Yes; the Main body of the Constitution was adopted in 1789; Wikipedia give a fairly decent summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite..._Bill_of_Rights

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Western Front
Artois: Marwitz takes over German Second Army from Gallwitz (until September 22, 1918) who goes to Fifth Army at Verdun.
Battle of Verdun: French offensive continues and succeeds in taking minor parts of Caurieres Wood and Bezon-Vaux.
German counter-attack near Verdun; they recover Les Chambrettes.
British prisoners taken to prisoner of war camps by German soldiers: http://imgur.com/ULBL8EY

Eastern Front
Fighting continues in the Tarnopol region; Romanians and Russians continue to fall back.
Dobruja: Bulgars break through, causing chaos; 1 st Cossack Division’s radio station with cipher code captured, new code from December 21 no more secret.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Strong Turkish cavalry attacks checked south of Falahiya (Kut).

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Fighting at Kibata continues.

Political, etc.
Germany: A postcard from Chicago was flown in an aeroplane to New York, where it traveled by U-Boat to Germany, and it has now arrived in Berlin.
German government: “Germany will never give up Alsace and Lorraine while there is a German living.”
Germany reports it seized 60 million bushels of cereals in Romania to help alleviate food shortages in Germany.
France: General Nivelle, new French commander-in-chief: “Victory is certain: I give you assurance. Germany will learn it to her cost.”
Turkey: Government ends extra-territoriality agreements with Turkey due to her treatment of Armenians and Syrians.
Greece: Greek Government issue warrant for arrest of M. Venizelos on charge of high treason (see August 30th and September 29th, 1916 and June 26th, 1917). Athens Archbishop anathematises him on December 26.

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Battle of Verdun: "First Offensive Battle of Verdun” ends (see October 24th, 1916 and August 20th, 1917). Fourth (French 126th Division) Zouaves recapture Les Chambrettes Farm, a fairly irrelevant success.
The standard Allied claim is: Battle of Verdun ends in a French victory. France suffered 315,000-542,000 casualties, Germans suffered 281,000-434,000 casualties. Which estimates are highly doubtful on the German side. Mangin thanks his XI Corps ‘We have the method and we have the leader [Nivelle] It gives us the certainty of success’.

Eastern Front
Romania: Surviving elements of the Romanian Army begins reorganization in order to defend the Siret (AKA Sereth) River from Central Power attacks. Mud slows German pursuit; Falkenhayn checked 30 miles west of Braila, but Braila and Galatz still threatened.
Dobruja: RNAS armored car unit leaves Tulcea by barge for transfer to Braila (8 cars arrive there on December 21).
Russian position between Kovel and Lutsk restored.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British move round Sanna-i-Yat and reach Tigris above Kut, severing Turkish lateral communications and commanding river upstream of Khadairi Bend.

Political, etc.
United Kingdom: British government announces plans that it will end game preserves, as an effort to mitigate social class divisions.
Canada: Canada begins transferring 1000 miles of its own rails to France in order to facilitate movement of troops and supplies.
Italy: Italian Chamber declares solidarity with Allies.
United States: President Wilson issues Circular Note suggesting negotiations for peace (see 26th); note asks national objectives.
General Hugh L. Scott testifies to Congress that the U.S. will require 3 million trained soldiers to adequately defend the U.S.

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Eastern Front
Romania: German forces in Romani advance towards Brăila, Romania, capturing 1000 prisoners and large supplies of food and military equipment.
Dobruja: Russians in the Dobruja fall back towards Braila; eventually, the Austro-German advance from the west is checked 30 miles from Braila.

Political, etc.
Russia: Russia threatens to restrict German prisoners’ food unless Russian prisoners in Germany are allowed to receive food sent from Russia.
Germany: Postcard sent by Adolf Hitler while recovering from injuries in Munich, stating he is ready to go back to the front: http://imgur.com/tKzss7X
United Kingdom: British Government decide to:
A) institute National Service (see November 1st, 1917)
B) initiate imperial Conference (see March 20th, 1917)
C) recognise Government of M. Venizelos (see September 20th).
Lloyd George’s first speech as Prime Minister rejects peace talks without definite proposals ‘… we shall put our trust rather in an unbroken army than in broken faith’. British safe conduct for Austrian Ambassador from US.
British in Cairo meet a French request for £40,000 in gold to give Arabs.
Turkey: Halil Bey, the Ottoman Foreign Minister, says that Russian “dream” of capturing Constantinople is “fantasy.”
Greece: Greek Government protests re: Venizelist occupation of islands under Allies' “protection”.

