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Chinese workers during WWI. China participated in World War I from 1917 to 1918 in an alliance with the Entente Powers.Although China never sent troops overseas, 140,000 Chinese labourers (as a part of the British Army, the Chinese Labour Corps) served for both British and French forces before the end of the war. [1]
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
During World War I, conflict on the Asian continent and the islands of the Pacific included naval battles, the Allied conquest of German colonial possessions in the Pacific Ocean and China, the anti-Russian Central Asian revolt of 1916 in Russian Turkestan and the Ottoman-supported Kelantan rebellion in British Malaya.
Brief monarchist coup and restoration in China, allegedly promoted by Germany to distance China from the Entente. July 1–19 Eastern: The Kerensky Offensive fails. It is the last Russian initiative in the war. [70] July 6 Middle Eastern: Arab rebels led by Lawrence of Arabia seize the Jordanian port of Aqaba. [71] July 11
Marseille twinned with Piraeus, Greece. [38] 1986 March: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regional election, 1986 held. Robert Vigouroux becomes mayor. 1987 Jardin de la Magalone becomes property of the city. Marseille twinned with Shanghai, China. [38] 1989 - Marseille Festival of Documentary Film begins. 1991 - La Commanderie opens.
Jean-Baptiste Grosson, royal notary, wrote from 1770 to 1791 the historical Almanac of Marseille, published as Recueil des antiquités et des monuments marseillais qui peuvent intéresser l'histoire et les arts ("Collection of antiquities and Marseille monuments which can interest history and the arts"), which for a long time was the primary ...
German revolution of 1918–1919 (post ww1 part) Russian Civil War (only parts related with World war I) Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920) Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919; Latvian War of Independence (1918-1920) Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919; Lithuanian Wars of Independence (1918-1920) Soviet westward offensive of ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to World War I: . World War I – major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.