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Events relating to athens
from May - hundreds of thousands of Armenians die as the Turks forcibly remove them from their homelands
Dutch aircraft designer Anton Fokker, working for the Germans, vastly improves the Roland Garros technique for firing machine guns through the propellers of fighter planes
The Germans make their first effective use of a new weapon, the flame thrower, in an attack on the British in the second batte of Ypres
from July - the Russians advance through Turkish Armenia and push west into Anatolia as far as Trabzon
Austria-Hungary renews its attack on Serbia, and its troops capture Belgrade
Bulgaria, hoping to gain territory in disputed Macedonia, declares war on Serbia
German armies make sufficient advances to drive the Russians out of Poland
Enrique Granados, on the last leg of his return from New York, is one of many civilians to die when the Sussex is torpedoed by a U-boat in the English Channel
William Boeing flies an aircraft built by himself, and a month later sets up in Seattle his own Aero Product company
The Federal-Aid Highway Act sets up the first national road system in the US
Belgian troops from the Congo occupy the German colony of Ruanda-Urundi
The Jones Act gives Puerto Ricans US citizenship and a popularly elected Senate and House of Representatives
German troops on the western front begin withdrawal to the recently constructed defences of the Hindenburg Line
A Russian summer offensive against the Germans results in massive loss of life and territory
Ocxtober 24 - a victory at Caporetto enables the Austrian army to penetrate far into northeast Italy
Lytton Strachey fails to show conventional respect to four famous Victorians in his influential volume of short biographes entitled Eminent Victorians
Lavr Kornilov leads the heroic Ice March which boosts the morale of the White Russians
The Allies hold the Germans on the Marne and begin a successful counterattack with tanks
The Bulgarians, driven from Serbia, sign an armistice with the Allies
Austria-Hungary signs a separate armistice with the Allied powers, in a villa near Padua, without waiting for the Germans
The Allied commander-in chief, Marshal Foch, meets a German delegation in a railway carriage in the forest of Compiègne to discuss an armistice
The Allies and the Germans finally agree the terms of an armistice at 5 a.m.
With the end of the Habsburg empire, German-speaking Austrians declare their own much smaller territory to be an independent republic
Approximately 7 million civilians are calculated to have died as a direct result of the four years of world war
The Swiss theologian Karl Barth publishes his influential Commentary on Romans, taking St Paul's epistle as his text
