1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1917th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 917th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1917, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1917 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1917
MCMXVII
Ab urbe condita2670
Armenian calendar1366
ԹՎ ՌՅԿԶ
Assyrian calendar6667
Baháʼí calendar73–74
Balinese saka calendar1838–1839
Bengali calendar1324
Berber calendar2867
British Regnal yearGeo. 5 – 8 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2461
Burmese calendar1279
Byzantine calendar7425–7426
Chinese calendar丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
4614 or 4407
    — to —
丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
4615 or 4408
Coptic calendar1633–1634
Discordian calendar3083
Ethiopian calendar1909–1910
Hebrew calendar5677–5678
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1973–1974
 - Shaka Samvat1838–1839
 - Kali Yuga5017–5018
Holocene calendar11917
Igbo calendar917–918
Iranian calendar1295–1296
Islamic calendar1335–1336
Japanese calendarTaishō 6
(大正6年)
Javanese calendar1847–1848
Juche calendar6
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4250
Minguo calendarROC 6
民國6年
Nanakshahi calendar449
Thai solar calendar2459–2460
Tibetan calendar阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
2043 or 1662 or 890
    — to —
阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
2044 or 1663 or 891

Events

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Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix.

January

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February

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President Woodrow Wilson of the United States announces to Congress the breaking of diplomatic relations with Germany

March

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Women calling for bread and peace - Petrograd, 8 March

April

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Lenin

June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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Brazilian President Venceslau Brás signs a declaration of war against the Central Powers

November

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December

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The Senate of Finland in 1917

Date unknown

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  • The first edition of the World Book Encyclopedia – simply known as The World Book – is published by the Hanson-Roach-Fowler Company,[19] and is one of the first American encyclopedias to cover the major areas of knowledge to a mass audience.
  • The True Jesus Church is established in Beijing.

Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

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Ernest Borgnine
 
Jânio Quadros

February

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Zsa Zsa Gabor
 
Agha Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan

March

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Dinah Shore
 
Desi Arnaz
 
Dame Vera Lynn
 
Cyrus Vance

April

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Robert Bloch
 
Ella Fitzgerald
 
Raymond Burr
 
John F. Kennedy

June

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Dean Martin
 
Eric Hobsbawm
 
Susan Hayward

July

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Reg Smythe
 
Robert Conquest
 
Phyllis Diller

August

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Robert Mitchum
 
Jack Kirby
 
Denis Healey

September

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Ferdinand Marcos
 
Fernando Rey
 
El Santo

October

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June Allyson
 
Rodney Robert Porter
 
Dizzy Gillespie
 
Joan Fontaine

November

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Park Chung Hee
 
Pedro Infante
 
Indira Gandhi

December

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Sir Arthur C. Clarke
 
Heinrich Böll
 
Ellis Clarke

Date unknown

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Deaths

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January–March

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Buffalo Bill Cody
 
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
 
Emil von Behring

April–June

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Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia
 
Jose Manuel Pando
 
Titu Maiorescu
 
Frans Schollaert

July–September

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Adolf von Baeyer
 
Mata Hari

October–December

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Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
 
Auguste Rodin
 
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

Nobel Prizes

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References

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Further reading

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  • Williams, John. The Other Battleground The Home Fronts: Britain, France and Germany 1914-1918 (1972) pp 175–242.

Primary sources and year books

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