Following the events in Russia is especially interesting. A great deal of transition from Czar to Communist Rule is not well understood in the U.S. This helps build some of the basis for what happened there. Thanks.

Western Front
Richthofen (petrol tank and engine hit) leads fighters that shoot down 4 of 9 No 40 Squadron’s FE8s. The Royal Aircraft Factory F. E. 8 was a single-seat fighter with a monosoupape Gnome pusher engine. https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...2017/03/FE8.jpg
French repulse attacks in Champagne and north of Bois des Caurieres. French troops made advances in the Champagne front yesterday and today, taking 170 German prisoners.
Germany claims that during February, it lost 24 airplanes across all fronts, while the Allies lost 91 airplanes.

Asiatic and Theaters
Mesopotamia:Gertrude Bell letter to father ‘That’s the end of the German dream of domination in the Near [Middle] East … their place is not going to be in the sun’. Captain Reid’s 100 men cross river Diyala and repel six Turkish attacks (Reid gains Victoria Cross). South of Tigris Turks forced back to inner line.
Asia Minor: Russians attack retreating Turks near Sivas.
Persia: Turkish XIII Corps reaches Karind. Russian scouts advance south-west from Sakis; Sinnah (Persian Kurdistan) captured. Russians invite Persian Government to repossess reoccupied towns, Baratov reoccupies Kermanshah (March 11) and Karind (March 17).

Political, etc
Germany: Ludendorff warns War Minister and Chancellor home front having an ‘unhealthy influence upon the moral of the Army’.
Alfred Zimmermann: “[Germany] is prepared to place herself at the head of an alliance of states for the maintenance of the world’s peace.”
Russia: Food problem at Petrograd becomes urgent. Around 200,000 protesters flood the streets of Petrograd, demanding the end to the war and overthrow of the Tsar.
France: GQG, persuaded by Estienne, orders 1,000 Renault FT-17 light tanks. Prototype tested on March 14, order approved April 10.
World shortage of wheat foreshadowed by French Chamber.
United Kingdom: British loan of £40,000,000 to Romania.
Lord Devenport sanctions maximum food prices.
Due to food shortages, Britain conducts negotiations with Canada to buy its entire surplus wheat crop for 1917.
Canada: Canada bans women and children from traveling on ships that would pass through areas where submarines are active.
Netherlands: Dutch authorities officially notified by Germany that safety is guaranteed for shipping along a strip of North Sea from Holland to Norway.

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Western Front
British capture Irles (on the Ancre); 292 prisoners.

Eastern Front
Romanians and Russians counter-attack to attempt to regain Magyaros Ridge (Moldavia) lost on 8 March.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Royal Navy submarine G13 sinks UC-43 off Shetlands with loss of all hands. HMS ‘G 13’ was part of the 10th Submarine Fleet and was mainly used for sub hunting in the North Sea. https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...S-G13.jpg?ssl=1
Eastern Atlantic: Epic action between NZ Shipping Co SS Otaki (4.7-inch gun) (A Bisset Smith, posthumous Victory Cross) and German raider Möwe (15 casualties), 350 miles east of Azores. Otaki sinks after c.30 hits but hits Möwe 7 times.
Western Mediterranean: In tragic error troopship-escorting sloop HMS Cyclamen rams and sinks Italian submarine Guglielmotti (14 die) off Capraia Island.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: British bridge river Diyala and turn Turk west flank 3 miles from Baghdad. Khalil Pasha grudgingly lets subordinates evacuate city and leaves by train. 9,500 Turks with 48 guns retreat before 45,343 British with 174 guns; German radio station blown up.

