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| 1917 July 6 |
| | | T.E. Lawrence and an Arab force surprise the Turkish garrison at Aqaba and win an overwhelming victory | |
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| 1917 July 17 |
| | | An armed uprising in Petrograd disperses after Lenin declines to give support | |
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| 1917 July |
| | | Trotsky is imprisoned and Lenin flees to Finland as Russia's Provisional Government cracks down on the Bolsheviks | |
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| 1917 July 21 |
| | | Prince Lvov steps down as head of the Provisional Government in Russia and is replaced by Alexander Kerensky | |
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| 1917 July 31 |
| | | Haig sends British troops over the top in the third battle of Ypres | |
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| 1917 August |
| | | Kerensky dismisses Kornilov as commander-in-chief, antagonizing the right wing in Russia | |
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| 1917 September |
| | | Russian opinion polarizes, with support growing for left-wing Bolsheviks and right-wing Kadets | |
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| 1917 September |
| | | Trotsky, released from prison, stages a coup to win Bolshevik control of the Petrograd Soviet | |
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| 1917 October |
| | | Lenin, in disguise, returns from Finland to Petrograd, where he hides in the flat of a party worker | |
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| 1917 October 23 |
| | | Lenin persuades the Bolshevik central committee to vote for an armed insurrection | |
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