The Royal Navy Division landed at Gallipoli.
15,000 Armenian refugees were allowed into Van on the thesis that it would strain the city's food supply.
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The Armenian Genocide began with the deportation of Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople.
It's always easiest for the oppressor to remove those whom they'd like to repress. . .
The Germans launched a gas attack on Canadian positions at St. Julien, which allowed them to take the village.
The RMS Lusitania arrived in New York City coincident with the German embassy in Washington D.C. issuing a public warning that the waters around Great Britain being a war zone and that ships flying a British flag would be considered targets.
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Turkish troops massacred Armenian residents of Smyrna Province. It was a systematic murder of that city's ancient Armenian population. Ultimately the Turks would set on fire the Armenian quarter of the city and end its eons old Armenian heritage.
Allied troops landed at Canakkale to set up a neutral zone between Greece and Turkey.
Seeing a split of the Communist Party in Russia coming, Lenin proposed that Trotsky become Lenin's Sovnarkom deputy. Trotsky declined.
Curtiss had a glider out.
The USGS was out again with their cameras in the Glen Canyon area.
Paiutes and Utes exchanged gunfire with a posse at Cottonwood Bluff, Utah. The battle arose when a posse came to arrest Ute Tse-ne-gat who had been accused of murdering a Hispanic shepherd. Paiutes made the accusation.
The arrest went immediately wrong and both Piautes and Utes resisted. The war would be negotiated to a peaceful end by Gen. Hugh L. Scott. Tse-ne-gat was tried in Denver, and found innocent of the charges. Tse-ne-gat died, age 39, of tuberculosis eleven years after the trial. Ute and Paiute chiefs, Polk and Posey, who participated in the war, went to the Ute Reservation in Colorado but found themselves unwelcome there, which is not surprising to those familiar with Ute history. The returned to a subsistence lifestyle and combined it with cattle rustling. A second armed outbreak would result in 1923.
The Royal Navy continued bombarding Ottoman seaforts in the Dardanelles.
The Ottomas removed ethnic Armenians from their armed forces.
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The Adna Massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, which would kill over 20,000 people, commenced. Ottoman troops would participate in it.
The revolution was backed by Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who sought to regain the absolute power. It wouldn't go well for him.
What would become the University of North Carolina was photographed.
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