Political, etc
Russia: Martial law declared in Petrograd as food riots and protests turn into a general strike (until March 19). The Tsar took action to address the riots on 25 February (O.S.) by wiring garrison commander General Sergey Semyonovich Khabalov, an inexperienced and extremely indecisive commander of the Petrograd military district, to disperse the crowds with rifle fire and to suppress the "impermissible" rioting by force. There were disturbances on on the Nevsky Prospect during the day and in the late afternoon four people were killed. Petrograd Soviet elected.
Turkey: Talaat Pasha obtains Chamber 3.5 million Turkish Pounds food board credit, promises radical solutions.
Romania: Romanian royal family and Romanian soldiers attending a service in Iasi: http://imgur.com/RnNYyzP © IWM (Q 76461) http://imgur.com/RnNYyzP

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Western Front
Somme: French First Army reports 40 villages in flames, explosions in and south of Noyon.
Aisne: General Max von Boehn takes over Seventh Army (until August 6, 1918) from Richard von Schubert (in command since August 28, 1916).
Meuse: Georg Fuchs replaces Boehn (since February 2) in command of Army Detachment C at St Mihiel.
Continuous air fighting; loss of 26 Allied and Central Powers machines reported.

Eastern Front
Russian gas attack east of Mitau fails.

Southern Front
Albania: Spring campaign in Macedonia begins (until May 21: French 76th Division advances from Koritza on Resna but blizzard and Austrian-paid Irregulars force suspension on March 19. Snow continues into April.
Salonika: Sarrall and Venizelos at a review.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: FALL OF BAGHDAD (population over 150,000). British troops enter before 0900 hours, find 600 sick and wounded Turkish soldiers. (another source says More than 9000 Ottoman soldiers are captured during the battle. Not actually a contradiction: the first figure refers to the number of soldiers actually in Baghdad itself, the latter to the number of Turkish PoW during the overall battle). Maude lands from steamer at 1530 hours. His troops have marched 110 miles in 15 days.
British troops march into Baghdad: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ghdad.jpg?ssl=1
Kirmanshah (Western Persia) again taken by Russian forces (see July 1st, 1916 and February 25th, 1918).

Political, etc
Germany: Siegfried Heckscher, German Reichstag member, predicts that after the war “Japan’s life interests demand…that she draws nearer to Germany.”
Russia: Mikhail Rodzianko to the Tsar: “The situation is serious. The capital is in a state of anarchy. The Government is paralyzed.” Strikers' food demonstrations and rioting increase in Petrograd; Government agrees to hand over food question to local bodies.
Fourth Company of the Pavlovski Replacement Regiment becomes the first military unit to mutiny in Petrograd, but are quickly disarmed: During the late afternoon of 11 March [O.S. 26 February] the Fourth Company of the Pavlovski Replacement Regiment*broke out of their barracks upon learning that another detachment of the regiment had clashed with demonstrators near the Kazan Cathedral. After firing at mounted police the soldiers of the Fourth Company were disarmed by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.
On the 11th March [O.S 26 February ] the center of the city was fenced off. That evening Golitsyn used a (signed, but not yet dated) ukaze [“Imposition”, “Edict” or “Decree” having the force of law] declaring that his Majesty had decided to interrupt the Duma until April, leaving it with no legal authority to act.
Student militias in Petrograd: http://imgur.com/PNofOmx
France: Sugar-cards (rationing) in Paris.
United Kingdom: (Listed for yesterday): Captain Charles Bathurst, the Assistant Food Controller of Britain, warns that the lack of food could result in the loss of the war.
China: Chinese Congress votes overwhelmingly to cut off diplomatic ties with Germany due to its unrestricted submarine warfare.

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Western Front
French gain ground in eastern Champagne.
British raid near Arras.
Soissons bombarded with incendiary shells.
A British fighter pilot, James McCudden, wins the Military Cross. His final tally of medals also included the Victoria Cross, a Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and a bar to his Military Cross, and the Military Medal. McCudden was one of the most decorated combatants of World War One.

Eastern Front
Russia: Tsar Nicholas's initial response on 12 March [O.S. 27 February], perhaps based on the Empress's earlier letter to him that the concern about Petrograd was an over-reaction, was one of irritation that "again, this fat Rodzianko has written me lots of nonsense, to which I shall not even deign to reply". Eventually, the Tsar leaves STAVKA for Petrograd.
By now CoS Alexejev convinced no offensive to support Nivelle possible; only by the end of July.
Galicia: Successful German raids near Zloczow-Tarnopol railway, Brzezany and on river Narajowka.

