nia.
Nov. 21--British hospital ship Britannic sunk by mine in Aegean sea.
Nov. 23--Roumanian army retreats ninety miles from Bucharest. Nov.
24--German-Bulgarian armies take Orsova and Turnu-Severin from
Roumanians. Nov. 25--Greek provisional government declares war on
Germany and Bulgaria. Nov. 28--Roumanian government abandons Bucharest
and moves capital to Jassy.

December 5--Premier Herbert Asquith of England resigns. Dec. 7--David
Lloyd George accepts British premiership. Dec. 8--Gen. von Mackensen
captures big Roumanian army in Prohova valley. Dec. 12--Chancellor von
Bethman-Hollweg announces in reichstag that Germany will propose peace;
new cabinet in France under Aristide Briand as premier, and Gen. Robert
Georges Nivelle given chief of command of French army. Dec. 15--French
at Verdun win two miles of front and capture 11,000.

December 19--Llloyd George declines German peace proposals. Dec.
23--Baron Burian succeeded as minister of foreign affairs in Austria
by Count Czernin. Dec. 26--Germany proposes to President Wilson "an
immediate meeting of delegates of the belligerents." Dec. 27--Russians
defeated in five-day battle in eastern Wallachia, Roumauia.

January 1--Submarine sinks British transport Ivernia. Jan. 9--Russian
premier, Trepoff, resigns. Golitzin succeeds him. Jan. 31--Germany
announces unrestricted submarine warfare.

February 3--President Wilson reviews submarine controversy before
congress; United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany;
American steamer Housatonic sunk without warning. Feb. 7--Senate
indorses President's act of breaking off diplomatic relations. Feb.
12--United States refuses German request to discuss matters of
difference unless Germany withdraws unrestricted submarine warfare
order.

February 14--Von Bernstorff sails for Germany. Feb. 25--British under
Gen. Maude capture Kut-el-Amara; submarine sinks liner Laconia without
warning; many lost including two Americans. Feb. 26--President Wilson
asks congress for authority to arm American merchantships. Feb.
28--Secretary Lansing makes public Zimmerman note to Mexico, proposing
Mexican-Japanese-German alliance.

March 9--President Wilson calls extra session of congress for April 16.
March 11--British under Gen. Maude capture Bagdad; revolution starts in
Petrograd. March 15--Czar Nicholas of Russia abdicates. March 17--French
and British capture Bapaume. March 18--New French ministry formed by
Alexander Ribot.