WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 1918
Find out what all happened January to November 1918

The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed. (6. November 1918)

Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard. (17. January 1918)

Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror. (30. August 1918)

Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad. (29. May 1918)

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

Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war. (26. January 1918)

The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence. (28. May 1918)

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

The German Revolution of 1918–1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel. (3. November 1918)

Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence. (11. November 1918)

Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar. (1. February 1918)

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

Bukovina votes for union with the Kingdom of Romania. (28. November 1918)

The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective February 14(NS) (24. January 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)

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)

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

A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles. (21. November 1918)

The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia. (26. November 1918)

Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars. (9. January 1918)