Southern Front
British advance on Doiran front.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Atlantic: Q-ship Privet sinks U-85 (Petz) off Start Point near Plymouth (UC-68 blows up on own mines there on March 13). US SS Algonquin torpedoed without warning. The crew survives.
British submarine HMS E.49 hits a mine off the Shetland Islands and sinks with the loss of all 30 crewmembers.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Tripoli: Italians occupy Bukamez (west of Tripoli).
Mesopotamia: Soldiers of the 1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron enjoy a meal following the capture of Baghdad: http://imgur.com/e8Diopd

Political, etc
Russia: Russian February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution begins. Starting with the Volinsky Regiment, the garrison of Petrograd begin to mutiny one by one. Eventually, the whole 17,000-strong Petrograd garrison joins crowds. http://imgur.com/8LSrdVs
Temperature 0°F.
Duma prorogued at first: then some delegates decided to form a Provisional Committee of the State Duma, led by Rodzianko and backed by major Moscow manufacturers and St. Petersburg bankers. However, the Duma refused to head the revolutionary movement as a whole. Its first meeting was on the same evening and ordered the arrest of all the ex-ministers and senior officials. In the Marinsky Palace the Council of Ministers of Russia, assisted by Rodzyanko, held its last meeting. Protopopov was told to resign and offered to commit suicide. The Council formally submitted its resignation to the Tsar.
No bread or transport. Only 2 regiments and the police loyal to Tsar in sporadic street fighting.
Students and army deserters fire on police in Petrograd: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...reien.jpg?ssl=1
Petrograd protestors burn symbols of the Russian monarchy: http://imgur.com/yvfrKtv
United Kingdom: Anglo-French Conference assembles in London to discuss relations of British and French commanders in the Western Theatre and employment of prisoners of war in the fighting zone (see February 26th, 1917 and March 26th, 1918).
Bread order makes sale by weight compulsory.
British Lieutenant General Smuts states German colony in East Africa is immensely rich and suggestions to return it is “preposterous.”
Canada: Third War Loan opens.
United States: United States Government announce arming of all merchant vessels in the war zone (see February 26th).
112 labor unions in the U.S. meet in Washington, D.C. to discuss how to aid the American war effort if it was to enter the war.
Mexico: The 1917 Mexican general election is held. Venustiano Carranza is elected President with 97.9% of the vote: http://imgur.com/2RyKgp1

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Western Front
Somme: British advance guard now 11 miles from Bapaume. Further gains east and northeast of Gommecourt.
Aisne: Germans repulsed at Hill 185.
Meuse: Fighting near St Mihiel.
“Lively” fighting north-east of Soissons.

Eastern Front
Bulgarians bombard Galatz from the Danube.

Southern Front
Field hospitals at Vertekop (Serbia) bombed: two British nurses and others killed.
British line south-west of Doiran advanced 1,000 yards.

