WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO DECEMBER 1918
Find out what all happened May to December 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)

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

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

World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins. (28. September 1918)

Great Train Wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history. (9. July 1918)

World War I: the Battle of Amiens ends. (11. August 1918)

Malbone Street Wreck: the worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths. (1. November 1918)

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

Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I. (2. August 1918)

World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy. (4. November 1918)

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

Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia. (5. September 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)

The Flag of Estonia is raised atop the Pikk Hermann for the first time. (12. December 1918)

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. (4. December 1918)

Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power. (11. November 1918)

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic. (9. November 1918)

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

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. (1. December 1918)

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