WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1918
Find out what all happened February to September 1918

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

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

The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus is officially established. (11. May 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. (6. June 1918)

The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time. (19. March 1918)

Bessarabia joins the Kingdom of Romania. (27. March 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)

The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55; 5 lives are lost. (17. July 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)

Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day. (20. April 1918)

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

World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France. (21. April 1918)

The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver. (2. August 1918)

Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan. (10. September 1918)

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany. (13. August 1918)

World War I, Battle of St. Quentin Canal: The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces. Bulgaria signs an armistice. (29. September 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)

Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I. (2. August 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)

Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date). (4. July 1918)