WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1918
Find out what all happened May to October 1918

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

World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. (1. June 1918)

World War I, Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood – Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. (26. June 1918)

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

World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132, for which he is awarded the Medal of Honor. (8. October 1918)

General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware. (2. May 1918)

World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus. (1. October 1918)

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

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

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

The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East. (30. October 1918)

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

King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne. (3. October 1918)

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

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

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

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

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

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany. (13. August 1918)

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