WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1918
Find out what all happened February to August 1918

General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware. (2. May 1918)

Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia. (17. July 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). (8. August 1918)

British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote. (6. February 1918)

Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascended to the throne. (4. July 1918)

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

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

Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. (17. August 1918)

World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends. (11. August 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)

The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana. (22. June 1918)

World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins. (21. August 1918)

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

Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. (3. March 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 Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence. (28. May 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)

U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans, Massachusetts. (21. July 1918)

First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs. (24. April 1918)

Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time. (31. March 1918)