WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1918
Find out what all happened January to December 1918

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

Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. (1. November 1918)

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

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

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

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)

A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships. (31. January 1918)

Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne. (14. December 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)

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

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

The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year. (7. November 1918)

Austria becomes a republic. (12. November 1918)

Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union. (1. December 1918)

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

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

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

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

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