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INTERNATIONAL HISTORY

Mallory and Irving die attempting to climb Mt Everest.

The first diesel engined truck is built.

The Lieca compact camera popularizes the 35mm film format.

Mussolini becomes leader of Italy.

Tutankhamen's tomb is discovered.

The Irish Civil War begins.

The technicolor process, for making colour films, is invented.

The League of Nations is formed.

The Third Afghan War ends.

The atom is spilt when a team at the University of Manchester, led by Ernest Rutherford succeeded usin artificial means.

Prohibition introduced in United States of America.

Alcock and Brown become the first to fly an aeroplane across the Atlantc Ocean.

July - Tsar Nicholas and his family executed by the Bolsheviks.
November 11 - Armistice signed to take effect at 11am.
November 12 - Armistice officially announced. There was little public celebration in Ch-Ch which was now stricken by the full effects of the flu epidemic.

The first regular air passenger services begin in Russia and the USA.

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6 April - America declares war on Germany.

April-May - Battle of Arras is waged.

12 October - NZ's greatest single disaster in history occurs when 640 troops die and 2100 are wounded, in the Battle of Passchendale.

Trotsky leads the Russian October Revolution.

1 July - Battle of the Somme began and lasted to December. Both sides suffered severe losses and the first day of the battle is also remembered as one of the most tragic in history in terms of the sheer numbers of dead and wounded.

Easter Rising in Ireland.

3 February - Canterbury Battalion sustains NZ's first casualties of W.W.1 at Suez Canal.

1 April - First regular supply of electricity from Lake Coleridge was received in Christchurch

April - Christchurch pilot, William B Rhodes-Moorhouse, killed in action in Europe. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the first ever given to an airman.

25 April - Landing on Gallipoli by British Australian & New Zealand forces.

1 May - Passenger liner Lusitania leaves New York for Liverpool, this was sunk by a German U Boat with loss of 1195 lives.

7-21 August - Battle of Suvla.
(8th Aug. Attack on Chunuk Bair)

8-20 December - Evacuation of the Gallipoli peninsula. Some 36,000 Commonwealth troops were lost at Gallipoli. Of the 8556 NZ troops who saw action in the campaign, 2721 were killed and 4752 wounded.

28 June - Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne and his wife are assassinated.

1 August - Germany declares war on Russia, the following day Russia responds by declaring war on Germany.

4 August - German forces invade Belguim.

In Cleveland, Ohio the first electric traffic light was installed.

Bernard Shaw writes Pygmalion.

The first domestic refrigerators are made.

Stainless steel is invented.