WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO OCTOBER 1918
Find out what all happened July to 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)

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

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

Mexican Revolution: Battle of Ambos Nogales — U.S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil. (27. 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)

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

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

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

The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19. (29. October 1918)

Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive. (29. August 1918)

The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621. (12. July 1918)

World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins. (26. September 1918)

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

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

A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota. (12. October 1918)

World War I: the Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack. (15. July 1918)

An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found as of 2007. (4. October 1918)