WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JUNE 1918
Find out what all happened February to June 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 (23. March 1918)

Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar. (1. February 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 It will be repealed less than two years later. (16. May 1918)

Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military. (5. February 1918)

The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania. (9. April 1918)

The Belarusian People's Republic is established. (25. March 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. (9. April 1918)

The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established. (11. May 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. (26. June 1918)

The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar). (14. February 1918)

World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district. (8. April 1918)

World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins. (21. March 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. (10. June 1918)

World War I: Germans repel the British's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium. (9. May 1918)

The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic. (11. March 1918)

Last monarch of Mecklenburg-Strelitz commits suicide. (23. February 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. (5. February 1918)

Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed. (31. March 1918)

The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle. (4. March 1918)

The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. (21. February 1918)