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Isla Edith Elder

Isla Edith Elder

Female 1917 - 1918  (1 year)


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   Date  Event(s)
1383 
  • 1383—99 9999: Regular series of wills starts in Prerogative Court of Canterbury
1832 
  • 4 Jan 1832—1937: Immigrants quarantined at Grosse Isle
    Canada's immigrant quarantine station opens at Grosse Isle
1898 
  • 7 Jul 1898—20 Aug 1959: Territory of Hawaii was Oraganized
1910 
  • 5 Jun 1910—20 Jan 1936: George V
    House of Windsor (name adopted Jul 17, 1917): 2nd son of Edward VII, married Princess Mary of Teck. Accession, Jan 20, abdication, Dec 10.
1912 
  • 8 1912—2 Jan 1959: Alaska Territory Organized
1913 
1914 
  • 1914—1918: World War One
    Canadian forces fight in Europe during World War 1
  • 6 Jan 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
    Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
1917 
  • 1917—1917: Ministry of Labour is established in Britain
  • 1917—1917: Battle of Cambrai - first use of massed tanks, but effect more psychological than actual
  • 1917—1917: Income Tax introduced
  • 1917—1917: Gideon Sundback patented the modern zipper (not the first zipper)
  • Feb 1917—Feb 1917: February revolution in Russia; Tsar Nicholas abdicates
  • 6 Apr 1917—11 Nov 1918: World War I
    World War I World War I
  • 16 Apr 1917—16 Apr 1917: Lenin returns to Russia after exile
  • 17 Apr 1917—17 Apr 1917: USA declares war on Germany
  • 26 May 1917—26 May 1917: George V changes surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor (Royal proclamation on 17 July)
  • 12 Jun 1917—6 Dec 1917: The Halifax Explosion
    Canada's worst single disaster, claims 1600 lives, injures 9000 and leaves 6000 homeless in Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Jul 1917—Jul 1917: Battle of Passchendaele - little gained by either side (Jul-Nov)
  • 4 Sep 1917—12 Apr 1917: WW1 - Vimy Ridge
    Canadian Corps take Vimy Ridge in France but 3,600 die and another 5,000 wounded
  • 7 Nov 1917—7 Nov 1917: 'October' Revolution in Russia - Bolsheviks overthrow provisional government; Lenin becomes Chief Commissar
  • 6 Dec 1917—6 Dec 1917: Halifax (Nova Scotia) Explosion, one of the world's largest artificial non-nuclear explosions to date: a ship loaded with wartime explosives blew up after a collision, obliterating buildings and structures within two square kilometres of the explosion
  • 9 Dec 1917—9 Dec 1917: British forces capture Jerusalem
  • 12 1917—17 Dec 1917: 18th Amendment passed by Congress
1918 
  • 1918—1918: War of Independence in Ireland
  • 1918—1918: Vote for women over 30, men over 21 (except peers, lunatics and felons)
  • 1918—1918: The superheterodyne radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong
  • 1918—1918: Charles Jung invented fortune cookies
  • 18 Jan 1918—18 Jan 1918: Bentley Motors founded
  • 8 Mar 1918—8 Mar 1918: Start of world-wide 'flu pandemic
  • Jul 1918—Jul 1918: Second Battle of the Marne: last major German offensive in WW1 (Jul-Aug)
  • 1 Oct 1918—1 Oct 1918: Arab forces under Lawrence of Arabia capture Damascus
  • 11 Nov 1918—11 Nov 1918: Armistice signed
  • Dec 1918—Dec 1918: First woman elected to House of Commons, Countess Markiewicz as a Sinn Fein member refused to take her seat