1914 - Battle of TannenbergFor the 1410 battle at the same location, refer to Battle of Grunwald Battle of Tannenberg Conflict World War One Date August 17 to September 2, 1914 PlaceNear Tannenberg ResultDecisive German victory Combatants Germany Russia Commanders Field Marshal Pau
1918Events January January 8 President Woodrow Wilson announces his " Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I. February February 3 The Twin Peaks Tunnel begins service in San Francisco as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world (11,920 feet long). - Assassins seriously injure BolshevikA Bolshevik ("", derived from Russian word loosely translated as "majority") was a member of a faction of Bolsheviks of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) led by Vladimir Lenin. The other faction was known as the Mensheviks, derived from "m leader Vladimir LeninVladimir Ilyich Lenin ( Russian: ), original name Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( Russian: ) ( April 10 ( April 22, New Style), 1870 January 21, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union and the and kill Bolshevik senior official Moisei UritskyMoisei Solomonovich Uritsky ( 1873 August 30, 1918) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader in Russia. He was born in the Ukraine and studied at the University of Kiev. He became a Menshevik, but joined the Bolsheviks a few months before the October Revoluti, prompting the decree for Red TerrorThe Red Terror was a program of repression conducted in Russia by the Bolsheviks in 1918, shortly after the Russian Revolution, in which approximately eight hundred perceived and real opponents of the Bolsheviks were summarily shot without trial, along wi
1922Events January 7 Dali Eireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes. January 10 Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dail Eireann January 11 First successful insulin treatment of diabetes. January 12 British government releases Irish prisoners - Battle of Dumlupinar , final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 also called the War in Asia Minor and (in Turkey) a part of the Turkish War of Independence was a war between Greece and Turkey fought in the wake of World War I. The war arose because the western Allies, particularly Br (" Turkish War of Independence")