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Five Jasta 2 fighters (led by Richthofen) shoot or force down 5 DH2s. RFC observers engage 85 targets including destroying 3-gun anti-aircraft batteries, takes 741 photos.

Eastern Front
German Navy airships L-35 (Ehrlich) and L-38 (Dietrich) arrive at Wainoden for Operation Eisernes Kreuz (Iron Cross), a raid on Petrograd advocated since early 1915 by Grand-Admiral Prince Heinrich, C-in-C Baltic Fleet.
Romania: Russian 12th Cavalry Division reaches Odobesti 15 miles northwest of Focsani (after 450-mile ride without losing a single horse).
Galicia: Severe fighting west of Brody.

Southern Front
Fierce local encounters Cherna bend (Monastir).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Turks evacuate El Arish (northern Sinai) and fall back 20 miles south-east of Magdhaba.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mediterranean: British troopship Itonus is sunk by the German submarine SM U-38 off Malta, resulting in 5 crew deaths: http://imgur.com/0j816LL
East Africa: Germans retire from Nangadi (East Africa).

Political, etc.
Germany: Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg comes under sustained pressure from German Army and Navy for unlimited U-boat warfare without delay (December 20-26). Ludendorff urges immediate unrestricted U-boat war in view of Lloyd George reply.
German War Loan M 535,000,000.
United States: U.S. War Department orders 4000 Vickers machine guns for the cost of $5.5 million ($121 million today).
President Wilson's Peace Conference Note handed to Belligerents.

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Eastern Front
Romania: German advance on Brăila, Romania slows down due to overextended supply lines and resistance by Russian Cossacks.
Thousands of Romanian flee across the border into Russian Ukraine, which threatens to exacerbate the refugee problem.
Dobruja: Sakharov drives Bulgarians into Lake Babadagh south of Tulcea.
Russia: Fighting south of Dvinsk.
In the Carpathians, hand-to-hand combat occurs in dark tunnels as Russian troops attempt to attack Austro-Hungarian lines in the mountains.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Sinai: El Arish occupied by British forces (see November 15th). (1,600 Turks evacuated to Magdhaba on December 20). Royal Navy N arrives on December 22.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Two Royal Navy destroyers are sunk by collision; flotilla leader HMS Hoste and HMS Negro. At least 55 are killed.

Political, etc.
Austria-Hungary: V. Spitzmuller (Austria) unable to form Cabinet; Count Heinrich Clam-Martinitz appointed Austrian Premier (see 14th, and June 18th, 1917).
Russia: Germany and Russia both agree to give better treatment to their prisoners of war.
Germany: German newspaper “Tageblatt” says British demands for reparations after the war are “impossible.”
United States: President Wilson backs Germany’s peace move and suggests all the belligerent countries to state their terms.
Jewish groups in the U.S. raise $3 million at Carnegie Hall in order to aid Jewish people suffering in Europe due to the war.
Possibility of a peace in Europe causes another sell-off of stocks on Wall Street as 3.176 million shares are sold off.
Greece: Greek government protests that the Allied nations and Greek rebels are seizing Greek islands.
Allied response note demands control of communications and Venizelists‘ release. Similar conditions demanded on December 31 before blockade lifted.

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Charles Mangin put in command of French Sixth Army, Joseph Micheler to head Reserve Army Group for 1917 spring offensive, Denis Duchene takes over latter’s Tenth Army.
Ruins of the Cathedral at Ypres: http://imgur.com/ZKywr9T* © IWM (Q 6213)

Eastern Front
Romania: Battle of Casin begins (until January 16, 1917): Fairly steady Austro-Hungarian advance until the Allies eventually check Archduke Joseph’s 4-division advance along three Carpathian valleys.
Dobruja: German and Bulgarian troops defeat Russian forces in Dobruja, Romania and capture 900 Russian prisoners.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
British positions south of Kut consolidated; second air raid on Baghela; also on Beersheba.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: British submarine HMS E.30 hits a mine in the North Sea and sinks with the death of all 30 crew: http://imgur.com/71cD6rd
Adriatic: Four Austrian destroyers raid Otranto Barrage (night December 22-23): only 1 drifter damaged but 2 French destroyers hit, 2 Italian damaged plus one in collisions.
Greece: British ships again shell mouth of Struma (Gulf of Orfano).

