1918 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1918?
- January 9, 1918 – Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
- January 24, 1918 – The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People’s Commissars effective February 14(NS)
- February 6, 1918 – British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
- February 11, 1918 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 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 23, 1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
- May 29, 1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarapat.
- June 26, 1918 – World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
- July 9, 1918 – Great train wreck of 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 17, 1918 – On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
- August 11, 1918 – World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends.
- August 29, 1918 – Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
- September 28, 1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
- October 28, 1918 – World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years.
- October 29, 1918 – The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–1919.
- November 6, 1918 – The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland.
- November 7, 1918 – Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
- 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 27, 1918 – The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
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