationship that lasted into 1917.

His silent films usually centred on the Tramp's plight in poverty and his run-ins with the law, but also explored controversial topics, such as immigration ( The Immigrant, 1917 ), illegitimacy ( The Kid, 1921 ) and drug use ( Easy Street, 1917 ).

For seven years he also published the Dada periodical 391 in Barcelona, New York City, Zurich, and Paris from 1917 through 1924.

Maurice Tourneur was also highly ranked for the pictorial beauties of his films, together with the subtlety of his handling of fantasy, while at the same time he was capable of getting greater naturalism from his actors at appropriate moments, as in A Girl's Folly ( 1917 ).

By 1917 Chaplin was also introducing more dramatic plot into his films, and mixing the comedy with sentiment.

In World War I, the Foreign Legion fought in many critical battles on the Western Front, including Artois, Champagne, Somme, Aisne, and Verdun ( in 1917 ), and also suffered heavy casualties during 1918.

It was also an influence on J. R. R. Tolkien, who read it a few years before it was published in 1917.

Chernyi was also Secretary of the Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups, which was formed in March 1917.

She was also granted a knighthood in 1917, when the Order of the British Empire was created ( it was the first order explicitly open to women ).

The German Navy's U-boats were also instrumental in the sinking of the civilian passenger liner the Lusitania on 7 May 1915, which was one of the main events that led to the USA joining the war two years later in 1917.

In spring 1917, he was also elected to command the students ' volunteer army, set up to defend the school from potential attack after two warlords began fighting one another in Hunan.

There were also three other siblings: Margaret Elizabeth Foot ( 1911 – 1965 ), Jennifer Mackintosh Highet ( born 1916 ) and Christopher Isaac Foot ( born 1917 ).

* USS New England ( ID-1222 ), also SP-1222, a tug in commission from 1917 to 1919

The October Revolution (), also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (), Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a seizure of state power leading to a political revolution, It was a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917.

The Russian Revolution of 1917 ( and similar, albeit less successful, revolutions in many other European countries ) brought communism-and in particular the political theory of Leninism, but also on a smaller level Luxemburgism ( gradually )-on the world stage.

The Gregorian Calendar was instituted in Russia by the Bolsheviks in 1917, Romania accepted it in 1919 under king Ferdinand of Romania ( 1 November 1919 became 14 November 1919 ), Turkey in 1923 under Ataturk, and the last Orthodox country to accept the calendar was Greece also in 1923.

* 1916 to 1927 in Norway ( fortified wine and beer also prohibited from 1917 to 1923 )

In 1916, Norway prohibited distilled beverages, and in 1917 the prohibition was extended to also include fortified wine and beer.

For example, during the Aceh War the Acehnese Klewangs, a sword similar to the machete, proved very effective in close quarters combat with Dutch troops, leading the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army to adopt a heavy cutlass, also called klewang ( very similar in appearance to the US Navy Model 1917 Cutlass ) to counter it.

* Critics of sedevacantism argue that this also means that the theory advanced by the seventeenth-century theologian and Doctor of the Church Robert Bellarmine that a pope who fell into heresy would automatically forfeit his office and could be formally deposed has been overruled by Church authority by Benedict XIV in " De Synodo Dioecesano " ( 10, 1, 5 ) and by the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Can.

Many compositions were created and sung in improvisation, where the samba Pelo Telefone ( from Donga and Mauro de Almeida ), samba for which there were also many other versions, but to come to the history of samba, Pelo Telefon was the first person to record Samba in 1917

Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

He became a general staff officer with IX Corps, part of General Sir Herbert Plumer's Second Army, in July 1917.

These soviets became the model for those formed in 1917.

Sometime in 1917 or 1918, as Chiang became close to Sun Yat-sen, he changed his name from Jiang Zhiqing to Jiang Zhongzheng ().

Andropov's health declined rapidly during the tense summer and fall of 1983, and he became the first Soviet leader to miss the anniversary celebrations of the 1917 revolution that November.

The Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade became famous for the Battle of Beersheba in 1917 where they charged on horseback using rifle bayonets, since neither sabres or lances were part of their equipment.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

In June 1917, when the Royal Family stopped using their German names and titles and adopted the more British-sounding " Windsor ": Prince Louis of Battenberg became Louis Mountbatten, and was created Marquess of Milford Haven.

In 1917, Mussolini as leader of the Fasci of Revolutionary Action praised the October Revolution, however Mussolini later became unimpressed with Lenin, regarding him as merely a new version of Tsar Nicholas.

His Democratic opponent was Robert L. Moran, an alderman from the Bronx who had succeeded to the Board presidency in 1918 when Alfred E. Smith, who had been elected Board President in 1917, became Governor.

The passing of the Tokoi Senate bill, called the " Power Act ," in July 1917 became the first one of the three culminations of the power struggle between the Social Democrats and the conservatives during the political crisis from March 1917 to the end of January 1918.

In May 1917 a place became available as a King's Scholar at Eton.

Food scarcity became a serious problem by 1917.

The area became a focal point of conflict between Christianity and Islam between 1096 and 1291 and from the end of the Crusades until the British conquest in 1917 was part of the Syrian province of first the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and then ( from 1517 ) the Ottoman Empire.

The letter subsequently became known as the Balfour Declaration of 1917.

He became a permanent major on 1 August 1917 and was again promoted acting lieutenant-colonel, this time confirmed as Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion Irish Guards, on 15 October.

In 1915, Regret became the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby ( of only three in the history of the race ), and in 1917, the English-bred colt " Omar Khayyam " became the first foreign-bred horse to win the race.

Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Voroshilov became a member of the Ukrainian Council of People's Commissars and Commissar for Internal Affairs along with Vasili Averin.

After the October Revolution ( 1917 ), Malevich became a member of the Collegium on the Arts of Narkompros, the Commission for the Protection of Monuments and the Museums Commission ( all from 1918 – 1919 ).

He joined the Bolsheviks immediately prior to the 1917 October Revolution, and eventually became a leader within the Party.

In July, after commanding the only successful front in the disastrous Russian offensive of June, 1917, he became Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Provisional Government's armed forces.

At the news of Russian Revolution of February 1917, Bukharin returned to Russia by way of Japan and at once became one of the leading Bolsheviks in Moscow, being elected to the Central Committee.

After the second 1917 revolution, he became the editor of the party's newspaper, Pravda.