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  • Palestine
    Nov, 1917
    David Ben-Gurion

    Balfour Declaration

    Palestine
    Nov, 1917

    After the Balfour Declaration of November 1917, the situation changed dramatically and in 1918 Ben-Gurion, with the interest of Zionism in mind, switched sides and joined the newly formed Jewish Legion of the British Army.




  • Doullens, France
    Monday Nov 5, 1917
    World War 1

    Doullens Conference

    Doullens, France
    Monday Nov 5, 1917

    A Supreme War Council of Allied forces was created at the Doullens Conference on 5 November 1917.




  • Liguria and Peschiera del Garda, Italy
    Monday Nov 5, 1917
    World War 1

    Rapallo Conference

    Liguria and Peschiera del Garda, Italy
    Monday Nov 5, 1917

    The victory of the Central Powers at the Battle of Caporetto led the Allies to convene the Rapallo Conference at which they formed the Supreme War Council to coordinate planning. Previously, British and French armies had operated under separate commands.




  • Russian Empire
    Tuesday Nov 6, 1917
    Joseph Stalin

    Police raided the Bolsheviks

    Russian Empire
    Tuesday Nov 6, 1917

    On 24 October, police raided the Bolshevik newspaper offices, smashing machinery and presses; Stalin salvaged some of this equipment to continue his activities. Date in old-style 24/10.




  • Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1917
    Joseph Stalin

    October Revolution

    Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1917

    In the early hours of 25 October, Stalin joined Lenin in a Central Committee meeting in the Smolny Institute, from where the Bolshevik coup—the October Revolution—was directed. in the old-style, it was 25/10.




  • Russia
    Thursday Nov 8, 1917
    Joseph Stalin

    A new Government

    Russia
    Thursday Nov 8, 1917

    On 26 October, Lenin declared himself Chairman of a new government, the Council of People's Commissars ("Sovnarkom"). In the old-style, it was 26/10.




  • France
    Friday Nov 9, 1917
    Treaty of Versailles

    Decree on Peace

    France
    Friday Nov 9, 1917

    The Decree on Peace was published in the Izvestiya newspaper, #208, 9 November 1917. It proposed an immediate withdrawal of Russia from World War I.


  • Jerusalem, Palestine
    Saturday Nov 17, 1917
    World War 1

    Battle of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Palestine
    Saturday Nov 17, 1917

    Jerusalem was captured following another Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Jerusalem.


  • Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
    Sunday Nov 18, 1917
    Indira Gandhi

    Born

    Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
    Sunday Nov 18, 1917

    Indira Gandhi was born as Indira Priyadarshini Nehru in a Kashmiri Pandit family on 19 November 1917 in Allahabad.


  • Russian Empire
    Nov, 1917
    Vladimir Lenin

    Constituent Assembly to be elected

    Russian Empire
    Nov, 1917

    The Provisional Government had planned for a Constituent Assembly to be elected in November 1917; against Lenin's objections, Sovnarkom agreed for the vote to take place as scheduled.


  • Palestine
    Nov, 1917
    David Ben-Gurion

    Balfour Declaration

    Palestine
    Nov, 1917

    After the Balfour Declaration of November 1917, the situation changed dramatically and in 1918 Ben-Gurion, with the interest of Zionism in mind, switched sides and joined the newly formed Jewish Legion of the British Army.


  • Doullens, France
    Monday Nov 5, 1917
    World War 1

    Doullens Conference

    Doullens, France
    Monday Nov 5, 1917

    A Supreme War Council of Allied forces was created at the Doullens Conference on 5 November 1917.


  • Liguria and Peschiera del Garda, Italy
    Monday Nov 5, 1917
    World War 1

    Rapallo Conference

    Liguria and Peschiera del Garda, Italy
    Monday Nov 5, 1917

    The victory of the Central Powers at the Battle of Caporetto led the Allies to convene the Rapallo Conference at which they formed the Supreme War Council to coordinate planning. Previously, British and French armies had operated under separate commands.


  • Russian Empire
    Tuesday Nov 6, 1917
    Joseph Stalin

    Police raided the Bolsheviks

    Russian Empire
    Tuesday Nov 6, 1917

    On 24 October, police raided the Bolshevik newspaper offices, smashing machinery and presses; Stalin salvaged some of this equipment to continue his activities. Date in old-style 24/10.


  • Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1917
    Joseph Stalin

    October Revolution

    Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1917

    In the early hours of 25 October, Stalin joined Lenin in a Central Committee meeting in the Smolny Institute, from where the Bolshevik coup—the October Revolution—was directed. in the old-style, it was 25/10.


  • Russia
    Thursday Nov 8, 1917
    Joseph Stalin

    A new Government

    Russia
    Thursday Nov 8, 1917

    On 26 October, Lenin declared himself Chairman of a new government, the Council of People's Commissars ("Sovnarkom"). In the old-style, it was 26/10.


  • France
    Friday Nov 9, 1917
    Treaty of Versailles

    Decree on Peace

    France
    Friday Nov 9, 1917

    The Decree on Peace was published in the Izvestiya newspaper, #208, 9 November 1917. It proposed an immediate withdrawal of Russia from World War I.


  • Jerusalem, Palestine
    Saturday Nov 17, 1917
    World War 1

    Battle of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Palestine
    Saturday Nov 17, 1917

    Jerusalem was captured following another Ottoman defeat at the Battle of Jerusalem.


  • Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
    Sunday Nov 18, 1917
    Indira Gandhi

    Born

    Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
    Sunday Nov 18, 1917

    Indira Gandhi was born as Indira Priyadarshini Nehru in a Kashmiri Pandit family on 19 November 1917 in Allahabad.


  • Russian Empire
    Nov, 1917
    Vladimir Lenin

    Constituent Assembly to be elected

    Russian Empire
    Nov, 1917

    The Provisional Government had planned for a Constituent Assembly to be elected in November 1917; against Lenin's objections, Sovnarkom agreed for the vote to take place as scheduled.


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