Queen Ranavalona III was deposed on January 1897 and was exiled to Algiers in Algeria, where she died in 1917.

Despite her family ’ s vehement disapproval, she eloped with Urbano in 1917 to live at his parents ' home in Gambettola.

From 1917 to the 1930s, she performed most frequently as a victim and was known as " the most assassinated woman in the world ".

Occasionally, she played a child, in films like The Poor Little Rich Girl ( 1917 ), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm ( 1917 ), Daddy-Long-Legs ( 1919 ) and Pollyanna ( 1920 ).

In 1917, she started publishing the monthly periodical The Birth Control Review.

When she was sixteen years old, the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 destroyed Mitchell's former Jackson Hill home.

In April 1922, Mitchell was seeing two men almost daily ; one was Berrien “ Red ” Upshaw, whom she is thought to have met in 1917 at a dance hosted by the parents of one of her friends, and the other, Upshaw's roommate and friend, John R. Marsh, a copy editor from Kentucky who worked for the Associated Press.

In 1917 she became acquainted with a mother of newborn twins, one of whom was chronically ill.

His mother Elizabeth George ( 1828 – 96 ) sold the farm and moved with her children to her native Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire, where she lived in Tŷ Newydd with her brother Richard Lloyd ( 1834 – 1917 ), a shoemaker, Baptist minister and strong Liberal.

In recognition of the growing threat she posed, on 31 January 1917, Germany adopted the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare in an attempt to starve the island nation of supplies.

Like her older sister Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, she nursed wounded soldiers in a military hospital from 1914 to 1917, until the family was arrested following the first Russian Revolution of 1917.

The smaller queen's crown last worn by Ranavalona III was taken with her into exile, first in Réunion and then later in Algiers, where she eventually died in 1917.

" Goodby ," she wrote to a friend in the winter of 1917.

My Disillusionment in Russia is a book published in 1923 by Emma Goldman describing her experiences in Soviet Russia from 1920 to 1921, where she saw the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917.

The widow of William P. " Will " Fletcher ( 1917 – 1999 ), a retired United States Army colonel and a former Grant Parish deputy sheriff, she was survived by a daughter, Janet F. Dyson of Baton Rouge, two grandsons, three great-grandchildren, and her brother, Maurice Smith, a former Montgomery High School principal and Grant Parish school superintendent.

A lifelong pacifist, she was one of the 50 members of Congress who voted against the entry of the United States into World War I in 1917 and the only member of Congress who voted against declaring war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ( World War II ) in 1941.

In 1917, she became the director of the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier.

When paraffin supplies ran low she organized a candle collection, and in November 1917 she instituted a scheme to train girls to work on the land.

While Dior dressed Nazi wives, his sister Catherine ( 1917 — 2008 ) served as a member of the French Resistance, was captured by the Gestapo, and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was incarcerated until she was liberated in May 1945.

He married Margaretta Parker Blair in 1917 and she survived him.

In 1917, she became also member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation USA ( American branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation founded in 1919 ) and was a member of the Fellowship Council until 1933.

The present Federal program of vocational education began in 1917 with the passage of the Smith-Hughes Act, which provided a continuing annual appropriation of $7 million to support, on a matching basis, state-administered programs of vocational education in agriculture, trades, industrial skills and home economics.

The Franco-Ethiopian railway, linking Djibouti to the heart of Ethiopia, began in 1897 and reached Addis Ababa in June 1917, increasing the volume of trade passing through the port.

* 1917 – An armistice is signed between Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk began.

After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, at the age of 22, Vertov began editing for Kino-Nedelya (, the Moscow Cinema Committee's weekly film series, and the first newsreel series in Russia ), which first came out in June 1918.

With the dissolution of regular police and military forces, both left and right began forming armed groups in the spring of 1917.

During World War I and the rise of Germanism, the ( Svecomans ) began covert collaboration with Imperial Germany, and from 1915 – 1917 a " Jäger " ( Jääkärit ) battalion consisting of 1, 900 Finnish volunteers was trained in Germany.

By autumn 1917, in the power vacuum following the dissolution of parliament and in the absence of a stable government or a Finnish army, such forces began assuming a more military character.

The German policy was a success ; an armistice between Germany and the Bolsheviks came into force on 6 December and peace negotiations began on 22 December 1917 at Brest-Litovsk.

There were approximately 20-60 Worker's Guards in Finland between 31 August and 30 September 1917, but after the defeat in the October Parliamentary elections the number of the Guards began to substantially increase.

By autumn 1917, however, these attempts at peaceful resolution had failed, and the power vacuum began to be filled by the paramilitary troops of the right and left.

Construction of the monument began in 1917 and finished in 1924.

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.

When Trotsky arrived in New York in January 1917, Bukharin was the first to greet him ( as Trotsky's wife recalled, " with a bear hug and immediately began to tell them about a public library which stayed open late at night and which he proposed to show us at once " dragging the tired Trotskys across town " to admire his great discovery ").

Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military Revolutionary Committee began the takeover of government buildings on 24 October 1917 ( O. S .).

Peace negotiations began on December 22, 1917, a week after the conclusion of an armistice between Russia and the Central Powers, at Brest-Litovsk ( modern Brest, Belarus, near the Polish border ).

The modern era of physical cosmology began in 1917, when Albert Einstein first applied his general theory of relativity to model the structure and dynamics of the universe.

In 1917, Elias acquired shares in the O-Zell jelly factory in Chicago and moved his family back to the city, where in the fall Disney began his freshman year at McKinley High School and took night courses at the Chicago Art Institute.

He based his re-election campaign around the slogan, " He kept us out of war ", but U. S. neutrality was challenged in early 1917 when the German Empire began unrestricted submarine warfare despite repeated strong warnings and tried to enlist Mexico as an ally.

On the home front in 1917, he began the United States ' first draft since the American Civil War, borrowed billions of dollars in war funding through the newly established Federal Reserve Bank and Liberty Bonds, set up the War Industries Board, promoted labor union cooperation, supervised agriculture and food production through the Lever Act, took over control of the railroads, and suppressed anti-war movements.

In 1917, UC Regent Edward A. Dickson, the only regent representing the Southland at the time, and Ernest Carroll Moore, Director of the Normal School, began working together to lobby the State Legislature to enable the school to become the second University of California campus, after Berkeley.

The first attacks on the Hejaz railroad began in early January 1917 led by officers such as Newcombe.

Preparations for operations in Flanders began in 1915, with the doubling of the Hazebrouck – Ypres rail line and the building of a new line Bergues – Proven which was doubled in early 1917.

Curiously, sales through the years 1914 to 1917 were good and it was only towards the end of the war that conditions really began pinching.

At the start of 1917 the band began an engagement playing for dancing at Reisenweber's Cafe in Manhattan.

The companies Dole and Del Monte began growing pineapple on the island of Oahu in 1901 and 1917, respectively.