--Irish rebellion begins in Dublin. Republic declared. Patrick Pearse
announced as first president.
29.--British force of 9000 men, under Gen. Townshend, besieged in
Kut-el-Amara, surrenders to Turks.
30.--Irish rebellion ends with unconditional surrender of Pearse and
other leaders, who are tried by court-martial and executed.
May
8.--Cymric, White Star liner, torpedoed off Irish coast.
14.--Italian positions penetrated by Austrians.
15.--Vimy Ridge gained by British.
26.--Bulgarians invade Greece and occupy forts on the Struma.
31.--Jutland naval battle; British and German fleets engaged; heavy
losses on both sides.
June
5.--Kitchener, British Secretary of War, loses his life when the cruiser
Hampshire, on which he was voyaging to Russia, is sunk off the Orkney
Islands, Scotland.
6.--Germans capture Fort Vaux in Verdun attack.
8.--Lutsk, Russian fortress, recaptured from Germans.
17.--Czernowitz, capital of Bukowina, occupied by Russians.
21.--Allies demand Greek demobilization.
27.--King Constantine orders demobilization of Greek army.
28.--Italians storm Monte Trappola, in the Trentino district.
July
1.--British and French attack north and south of the Somme.
9.--Deutschland, German submarine freight boat, lands at Baltimore, Md.
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