WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1918
Find out what all happened August to December 1918

Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (23. November 1918)

Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria. (7. November 1918)

Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. (16. December 1918)

Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia. (25. November 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)

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

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

Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated. (14. December 1918)

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

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

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

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

World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy. (4. November 1918)

Austria becomes a republic. (12. November 1918)

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

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

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