WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1918
Find out what all happened March to September 1918

The Democratic Republic of Georgia is established. (26. May 1918)

World War I: Germans repel the British's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium. (9. May 1918)

The USS Cyclops departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle. (4. March 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)

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)

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

First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto. (24. June 1918)

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

World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district. (8. April 1918)

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

The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania. (9. April 1918)

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

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

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

Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years. (12. March 1918)

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

The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic. (11. March 1918)

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