Naval and Overseas Operations
USA: Navy Department authorizes armed merchant ships to take action against U-boats.
France: Parliament Commission de la marine de guerre urges anti-U-boat directorate and priority to patrol craft.
Norwegian relief ship Lars Fostenes, carrying grain, torpedoed outside blockade zone.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Russians take Kermanshah (Persia) after two days' fighting.
Another column approaches Bana (140 miles north-west of Kermanshah).
British 30 miles north of Baghdad.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Impending cabinet crisis in Austria-Hungary.
Russia: On 13 March (O.S. 28 February), at five in the morning, the Tsar left Mogilev, (and directed also Nikolay Iudovich Ivanov to go to Tsarskoe Selo) but was unable to reach Petrograd as revolutionaries meanwhile controlled railway stations around the capital. Around midnight the train was stopped at Malaya Vishera, and turned back. In the evening of 14 March Nicholas arrived in Pskov. In the meantime the units guarding the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo either "declared their neutrality" or left for Petrograd and thus abandoned the imperial family. The Provisional Committee declared itself the governing body of the Russian Empire. [13 March] http://imgur.com/HMp343H Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, abdicates. [14 March]. Prince Georgy Lvov appointed Russian Premier. Pavel Milyukov appointed Russian Foreign Minister. General Alexandr Guchkov appointed Russian Minister for War. "Chief among them [the Aims of the Provisional Government] was the desire to bring the war to a successful conclusion in conjunction with the Allies; and the very cause of their opposition was the ever deepening conviction that this was unattainable under the present government and under the present regime. The socialists had formed their rival body, the Petrograd Soviet (or workers' council) on the 27th of February [O. S.; 12 March]. Izvesteya paper first published. Crowd storms military Hotel Astoria but British present save many Russian officers. Revolutionaries execute captain of cruiser Aurora, refitting in the Baltic, crew elect first ship committee. Mutiny at Kronstadt naval base (just west of Petrograd proper; mutiny lasts until March 14) kills c.40 officers and NCOs, 162 officers arrested. Fleet C-in-C first main one to accept Provisional Government (on March 14).
Emblems of the Russian royal family are torn from shops and thrown into the Fontanka Canal, Petrograd: http://imgur.com/69vkG5h
France: Political crisis in France grows serious, as the Opposition Party refuses to vote due to disagreements with PM Briand on military decisions.
United Kingdom: In London Haig and Nivelle sign clarifications of command spheres.
Government takes over all quarries and mines (non-coal).
First WAAC (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps) enrolled, mainly ex-Women’s Legion.
General Smuts sworn of the Privy Council.
Statement on mastery of air in House of Commons.
Government intends to stand by new Indian cotton duties.
Australia: The explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, while speaking in Sydney, states he seeks war service, as all able-bodied Britons should fight.

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Western Front
German forces withdraw from the Somme sector to the Siegfried Stellung (Hindenburg Line) (see February 25th and April 5th). German Second and First Armies involved. BEF Fifth Army follows cautiously including 4th (1st Indian) Cavalry Division.

Southern Front
Monastir front “lively” (ed note: there’s that word again; personally, I can’t see military action as ‘lively’ it is way more likely to be quite deadly): Austrians attack west and Italians advance east of town.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Crew of the German merchant raider SMS Möwe returns from their 2nd raiding voyage, having sunk or captured 25 ships: http://imgur.com/jtXqtDS

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: Action of Mushaidiya Station. 20 miles north of Baghdad, west of Tigris: Cobbe’s 7th Division (518 casualties) with 46 guns smashes Turk rearguard (800-1,000 casualties) after night march from Baghdad (returns on March 17). British 40th Brigade occupies Kasirin (28 miles north of Baghdad, east of Tigris).
Turks hurrying north to position at Mushaidiya (20 miles north of Baghdad).

Political, etc
Russia: New Provisional Government proclaimed, meets Petrograd Soviet. Petrograd Soviet Order No 1 ordering soldiers to obey their officers as long as it did not contradict the Petrograd Soviet; also orders elected committees to control weaponry and one representative per company to Soviet; saluting off duty abolished. Another source claims this order is to “demoralize Army”.
Soldiers guarding the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo abandon their posts and leave the Russian royal family.
Tsar’s train stopped at Pskov.
Strikes and 30,000-strong march at Reval (until March 15).
Moscow, Kharkov and Odessa declare for Provisional Government.
France: War Minister Hubert Lyautey resigns because of Socialist hostility.
United Kingdom: Both Houses accept India's war contribution of £100,000,000 and authorize increase in cotton duties.
United States: New York City mayor urges its citizens to sign a declaration of “unconditional loyalty” to the United States.
China: German minister at Peking handed his passports. German merchant ships in Shanghai are seized by China.

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