Political, etc.
Austria-Hungary: Count Ottokar von und zu Czernin succeeds Baron Stephan Burian as Austro-Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs (see January 13th, 1915, and April 15th, 1918).
Germany: Henning von Holtzendorff memo urges unrestricted U-boat war, promises it can force England to peace table in 5 months I.e. before August 1 1917 and harvest if begun February 1.
France: French Chamber of Deputies approve new taxes on theatre and vaudeville tickets to cover the costs of war.
United Kingdom: Great Britain forms the following ministries: Food (see 26th); Shipping (see January 27th); Pensions.
New Shipping Ministry orders five types of standard merchant ship (3,000-8,000t) until April 1917.
King George V makes a speech proroguing Parliament, stating the war will go on until victory: http://imgur.com/JmOVLGh
It is decided to widen the role of the Air Board, under the presidency of Dickinson Pierson, Lord Cowdray, giving it limited executive powers. A section of the New Ministries and Secretaries Act, 1916, which brought the Board into being, laid down that "for the purpose of this Act the President of the Air Board shall be deemed to be a Minister appointed under this Act"
Switzerland: Swiss Note to Belligerents to support U.S.A. peace efforts.
Mexico: Forces under Mexican rebel Pancho Villa captures the city of Torreon after routing Mexican government forces.

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Western Front
Hostile activity in Champagne.

Eastern Front
Romania: Battle of Rimnicu Sarat (until December 27): Falkenhayn‘s 10 divisions take town on December 27, together with 10,000 PoWs, 2 guns and 58 Mgs.
Australian soldier manning a Lewis machine gun at the ongoing Battle of Magdhaba: http://imgur.com/l1P9PCv
Fierce struggle for Moldavian frontier positions.
Dobruja: Russians from Dobruja retire to Bessarabia, leaving some troops at Macin (Braila).

Southern Front
Bad weather last fortnight on Italian front.
Two successful British attacks along Doiran front (Macedonia)

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Sinai: Battle of Magdhaba: Chauvel’s Anzac Mounted Division and Camel Corps (146 casualties) storm five redoubts, taking 1,282 PoWs and 4 guns. http://imgur.com/fQy8ZEm
Further success to the south at Mitla Pass and Abu Aweigila.

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: NRFF (1,900 soldiers with 6 guns) advances from Lupembe against Captain Langenn to Mkapira (arriving January 16, 1917) without trapping foe.

Political, etc.
France: French government admits that the nation is facing a severe coal shortage due to the war and difficulties in transportation.
United Kingdom: British news film “Topical Budget,” showing a French priest blessing artillery shells, among other news: http://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/index/5410
United States: Cover of the “Scientific American” showing “an observatory car suspended from a zeppelin airship.” http://imgur.com/UQxqh0w
President Wilson offers to abandon America’s isolationist policy if it is done to bring peace in Europe.

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Western Front
Battery of 9.2 inch howitzers in action on the Western Front: http://imgur.com/dVqxAS8* © IWM (Q 3881)
British troops purchasing geese for their Christmas dinner at Bailleul, France: http://imgur.com/53mw2wU* © IWM (Q 1629)

Eastern Front
Romania: Battle of Rimnicu Sarat: German and Bulgarian armies reach the south fork of the Danube River, threatening the town of Tulcea, Romania.
Dobruja: Bulgars attack Sakharov Macin bridgehead east of Braila, fails again on December 31.

Southern Front
Lively British raids on Doiran front.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: British cavalry blow up Arab Fort Gusab 18 miles southeast of Kut. First British aircraft over Baghdad since November 1915, Hereward de Havilland‘s B.E. 2c.

Political, etc.
France: General Hubert Lyautey is officially named the new French Minister of War: http://imgur.com/CX5cIAO
United States: “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” film directed by Stuart Paton, is released: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...%281916%29.webm

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First Pup Squadron (https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...sopwith-pup.jpg) (No 54) arrives in France, now 38 active squadrons with 700 aircraft against 33 German Jagdstaffeln (establishment 14 planes each). No day flying possible.
Major Wetzel and OHL estimate that US expeditionary force on Western Front not possible before spring 1918.
Heavy artillery exchanges mark Christmas on the Somme battlefields. Aside from this, and minor raids, there is very little fighting on the Western Front due to bad weather and the approach of Christmas. Canadian artillerymen writing “Xmas Greetings from Canada” on a shell at the Somme: http://imgur.com/vKgmjhx* © IWM (CO 1015)
British take over more French line.

