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Date	Event
January 4, 1918	The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russia, Sweden, Germany and France.
January 8, 1918	U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
January 9, 1918	Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
January 12, 1918	The Minnie Pit Disaster coal mining accident occurs in Halmer End, Staffordshire, in which 155 men and boys die.
January 17, 1918	Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
January 24, 1918	The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective February 14 (New Style).
January 25, 1918	The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia.
January 25, 1918	The Finnish Defence Forces (The White Guards) are established as the official army of independent Finland, and Baron C. G. E. Mannerheim is appointed its Commander-in-Chief.
January 26, 1918	Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
January 27, 1918	Beginning of the Finnish Civil War.
January 28, 1918	Finnish Civil War: The Red Guard rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki; members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
January 29, 1918	Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kyiv, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
January 29, 1918	Ukrainian–Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.
January 31, 1918	A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
January 31, 1918	Finnish Civil War: The Suinula massacre, which changes the nature of the war in a more hostile direction, takes place in Kangasala.[11]
February 3, 1918	The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
February 5, 1918	Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
February 5, 1918	SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
February 6, 1918	British women over the age of 30 who meet minimum property qualifications, get the right to vote when Representation of the People Act 1918 is passed by Parliament.
February 14, 1918	Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
February 16, 1918	The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
February 21, 1918	The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
February 24, 1918	Estonian Declaration of Independence.
February 25, 1918	German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia.
March 3, 1918	Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, agreeing to withdraw from World War I, and conceding German control of the Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine. It also conceded Turkish control of Ardahan, Kars and Batumi.
March 12, 1918	Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.
March 15, 1918	Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere begins.
March 16, 1918	Finnish Civil War: Battle of Länkipohja is infamous for its bloody aftermath as the Whites execute 70–100 capitulated Reds.
March 19, 1918	The US Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
March 21, 1918	World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
March 23, 1918	First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming prisoners of war
March 25, 1918	The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
March 27, 1918	The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
March 28, 1918	General John J. Pershing, during World War I, cancels 42nd 'Rainbow' Division's orders to Rolampont for further training and diverted it to the occupy the Baccarat sector.[17] Rainbow Division becomes "the first American division to take over an entire sector on its own, which it held longer than any other American division-occupied sector alone for a period of three months".
March 28, 1918	Finnish Civil War: On the so-called "Bloody Maundy Thursday of Tampere", the Whites force the Reds to attack the city center, where the city's fiercest battles being fought in Kalevankangas with large casualties on both sides. During the same day, an explosion at the Red headquarters of Tampere kills several commanders.[19]
March 30, 1918	Beginning of the bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.
March 31, 1918	Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
March 31, 1918	Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
April 1, 1918	The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
April 6, 1918	Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere ends.
April 8, 1918	World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.
April 9, 1918	World War I: The Battle of the Lys: The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.
April 20, 1918	Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
April 21, 1918	World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
April 23, 1918	World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
April 24, 1918	World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
May 9, 1918	World War I: Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
May 14, 1918	Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute silence.
May 15, 1918	The Finnish Civil War ends when the Whites took over Fort Ino, a Russian coastal artillery base on the Karelian Isthmus, from the Russian troops.
May 16, 1918	The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.
May 26, 1918	The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established.
May 28, 1918	The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
May 29, 1918	Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
June 1, 1918	World War I: Western Front: Battle of Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
June 6, 1918	Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I: the U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Château-Thierry (the losses are exceeded at the Battle of Tarawa in November 1943).
June 8, 1918	A solar eclipse is observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.
June 10, 1918	The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
June 22, 1918	The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
June 24, 1918	First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
June 26, 1918	World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
July 4, 1918	Mehmed V died at the age of 73 and Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
July 4, 1918	World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front.
July 4, 1918	Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
July 6, 1918	The Left SR uprising in Russia starts with the assassination of German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach by Cheka members.
July 9, 1918	In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
July 12, 1918	The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
July 15, 1918	World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
July 17, 1918	Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
July 17, 1918	The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; five lives are lost.
July 26, 1918	Emmy Noether's paper, which became known as Noether's theorem was presented at Göttingen, Germany, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy.
