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next turn year 1918

events

September[edit] Main article: September 1918 September – WWI: British armies and their Arab allies roll into Syria.

September 4 – WWI: Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin concludes with the Australian Corps breaking the German line.

September 19 – WWI:

September 25 – WWI:

September 26 – WWI:

The Battle of the Canal du Nord, launched by British and Empire forces, continues the advance towards the Hindenburg Line.

September 29 – WWI:

September 30 – WWI: .

October[edit] Main article: October 1918

October 2 – WWI: The Charge at Khan Ayash is begun north of Damascus, by the 3rd Light Horse Brigade.

October 3

October 4

The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion in New Jersey kills 100+, and destroys enough ammunition to supply the Western Front for 6 months.

October 9 – Landgrave Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse is elected King of Finland.

October 11 – The 7.1 Mw  San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 76–116 people. A destructive tsunami contributes to the damage and loss of life.

October 12 – Cloquet Fire: The city of Cloquet, Minnesota, and nearby areas are destroyed in a fire, killing 453.

October 25 The steamer Princess Sophia sinks on Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, Alaska; 353 people die, in the greatest maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest.

October 26 – WWI – Charge at Haritan: Units of the Desert Mounted Corps battle with Ottoman forces for the last time in WWI.

October 28

A new Polish government is declared in Western Galicia (Eastern Europe). October 29

November[edit] Main article: November 1918 November 1

Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in world history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 93 dead.

November 3

German Revolution: Sailors in the German fleet at Kiel mutiny, and throughout northern Germany soldiers and workers begin to establish revolutionary councils, on the Russian soviet model.

November 7 – King Ludwig of Bavaria flees his country.

November 9: Proclamation of German Republic by Philipp Scheidemann in Berlin on the Reichstag balcony

November 9

British battleship HMS Britannia is sunk by a German submarine off Trafalgar, with the loss of around fifty lives (the last major naval engagement of WWI).

November 11: Front page of The New York Times on Armistice Day November 11

November 13

Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, relinquishes all governing duties.

November 14

Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, is forced from his throne, leading to the establishment of the People's State of Hesse.

Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin abdicates his throne, leading to the establishment of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, announces he is ceasing to rule Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, leading to the establishment of the Free State of Coburg.

November 20 – U-boats start to rendezvous off Harwich, to begin the surrender of the High Seas Fleet to the British Royal Navy; in the following week the German warships are escorted to internment in Scapa Flow.[17]

November 22 The Spartacist League founds the German Communist Party.

The Belgian royal family returns to Brussels after the war, King Albert I having commanded the Allied Army group in the autumn Courtrai offensive, which liberated his country.

Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, abdicates; the Grand Duchy of Baden gives way to the Republic of Baden

November 25 – General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German commander in German East Africa, signs a ceasefire at Abercorn in Northern Rhodesia.

November 30 – Ernest Ansermet conducts the first concert by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. December[edit]

Main article: December 1918 December 1 Iceland regains independence, but remains in personal union with the King of Denmark, who also becomes the King of Iceland until 1944.

New voting laws in Sweden makes votes no longer dependent on taxable assets, each adult having one vote.

The Union of Alba Iulia is proclaimed: Following the March 27 incorporation of Bessarabia and Bucovina, Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania.

December 5 – Estonian War of Independence: The British light cruiser HMS Cassandra strikes a mine and sinks near Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea, killing 11 sailors.[20]

December 14 Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse renounces the Finnish throne.

Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.

December 17 – Darwin Rebellion in Australia: Disaffected workers march on Government House, Darwin, demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth.

December 21 – Estonian War of Independence: The Red Army captures Tartu, Estonia.

other things

-germany officially surrenders to the entente finally ending the war in Europe