Eastern Front
Romania: Field Marshal von Mackensen leaving Christmas morning church service in occupied Bucharest: http://imgur.com/YX4kGJI* © IWM (Q 23978)
Battle of Rimnicu Sarat: German troops and other Central Power forces capture the cities of Isaccea and Tulcea, Romania.
Severe fighting west of Lower Sereth; Macin bridgehead attacked.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Armenia: Fighting round Lake Van, Turks driven south on December 28.
South Persia: Action of Dasht-i-Arjan: c.400 British & Persians troops forced back to Shiraz (until December 28).

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Combined offensive by Generals Northey and van Deventer begins, pushing Germans east and south.

Political, etc.
A partial solar eclipse occurs off the shore of Antarctica: http://imgur.com/duLpgT3
Russia: Tsar replies to German Peace overtures. Tsar‘s Order to Army and Navy stresses no thought of Peace till ‘final victory’.
Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm prays: “God bless the third war Christmas of all those away in the field and of those at home in our dear fatherland!”
United Kingdom: King's Christmas message.
Premiers of self-governing Colonies and Indian representatives invited to War Conference.
Romania: Coalition Government formed in Romania, including M. Take Jonescu.
Poland: Albert Chmielowski, Polish professed religious known helping the poor, passed away (he was sainted in 1989): http://imgur.com/vwkR8vK
United States: USS Arizona passing by New York City after initial sea trials: http://imgur.com/9w9KX4k . Arizona was later destroyed at Pearl Harbor.

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Western Front
Naval air-raid on Zeebrugge.

Eastern Front
Romania: Severe fighting along whole Romanian front; the German-led offensive in Romania steadily advances, capturing 6,500 Russian prisoners. Russian 124th Division holds Vizural against Bulgars until December 28 mainly due to 8 RNAS cars before retreating. Austrian First Army begins Trotus valley offensive until January 7, 1917.
Russia: Heavy shelling of Russian positions in Galicia.

Southern Front
Italy: Italian troops at on the Carso, gaining 330 yards on the Carso Plateau and taking 150 cases of artillery shells.
Naval aeroplanes bomb Turkish camps at Galata (Dardanelles).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: Weather broken; operations much hindered.

Political, etc.
Austria-Hungary: German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish Governments send reply to President Wilson's Note; immediate meeting of delegates suggested (see 18th, and January 10th, 1917).
Charles I of Austria prepares for his formal coronation. Princess Zita, his wife, will wear a gown worth $10,000.
Germany: German school children also contribute to the war effort by subscribing $475,000 to the new German war loan.
France: General Joffre created Marshal of France (see 12th); first since 1870.
United Kingdom: Anglo-French Conference meets in London to discuss the German and United States Peace Notes; also the situation in Greece, the Salonika expedition and the division of the front in the Western Theatre. (Discussion continued on the 27th and 28th.)
Lord Devonport appointed Food Controller, Great Britain (see 22nd).
Poland: Governor General von Beseler orders the creation of the Polish State Credit Bank.
United States: Medical Society of New York Country votes 210 to 72 against dissemination of birth control info. All 4 women doctors were in the minority.

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Western Front
Big French air-raids on German industrial works (Rhineland, etc.).

Eastern Front
Romania: Battle of Rimnicu Sarat: Falkenhayn takes Ramnicu Sarat.
Dobruja: The Bulgars seize position east of Macin.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Aegean: Escorted French battleship Gaulois sunk by coastal submarine UB-47 (Steinbauer) 30 miles east of Cerigo between Crete and Peloponnese. https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w.../BB-Gaulois.jpg
Eastern Mediterranean: Royal Navy seaplane carriers Ben-my-Chree and Raven II launch 9 aircraft which hit with 4 bombs and damage strategic Chikaldir bridge (Baghdad railway), near Gulf of Alexandretta; Turkish heavy guns for Baghdad delayed.

Political, etc.
Germany: Germany limits the sale of "deluxe" shoes to two pairs per person per year, and only if old pairs are turned in.
Germany reassures Switzerland that it will continue to respect Swiss neutrality.
France: Foch moves to new assignment at Senlis as ‘Military Adviser to French Government’.
United Kingdom: British and French Governments conclude agreement regarding temporary administration of Togoland (see August 26th and 31st, 1914).
Britain contracts to buy all the exportable supply of New Zealand meat until three months until (ed note: until? after?) the end of the war.
Sweden, Norway & Denmark: Three Scandinavian Governments agree to present Note to Belligerents in support of peace efforts.
Spain: King Alfonso of Spain persuades Germany to send home some Belgian civilians who were deported as forced labor.

