1918 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1918?
- January 8, 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson announces his “Fourteen Points” for the aftermath of World War I.
- February 11, 1918 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Horse in Chinese astrology.
- March 21, 1918 – World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
- March 27, 1918 – Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
- May 16, 1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
- May 28, 1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Democratic Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
- June 6, 1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U.S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day’s casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.
- June 24, 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
- July 4, 1918 – Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
- August 8, 1918 – World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
- August 21, 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
- September 10, 1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
- September 26, 1918 – World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.
- October 8, 1918 – World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
- October 30, 1918 – The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
- October 31, 1918 – Banat Republic is founded
- November 1, 1918 – Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- November 3, 1918 – Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
- 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 26, 1918 – The Podgorica Assembly votes for “union of the people”, declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
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