WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 1918
Find out what all happened October to December 1918

A new Polish government in Western Galicia is established. (28. October 1918)

Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia. (25. November 1918)

Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated. (14. December 1918)

Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves. (3. November 1918)

The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed. (6. November 1918)

Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria. (7. November 1918)

Poland declares its independence from Russia. (3. November 1918)

Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union. (1. December 1918)

Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I. (13. October 1918)

World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary marking the beginning of an independent Czechoslovak state, after 300 years. (28. October 1918)

Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (23. November 1918)

Bukovina votes for union with the Kingdom of Romania. (28. November 1918)

Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. (13. November 1918)

The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom. (1. December 1918)

World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June, 1919. (11. November 1918)

Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations. (26. October 1918)

World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus. (1. October 1918)

King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne. (3. October 1918)

Latvia declares its independence from Russia. (18. November 1918)

San Fermín earthquake hits western Puerto Rico. (11. October 1918)

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