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Western Front
RFC aid British artillery to get 25 direct hits on trench points and gun pits.
Verdun: Fierce German counter-attack at Mort Homme.
French soldier displaying his military chauffeur’s uniform: http://imgur.com/fD8nQ6e* © IWM (Q 102997)

Eastern Front
Poor weather rules out Operation Eisernes Kreuz; primary target Petrograd; nor can alternatives (Reval, Helsinki, Oesel, Dago) be reached due to severe icing. Airship L-35 force-lands in pine forest at Seemuppen; damaged beyond repair (night December 28-29).
Romania: Allied retreat in Romania continues, destroying $150 million worth of oil fields on the way. British armoured cars engaged.
Battle of Casin: German troops capture another 3000 Romanian and Russian troops. Brăila, Romania is now within artillery range.

Southern Front
Salonika: Serb Colonel Dragutin Dimitrievic (codename*Apis) of Black Hand secret society arrested at Serb Third Army Headquarter on charges of planning a mutiny and murder of Crown Prince.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Armenia: On the Caucasian Front, Russian troops defeat Ottoman troops near the city of Van, forcing them to retreat to the south.

Political, etc.
Germany: Germany hands appreciative reply to Swiss Note.
United States: President Wilson celebrates his 60th birthday today.
New York City requests hotels and restaurants to stop serving liquor at 3 am on New Year’s Day to control the celebrations.

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Western Front
Haig’s [ed. note: self-serving, disingenuous] Battle of the Somme Dispatch published, covers BEF operations from May 15 to November 18, 1916. He divides battle into four phases, lists capture of 38,000 PoWs and 125 guns. Haig stresses that fully half German Army engaged and defeated and that British troops (many only partially trained) surpassed all expectations.
Further, Haig declares that the “great victory” at the Somme proves the Allies will be able to defeat the Germans in the war.
Bad weather hampers flying until December 30.

Eastern Front
Romania: Heavy fighting continues on Moldavian frontier; some Central Powers progress in the Oitoz valley.
Battle of Rimnicu Sarat: German advance north and east from Ramnicu Sarat continued.

Political, etc.
Russia: STAVKA conference until December 31 includes Tsar and all three Front C-in-Cs, Aleksei Brusilov decides, in principle, to launch 1917 offensive.
Murder of Russian monk Rasputin (ed. note: also reported for earlier in December, 1916).
Germany: Germany warns its citizens that food shortages will continue next year even if the war ends.
France: Sitting of National Socialist Congress in Paris. [ed. note: a horribly charged phrase: the French Socialists, who called themselves by this title, had nothing to do with the later National Socialist German Workers’ Party in Germany. The German NSDAP was later shortened to “Nazi”.]
United Kingdom: Some members of the British Labour Party urge a 25% levy on capital and to break up large estates to raise money for the war.
Mexico: Mexico buys $500,000 worth of artillery and anti-aircraft guns from Japan.

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Eastern Front
Romania: Very heavy fighting on whole Romanian front.
Battle of Casin: Bulgars and Turks advance slowly towards Macin.
Battle of Rimnicu Sarat: Austro-German progress at various points in mountains and south-east of Ramnicu Sarat, but checked between here and Focsani.

Political, etc.
Austria-Hungary: Emperor Charles I (of Austria) crowned King Charles IV of Hungary at Budapest. http://imgur.com/6xU2j0s* © IWM (Q 70806)
The ceremonial guards at the coronation of Charles I: http://imgur.com/6zn0DIK* © IWM (Q 88222)
Charles I of Austria-Hungary: “Our enemies are finally commencing to understand that they cannot conquer us.”
Russia: Tsar tells British Ambassador ‘In the event of revolution, only a small part of the Army can be counted to defend the dynasty.’
Germany: War Ministry dismounts 16 cavalry regiments.
Germany announces it will release 100 French POWs who have at least three children. If France reciprocates, it will release more.
France & United Kingdom: ALLIES REJECT GERMAN PEACE NOTE as ’empty and insincere’. https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/E...cember_30,_1916
Anglo-Chinese labor agreement for Western Front.
Bulgaria: Bulgarian Government reply accepting President Wilson's Note (see 18th, and January 10th, 1917).
Serbia: Southern Slavs Committee issues declaration at Coronation of Austrian Emperor.
Greece: Greek Note to Allies requests rising of the Blockade.
Spain: Spain declines to second President Wilson's proposal.

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