August 2, 1918	The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
August 8, 1918	World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous Allied victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
August 11, 1918	World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
August 13, 1918	Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
August 13, 1918	Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
August 16, 1918	The Battle of Lake Baikal was fought between the Czechoslovak Legion and the Red Army.
August 17, 1918	Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
August 21, 1918	World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
August 27, 1918	Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales: U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.
August 29, 1918	World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
August 30, 1918	Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
August 31, 1918	World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
September 10, 1918	Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
September 15, 1918	World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.
September 25, 1918	World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of the British Army's Sinai and Palestine campaign under General Edmund Allenby.
September 26, 1918	World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive began which would last until the total surrender of German forces.
September 28, 1918	World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
September 29, 1918	Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica ending its participation in World War I.
September 29, 1918	The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack in World War I.
September 29, 1918	Germany's Supreme Army Command tells Kaiser Wilhelm II and Imperial Chancellor Georg Michaelis to open negotiations for an armistice to end World War I.
September 30, 1918	Ukrainian War of Independence: Insurgent forces led by Nestor Makhno defeat the Central Powers at the battle of Dibrivka.
October 1, 1918	World War I: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force captures Damascus.
October 1, 1918	Sayid Abdullah becomes the last Khan of Khiva.
October 3, 1918	King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
October 4, 1918	World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
October 8, 1918	World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
October 9, 1918	The Finnish Parliament offers to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse the throne of a short-lived Kingdom of Finland.
October 10, 1918	RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the worst-ever on the Irish Sea.[4]
October 11, 1918	The 7.1 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico. The quake and resulting tsunami kill up to 116 people.
October 12, 1918	A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
October 24, 1918	World War I: Italian victory in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto.
October 26, 1918	World War I: Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
October 28, 1918	World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.
October 28, 1918	World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic.
October 29, 1918	The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
October 30, 1918	World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.
October 30, 1918	World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments
October 31, 1918	World War I: The Aster Revolution terminates the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, and Hungary achieves full sovereignty.
November 1, 1918	World War I: With a brave action carried out into the waters of the Austro-Hungarian port of Pula, two officers of the Italian Regia Marina sink with a manned torpedo the enemy battleship SMS Viribus Unitis.
November 1, 1918	Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.
November 1, 1918	Western Ukraine separates from Austria-Hungary.
November 3, 1918	The German Revolution of 1918–19 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
November 4, 1918	World War I: The Armistice of Villa Giusti between Italy and Austria-Hungary is implemented.
November 7, 1918	The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year.
November 7, 1918	Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
November 9, 1918	Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
November 10, 1918	The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
November 11, 1918	World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.
November 11, 1918	Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland
November 11, 1918	Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
November 12, 1918	Dissolution of Austria-Hungary: Austria becomes a republic.[7] After the proclamation, a coup attempt by the communist Red Guard is defeated by the social-democratic Volkswehr.
November 13, 1918	World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
November 14, 1918	The Provisional National Assembly of the new republic of Czechoslovakia meets to devise a constitution.
November 18, 1918	Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
November 21, 1918	The Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as the national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
November 21, 1918	The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is passed, allowing women to stand for Parliament in the UK.
November 21, 1918	A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles.
November 25, 1918	Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria-Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
November 26, 1918	The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
November 27, 1918	The Makhnovshchina is established.
November 28, 1918	The Soviet Forces moved against Estonia when the 6th Red Rifle Division struck the border town of Narva, which marked the beginning of the Estonian War of Independence.
December 1, 1918	Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28) and thus concluding the Great Union.
December 1, 1918	Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
December 1, 1918	The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
December 4, 1918	U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.
December 14, 1918	Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
December 14, 1918	Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
December 14, 1918	The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurs, the first where women were permitted to vote. In Ireland the Irish republican political party Sinn Féin wins a landslide victory with nearly 47% of the popular vote.
December 14, 1918	Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
December 17, 1918	Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
December 24, 1918	Region of Međimurje is captured by the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from Hungary.
December 27, 1918	The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
December 27, 1918	Ukrainian War of Independence: The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine occupies Yekaterinoslav and seizes seven airplanes from the UPRAF, establishing an Insurgent Air Fleet.
December 28, 1918	Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, becomes the first woman to be elected Member of Parliament (MP) to the British House of Commons.