Lone German soldier in ruined Rue de Paris in St Quentin, March 1917. Image courtesy Imperial War Museum © IWM (Q 87648).
- Clocks in Orange are put back one hour as daylight savings ends
- French and German forces engage in heavy fighting on the Western Front south of St Quentin
- A German gas attack on the Eastern Front in the Dvinsk region is repulsed
- French navy takes Ouijan in Morocco
- Russian forces retake Qasr-i-Shirin in western Persia
- The new Provisional Government abolishes the death penalty in Russia
